This blog is a being posted to coincide with my presentation at Happiness & Its Causes conference 2020 on Reconnecting with Nature. I am happy to share a number of resources in the form of videos and blogs, including some recommendations on books if you’d like to do some further reading on the subject. First...
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Secret Mantra by David Michie Giveaway ends October 20, 2020. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway Bookreads are offering readers in USA and Canada the chance to win one of five free print copies of The Secret Mantra. (Bookreads doesn’t promote giveaways outside USA or Canada – but stay...
The idea for this blog has been on my mind for a while. Dropping a great, big cluster bomb of hints isn’t really my style, which is why I’ve avoided it till now. But I’ve come to understand that because most readers are unaware of the ins and outs of publishing, they also don’t know...
I am thrilled to be sharing the cover of The Secret Mantra, the long-awaited follow-up book to The Magician of Lhasa! You can pre-order The Secret Mantra right now, in e-book or print format, from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or from your local bookstore – links below. Our wonderful designer, Sue Campbell, has also refreshed the cover...
At secondary school I had a maths teacher who encouraged us to be “intelligently lazy.” Appealing to the subversive instincts of her adolescent students, she would show us mathematical short-cuts which we would gobble up, eager to get the same result as other kids for doing less work. So cunning was Mrs. Gaunt that we...
My favourite time of the publishing process – apart from the book lauch itself – is sharing cover design options with you, my readers. It’s always wonderful to receive your feedback! While it’s true that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, the fact is that we all do – especially if we don’t...
This week I received a really special, six minute video: “Reconnecting with Nature,” which I want to share with you right away! It was filmed and produced by Dr. Shelley Plumb of PlumbTalk Productions in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA (https://www.plumbtalkproductions.com/) Over the past few years, Koala and I have got to know Shelley and...
Some years before I started writing about meditation and Buddhism, I wrote three thrillers. These were published in the early 2000s by Time Warner, a mainstream, London-based publisher. They have nothing at all to do with inner growth or spirituality and they haven’t been in print for some years. But they keep coming back. They...
Years ago I was in one of those undercover markets, where you never know what kind of stall is round the next corner. I came across a beautiful statue of the Buddha. As I stood admiring it, the stallholder told me, “Of course, Buddha never wanted images of himself to be made.’ ‘Didn’t he?’ It...
