The Story Behind The Brave Art of Motherhood by Rachel Marie Martin

I’ve been writing my website Finding Joy for over ten years

and one of the most common questions I would receive was

regarding if I had a book. My readers had seen me go through tremendous life challenges – divorce, dealing with finances, starting a successful business – and wanted to learn the steps to finding joy, happiness and purpose again. At a certain point you either look at opportunity and run after it or you ignore it.

Clearly, I chose to follow opportunity and from that The Brave Art of Motherhood was born.  

My book is published by Waterbrook, an imprint of Penguin Random House. I self-published the Dear Mom Letters books previous to this, but I didn’t want to pass up on this opportunity to work with them.

How I got published is a different story. Publishers do want

Michelle Obama homerun books for sure. They want the

Oprah’s and Tim Tebows. But they also want books that will have low consistent sales (as weird as that sounds). So they

look, or perhaps book agents look, for people who’ve

amassed an audience. In my case most people that I’d

already had a deal with someone so few approached . . until

finally one did.  

I didn’t get a book deal because I wrote a perfect book pitch,

it’s because I wrote consistently for 10 years. And more than

it’s because I’ve been thankful to anyone who has read and

enjoyed what I’ve put out. I’ve really paid attention and loved

the audience and more often than not have used their

comments, insights and suggestions to write again the next

day. I am them.

About the Author

Rachel Marie Martin believes in the power of the human spirit to overcome, to thrive and to find deep joy and because of that she pours out her heart via these platforms: she is the writer behind the site FindingJoy.net, partner of BloggingConcentrated.com, co-host of the Amplify Podcast, and a featured writer for The Huffington Post. Her top blog post, "Why Being a Mom is Enough" has surpassed 1.9 million Facebook likes and she has had her articles translated into over 25 languages. Her site reaches millions of visitors and has a robust, engaged Facebook community. Her articles have been featured in The Huffington Post, iVillage, The Today Show, Star Tribune, iVillage, Stuff New Zealand, PopSugar, Parents, What to Expect, Mamalode, NBC Parents, Dr. Greene, and many more. Her first book, "The Brave Art of Motherhood", published by Penguin Random House, was released on October 9, 2018.

She speaks worldwide about a variety of empowering topics ranging from motherhood to social media marketing to website strategy to writing to creating an authentic community. She believes in living each day intentionally and loves working with others to cultivate a vision, realize their potential and see their dreams become a reality.

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