{"id":6,"date":"2012-09-16T09:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:21:55","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flying Leap<\/em> was an accident. I never planned to write a book, never wanted to write ‘that novel,’ but it showed up one day on a flight to LA. Literally. A voice inside me told me very clearly to ‘open up your laptop, open Word and start typing.’ After a moment of hesitation, I did what I was asked to do. Once my laptop was up and running, my hands flew to the keyboard and went into a writing frenzy for the next two hours.<\/p>\n

Six pages had been written by the time I landed and it was not until I got to my friend’s apartment that I had a chance to look at it. I sent it off to my wife and we both read it at the same time, with similar reactions: ‘What is this?’ She also wanted to know if there was more, because she wanted to know what would happen. A book appeared in fits and spurts, and after exactly<\/em> 12 months I wrote the last words.<\/p>\n

I really didn’t know what to do with it. A few friends and family read it. They liked it, but I figured they were all biased. It wasn’t until one day, when a good friend of mine called me after he read it and said: “I would have never tried to commit suicide if I had read your book before then. This book will save lives.” That really blew me away.<\/p>\n

I had no idea how to go about the publishing thing, ended up doing a bunch of research and found a small publisher in Minneapolis, Two Harbors Press, who looked at the manuscript and liked it. I ended up with a brilliant editor and a finished book nine months later. As of March 2012 it was fully released to the public. For unknown reasons, and to the amazement of my publisher, Barnes & Noble decided to pick up the book and put it in their stores in Minnesota.\u00a0Flying Leap<\/em> was also nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award <\/a>for 2014.<\/p>\n

If you would like to pick up a copy, you can order it on B&N<\/a> (Paperback and Nook), Amazon<\/a> (Paperback and Kindle) or iBooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flying Leap was an accident. I never planned to write a book, never wanted to write ‘that novel,’ but it showed up one day on a flight to LA. Literally. A voice inside me told me very clearly to ‘open up your laptop, open Word and start typing.’ After a moment of hesitation, I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consciousnessorbust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}