I braced for red ink. I got resonance instead.
Last week I announced my first book Lucky by Design was complete. Now it’s with beta readers—that vulnerable stage where your manuscript lands in other people’s hands and you wait.
Here’s what the behind-the-scenes actually looks like: 14 readers. Two weeks. A simple guide asking them to mark what feels confusing, repeated, interesting, boring, or surprising. Three questions at the end: What is this book about? Who would you give it to? What’s missing?
I expected grammar corrections. Typos circled in digital red. “This sentence is awkward” in the margins.
What I didn’t expect? People feeling the book before fixing it.
One reader wrote: “If I’d been marking it up emotionally, there would have been smiley faces everywhere.” She left few comments because “it flowed so well that I found myself simply nodding along.”
Another—who hasn’t read a paper book in over a year—told me: “I feel incredibly drawn to keep reading. There’s a certain energy that’s different about reading and enjoying the process.”
One called me choked up, saying she was grateful I’d made the courageous leap to Fiji, that so many guests at Tavola had been transformed. Another emailed saying she’d somehow tapped into an extreme knowingness—an elevated intuition—simply by adopting some of the ideas.
Simply by reading them.
And then there were the lines they highlighted—passages I’d written alone at my desk, now glowing on someone else’s screen:
“When you choose curiosity over control, you change how you move through the world. You listen more closely. You loosen your grip on timing. You allow yourself to be surprised.”
“Logic optimizes inside a known frame. Intuition selects between possible frames.”
“Behavior generates evidence. Evidence updates belief. Belief becomes expectation. Expectation reshapes perception.”
One reader captured what surprised him most: “I think what’s alluring about the book is the natural curiosity or draw towards the possibility of the magic being real.”
That’s the thing about writing a book on quantum consciousness and luck. You’re not just sharing ideas. You’re transmitting energy. And apparently, it travels through pages.
Writing was step one. Now the next phase begins: beta feedback, revisions, a book cover designer (just hired this week—more soon!), and a clear path to bring this into the world.
What comes after beta readers? The launch team. Early access. Book discussions. Deep dives to spark your next breakthrough.
If you’re a bold entrepreneur ready to master the inner game of success—how to be lucky, think differently, and surf uncertainty like a pro—I invite you to join me.
Ping me if you’re excited to join the launch team. ✨