It's Monday - Were you tempted to quit your job today?

It's Monday morning - the day everyone dreads. It's likely the day when most people consider quitting their jobs.

In The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy, that's exactly what Samantha does. The Universe is My Sugar Daddy has all of the elements of despair, love, transition, and inspiration. Written as a fictional Law of Attraction, this novel showcases the power of positive thinking, with an emphasis on journal writing as a tool to connect with one's inner power. Whether a believer in the Law of Attraction or not, The Universe is My Sugar Daddy takes readers on a journey of love, rebirth, and faith.

In The Universe is My Sugar Daddy, Samantha quits her job the day after her boyfriend breaks up with her. The havoc of these two events launches the beginning of Samantha's new life. In reflecting upon how she ended up in her reality of being alone and unemployed, and based on the advice of her therapist, Samantha plops herself down in a coffee shop with a stack of her old journals. She rereads them, and after revisiting lost loves and failed career attempts Samantha's emotional energy is tapped. When the shock of her depressing life wears off, Samantha picks up a new journal and titles it her Positive Journal. Along with disciplining herself to only write positive thoughts and ideas in her new journal, she returns daily to the coffee shop to write her novel...finally working toward her goal of being a writer. Samantha's life transforms from one of despair and loss to hope and gain as she now pens only positive thoughts in her journal. Her daily visits to the coffee shop lead to creating her life as a writer and finding true love over lattes.

The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and PathBinder Publishing.

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Heather Hummel's second novel was inspired by her love and appreciation for journal writing. To accompany The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy, PathBinder Publishing also released The Inspirational Journal.

Heather Hummel, Publisher and Designer, is an award winning author whose published works include: Gracefully: Looking and Being Your Best at Any Age (McGraw Hill) - Merit Award of the 2009 Mature Media Awards, Through Hazel Eyes (PathBinder Publishing) - 1st Honorable Mention of the 2009 New York Book Festival.


Heather has been a guest author to a variety of audiences, including Victoria Moran's radio show, "A Charmed Life." Heather and/or her books have appeared in newspapers such as: Publishers Weekly, USA Today and the Washington Post; and in magazines that include: Body & Soul, First, and Spry Living-a combined circulation of nearly 15 million.

The Inspirational Journal is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and PathBinder Publishing.

About the Inspirational Journal:

This Inspirational Journal will inspire journal writers, note takers, diary keepers, and just about anyone who puts pen to paper. The interior is filled with 160 lined pages and the occasional inspirational quote to keep the writer motivated. Created by Heather Hummel, the Inspirational Journal was inspired by her novel The Universe is My Sugar Daddy.


Spend this winter writing in an INSPIRATIONAL JOURNAL!

By Heather Hummel (Designer), Ronald Turpin (Cover Photographer),
and Erin Jones (Editor)

Energy Restructure: Set Yourself Free Using the 9 Layers of the Emotional Body

Throughout everyone's life there is a time when we exclaim, "Oh God, there has to be more to life than this!"

PathBinder Publishing's newest addition, Energy Restructure: Set Yourself Free Using the 9 Layers of the Emotional Body, is an unprecedented method for emotional healing and well being.

Did you know there are 9 layers to your emotional body? That breaking through each layer brings you closer to achieving inner peace, happiness, and reaching your goals.


Jolly's techniques are groundbreaking and result driven. Energy Restructure is a new form of energy healing, designed by Jolly Stickley to access and balance your energy, clear your mind, open your heart and heal old emotional wounds.

Emotional release is important for the physical body as well as the emotional and spiritual body. Energy Restructure consists of 9 layers which is explained clearly in Emotional Healing section.

The 9 Layers:
1. Distraction
2. Resistance
3. Completion
4. Withholding
5. Heart
6. Nurturing
7. Freedom
8. Protection
9. Truth

Enjoy reading how one person overcame the obstacles in her life and followed the desires of her heart. Through this experience Energy Restructure was developed to share the solutions and help others change their lives.

Besides addressing each of the 9 layers, this book provides solutions, exercises, and examples.

Learn how to:

1. Connect with the dream in your heart
2. Be nurtured and get what you want
3. Stay Focused, push through resistance
4. Walk in the truth of who you are After you read and use the exercises to assist, you will
change the phrase to, "Thank God, there is more to life, and I have
found it!"

Energy Restructure is a color, full-sized book by Jolly Stickley and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and PathBinder Publishing.

