It’s client Brag + Celebration Time

So many of my clients have brought their work through powerful stages in our collaborations together – whether that be honing and shaping their message, getting a first draft on the page, writing and submitting their proposals, or completing important rounds of editing together.

For most of the folks I work with, the full journey to the summit of Mount Authorship is a multi-year adventure (though sometimes less!).

Here are a few of my clients who’ve made it to the summit. I’ll share a description of what our work was like and more about their amazing books.

Hopefully, from here, you will see that your journey to the summit is so very possible. If they can do it, you can do it too.

(Also: each of these books are amazing and I highly recommend you consider purchasing them!)

Our Editing Work Together

Rebecca Morrison was a JOY to work with. As a lawyer turned happiness coach, Rebecca is as sharp and wise as she is kind and encouraging. Rebecca and I collaborated on her book in the editing phase. I offered all three levels of editing: developmental editing, line editing and proofreading for her book, The Happiness Recipe. I have to admit, my editing was slowed down by the fact that I would pause and complete all the amazing exercises Rebecca has peppered throughout this amazing read. They are too good not to try, and I benefited so much from her work (major job perk!). I still think about her work today, years after editing her book. In addition to editing, I also supported Rebecca in navigating her publishing options. I was thrilled to see her stick with her project and see it all the way to publication. You can learn more about her work at: www.untanglehappiness.com and on IG @ the.butterfly.society.

About The Happiness Recipe

We are born to be happy. Somewhere along the way, our lives get cluttered.
To find your recipe for happiness, you need to know what matters most to you; have strong beliefs to support taking the necessary next steps; and actually do the kinds of things you want to, while letting go of the rest. You also need to be willing to share your desires with the world—something that is often challenging. This is where The Happiness Recipe comes in.
With actionable steps for closing the gaps that are often present along the path to happiness, Rebecca Morrison shares insights on how to start living a happier life, starting right now.
By decluttering your days of the “shoulds” and the “have-tos” and focusing instead on what actually matters, a road toward fulfilling joy will be laid before you. No matter how busy or overwhelmed you feel, this book will help you identify what has been standing between you and your happiness, so you can focus your energy on changes that will meaningfully impact your existence.
The Happiness Recipe is a grounded, approachable, and tactical guide to finding joy. By sharing the tools necessary for understanding what matters most to your happiness, Rebecca Morrison gives you the key to believing in and achieving the kind of happiness that is possible for everyone.

What Rebecca said of our work together:

 Our work together

Jay of the Carnivore team contacted me by referral when he was in the middle of his first draft of Lions of Wall Street. As a seasoned professional in the financial field, Jay was taking his first foray into writing books and wisely sought support.

I’ll admit, not being a financial expert, reading his book on first pass was a big learning curve for me (I love getting to learn from my clients!) But my expertise is in content architecture – that is, how to sequence and shape a book so the ideas shine brightest. Upon first edit, I could see how to improve the draft and presented Jay with a pretty direct and bold plan of revision. I held my breath a bit as I awaited his feedback. He and his team absolutely loved my ideas. In fact, Jay’s colleagues told him: Just do whatever Jaime says to do. Ha! We worked hard on the draft over the rest of the editing phase shaping and polishing the draft until it was something the Carnivore team was incredibly proud of.

Jay asked me if I would serve as his project manager for the publication of the book, which I was delighted to do. We worked over the next few months to bring the draft into publication. I offered interior book design services myself. We hired a book cover design team I recommended, and we worked tirelessly to get the book into print. I served as a liaison during calls with IngramSpark while we hashed out their book launch plan. I advised the team on how to market the book. They wanted to get their book published and in their hands in time for their Vegas Christmas party, which we did with devoted work and a dash of luck.

Jay threw me a curve ball in the middle of our steady stride toward publication, saying the team wanted to publish a companion journal at the same time. With my support, we hired an interior designer for this special project, worked with the same amazing book cover designers to keep our design work cohesive, and got the companion journal into the world shortly thereafter.

In all, I delivered a comprehensive support experience for the Carnivore team to get two books into publication from draft to done in under 4 months. It was a wild and highly engaged four months, and I am so proud of all the collaborative efforts it took for us to pull it off! It’s amazing what an assembled team of incredible professionals can do. Shout out to The Book Designers and Becky Bayne for lending their design support skills.

As of this writing, Jay and I are working together on the next book.

You can buy Lions of Wall Street here, their companion trading journal here, and their website here.

About Lions of Wall Street

Even though I don’t live inside the Carnivore Trading world, I know this book and its insight are supremely important to folks wanting to have an empowered (and profitable) experience of financial investing. I love how the authors are not afraid to get psychological, historical, sociological, and even spiritual in their approach to the stock market. It’s truly a unique and genius approach these guys offer to their industry and clientele. Here’s the description of the book:

You’ve been doing everything you’ve been taught about investing – put away money, dollar-cost averaged, diversified, planned, and paid your fees. You’ve done what your financial advisors recommend. And yet, your accounts are bleeding money and you’re baffled and discouraged. You know something isn’t working; something isn’t right here. But you don’t know what do to.

