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Becca Chopra chose self-publishing rather than bother with sending out query letters to traditional publishers. Find out which vendor she recommends for her marketing materials and learn about a website with free advice for indies.

1. Give me the “elevator pitch” for your book in five to ten sentences.

Chakra Secrets is a memoir and more. Follow me on my path from aspiring actress to yoga teacher and chakra healer. Navigating betrayals and loss, tormented by guilt, I explore kundalini, tantric sex, past-life regression and mind-body tools as I earn my credentials as an energy healer and finally find love and light. You’ll not only learn my personal secrets, but the “instant” healing tool I learned in Hawaii that you can use anytime, anywhere to eliminate pain, stress and clear the path for healing on all levels.

2. Why did you become an indie writer?

I didn’t have the patience to send out query letters to agents. Rather, I decided to self-publish and save myself a lot of time.

3. Have you been traditionally published? Why or why not?

No. I haven’t tried – but I won’t turn down a traditional publisher if they approach me.

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1. Give me the “elevator pitch” for your book in five to ten sentences.

We are focused on small-time threats in America right now: terrorists, “lone-wolf” scenarios, gangs, etc. We don’t see a real threat in the way of an entire country attacking us. China, though, is fully capable of attacking us and they have a massive amount of strength–the only thing holding them back, if they decided to do it, would be the threat of a nuclear strike, so this book ponders what might happen if they could figure out a way around that problem. Ultimately, though, with that as the background story, this is a story about survival after a devastating tidal wave that was over 100-yards tall. One young man, one young dog, one young woman and one old man come together in unlikely ways and begin to fight through their struggles together.

2. Why did you become an indie writer?

Honestly? I have a problem with authority! But it wasn’t just that. I did the whole agent/publisher dance on and off for 20 years. Back in 1994, when I finished my first novel, I had it accepted by an agency called the Thornton Literary Agency and it was scheduled to be published under the Electric Umbrella but their company went into a hiatus and the rest is history. That kind of unpredictability along with the growing trend of agents/publishers chasing “what’s hot” vs. looking for new talent in any genre is what pushed me here. I love nothing more than having total control over my work. Except for writing.

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