Paperback: 100 pages (160 lined pages)
Publisher: PathBinder Publishing, LLC (December 7, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984249648
ISBN-13: 978-0984249640
$24.95

The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy - Barnes & Noble

The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy is now available on Barnes & Noble, as is its partner Inspirational Journal.

The Universe is My Sugar Daddy has all of the elements of despair, love, transition, and inspiration. Written as a fictional Law of Attraction, this novel showcases the power of positive thinking, with an emphasis on journal writing as a tool to connect with one's inner power.

Whether a believer in the Law of Attraction or not, The Universe is My Sugar Daddy takes readers on a journey of love, rebirth, and faith. In The Universe is My Sugar Daddy, Samantha quits her job the day after her boyfriend breaks up with her. The havoc of these two events launches the beginning of Samantha's new life. In reflecting upon how she ended up in her reality of being alone and unemployed, and based on the advice of her therapist, Samantha plops herself down in a coffee shop with a stack of her old journals. She rereads them, and after revisiting lost loves and failed career attempts Samantha's emotional energy is tapped. When the shock of her depressing life wears off, Samantha picks up a new journal and titles it her Positive Journal. Along with disciplining herself to only write positive thoughts and ideas in her new journal, she returns daily to the coffee shop to write her novel...finally working toward her goal of being a writer. Samantha's life transforms from one of despair and loss to hope and gain as she now pens only positive thoughts in her journal. Her daily visits to the coffee shop lead to creating her life as a writer and finding true love over lattes.

This Inspirational Journal will inspire journal writers, note takers, diary keepers, and just about anyone who puts pen to paper. The interior is filled with 160 lined pages and the occasional inspirational quote to keep the journal writer motivated. Created by Heather Hummel, the Inspirational Journal was inspired by her novel The Universe is My Sugar Daddy. The cover photography is the creative work of Ronald Turpin.

The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy

The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy by Heather Hummel is now available on Amazon!

The Universe is My Sugar Daddy has all of the elements of despair, love, transition, and inspiration. Written as a fictional Law of Attraction, this novel showcases the power of positive thinking, with an emphasis on journal writing as a tool to connect with one's inner power. Whether a believer in the Law of Attraction or not, The Universe is My Sugar Daddy takes readers on a journey of love, rebirth, and faith.

In The Universe is My Sugar Daddy, Samantha quits her job the day after her boyfriend breaks up with her. The havoc of these two events launches the beginning of Samantha's new life. In reflecting upon how she ended up in her reality of being alone and unemployed, and based on the advice of her therapist, Samantha plops herself down in a coffee shop with a stack of her old journals. She rereads them, and after revisiting lost loves and failed career attempts Samantha's emotional energy is tapped. When the shock of her depressing life wears off, Samantha picks up a new journal and titles it her Positive Journal. Along with disciplining herself to only write positive thoughts and ideas in her new journal, she returns daily to the coffee shop to write her novel...finally working toward her goal of being a writer. Samantha's life transforms from one of despair and loss to hope and gain as she now pens only positive thoughts in her journal. Her daily visits to the coffee shop lead to creating her life as a writer and finding true love over lattes.

The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy

Heather Hummel's new release, The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy (PathBinder Publishing, 2009), is at the printer and will be on Amazon and Barnes & Noble next week.

In the meantime, explore your own writing, journaling or note-taking with PathBinder's Inspirational Journal The Inspirational Journal was inspired by the protagonist in The Universe Is My Sugar Daddy, who takes up journal writing as a tool to create a better life for herself!



Buy the Inspriational Journal on Amazon or Barnes & Noble or through PathBinder.

What's in a Name? 10 Tips on Writing Your Author Bio

What’s in a Name? 10 Tips on Writing Your Author Bio

Besides their first query letter, the hardest words a new author has to write is their author bio. It’s also the first writing assignment I assign when I teach my workshops. The cringing, seat shifting, pen tapping task gets them every time!

Here are 10 tips for writing a quality author bio:

1. You will need a few versions of your bio. Thought you’d love to hear that! Write an extended bio for your website, proposals, interview sheets, and media kits; a medium length bio for queries, guest spots on other websites, and shorter marketing material; and a brief bio as a byline or on limited character websites.

2. Go ahead – brag! Start with your greatest writing achievement. As an aspiring author, even one published article in the local paper counts and should be highlighted.

3. Unless you’re an established author, leave your demographics, personal data for the end, and keep it brief. Though the mere fact that you were born is awsome, as a new author, it’s more important to establish yourself as a writer first.

