Your Creative Soul is a ground-breaking book with a spot-on look into the future of creativity. I’m Diane Ealy, a desert rat who lives in Tucson, AZ. I have spent a lifetime gathering insight from my perspectives as a Ph.D. behavioral scientist, clairvoyant healer, spiritual explorer and creativity expert. Now I offer my readers a fresh, clear, panoramic soul-level view on the evolutionary changes we are living through. This book, my fifth, is like GPS for your evolving soul and the creative energy you can access. My wish is that my readers will gain insight into the vast changes happening to each of us, be empowered with knowledge and have a heightened sense of control along with an absence of fear in their daily lives.
Your Creative Soul is completed and ready to be published. This is where I need your help. I need to raise money to get this book out into the world -- to cover editing, book design, cover design (the publisher already did this on good faith so that you could see it), lay-out, printing and marketing. I’ve created a rewards program that I hope you will find equitable. (Fairness is important to me.) One of the most exciting of my rewards is a limited edition, inscribed and signed hard cover copy for donors at the $250 level and up. Because of the high quality of printing done by Gather Insight, the retail price of their paperback books is higher than average. But their books are well worth it. This is the reason that paper back copies are given at the $50 level while lower amounts receive the e copy. The content is, of course, priceless. My gratitude to any donor is endless. If you want additional copies to give as gifts, please make separate donations.
Since I opened my healing practice over two decades ago, I have placed all client payments into a special heart for blessing before I deposit those checks into my bank account. I will make a list of everyone who donates to making this book a published reality and place it into that heart for daily blessings and the intention that this money be returned to you at least ten-fold. Your name will remain in the blessing heart for a full year. All other rewards are scheduled to be fulfilled by December 31, 2012. The publisher expects this book to be picked up by a bigger house. When that happens, those names in the acknowledgements section from this campaign will stay with the book.
Getting Published
I’ve jumped through hoops with other publishing houses, being challenged to maintain my integrity to my work while editors tried to make my writing into what they wanted. That’s just the nature of publishing. With Your Creative Soul, I will have an entirely different experience. It will be published by an amazing small press, Gather Insight. Their books contain full, multi-colored graphics that enliven and enlighten the printed word. I don’t know of any other publisher that takes this kind of care to produce a product that is so totally engaging.
Their publishing program is a breath of fresh air! The authors have professional and passionate assistance with publishing and distribution while retaining the rights to their work. And we have the final say on what is published. Doing this, though, requires that the authors fund the printing. I need money to get the project going. It’s not that much by publishing standards but a lot by my bank account’s condition.
The publishers believe that this book needs to be available to the public as quickly as possible, so we are looking at releasing it as early as August and as late as October of this year. They also believe that because the information in the book is both new and timely, that it will rapidly gain in popularity. I broke new ground with my first book, The Woman’s Book of Creativity, and I’m presenting more new information and concepts in Your Creative Soul.
More Information about the Book
Some of the key elements discussed in Your Creative Soul are the nature of change and how it has changed, HA-HA as a pathway to AHA as a pathway to AWE, reasons for celebrating being a misfit (we’re really creative). I offer a completely new perspective on the human psyche and what it is becoming as we collectively integrate our divinity and humanity while we purposefully adapt.
Creativity is an inherent part of being human and accessing our soul creativity puts us into a powerful, fun relationship with everything.
I believe that spirituality, creativity and humor nurture each other, so I write with humor. Not necessarily something you would expect in a spirituality or creativity book, but I thought I ought to give you a heads-up about that! When you get your copy of Your Creative Soul, you can expect an enjoyable, eye-opening, life-changing reading experience.
More About Me
I’ve written all sorts of things since I learned how to put words together, but writing about me is the hardest! I think you ought to know that I am academically qualified to write this book. I have a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science – my dissertation research was on the feminine creative process, an area that had never been studied! My M.S. is in Communication and my B.S. is in Speech. I was recognized as the wittiest girl in my high school graduation class – still love that one!
I am a teacher by nature and love to give speeches and conduct presentations. I’ve done hundreds of them over the years both throughout the USA and abroad. I’ve worked in management positions in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. I like being self-employed the best.
In my family of origin, both creativity and humor were highly valued. I’ve been a spiritual seeker since I was a teenager, inspired by my mother’s sage advice: never confuse religion with spirituality.
Along with being a writer, I am also an energy healer. In the late ‘80s I developed a new energy healing modality I call Physiohelanics™. I’ve conducted thousands of sessions over the years and have taught it to others. That way, I finally got to have my own healing session! Physiohelanics is featured in The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine.
Your Creative Soul will not be my last book. I love writing as much as presenting and plan to do both until I am ready to leave. I am owned by three cats and I’m a Phi Mu.
Thanks for checking out my project. Please encourage your friends to have a look, too.