We have the answer for you. It’s called the Carnivore Way. It’s how our elite team of Wall Street veterans has seen incredible returns in markets that are emptying most by-the-book investors’ coffers.

In this book, we will expose the inherent flaws of the Wall Street establishment, and how to do it differently. This book will offer you profound tools of the trade and incredible market insights you won’t get anywhere else. You’ll walk away more empowered and capable of becoming a Hall of Fame trader. Join us in discovering how to become a Lion of Wall Street, the ruler of your own domain, and achieve true financial freedom.

What Jay said of our work together

Our Editing Work Together

Kyle found me through my friends and fellow authors Scott Schumaker and Tiffanie De Bartolo of Bright Antenna Records. Kyle is a former rock-star-turned-author and one of the funniest humans I know. He came to me with the first draft of his book, Thank God for Depression. We worked together on shaping and discovering the right sequence of his book’s content to best support his incredible messages. I love sending a paper copy of a client’s developmental editing manuscript back to them. And Kyle graciously accepted pages of additional notes and outlines from me with his first draft.

After our first round of editing, he dove bravely into these edits and returned to me with a second draft. We polished up the second draft and he was off and running into self-publishing. He launched a successful Kickstarter, indie published, and has been true to his rock star reference in the ways he’s so solidly shown up as this book’s ambassador and as a bright agent of healing in the world. It’s been fun to keep in touch with Kyle for short chats, offering my thoughts on his book cover, supporting his Kickstarter, and more. I am grateful for people like Kyle, whom I meet as clients and stay in touch with over the years as friends. Excited to see what Kyle writes next, between music events. Buy Thank God for Depression here and visit Kyle’s website here.

About Thank God For Depression

What if everything you think or know about your own depression is entirely wrong? What if your depression isn’t a bad or evil thing? What if your depression has intelligence and consciousness? What if your depression is trying to teach you something and lead you somewhere? What if there is a big beautiful reason and meaning for your depression that you have no idea about yet? What if your depression is the best thing to ever happen to you? What if one day you will wake up and say, “Thank God for depression?”

“Thank God For Depression” presents a roadmap for all of these questions. Telling stories from his decade in a professional rock band and misadventures on psychedelics, author Kyle Nicolaides delivers one of the funniest, deeply spiritual, and most profound books you will ever read on depression. It’s time to alchemize your depression into your greatest gift.

What Kyle Said about our work together

Our work Together

Darren and I began working together in early 2021 on his collection of essays, poems and stories about love and partnership totaling over 100,000 words (the average book is between 50,000 and 75,000, for reference). I offered a developmental edit on this first collection to provide direction on creating greater cohesion and a strong sequencing of all his works together. We also discovered that he had two collections of work here, and that he would plan to publish one now and a second in the near future. We worked together to refine what was included in this first collection and completed a second edit together.

Then Darren hired me as his publishing project manager. In this capacity, I completed the interior design of the book for him, and we used the same brilliant cover designers I love to work with: The Book Designers. I guide Darren through all of the book production steps including completing the remaining elements of his book interior, proofreading the final manuscript, advising on marketing and the endorsement process, creating book cover mock-ups, and publishing the books on Amazon. We published his first collection in early 2023. Stay tuned from much more from Darren in the years to come.

I was so impressed with how Darren applied his profound creative genius to his launch process, creating several incredible videos and webinars featuring his art from Love’s Revolution. As of this writing, Darren is touring the world offering ritual concerts and readings from the book. You can buy Love’s Revolution here, check out Darren’s videos here, and visit his website here.

About Love’s Revolution

In this enthralling collection, Darren Austin Hall, visionary and spiritual teacher, offers a captivating and provocative exploration of the burgeoning realm of sacred sexuality and the revisioning of intimate relationships as pathways of conscious partnership and embodied mysticism.

Through beloved ecstatic poetry, thought-provoking essays, and paradigm-shifting short stories, we are welcomed into a genre Darren calls spiritual-erotica where the ancient truths of sexual alchemical traditions dovetail with modern yearnings for more depth in love, the anguished awakenings of heart-break, and the challenge of sublimating lust into numinous love.

Darren also hones in on healing some of the ancient religious wounds of Christianity and Catholicism, steeped in patriarchal mores and disembodiment complexes, in his retelling of the Garden of Eden story with Eve as heroic tantrika seeking serpent wisdom and a titillating tale of Jesus and Mary Magdalene in a passionate embrace as teachers of sacred sexual arts.

As Darren affirms, we are in the midst of a love and sexuality revolution that has profound foundation-laying potential to usher in a new culture based on the sacredness of pleasure and the healing of our most ancient sufferings.

What Darren said about our work

Want to be Added to this List?

I would LOVE to help you make it to the summit of Mount Authorship. Please check out this page for details on next steps.

And please know I have SO many more INCREDIBLE and SUCCESSFUL clients who haven’t made this list yet but have made incredible advancements on their projects. I am so damn proud of them too. I can’t wait to share their projects with you when their books make it all the way into the world.