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Nina Amir, Inspiration-to-Creation Coach, inspires people to combine their purpose and passion so they Achieve More Inspired Results. She motivates writers and non-writers to create publishable and published products and careers as authors as well as to achieve their goals, fulfill their purpose and live inspired lives.

The author of How to Blog a Book: How to Write, Publish and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time (Writer’s Digest Books), Amir is a nonfiction editor, book proposal consultant, and author and book coach and blog-to-book coach with more than 34 years of experience in the publishing field. She also is the founder of Write Nonfiction in November (www.writenonfictioninnovember.com), a blog and challenge. She writes five blogs, including Write Nonfiction NOW! (www.writenonfictionnow.com), How to Blog a Book (www.howtoblogabook.com) and As the Spirit Moves Me (www.asthespiritmovesme.com), and two national Examiner.com columns. Additionally, she speaks regularly about writing and publishing on the popular radio show, Dresser After Dark, hosted by Michael Ray Dresser, which has approximately 80,000 listeners per month.

You can find out more about her at:

http:www.ninaamir.com

www.copywrightcommunications.com

www.purespiritcreations.com

Amir holds a BA in magazine journalism with a concentration in psychology, has edited or written for more than 45 publications producing hundreds of articles and had her work published in five anthologies. She has two pieces coming out in other author's books this year as well. She has self-published 10 short books, including the popular workbook How to Evaluate Your Book for Success and 10 Days and 10 Ways to Return to Your Best Self.

As a book editor, Amir also has a proven track record. One of her 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), went on to sell over 115,000 copies, and recently was purchased by Sounds True. Her clients' proposals regularly get them contracts with agents as well.

Amir also speaks and writes about self-improvement, human potential, practical spirituality, and Judaism. She is the former regular holiday and spirituality expert on Conversations with Mrs. Claus, a weekly podcast heard in more than 90 countries and downloaded by 130,000 listeners per month. She is a certified rebirther, a trained Voice Dialogue facilitator and currently is working on her life coaching certificate.Although she often speaks and writes from a Jewish perspective, her work spans religious lines and is pertinent to people of all faiths and spiritual traditions.

In all she does, Amir focuses on helping people live their lives fully and manifest their desires -- whether those desires look like written products or something entirely different. She sees herself as an "Everywoman" whose struggles and successes are not unlike anyone else’s. Therefore, she writes, speaks and teaches from a place of knowing that what has worked for her will at least provide others with a starting place from which to find what works best for them.

Amir lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Los Gatos, CA.

How did you get to where you are now?

Diligence and hard work coupled with passion. I followed my dreams and never stopped believing I could have what I wanted. I haven't actually arrived at my destination, but I keep moving forward one step at a time.

I never stopped believing in myelf. I trusted that I had knoweldge, skills, whatever I needed to get where I wanted to go...no matter what anyone said.

I trusted that I knew my soul's purpose. And I have tried to fulfull it.

How do you see yourself differently now than you did 10 years ago?

I see myself as older and wiser. I see my limitations physically, but I see my limitless opportunities in all other given my experience and knowledge.

I do feel a bit pressured to get things done or accomplished now. I feel like I've piddled around a bit and now I have to complete what I started. It's time to fulfill my potential and my purpose.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I see myself feeling very happily fulfilled. I see myself with many of my books written and published, and, therefore, helping many people accomplish their goals and live their lives fully on many levels. I see myself feeling more peaceful and having much more time to relax! I think it will take  me another 10 years to accomplish my soul's purpose...to get everything in place, and then I'll be able to watch it all roll out much more easily and effortlessly. I'll be able to enjoy living my purpose rather than working at it quite so hard.

Hopefully I can do that sitting on the deck of my beach house with my husband, a dog, a cat, and my laptop as I continue to write.

Dear Nina,

No worries. You'll turn out fine. Just be yourself, follow your dreams, pursue your passions, fulfill you purpose, trust your intuition. Remember, your thoughts truly are creative. Be happy. That's the main thing.

Love,

Nina