By Melanie Kim Brockwell in My Daily Journal

Publishing my book transformed my business

12 January 2026

Louise and I have spent the last year or so working with GreenHill Publishing to get our first little book in print. It has been… enlightening, to say the least.

Most unexpected was/is the transformative effect it’s had on my business.

I’m not fully through it, yet, but the process of publishing — especially preparing the Marketing Questionaire — has turned the intuitive ’emergence’ dial up to full. These last few months, I’ve been diving into the practical only to be held on a Spirit-rich road winding down and in-deep. A thrill for me, that seemingly leaves my Agent dangling while they wait.

And wait.

And wait some more.

–It is what it is.

…and it takes as long as it takes.

That’s the first thing I’m coming to realise — how much I navigate from that space where the spirit-led is primary to a wondrous Earthly-led secondary, and how many of the people in my life do not.

The second thing is how I don’t have a path for people to follow or an outcome for them to achieve.

And thirdly, that I don’t have a name for what I am when I do what I do. Things which appear central (and first) to the work of many ‘transformational’ authors, ‘thought’ leaders, creative ‘visionaries’ and ‘evolutionary’ humans I encounter. I’ve noticed, it’s how people tend to introduce themselves to the public. And it’s how they delineate themselves or their work as special (among many) and worthwhile (to invest in); indicators of their expertise.

I guess that’s why this project came along when it did — in Divine Timing. So that I could better prepare myself for what comes now.