Wonderwell

02/13/2025

Coaches, therapists, and healers: Humanity is hurting, and needs your wisdom. If you've been dreaming of writing a transformational how-to book but you don't know how to get started, you'll want to check this out.

Words that Heal is a multi-day in-person publishing workshop and retreat designed expressly for those in the helping professions.

Our founding publisher Maggie Langrick has been developing and publishing award-winning, best-selling prescriptive nonfiction for more than ten years, with a special focus on books that help, heal, and inspire.

The publishing industry can be a bewildering place, and there's a lot of conflicting information out there. Maggie loves nothing more that helping people like YOU to make wise publishing decisions and get set for success, even with your very first book.

She'll be co-presenting this workshop with Ruby Warrington, the bestselling author of Sober Curious and Women Without Kids. Ruby has a special passion for guiding immersive learning experiences, and she is excited to share with you all that she has learned about writing and publishing a transformational nonfiction book.

Best of all, this retreat is being held in person at the beautiful Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health April 25-27, 2025.

What to expect?
• Get real-time feedback and guidance from industry professionals.
• Uncover your book's unique aspects to make it a best-seller.
• Connect your life's mission and passions to readers' needs and interests.
• Understand the fundamentals of book proposal development.
• Navigate the three main publishing models and choose the right path for you.
• Discover what publishers look for in an author and how you can leverage your strengths.
• Learn ways to incorporate your personal story into a self-help book.

This heart-centered experience will accelerate your journey toward becoming a published author while serving your soul’s calling. Return home inspired and with an insider's look into the publishing world.

Tuition is just $399 plus accommodations per person. Click on the link below to register now!

https://kripalu.org/.../words-heal-how-publishing-workshop

02/13/2025

Coaches, therapists, and healers: Humanity is hurting, and needs your wisdom. If you've been dreaming of writing a transformational how-to book but you don't know how to get started, you'll want to check this out.

Words that Heal is a multi-day in-person publishing workshop and retreat designed expressly for those in the helping professions.

Our founding publisher Maggie Langrick has been developing and publishing award-winning, best-selling prescriptive nonfiction for more than ten years, with a special focus on books that help, heal, and inspire.

The publishing industry can be a bewildering place, and there's a lot of conflicting information out there. Maggie loves nothing more that helping people like YOU to make wise publishing decisions and get set for success, even with your very first book.

She'll be co-presenting this workshop with Ruby Warrington, the bestselling author of Sober Curious and Women Without Kids.

Ruby has a special passion for guiding immersive learning experiences, and she is excited to share with you all that she has learned about writing and publishing a transformational nonfiction book.

The workshop is in person at the beautiful Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health April 25-27, 2025.

What to expect?
• Get real-time feedback and guidance from industry professionals.
• Uncover your book's unique aspects to make it a best-seller.
• Connect your life's mission and passions to readers' needs and interests.
• Understand the fundamentals of book proposal development.
• Navigate the three main publishing models and choose the right path for you.
• Discover what publishers look for in an author and how you can leverage your strengths.
• Learn ways to incorporate your personal story into a self-help book.

This heart-centered experience will accelerate your journey toward becoming a published author while serving your soul’s calling. Return home inspired and with an insider's look into the publishing world.

Tuition is just $399 plus accommodations per person. Click on the link below to register now!

https://kripalu.org/.../words-heal-how-publishing-workshop

Are you a healer, therapist, or life coach ready to amplify your impact by writing a book?Join best-selling author, Ruby Warrington, and Wonderwell Press fou...

05/21/2024

I went into publishing self-help books because reading them has changed my life. I truly believe that for every person in pain, no matter what the source of their suffering, there is a human out there whose story or acquired knowledge can help, and who is wondering, "should I write a book?"

If you are one of those, I am sending you a big yesssss.

If the yearning to write a self-help book just won’t leave you alone, but you aren’t confident you’ve got it in you or don’t know where to start, please don’t give up. Writing a truly life-changing self-help book is not effortless or even intuitive, but it is more doable than you might think. It just takes a specific skill set that can be cultivated.

Over my decades as a close reader of self-help books and more than twenty years as an editor and publisher, I have learned a thing or two about how to do this well. In this installment of The Underwire, I look back on the very first self-help book I read, and share four resources for your own journey to publication!

...and how you can write your own

05/09/2024

If you're a coach or therapist wanting to write a self-help book, start here with these top tips from a publisher of nonfiction books that help, heal, and inspire.

You became a therapist, coach, or healer because you want to help people. And there’s arguably no better way to help massive numbers of people than writing a self-help book.

