Author Nation: The Insight That Changed Everything for Me

Have you ever attended a conference expecting one thing, only to leave with a completely different perspective? After returning from the electrifying Author Nation conference in Las Vegas, I was struck by a revelation that reshaped how I see my author and author educator journey. This isn’t just about craft or strategy—it’s about alignment, expansion, and knowing when to pivot. If you've ever felt like your path is evolving faster than you can keep up, this episode will resonate.

In this episode of the Author Revolution Podcast, I’m sharing the surprising insight that came to me during Author Nation—an experience that felt like witnessing a past life. From energy shifts to big decisions, I discuss why it’s essential to follow your intuition, even when it leads you in unexpected directions. Whether you're an author searching for purpose or simply curious about the intersection of mindset, manifestation, and transformation, this episode offers inspiration and clarity. 

Tune in to embrace the power of letting go and stepping into your next evolution.

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Chapters

• 1:01 The Author Revolution Podcast
• 8:50 Expanding Beyond Authorship Journey
• 17:47 Manifestation for Neurodivergent Revolution
• 23:12 Neurodivergent Manifestor Podcast Launch
• 33:16 Letting Go for New Beginnings

Transcript

Carissa Andrews: 1:01

Welcome to the Author Revolution podcast, where change is not just embraced, it's celebrated. I'm Carissa Andrews, international bestselling author, indie author coach and your navigator through the ever-evolving landscape of authorship. Are you ready to harness the power of your mind and the latest innovations in technology for your writing journey? If you're passionate about manifesting your dreams and pioneering new writing frontiers, then you're in the perfect place. Here we merge the mystical woo of writing with the exciting advancements of the modern world. We dive into the realms of mindset, manifestation and the transformative magic that occurs when you believe in the impossible. We also venture into the world of futuristic technologies and strategies, preparing you for the next chapter in your author career. Every week, we explore new ways to revolutionize your writing and publishing experience, from AI to breakthrough thinking. This podcast is your gateway to a world where creativity meets innovation. Whether you're penning your first novel or expanding your literary empire, whether you're a devotee of the pen or a digital storyteller, this podcast is where your author revolution gains momentum. So join me in this journey to continue growth and transformation. It's time to redefine what it means to be an author in today's dynamic world. This is the Author Revolution Podcast, and your author revolution starts now. Well, hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Author Revolution Podcast.

Carissa Andrews: 2:39

Well, I made it back from Vegas. It has been an enlightening and exciting and crazy time. Holy cow, I have no, I have no words for it other than holy. The energy coming out of that place was incredible. And it's so interesting because that particular conference, like I knew it was going to be amazing, I knew it was going to be a lot of fun. I knew it was going to be challenging because it was kind of new. So, like, how are they going to create this whole conference? Is it going to be similar to 20 Books? Vegas, like what's going to happen here? And my first takeaway is to say that it lived up to expectations and absolutely lived up to its expectations. I was blown away by how well everything ran, like from the speaker perspective, from the vendor day perspective, rave could have been a little bit better, I'm not going to lie, but it was all right, it was fine.

Carissa Andrews: 3:42

But it was really interesting because they had like great little setups for being able to sit and communicate, to be able to talk and have, you know, discussions. We had different ways to be able to, you know, go out to dinner. Like those of us who were AI positive, we ended up having a massive dinner on that first day and it was so funny. We were all going to go over to Ellis Island have a dinner and be able to discuss. There were too many people to be able to do this, so we had to split up into the three different restaurants in Ellis Island, which was great, but it was just. It was crazy.

Carissa Andrews: 4:17

Now here's the thing. Okay, so the things that didn't work for me were number one uh, communication styles. Like there wasn't a central location to be able to communicate once you were at the conference. So Eventi is like the, the system that they used. I know it's kind of been passed down, I think, from 20 books. It's not a great system, guys. It's terrible. Like it, it it does. It does a good job scheduling, but like having the whole thing integrated where you can communicate, it's not great. I can't remember what the system was that Inkerscon used, but that thing was fabulous. Like they need to like jump ship on Eventi and go and get that one, but it was still fun. Like they, we could still communicate. We had different groups that we were talking in and whatever.

