Good news!

Reach for the Stars! Award-Winning Promotional Plans To Jump Start Your Branding Career, an e-book for writers trying to successfully promote their work, has just been released by Star Publish! And besides all the great advice on branding yourself that you get from the other various essays in the book, of particular interest to Star Wars fans will be my contribution, "How I Took On An Empire: My Star Wars Marketing Campaign." Download it for free!

I initially leaked the news about the book's availability in the Galactic Senate chat last Monday, though I delayed announcing it here when it was brought to my attention the ending to "How I Took On An Empire" had been accidentally omitted! Tsk tsk. But thank the Force for cool editors, the problem's now fixed and you can read it in its entirety.

A word on the content. The essay basically focuses on my activities as a Star Wars author in 2005, describing the hows of my turning point from Abel "Who?" Peņa to Abel "Mandalorian" Peņa.

The advice I give in the e-book may seem common sensical, and it probably is. But the kicker's this: the phenomenon of taking action and doing what we know to be right, good, or beneficial for ourselves (and others, for that matter) often needs to be motivated by a reminder of the common sensical. To cause someone to realize distinctly and acutely, "What... this is it? This is all it takes?"

Granted, it's all easier said than done, or else I wouldn't need to be explaining a supposedly self-explanatory essay. But all you need is one blisteringly decisive moment, when you choose, "I will do this," proceeded by decisive and sustained action.

The concept is difficult to explain, because it touches on our most basic insecurities about initiative; it's even more difficult to understand until you've experienced it. My best advice is to quit waiting for "it" to happen to you. Get off your bum and start doing what you know in your heart of hearts you should be doing.

So, download the book. It's free. And best destiny, dreamers. ~ Abel G. Peņa

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