"Who is David?" Why Twelve Stories?

I’ve been asked by a number of people; “Why twelve stories in the book?” I don’t know the answer to that really; it just seemed like a somewhat spiritual and mystical and appropriate number to use. There are twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve months a year, twelve apostles, and there are twelve doughnuts in a dozen. I think these are probably as good a reasons as any.

Since this is the first book that I’ve written, I also was thinking about it in terms of manageable, small biographies to write about people. Most popular books it seems are about 300 or so pages, so I figured that if I use twelve stories of about 25 pages each, this would give me the ability to write the stories and end up with about the right size finished book.

I’m going to start a PowerPoint presentation today to develop the marketing plan for the book. I’ve been reading up a bit about how to market a book these days; it’s not really just about putting it on Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com, an author must really create a complete and comprehensive marketing plan in order to get the information about the book out there into the marketplace. It seems there are number of coaches that can help in this regard. The one I have found that I rather like is the Arielle Ford.

I think that once I have a sample story or two for the book, as well as some introductory pages, I think I would like to hire Arielle or a coach like her in order to help me get the book to an appropriate publisher.

Dr. Robert Muller: A Most Remarkable Man

I’ve been on the lookout for twelve people for whom I can write mini-bios to include in my book “David.” [The subtitle for the book is; “How to twelve ordinary people found extraordinary passion in their lives."]

I was watching the Wisdom Channel [now Lime] some time ago and I saw Chantal’s Westerman interviewing for a former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations. This man’s optimism was instantly infectious.

This was the first time that I’ve heard of Dr. Robert Mueller. He’s now in his 80’s and is the Chancellor of the University for Peace in Costa Rica. I’ve immediately went to go to the Internet to look up more about this fellow. The more I researched, the more I found out how amazing he really is. He is one of those people that I’m sure when you meet him in person you see his eyes sparkle; so full of passion, so full of optimism, and so full of life.

[for more information http://www.robertmuller.org/]

I immediately thought to myself, “This is somebody I need to include in my book.”

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