Donna Goddard shares her love for the Divine and the world with a large international audience and has a strong social media presence. She has authored about twenty books on spirituality and personal growth—nonfiction, fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, and specialty books in writing and dance.
Writing: A Spiritual Voice has been UPDATED with lots of new material and a new layout and cover.
“When I write fiction, I need a lot of ongoing mental space to maintain the energised creation of a whole other world. The fictional world you have created doesn’t stay alive and thriving by itself. It needs your energy. You have to throw yourself into it and the lives of its characters as you do your real world. Energetically speaking, your fictional world is a real world. You are making a yantra, a powerful energy construct that vibrates with life-force.”
Welcome to The Book Series, a new video series that shares inside information and the spirit behind my many books. This second video in the series is based on my fiction series, the Nanima Series.
“Any gift we have been given is public property in the sense that we have been given it for the good. of all.”—Writing: A Spiritual Voice
As we evolve, our thoughts hold more power to create what we envision. Practise holding your intentions clearly in your mind and feel that you consistently add energy to their springing into life. In this way, you can create many things that seem impractical or impossible. Ensure your creations benefit everyone involved, or you will pay a bitter price. No one must suffer from what you create. People suffer relentlessly from what they have made in their minds, but we must not contribute to that. If we intend to bless, and only bless, our creations get the entire force of the universe behind them.
After publishing exclusively with Amazon for the first ten years of my author career, I have decided to Go Wide. Going wide means selling books across multiple platforms and retailers rather than limiting oneself to Amazon exclusively.
Spiritual progress is inevitably accompanied by better human circumstances in one way or another.
Learn more about writing and publishing in Writing: A Spiritual Voice
I have an ever-evolving idea of the body of work I want to offer the world. One day, God willing, it will extend beyond my lifetime. It’s not just about the accumulation of titles but, rather, the growth of an energy field. To some extent, the books don’t even have to be read. People who have never read them can still benefit. Many great authors form part of our collective consciousness without us even knowing the titles of their works. The energy field of their body of work extends beyond time and space.
I began writing my first book, The Love of Being Loving, in 2005. The book came from decades of spiritual work and lifetimes before that. It is a small book of 23,000 words, but it took me three years to write because I was a new writer and, true to my writing style ever since, I like to make every word count. After finishing it, I tried to get it accepted by a few publishing companies. As is generally the case, that went nowhere. In fact, I gave up after trying four publishing houses, which isn’t many, but I felt I needed to go a different route. The manuscript sat in my desk drawer for another three years.
Life took a different turn, and I took the dormant book out of the drawer and got the momentum to self-publish it. The whole process of forming the idea, learning about self-publishing, and rewriting the book took another two years. The massive advances in self-publishing, which sprang from the ability to print on demand, were very timely for me. Finally, my book was published in 2013, having had an eight-year journey from inception to birth.
All authors know that the birth of a book is a huge milestone, but it also marks the beginning of the equally challenging journey to get it in front of people. That involves making oneself into a public persona with a distinct voice. It involves marketing and selling. Otherwise, the manuscript might be out of the drawer and into the market, but it will be so invisible that it will not be doing much more than sitting in the drawer.