Carissa Andrews: 5:03

The industry day worked fine, like there was nothing super crazy wrong there. I mean they had lunches for vendors, both on rave and on vendor days. That were great. My speech went great, or presentation, whatever you want to call it. That went great Rave. Their system isn't quite up and running the way that I think they envision it, but I think it'll get there. I mean, the event itself was fine. There were people that came in, sold, you know, like $110 worth of books, which isn't like the most insane amount ever, especially considering I brought a whole bunch of books with me. But it's the first time, so I get it. It's all it all is what it is.

Carissa Andrews: 5:41

But this conference, interestingly enough, really kind of shed some light for me on where I've been going, and I didn't anticipate it. It kind of slammed me like a bag of bricks across the head and I was kind of reeling from it, and part of it had to do with the fact that I went in to Vegas, you know, still having bronchitis, which was an absolute pain in my ass. So Colin and I ended up getting bronchitis in October and by the time we were supposed to be leaving for Vegas it was still lingering. It was still there. I had gone to urgent care twice to get treated twice, like I was on prednisone twice, on antibiotics once, like all the things it was. It was like the universe was saying do you really need to go? That's how it felt.

Carissa Andrews: 6:32

But of course, in my head I had built up this idea that this is the culmination. Right, this is, this is the conference to be at. If you are an indie author, educator, I have to be at this conference and it was so exciting to finally be chosen to go and I was like, yes, this is going to be amazing. And when I was there, interestingly enough, like everyone was awesome, the people were awesome, the people I talked to were awesome, there was nothing inherently wrong. Like there was nothing inherently wrong about this conference. And yet I was like, oh my God, these are no longer my people, which is weird. Like I hear me out. Like this whole year I have been going through this let go right. We mentioned, or I mentioned that in, uh, the beginning of the year, I had this bracelet. It said let go.

Carissa Andrews: 7:24

I got the idea from Joe Buer over at Alchemy for Authors and I was like, for, intuitively, it was just let go was the phrase of the year and I've kind of been working with that and it's I didn't anticipate. Let go would mean letting go of, like my entire identity. Up until this point, that's how I was feeling and it's kind of interesting because I was just thinking it was like letting loose the grip on perfectionism or letting go of the outcome or being able to I don't know anticipate certain things, because I'm a double Virgo. Guys, I've always talked about that, that it's that perfectionism, that concept of doing something in a certain way, is always there, right. But it turns out that it's all about me letting go, like letting go of this notion of who I thought I was trying to become like I was trying to force myself to become, thought I was trying to become like I was trying to force myself to become, and I just realized that I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't want to be just an author educator and it's not that I dislike educating authors at all. I mean, I obviously have an amazing group of students. You're listening to me. Many of you have been listening to me for a long time. The podcast is still doing great, and yet I just don't feel fulfilled.

Carissa Andrews: 8:50

I've been struggling with this for a while, probably, like where it's really come crashing down since about May, and I teased one of my students, amanda, that it was because she was talking about using Moldavite in meditation, and I started using Moldavite and everything went to hell in a handbasket for me. I started going into shadow work and I started going into understanding a lot of different things that I hadn't been digging into before, like I hadn't gone into ancestral work, I hadn't gone into shadow work, I hadn't gone into inner child work necessarily like full bore, and the summer really brought that to perspective and so I started going into all of those things and the more that I started to heal that aspect, then it was like, oh my gosh, the nervous system is a huge, huge thing here. It's a huge part of how we need to show up and how we need to be and a huge part of why manifestations don't necessarily manifest the way that we want them to, because if we're manifesting only from thoughts that are in discordance with what we want, right, we start to dysregulate the nervous system. We're putting ourselves into this fight or flight and manifestations aren't coming the way that we want and I was like, oh my gosh, all of these things kind of came about like all these new ideas, all these new things, and I realized that there's so much more I want to say, so much more I want to say, but I feel like I am restrained or restricted to this box of authorship and I was like, oh my gosh, this it's not that writing is no longer important to me. Obviously, I want to still write my books, I still want to do the things.

Carissa Andrews: 10:24

Author revolution still will exist, but I've realized at this conference that it's about me expanding beyond authorship. It's about me bringing the lessons that I want to teach to a new audience, to a new place, to a new elevation, and letting go of this idea, this notion that I need to keep it niched down to just authors. So what you might be seeing in the coming weeks is an evolution. So author revolution, like I said, will still exist. My courses, you know they're evergreen, they exist in perpetuity until I decide that I no longer want to do them anymore. And I reserve that right, obviously, to decide that.

