Nina Amir
Nina Amir, Your Inspiration-to-Creation Coach, inspires writers to create
the results they desire--publishable and published products and careers as writers and
authors. She is a seasoned journalist, nonfiction editor, author, proposal consultant,
blogger, and writing, book and author coach with more than 33 years of experience in the
publishing field as well as the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a blog and writing
challenge. She also is a popular
speaker on topics related to publishing and
writing and the author of the forthcoming How
to Blog a Book, Write, Publish and Promote Your Work One Post at a
Time (Writer's Digest Books, April
2012).
Amir holds a BA in magazine journalism from Syracuse
University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication with a concentration in
psychology. An award winning journalist, she has edited or written for more than 45
local, national and international magazines, newspapers, e-zines, and newsletters on a
full-time or freelance basis producing hundreds of articles. Her essays have been
published in five anthologies and can be found in numerous e-zines and Internet article
directories.
She also has a proven track record as a book editor.
One of Amir’s clients' books (Enlightened
Leadership) was self-published and then purchased and re-released verbatim by
Simon & Schuster (Fireside); the book has sold over 230,000 to date. Another
(Radical Forgiveness) won the 1998 Writer’s
Digest Self-Published Book Award (Inspirational category), received a contract from
William Morrow but remained self-published and went on to sell over 115,000 copies;
recently Radical Forgiveness was purchased by Sounds True. Another of her clients' books
(Finding Heaven Here) was purchased by
O-Books, a fast-growing British publisher. Her clients' proposals regularly get them
contracts with agents as well.
Amir teaches workshops, teleseminars and classes on
how to get published. She also speaks to organizations, writing groups and at conferences
on topics related to writing, getting published, building platform, and realizing the
dream of becoming a published author. She works with individual aspiring authors not only
on their manuscripts but how to get their books and other products written most
efficiently and on staying inspired as they maneuver their way through the sometimes long
and arduous path to becoming published. She also helps them turn their passion and their
soul purpose into printed products.
Amir has written and self-published nine booklets and
workbooks. (All of these short books are available on her
websites: www.copywrightcommunications.com or www.purespiritcreations.com.) They are:
- How to Evaluate Your Book for
Success, A Step-by-Step Workbook for Conceiving a
Successful Book Before You Give Birth to It
- Using the Internet to Build Your Platform
One Article at a Time, 8 Tips for Getting Publicity, Exposure and Expert
Status by Providing Free Copy Online
- Everyone has a Torah, What's
Yours? A Workbook for Turning Life Lessons into Stories Worth
Telling
- The Priestess Practice: 4 Steps
to Creating Sacred Space and Inviting the Divine to Dwell Within
It (plus a workbook)
- The Kabbalah of Conscious
Creation: How to Mystically Manifest Your Physical and Spiritual
Desires (plus a
workbook)
- From Empty Practice to Meaning-Full and
Spirit-Full Prayers and Rituals…in Seven Simple
Steps
- Navigating the Narrow Bridge: 7 Steps for
Moving Forward Courageously Even When Life Seems Most
Precarious
- 10 Days and 10 Ways to Return to Your Best
Self, A T'Shuvah Tool Bridging Religious Traditions
- Get Ready, Aim, Shoot, Hit Your Bull's Eye
This Year, A Spiritual Guide to Using the Jewish and Secular New Years to Reset
Your Personal, Professional and Spiritual Targets
She co-authored Planting Seeds of Change…and Watching Them
Grow with Karen Stone, MSW, and she compiled a Jewish celebrity
cookbook for which she is seeking a publisher.
A prolific blogger, Amir writes four blogs in addition
to Write Nonfiction in November. These include Write
Nonfiction Now, How to
Blog a Book, As the Spirit Moves Me, and My Son Can
Dance. You also can find her posts on www.Vibrantnation.com and on www.losgatospatch.com as well as in www.redroom.com.
As an on-line columnist, Amir serves as the National Jewish Issues Examiner and the National
Self-Improvement Examiner.
In addition, Amir is an inspirational speaker, spiritual and conscious creation coach, teacher,
and for two years was the regular holiday and spirituality expert on Conversations
with Mrs. Claus, a weekly podcast heard in more than 90 countries and downloaded
by 110,000 listeners per month (www.thefamilyyak.com). Through her writing and speaking,
Amir offers human potential, personal growth and practical spiritual tools from a Jewish
perspective, although her work spans religious lines and is pertinent to people of all
faiths and spiritual traditions. She focuses on helping people live their lives fully and
manifest their desires -- whether those desires look like written products or something
entirely different.
Amir lives in the Santa Cruz Mountain in Los Gatos, CA, with her husband and two
children.
Listen to Amir's podcasts or radio appearances here.
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