The Life Audit Sneak Peek and Giveaway
Get a first look at The Life Audit, preorder the book, enter to win something special!
Happy August,
I can’t believe we’re only two months out from seeing The Life Audit on bookshelves. Eek! This book is ten years in the making — from a humble blog post to a beautiful, four-color book — and I’m so excited you’ll get to see it IRL soon. My advance author copies arrived today and HOLY MOLY. Guys. It’s stunning. Here I am, beside myself, new copies in hand:
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The video truly doesn’t do it justice, so I hope you’ll go ahead and preorder a copy for yourself or a loved one now. There are full page and full spread illustrations, plus step-by-step guidance to help you conduct your life audit and make sense of the hidden goals and deep desires that want so badly to make it to the surface.
Getting the art right for this book took a lot of time and experimentation, but one thing I knew for sure was that I wanted the book to feel vibrant, joyful, and inspiring. I chose colors that felt alive — energizing and exciting — because that’s what the Life Audit is! I can promise it’s even more joyful and vibrant in person. Here are a few beautiful interior shots so you can get a sense of what it looks like inside:
✨ Giveaway ✨
In honor of this beaut’s arrival, I’m excited to announce a special preorder giveaway. If you preorder The Life Audit and fill out this form, you’ll be entered for a chance to win a one-on-one Life Audit session with me. This is a chance for you to get an hour of extra guidance and coaching as you go through your life audit. I’ll take you through the process step-by-step and help you think through what comes next.
You can preorder a signed copy from Community Books, ask for it at your local indie, snag it on Bookshop, Amazon Prime it, or request it at your local library today.
🎧 📚 What I’m reading
- The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley (speculative fiction, romance, spy thriller). I’d been hearing about this book for a while and had hesitated picking it up, but I’m glad I finally did. This is a genre-bending debut novel blending time travel, government spying, and good old fashioned romance in one. The novel follows an unnamed narrator whose role is to act as a “bridge” for one of a group of time travelers plucked from history for a top secret project run by the eponymous Ministry of Time. The “expats” must learn to navigate everything from feminism to Spotify, though the purpose of the project is unknown. What we do know is that our narrator quickly becomes obsessed, er, falls in love with her expat, a charming naval officer named Commander Gore, or Graham, once the formalities are done with. I initially resisted reading this book because in truth, it all sounded a bit complicated, and I wasn’t sure I really needed a spy/thriller/romance story that spanned past, present, and future. And while there were a few times where I had to re-read a paragraph to really grok what was happening, it mostly went down easy. (Very easy, in fact. I read it in two days.) I was also totally delighted by the novel’s origin story, which is basically that the author went down a rabbit hole during the pandemic learning about a handsome, charming naval officer and wrote some fan fic about it that eventually became this novel. Swoon!
💸 Currently coveting
- A back to school treat for adults. I know a lot of people hate back-to-school shopping — it’s stressful, it’s expensive, and good lord the lists have gotten long — but I kind of love it. I remember how excited I was as a kid to go hunt for the ~coolest~ folders (for my Trapper Keeper, obvs) and colorful erasers. Even picking up the standard №2 pencil was a thrill. Checking things off the list, lining them up just so for the first day of school — I loved that feeling then, and years later I still love cracking into a fresh notebook or breaking out a new set of pens. Whenever I start a new project, I pick up a new notebook and it just feels so right. It crackles with that same back to school energy years later. I love these Leuchtturm journals in particular, which come with numbered pages and a little TOC you can fill in for yourself to keep track of things. What little back to school treats are you coveting?
💌 Thanks as always for reading along and supporting my work. If you like what you see, hit the heart button, drop a comment, or share this with someone you think will love it, too. You can pre-order my new book or book me for a speaking event here. 💌
