How to Write A Spiritual Award Winning Book (VLOG)

World renowned and multi-Nautilus award winning author of The Turning Point, Dr. Gregg Braden and the new Nautilus Director Mary Belknap team up in this video to share writing tips and judging information for seasoned, new, and would-be authors. Whom amongst us has never had their faith or existence threatened? To be alive is to be under constant attack at the hands of time. To embrace Faith is to invite challenge. It has been said that if you exist, you are a story. Are you ready  to share it?

How often have we felt alone and frightened in our life-challenges concerning health, wealth or love? Then we discovered someone else who went through the same dark tunnel and exited as a success story written to change lives. They understand our pain and their words become a saga-to-success tale for millions of us.

Now, imagine how helpful your story can be to the world, because every life-experience is significant through the Universal Oneness of God-thought.

All experiences matter because they are the fingers of man touching the finger of God.

“But, how would anyone find me? And, I have no training in writing.” You may say.

If you blog or vlog (video-blog), your writing has been birthed by Dr. Reality and baptized by Friar Trial-by-fire.

Welcome to the Nautilus Book Awards Spotlight, on the Kat Kanavos Show on New Earth International TV, in partnership with Nautilus; better books for a better world. The award is named for the nautilus shell, as a symbol of wisdom and growth.

We showcase fiction and non-fiction authors in thirty-four categories that include Green Living and Sustainability, Mind Body Spirit Practices, Spirituality & Religion, Business & Leadership, Memoir, Social Change, Poetry, Women, Children & Youth.

Winning an award is like having a second book launch with a huge Public Relations agent.

The social networks Goodreads and Librarything maintain lists of Nautilus Award recipient books on their websites.

Stories shared under the Nautilus Spotlight are conversations that make a difference.

“When it comes to my rules for writing an award winning book, the rule is, ‘Do whatever you want!’” Gregg Braden says with a laugh. His tip sounds like the Nike commercial- Just do it!

Mary Belknap discusses judging tips. “Nautilus judges look for many things but my tip for any writer who wants to create an award winning book is to be authentic.”

So, the rule is there are no rules. Just write from your heart.

For some authors sharing their award on the Nautilus Book Awards Author Spotlight Show is important enough to ask Death to wait one more day. Last year Karen Speerstra was suffering through the last stages of cancer, yet stopped all her pain medication to cheerfully join us and talk about her book, Color:The Language of Light. A few days later she died. Her second book, The Divine Art of Dying speaks to us from beyond the grave, and won a post-hummus 2015 award.

What makes Nautilus award winners so special? According to Wikipedia Nautilus Book Awards is an annual accolade of books in the genre of social and environmental justice. It was established in the U.S. in 1998, and considered a “major” book award conferred to prominent authors.

Most Nautilus Awards have been granted to books from major academic presses such as Stanford University Press, Princeton University Press, and Columbia University Press, as well as large commercial publishers such as Penguin, W.W. Norton, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Little, Brown. However, several independent presses have been included like Cypress House, Trimountaine Publishing, and Bloomsbury.

Although I don’t consider myself a prominent author, like many other first time authors who dared to “just do it,” we now join this prestigious rank with fellow authors His Holiness the Dali Lama, Deepak Chopra MD, Dr. Bernie Siegel, Dr. Gregg Braden, Peter Canova, Charles, Prince of Wales, and Desmund Tutu.

I’m your show host Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos & fellow Nautilus award winner of Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing, recently featured on the Dr. Oz Show. Come join us. Write your story. Just do it.

Picture Credits: All pictures and posters are used with permission of show guests or owned by the host.

About the Author: Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos-three time cancer survivor whose guided dreams diagnosed her illness as seen on Dr. Oz, & NBC News, and detailed in her book Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing. She’s a Contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul, TV/Radio Host/Producer- Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod™, the Kat Kanavos Show, Internationally Syndicated Columnist, and Lecturer who promotes patient advocacy and Spiritual guidance.  www.KathleenOkeefeKanavos.com