Published The Podcast Episode 14 : Shelley Karpaty

Books We Love with Shelley Karpaty

We're kicking off a new series on Published: The Podcast called Books We Love, where writers, authors, and creatives pull a few favorites off their shelves and talk about the books they can't stop thinking about, recommending, or handing to someone else.

Our first guest is the writer and mindfulness mentor, Shelley Karpaty, and this conversation is a celebration of being a reader.

Shelley shares three very different recent favorites: Indian Country by Shobha Rao, the spiritual nonfiction book The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn, and the wildly immersive fantasy worlds of Sarah J. Maas.

These are lyrical books you want to savor and disappear into.

We talk about reading as a way to get off our screens and back into ourselves, why Shelley deliberately avoids certain kinds of books while she's writing, and the particular pleasure of holding, buying, borrowing, and recommending actual books.

And because two writers talking about books inevitably end up talking about writing, we also wander into Shelley's own creative process and her forthcoming book, The Sacred Unraveling: Reclaiming Motherhood and the Truth of Who You Are, which weaves personal narrative and cultural reckoning through the transformative lens of motherhood.

Books We Love is about the books that move us, influence us, entertain us, challenge us, and sometimes change us.

Come pull up a chair. We're talking books. 📚🩷

Listen to Shelley’s many fascinating conversations with creatives, mommas, and mystics here:

https://shelleydurgakarpaty.substack.com/podcast

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Hi friends,

I don’t think there’s anything cooler than books. And being a writer.

I’m an old school bibliophile. There’s nothing I enjoy more than reading books, talking about books and writing books. I secretly believe I am the recent incarnation from the Library of Alexandria because I’ve got a sacred duty ingrained in me to collect the best books in the world. My personal bookshelf is a collection of what I believe is the most important knowledge we’ve put together in book form so far whether it comes in fiction (The Lord of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice, Gilgamesh and The Dune series) or herbal remedies, neurolinguistic programming, love spells, Buddhist philosophy, Sufi poetry, or Wayne Dyer/ Louise Hay.
I’m not into digital or audio books- I want hard copies I can hold in my hand. I’m ready for everything to go off line although I hope it never does.

I’ve been a writer since I made my first book in kindergarten about a witch and her cats (two topics that still fascinate me) and have since taught creative writing and copywriting (what a combo!) in the outdoors in rural Argentina, to polo players and tennis pros in S. Florida, and to online coaches writing the ads (and full length books) that get their message out there and change lives around the world.

Darlene Turriff and I started The Authors Collaborative a few years ago to turn the lonely art of writing and self-publishing a book into a cooperative activity with all the inspiration, guidance, and friendship we writers need to stay motivated and write amazing books we’re proud of.

I am an internationally bestselling award winning author of 7 books, ghostwriter, copy editor and co-founder of the Authors Collaborative writer’s community.

I love helping coaches, speakers and thought leaders take it up a notch energetically & financially by writing a book. I have helped over 100 coaches write a professional book and I can help you too.

I have cracked the code on the creative process so that you can successfully create the impact you always wanted.
The secret is to just get started.

For now, let’s talk about writing the books that change the world.
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