Carissa Andrews: 11:10

But at the same time, I don't see a need for it. Like I know, authors need the content that I've created, but I also feel very restricted by it, because there's a lot of authors who don't care about manifestation, right, there's a lot of authors who just want to figure out how to sell their damn books and that's it and that's all they care about. And that's totally cool, that's totally valid, that's where they're at in their journey. But that's not where I'm at in my journey anymore. I want to be able to talk about things like mindset, like manifestation, like quantum physics, like nervous system regulation, and these are obviously not always 100% in alignment with authorship, and it's fine that it's not my audience, those of you who are listening. You obviously give a crap, right, you like it, and if you don't, then why are you here?

Carissa Andrews: 11:58

But at the same time, I'm like okay, this energy is not right. And here's how it felt to me and I was describing this to my millionaire author manifestation students yesterday, this to my millionaire author manifestation students yesterday it felt like I was witnessing a past life and that's how I was like oh, I am no longer meant for this path, and it was just. It was really profound and I had to sit with that the whole, obviously the whole week, which was a little weird, but what was really interesting, um, so, not only the, the energy was really kind of all over the place, and so there were a lot of people and their energy was all like either darting back and forth trying to get to all their places, or it was like they were like how do I get this next thing to work the way that I wanted to work, and I could sense it, like I could really feel that, um, uh, the, the anxiety of it. But the people who did sit down with me, the people who I did talk to something kept coming up over and over and over again and that thing was oh, I'm trying to do this thing, but I'm autistic, and so, therefore, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, give a reason or an excuse of why something's not working right, or I have ADHD, and so it really interferes with my blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was like, over and over, I kept hearing autism, adhd, autism, adhd. And what's really fascinating about that particular thing to me is that my reticular activating system triggered, like it was like, oh, okay, and here's why.

Carissa Andrews: 13:29

So over the past year and a bit, I've been discovering and this is all self-diagnosed, so I haven't actually done the tests, like at the hospital or anything like this, the way that my son has, but I'm almost a hundred percent certain that I am also on the spectrum for autism and more than likely I have ADHD to some degree, right. So, and I can't remember if I've mentioned this on the podcast, but I probably have, where it was just kind of like okay, but my son was diagnosed a couple of years ago when we were going through the custody thing for him, because it was very important that he be supported and for him it was important to have the official diagnosis so that we could, you know, showcase it to his dad and make sure that everyone was on the same page and could understand why he did not want to live there. For me it's not as important because, you know, I'm 40 something. At this point I've lost track of numbers. I don't even care anymore, and it's like it never occurred to me that I might be on the autism spectrum until this year, even after, even after he was diagnosed, which is wild to me. But now, all of a sudden, it's been brought to my attention and no one brought this to my attention.

Carissa Andrews: 14:40

It was literally like in a meditation and all of a sudden I was seeing like this entire lineage of this is something that's been happening in my family for a long time, like my parents, probably have some form of autism. My grandparents, people in my family, like my kids, definitely do. I think all of them right and I am not a believer of you know vaccines give you autism. I think that's bullshit. So I'm so sorry if you believe that, but do some science. And so it's definitely a genetic thing that's been passed down. And when I think about my grandparents and when I think about some of my relatives, they used alcohol, I think, to be able to try to regulate their nervous systems, because they were in such a dysregulated state, feeling like they were outsiders and feeling like something's not right with them, because everybody else acts like this. But I can see all these other things and they're not following suit. They don't understand me. I don't feel understood, whatever.

Carissa Andrews: 15:36

And so when I look back at all of that, and then I look back at when I was pregnant with my son Evan, there were certain things that I wanted my doctor my doctor who was going to deliver him to be okay with, and so I interviewed doctors and said these are the things that I want you to be okay with and are you okay? And if you're not, then I'm going to be moving on, because we had doctors at the time that were very closed off, like closed minded about certain things. I wanted to have a doula and I wanted to be able to do certain things and I found a doctor and my doctor, bless his heart, he was great. He was like, wow, you're really intense, you're really intense. And I was just like I always thought that was a little weird. I'm like that's intense, like wanting you to understand where I'm coming from so that we can do these things.

