Born to Write: Transform Your Wisdom Into a Bestseller in 90 Days: Received a 4+ star review, making it an IndieReader Approved title.
Born to Write: Transform Your Wisdom Into a Bestseller in 90 Days: Received a 4+ star review, making it an IndieReader Approved title.Following find an interview with author Emily Bauman:
1.What is the name of the book and when was it published? Born to Write: Transform Your Wisdom Into a Bestseller in 90 Days — published in 2024 by BOSS Books Publishing. It hit #1 on Amazon in Vocational Guidance and Authorship shortly after launch, which felt like the universe giving me a very loud high-five.
2. What’s the book’s first line? “In my mid-twenties, I was held hostage by the resistance gremlin army for seven years, and I didn’t even know it.”
3. What’s the book about? Give us the “pitch”. It’s the book I desperately needed when I was sitting in Haiti, staring at a Google Drive full of 80%-finished manuscripts, convinced I’d never actually become an author. Born to Write is a complete roadmap — equal parts strategy and mindset medicine — for coaches, healers, changemakers, and visionary humans who have a book living inside them and keep finding reasons not to write it. Through my B.O.S.S. Method (Being of Sacred Service), I walk readers through planning, writing, and publishing a professional-quality book on Amazon in as little as 90 days. No gatekeepers. No waiting. No more almost-books.
4. What inspired you to write the book? A particular person? An event? Honestly? A premature baby and a fire. I had just given birth at home and was surviving on one-hour sleep increments when something volcanic shifted in me. I’d been coaching people to write their books for years — acting as what I call a Book Doula — but I had a shameful secret: my own Google Drive was a graveyard of unfinished manuscripts. The sleep deprivation apparently dissolved my excuses, because I started writing at 3am by firelight and voice-noting whole chapters into my phone while my son slept. The book essentially wrote itself in that postpartum cocoon. It turns out exhaustion and clarity are not mutually exclusive.
5. What’s the main reason someone should really read this book? Because your book idea deserves to outlive your fear of it. Most writing books give you craft advice. Most business books give you strategy. Born to Write gives you both — plus the inner work to actually finish. If you’ve been circling your book for months (or years), this is the permission slip, the roadmap, and the gentle-but-firm kick in the pants you’ve been waiting for.
6. When did you first decide to become an author? On a rooftop in Port-au-Prince, age eight, watching a military coup unfold in the streets below. I didn’t have the vocabulary for it then, but I remember thinking: someone needs to write this down. It took another twenty-something years and a lot of resistance gremlins to realize that someone was me.
7. Is this the first book you’ve written? Technically, no — Messages for Starseeds came first and was my proof of concept that I could actually finish something. But Born to Write is the book I was born to write. The clue was in the title the whole time. I just needed a baby and a fireplace to figure that out.
8. What do you do for work when you’re not writing? I run BOSS Books Publishing, a hybrid publishing house for visionary voices, based between Tulum and Toronto. I work with authors from nine countries as a Book Doula — which is exactly what it sounds like: I help people birth their books. It’s messy, emotional, deeply meaningful work, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
9. What’s a great piece of advice that you can share with fellow indie authors? Stop waiting to feel ready. Readiness is a gremlin in a trench coat pretending to be wisdom. The authors who finish their books aren’t the ones who had more time, more confidence, or better circumstances — they’re the ones who started anyway. Also: hire a professional cover designer. A bad cover will sink a brilliant book faster than anything.
10. Would you go traditional if a publisher came calling? If so, why? I’d have a conversation — I’m not allergic to a nice advance and a fancy publisher lunch. But I’d be very selective. I’ve seen too many authors hand over creative control, wait two years for a release date, and walk away with 8% royalties wondering what happened. Indie publishing done right is a business, a legacy, and a freedom plan all at once. I’d need a very compelling reason to trade that.
11. Which writer, living or dead, do you most admire? Anaïs Nin — for proving that a woman writing honestly and unapologetically about her inner life was not only valid but revolutionary. She self-published when no one would touch her work, kept meticulous journals for sixty years, and refused to be anything other than herself on the page. She was the original indie author and didn’t even know it.
12. Which book do you wish you could have written? Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert — not because I couldn’t have written something like it, but because she managed to articulate the creative process in a way that made millions of people feel less alone in their fear. That’s the highest thing a book can do. Though I’d like to think Born to Write is its slightly more tactical, slightly more chaotic little sister.