04/30/2024

New dispatch on The Underwire from your friendly TMI Queen: This week, I'm writing about the risks and rewards of "oversharing" when writing memoir. And because I walk the talk, there's a juicy and embarrassing story from my freewheeling youth.

Vulnerability, oversharing, and writing memoir

04/21/2024

Case studies and real-life examples are invaluable tools in nonfiction writing. They bring abstract concepts to life, illustrate practical applications of theories, and make complex ideas accessible. Because they are essentially bite-sized stories, case studies can also help to hold your reader’s attention, and even offer entertainment value!

When handled well, integrating case studies and examples into your manuscript will significantly enhance your arguments and engage your readers more deeply.

But how do you gather, select, and present them to maximize their impact? Here are some tips to get you started.

04/21/2024

Stories, case studies, and examples are powerful teaching tools—and they belong in your nonfiction book. Here's how to craft them for impact.

https://wonderwell.press/how-to-craft-compelling-case-studies-and-examples/

12/04/2023

As we slide into the holiday season, are you questioning your drinking? Maybe even slightly dreading the parties, if they always come with hangovers and morning-after regret? If so, read this Newsweek article by Wonderwell author Dustin Dunbar. In it, he leads us to question the lies alcohol tells us: that drinking will make us more fun to be around, that it will make us happier — and that we can't stop.

I promise you, alcohol doesn't make us happier or more fun, and you absolutely can break its hold over you.

Dustin's book You're Doing Great: And Other Lies Alcohol Told Me is available for preorder now and in stores January 9. It could be the best gift you ever give to yourself or someone you love.

This book is very close to my heart, having escaped from the "alcohol matrix" myself almost exactly three years ago. Life has never been so good. In fact, I finally really am doing great.

I woke up to three police officers, guns drawn, ready to take me to jail.

11/21/2023

Most strategic transformations are doomed to fail, for two fundamental reasons: their leaders don’t aim high enough, delivering incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. This gap between what is required in a world of seismic shifts in technology and customer requirements and what is typically delivered risks putting your organization on the road to extinction.

On sale in March 2024, Leaders Leap makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of leadership mindset is key to preventing your organization from becoming irrelevant and explores seven profound “mind leaps” leaders need to make now. With over 40 years of leadership experience, author Steve Dennis will take you on a courageous journey of self-reflection, personal accountability, and growth, exposing the ways in which our ego, biases, and fear, can lead to timid transformation efforts when what we need most is to think bigger, act more boldly, and move far faster.

Learn more about Leaders Leap by visiting our blog (link in bio).

11/14/2023

Now available: See through the smokescreens to what is true with ’s Near Enemies of the Truth. In this book, Wallis draws on his 30 years of wisdom as a spiritual scholar, practitioner, and teacher to demonstrate how nearly all the popular platitudes found in alternative spir­itual communities (phrases like “speak your truth” and “be your best self”) are distorted or oversimplified versions of some of the most significant yet subtle spiritual insights developed over the ages.

When we’re talking about deep and fundamental truths, getting it a little bit wrong doesn’t much matter in the short term, but it very much matters in the long term—just like a tiny adjustment to the rudder of your boat makes little difference at first, but after two thou­sand miles, it lands you on a different continent. If you find yourself lost in a sea of trendy, bumper-sticker spirituality, Near Enemies of the Truth will guide you to the shores of awakening. Order your copy today wherever books and e-books are sold.

10/05/2023

Many business leaders seek to avoid the “fail to scale” phenomenon—the low-quality, high-friction interactions that become increasingly common as companies expand. What made a company great when it was a small, tight-knit team—its culture, its high performance, its clear vision—may no longer exist when such an exponential increase in complexity unfolds. Yet, those who fall victim to this avoidable problem don’t possess the resources to prevent their organization from underperforming in the first place. That’s where Rob Bier comes in.

With over three decades of experience helping founders of start-ups and scale-ups to create high-performing organizations, Bier has devised 20 foundational rituals that executives can integrate into their organizations to make interactions as frictionless as possible. He’s offering them all in his new book, Smooth Scaling, on sale February 2024. Learn more at our blog (link in bio).

09/05/2023

If you’re yearning for a break from the rise-and-grind hustle culture of everyday life, a release from the pressure to produce and do “all the things” all the time, this book is for you. And if you dream of escaping to inspiring, enriching new destinations with your family in tow, this book is ESPECIALLY for you. So proud to be releasing with the incredible author team at . It’ll change your life. Order a copy and start plotting your epic adventure today. 🌎💫