Gulp!: The 7 Day Crash Course to Master Fear and Break Through Any Challenge is the result of this catalytic moment. And underpinning Gulp! is my own personal journey of coping with a breast cancer scare and finding the confidence and courage to follow my dream to be a published author. In fact, the 7 day roadmap is based on the process I went through to cope with these challenges.
If there's one thing my experience has taught me, it’s that often in life the important stuff gets buried under the daily hum drum. Then sh*t happens and all of a sudden we're taking action - fast! But why do we need a wake up call to do the things that really matter?
My wish for others is that they don’t need to wait for a wake up call. Instead, Gulp! can provide them with the game plan, the inspiration and the practical techniques they need to turn their idea or a dream into a reality – calmly and swiftly, and without the crisis.
From the moment you conceived the idea for the story, to the published book, how long did it take?
It was just after New Years when I put the stake in the ground and committed to writing Gulp!. I was running a seminar at Lehman Brothers and made the commitment in front of 150 people. Once I’d charted my course, things happened really fast. I had signed with an agent by February, and then by April my contract with Penguin was finalized. My deadline was the end of October to submit my final manuscript. “Gulp!” came out in the U.K. five months later in May and then it launched in the U.S. in January this year.
Are you a disciplined writer?
When I first started writing I had this romantic notion that I would be overcome by divine inspiration and the words would simply flow through my fingers. I quickly realized that for me, it didn’t quite work like this. From my experience, writing a book is about 20% inspiration and 80% discipline. And the hardest part for me was actually getting the words written down. My brain was buzzing with ideas, but at the end of the day when you’ve committed to deliver 60,000 words, you gotta get ‘em down on paper.
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