4. When listing book publications, should you have any, italicize the title (do not put in quotation marks), and include the publisher and year published in parentheses after the title.
i.e. Gracefully: Looking and Being Your Best at Any Age (McGraw Hill, 2008)

5. Refer to yourself in the third person. Use she/he thereafter for short bios. On the longer ones, I personally like to interject “Heather” a few more times.

6. Note only awards that are for your writing or if related to your writing. For example, if you write about gardening and you won an award for your outstanding garden, then you can brag about it. If you won a blue ribbon at the county fair for your brownies, but you write Science Fiction, leave out the ribbon (but feel free to send me the brownies!). When both of my books won awards within the same month, I immediately updated my author bios on my website and other places. The credibility an award gives a book can change the life of it!

7. BS? BA? BIS? Ph.D.? When it comes to education, much like awards, if your degree is relevant to writing or what you write, then note it. If you have a Ph.D. in psychology and are writing a book on teenage bullying, then certainly note it—it’s a credential (I’m guessing if this is your case, you know this!). Alternatively, if your degree is in architecture and you changed careers to write children’s books, unless it’s about how to build the coolest Lincoln Log cabin on your block, leave the degree out. I have a BIS degree in English and Secondary Education from the University of Virginia. These credentials support me as a writer, writing coach, and workshop instructor, so I use it in my long bio.

8. Your bio will change dramatically as your career advances. Below are my current author bio and my bio from 2007. Note: I learned that where you live isn’t important when you’re just starting out. Noting that I “reside in the midst of the Blue Ridge Mountains” sounded really cool and literary at the time, but it was the publishing credits and my writing that advanced my career. Think of it like this—it’s not where you write, it’s what you write!

9. If you can, have a professional (or at least a really good) photographer take a quality author photo of you. I used a photographer in Colorado and it took more shots than there are cowboys out there to get the perfect shot. Once you have it, use it shamelessly. Most authors are not recognized by what they look like unless they’re John Grisham (who resides here in the midst of the Blue Ridge Mountains). But, an author photo is needed for your book’s jacket, your website, and press kit (at the very least). Your 10-year-old’s camera phone doesn’t cut it..take the time to do it right.

10. Browse the internet and look in the books on your shelves at other authors’ bios for ideas. Especially read the bios of authors who write in your genre.

11. Bonus tip: Read your bio out loud when you’re done writing it. You’ll know immediately if something doesn’t sound right.

Heather Hummel – Author Bio

Heather Hummel is an award winning author whose published works include:

Gracefully: Looking and Being Your Best at Any Age (McGraw Hill, 2008)
– Merit Award of the 2009 Mature Media Awards
Through Hazel Eyes (PathBinder Publishing, 2008)
– 1st Honorable Mention of the 2009 New York Book Festival

Heather has completed her second novel, The Universe is My Sugar Daddy.

Heather has been a guest author to a variety of audiences, including Victoria Moran’s radio show, “A Charmed Life.” Heather and/or her books have appeared in newspapers such as: Publishers Weekly, USA Today and the Washington Post; and in magazines that include: Body & Soul, First, and Spry Living—a combined circulation of nearly 15 million.

Heather is a writing coach and writing workshop administrator for aspiring writers both independently and through Barnes & Noble. A graduate from the University of Virginia, Heather holds a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree and is working toward a Ph.D. in Metaphysical Sciences.

Visit Heather’s website at www.heatherhummel.net

Heather Hummel – Bio – 2007

Heather Hummel resides in the midst of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heather penned her first novel, Through Hazel Eyes, and is presently working on her memoir, Coffee with Middle and her second novel, The Universe is My Sugar Daddy. Her published works appear or are forthcoming in Blue Ridge Anthology: Poetry and Prose of Central Virginia Writers, Messages of Hope and Healing, and Albemarle Family Living.

Heather is a winner of the 2006 National Novel Writing Month competition. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Inspirational Journal Now Available!

Get your pen out! This Inspirational Journal will inspire journal writers, note takers, diary keepers, and just about anyone who puts pen to paper.

The interior is filled with 160 lined pages and the occasional inspirational quote to keep the journal writer motivated.

Created by Heather Hummel, the Inspirational Journal was inspired by her forthcoming novel The Universe is My Sugar Daddy.
The cover photography is the creative work of Ronald Turpin.

Visit Amazon for "Search/Look Inside"! Also available on Barnes & Noble and through PathBinder Publishing.