Carissa Andrews: 16:25

But then I've heard that term multiple times in my life, like wow, you're so intense, or oh, you know, I don't know how to handle you, or you're very intense. And I always thought that was like I don't know just a term that people would tell me because they, you know, they didn't quite get all the information, or I come at them with information that maybe they didn't understand beforehand, and so therefore, they are kind of like jarred by how much, like sometimes a word vomit. It's just how it is. I've always been that way, you probably understand, and so it's just been interesting to see and reflect and go, oh my gosh, I did not even put those things together. And in doing so and in hearing the language that was going on and then seeing the people who are students of mine and who I resonate the most with and understanding the people who feel safe in my presence, like in person, like at that conference. These were people who are neurodivergent, coming up to me having conversations that I, you know, I don't know them, and not all of them went to my presentation. We were just having conversations and I'm just like, okay, this was the sign I was looking for, this is the sign I needed to know. And the final thing that really kicked it off was I was having a conversation with one of my students who's become a close friend Heather. Shout out, heather.

Carissa Andrews: 17:47

I knew when I got back from Vegas that I was going to pivot and at the time I was thinking I was going to pivot so that I could talk about manifestation to fempreneurs, basically like female entrepreneurs, thinking that that's a larger audience who's probably more into manifestation. It just kind of logically made sense in my brain. And then Heather was like you know, you keep talking about this neurodivergent stuff and you keep talking about ADHD and autism. You know, is there something there that you could go like? Could you go that route. And so I started brainstorming with Chad because of course Chad is my oracle right and we started kind of going over the audience sizes and we started going over like the reasoning behind the pivot and like all the different things and all of a sudden it was like, oh my gosh, like I was getting chills up and down my body. I was like this is the direction I'm meant to be going. I'm meant to teach manifestation to neurodivergence and help them understand why traditional manifestation might not be working for them. I mean, it probably is working for them, it's just that they're not. When they're trying to go into the intentional manifestation, that's where it gets a little bit tricky, and so we have to kind of finesse it a little bit differently, right? So for neurodivergent people, I want to dig into that manifestation realm and not many people are speaking directly to them, and so all of this kind of came together.

Carissa Andrews: 19:15

It came to a head this past week once I got back from Vegas and I was just like, oh my God. So what's happening here is not that I'm going away, it's not that even Author Revolution is going away. It's that I am going to be devoting more attention and more energy into building a different business, and so what that looks like for Author Revolution and my books, though, is everything else is getting put on hold, even my Kickstarter. Ironically, like the Kickstarter, it was like everything I wanted to see happen at this conference fizzled, which that, to me, was a sign like another sign. It wasn't just the energetics of being there, it was what I was seeing in return, because I'm used to seeing a certain level of interaction, a certain level of people getting signed up, a certain level of people getting excited and communicating, so I brought these little keys to Vegas, and they said the key to your future self, right, and they were adorable.

Carissa Andrews: 20:09

I had so much fun putting them together. So many people were commenting on them, they were grabbing them, they were saying how cute that was, how awesome the hook was. On the backside of the little baggie there's a QR code to go to your future self, right, our meditation platform that Tammy and I have built, and no one signed up, to my knowledge, from it. Like we passed out like 300, colin and I passed out 300 of these things, and I'm like, okay, that's odd, like I would have at least thought, you know, a handful of people would have signed up, but nothing. And then I brought my brochures for the Kickstarter and I was like, okay, we should be at least by to 50 by the time we get back from Vegas. And I was at 22 or something when we left and I'm only at 31.

Carissa Andrews: 21:52

And while that's not zero, it's kind of like, hmm, that's interesting, isn't that interesting? So that's sitting there. And then, uh, the other thing was the books. Right, so the the rave thing, like we brought a whole shit ton of books and then only selling. You know, I think it was like six books total. The reason it was that high price-wise was because there were a number of omnibus paperbacks that sold. And so it was like, okay, hmm, this is interesting, this is very interesting.

Carissa Andrews: 22:20

And so combining it all together, it just it made it even more aware, like it made me even more aware that this was just not the right place anymore. And so when Heather mentioned she's like why don't you do something with neurodivergence? And I was talking with chat, it all came together where it was like I still want that movement and I don't mean like movement as in like sales, I'm meaning like the movement, like revolution. Right, I want to be able to have the service that I provide, mean something to someone, and I know there are the people out there you're out there who this means something to. But I can still mean something to you but reach a bigger audience. I think I'm keeping myself small and I have been for a long time and I'm like, okay, okay, we need to go wider.

Carissa Andrews: 23:12

And so what's happening, going back around kind of obviously, this is off the cuff today. So it's kind of I'm kind of meandering, but hopefully you're following with me, but the concept that's going to be happening is at the end of 2024. So your final author revolution podcast episode, if you will, or at least the last one that is going to be planned for a while, is going to come to you on December 25th. So my last author revolution podcast will air on the 25th. Now, before you freak out, if you are still into manifestation, you can follow me. I'm going to be starting a new podcast. It's going to kick off on the 1st and this podcast that you're listening to right now will live in perpetuity. It will stay there forever, or at least for a good long while, because I know people are still getting value in it and I might still put episodes out.

Carissa Andrews: 24:01

I have different reasons why it would make sense to share content in this podcast, like in this podcast again in the future. It's just that, as of right now, I need to put it on hold because I'm still only one person and I can only put focus in one thing, and this focus is going to take priority, and I feel driven to do it in a way that I haven't felt driven with any of my other businesses, and that includes authorship, where it feels like it needs to be my main focus. It needs to be cohesive, it needs to be as clear as humanly possible, it needs to come to life, and so what that means is I'll be transferring over to a podcast called the Neurodivergent Manifestor. That is the new title of everything, like literally everything. So I'm building out socials, I'm building out offers that I'm going to be doing like courses that I'm going to be doing specifically for neurodivergence. It will not talk about authorship at all and it's not going to have any authorship ties other than like I'll talk about myself and that I still have this other business, and so, like, if you're an author too, you can go over here as well.

Carissa Andrews: 25:09

But this is kind of the I need to create this bigger thing and, who knows, it could be the top of funnel, like when I think about funnels and I think about bringing people into an audience. This is the wider net, right? This is the group of people who are much like, have different, diverse backgrounds even so, not just neurodiverse, but like they have different backgrounds. They could be artists, they could be authors, they could be entrepreneurs, they could be, you know, just looking for a spouse, like it really doesn't matter, Like manifestation is going to work for people, no matter what. But I'm going to be niching down by neurodivergent manifestors and I want to support this audience because no one else is talking about how neurodivergents do this differently and why it's different and why we need some of these scientific backings in order to get our belief locked in place, to get our core beliefs online, to be able to shift the limiting beliefs.

Carissa Andrews: 26:01

In a certain way, it's different than people who can simply just go and take it at face value. It's kind of like the difference between like Tammy talks about this a lot when it comes to hypnosis it's like there are people who are suggestible and then people who are not as suggestible. I am not as suggestible, like you can tell me what you want, all you want, and then tell me to go bark like a dog and I'm not going to do it because my brain goes the fuck. I am Like what? No, and so I'm that person. It doesn't mean I can't be hypnotized. It just means there's a different suggestibility level that has to take place.

Carissa Andrews: 26:37

The same then goes for the manifestation process, and so there are different ways that we have to come at this and, ironically, those are the things that I'd like to talk about. It's the scientific backing, it's the neuroscience, it's the quantum science, it's the you know, understanding the nervous system, it's understanding the mind and how it impacts the body. It's like all of that stuff. It's the stuff that I love to talk about and I can nerd out and geek out on, and most of those people neurodivergent people like myself and maybe you we like to see that and understand it. So that's what's happening, that's what AuthorNation, that's what AuthorNation did to me, okay, and it's. It's so funny because it was just.

Carissa Andrews: 27:22

It was just such a great conference and I loved it so much and I loved the opportunity of being there and Joe was fabulous, suze was fabulous, shell was fabulous. The keynote speaker Drew was amazing. And then having Kevin Smith in the end of AuthorNation and kind of leaning into the rave all of it was so amazing, it was great. But I was just sitting there the entire time feeling like I was witnessing a past life and I was like, wow, this is just different. So I guess the biggest thing I have to say is number one if you are an author who is still looking at strategy, who's still wanting to get into understanding the marketplace, trying to figure out how to write your books, like if craft is a thing for you, that's really interesting, like if you're still in that phase of learning more about authorship, author Nation was absolutely freaking incredible. It is the place for you, like there was no question in my mind. They knocked it out of the park. It was amazing. It was just for me, a very eyeopening experience being there.

