Ann Marie Sabath - Everybody Has A Book Inside of Them: How To Bring It Out

Ann Marie Sabath's book inspired me to transform myself from someone who has always dreamed of writing a book someday to actively engaging in the process of unleashing the book inside of me. A truly thrilling journey!

Laura Davis

Anyone with a story to tell will benefit from Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them. And that's just about any of us. Ann Marie provides answers to questions for both the novice wordsmith to the accomplished novelist-to-be. Her experience as a successful writer is invaluable in helping others understand the true ins and outs of the writing world.

Jordan Rich, cofounder, Chart Productions,
host of On Mic with JR podcast,
WBZ Boston Radio personality

When you read Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them, you will feel like you are attending a writers' conference for budding authors. I was so motivated by the sage advice that I actually began writing my book!

Elaine Chambers

Everybody Has A Book Inside of Them encourages readers to stop hiding behind their own story. It shines light on the writing process and how others have done it which proves that you can do it, too.

Michaela Lehner,
creator of Dare To Be You Summit

I was so inspired by Ann Marie's new book Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them that I started making my own list of questions and introspection to help me get organized and to start thinking about what I know best and what I am most passionate about... and I realized, wow, I can be an author!

Tara Low, founder/Editor-in-Chief
Guitar Girl magazine

This edition first published in 2019 by Career Press, an imprint of

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

With offices at:

65 Parker Street, Suite 7

Newburyport, MA 01950

www.redwheelweiser.com

www.careerpress.com

Copyright 2019 by Ann Marie Sabath

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

ISBN: 978-1-63265-169-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.

Cover by Rob Johnson, Toprotype, Inc.

Interior by Scriptoriumbooks.com

Printed in the United States of America

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Start telling the stories that only you can tell,
because there'll always be better writers than you
and there'll always be smarter writers than you.
There will always be people who are much better at
doing this or doing thatbut you are the only you.

Neil Gaiman

To my parents, Mary and Camille Sabath, who took
their unwritten books with them.

To my children, Scott and Amber, who are living the
stories they have yet to tell.

To my granddaughters, Sonya and Catalina, who I
hope will someday put their thoughts on paper to share
with future generations.

To Michael Pye, my associate publisher, who believed in this book enough to make it a Career Press title.

To Laurie Kelly, the director of sales for Career Press who reminds me that bottom-line book selling is the name of the game.

To Michael Conlon, the production manager who continues to score home runs when it comes to meeting book printing demands.

To Lisa Barretta, Susan A. Berger, Jan Cullinane, Allana Da Graca, Cornelia Gamlem, Marie D. Jones, Maryann Karinch, Lydia Lambert, Gail Z. Martin, Barbara Mitchell, Ken Murray, Erica Orloff, John Pierce, Herb Reisenfeld, and Kris Spisak, who shared their expertise for budding readers in this book.

To Allan Schiller, my personal mensch and Ahuvi, who has been both a wonderful cheerleader and sounding board advisor throughout this project.

To Laura Schiller, my substantive editor and sounding board advisor who guided me from the inception of this book idea to its finished product.

To Elaine Stone, my developmental editor and sounding board advisor who sensitized me to the wants and needs of budding authors.

To Rob Johnson, my newly adopted bro and president of Toprotype, who designed the book cover and was a true pleasure to work with.

To Suzy, my business partner, who has stuck with me through thick and thin, and helped me to turn in this book manuscript early!

And of course, to Mozart, my Maltese, who warmed the hearts of many and became the catalyst for writing this book.

To produce a mighty book, you must
choose a mighty theme.

Herman Melville

The act of us meeting through this book is magical. While I did not realize it at the time, a series of events led me to write Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them. Below is the sequence of events that inspired it.

On January 1, 2018, I turned in the manuscript for my ninth book, What Self-Made Millionaires Do That Most People Don't. On May 21, the book was released in bookstores and on Amazon, and on June 1, Mozart, my six-month-old Maltese and I started on a seven-month book tour journey.

Mozart and I traveled around the country meeting bookstore employees whom I consider to be the aunts and uncles of my books. We did forty-five signings in bookstores as far west as Seattle, Washington, and as far east as Framingham, Massachusetts. We visited an additional twenty-five bookstores to meet more relatives and sign the inventory of my books in stock.

The ensuing conversations during those hundred hours formulated the catalyst for this book. Here is how it happened.

Bookstore customers flocked to the signing tablethough it wasn't to see me; it was to meet Mozart. After three signings, the picture became clear: I wrote the book and Mozart was the one selling it!

Who would have thought? I had a new book marketing teammate and didn't even realize it!

More often than not, the dog-loving customers would ask to pet Mozart. They would ask to hold Mozart. The same people would even ask if they could take a selfie with the fluffy ball of fur. Note: My condition for these requested photo ops was that they would post the pic of the dog that sells books on their social media sites, as I would on mine.

When they handed Mozart back to me, they would ask in an almost obligatory manner, what prompted me to write What Self-Made Millionaires Do That Most People Don't. I would tell them and then in the next breath say, Everybody has a book inside of them. What is yours?

Several would blurt out the book topic they wanted to write. Their subjects ranged from memoirs, historical fiction, romance, and fantasy novels to self-help books. When I asked what was keeping them from writing it, many said they wouldn't even know where to start.

Other customers would respond, I have to give that some thought. My ready response to them was, It's not the answer; it's the question. Everybody has a book inside of them.

Regardless of their responses, these bookstore customers often were curious about the process of writing a book, which generated even more inquiries about my experience. Their questions included: