WORKHEALING 2025: Why I Wrote This Book
Most writers have full-time jobs outside of their writing. I had a bunch: Hardees, factory, bookstore (which I did NOT enjoy)*, frycook, assistant to a literary agent (AWFUL)**, leasing agent, apartment manager, blah blah blah.
At one particularly bad time, I did some extensive research and consulted two friends who were in-demand psychologists. That’s when I came up with this thought: work consists of only FOUR things: time, people, tasks, and prosperity.
When it all became a book, I was able to get a publisher. A couple of years later, the audio version came out. I cashed royalty checks. Now THIS job I liked!
This was over 20 years ago. After the book went out of print and I wrestled back control of my rights, I wondered why. The book was terribly outdated. So the past few months, I’ve been rewriting it.
I’m glad to say it’s now out and FREE until Friday March 7 on Amazon. Give it a try:
I would love reviews, because back then I led Workhealing Workshops and I got a lot of great responses, including from people who didn’t really hate their jobs. But if there was one irritant or one snarky coworker, this concept helped them with that.
And now I’ll reveal these mysterious asterisks:
* It was a chain bookstore, and 90 percent of customers came in to buy romance books, which I knew little about. And then they wanted to talk endlessly about them or the author.
** My job as an agent’s assistant wasn’t to read, because I wasn’t being paid for that. I could volunteer (!) to take a lesser manuscript home to read in my spare time. I was more of a secretary. And all day all I heard about was strategy and money.