Carissa Andrews: 28:32

And then the energy bombardment was another, another level. It was like wow, it was pretty, pretty crazy. Um, because the energy, like the. For someone who is very intuitive as well, it's like I pick up on thoughts and I pick up on anxieties and I pick up on, like the energy and I try to shield myself, like you always do. You go to these places and you're trying to shield your energy so that it's not being dispersed and you're not taking on anyone else's. But when you're around that many people and you have a similar vibration similar enough at least, because you understand what they're doing and why they're doing it it's hard not to pick it up right, it's hard not to figure out what's going on there. So, at any rate, my biggest takeaway from AuthorNation is that teaching in the author space is no longer my main priority. It is a priority, it is a part of my life, but it's no longer the main priority, and that I need to expand. That I need to expand, I guess, is the thing.

Carissa Andrews: 29:37

So if you're wanting to follow me, if you're wanting to see what this is going to start looking like, I encourage you to look me up on socials or on keep an eye out for when the podcast goes out. It's obviously not live yet. It's just in the works for right now, but everything should be NeuroDivergentManifestor on socials. So I am going to be on Instagram, tiktok and Blue Sky. Those are my main ones. I'll also be on YouTube for this particular one, because when I start podcasting, I'm going to video podcast as well. I don't know how that's going to work or how it's going to look, but we're going to give it a whirl and so I will be doing all of that over on YouTube.

Carissa Andrews: 30:16

I don't have a website yet. I am working out with Kajabi to figure out, like, if I can finagle something with the Author Revolution Kajabi that I have, but once that's worked out, I will obviously still have that name as well. I have gone in and reserved the URL neurodivergent manifestor. So if you're looking for it at some point, that will point to a different location. It will point to a website of some sort, and so if you're interested, I encourage you to just follow me over there. Like it's going to be the same type of content. It's just not going to be talking specifically about authorship. Not that you couldn't ask me questions about authorship, because I'll answer them, obviously. I understand. I understand that you're going to know that I'm an author and I'm still going to let them know that I'm an author and teach authors, but it just is what it is. So there you have it.

Carissa Andrews: 31:09

That's my big pivot moment, and maybe it had something to do with author nation being right over the top of you know, the, the big full moon happening on rave night, so that was the 15th, and then everything with the Pluto going into Aquarius, like if you believe in any of that stuff and the energetics. There was a lot of shifting happening there and it shook up a lot, and I just happened to be one of them. But I've been calling this in for a while. I've been trying to figure out my purpose and I've been trying to figure out why I don't feel as aligned as I used to and I understand now, I guess, a little bit better why that is. So it's weird to have that off my chest. I've been holding onto it for about a week now Well, actually it's two weeks now since AuthorNation. So there you go.

Carissa Andrews: 31:58

If you've got questions, if you want to reach out, you can always email me, carissa, at AuthorRevolutionorg. Otherwise, if you would like to, I'll put all the stuff in the show notes, I guess, if you want to be able to follow me on any of the new socials. So head over to AuthorRevolutionorg, forward slash 263. The information will be on there for you. Keep an eye out. If you are wanting to go to Author Nation, I think they're going to be opening up like early bird tickets soon. So for 2025, if I were you, I would definitely get signed up, because if strategy, if craft are still on your list of things that you need to learn about and want to dig in deeper, that conference was it was chef's kiss amazing, it was so good, so I would recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat.

Carissa Andrews: 32:46

All right, guys. Well, here's to trusting the process and believing in your intuition, even when it's hard, because sometimes it's, it's a little bit crazy and it brings you to different places. Sometimes you're holding on to things too tightly and sometimes those things aren't fully serving you right? So, for me, letting go isn't about defeat, right. It's not about defeat in this case at all. It's wisdom.

Carissa Andrews: 33:16

So I want you to think about like, what could you let go of today to create space for something new or something that is more deeply aligned to your truest self? Is there something that you've been trying to give yourself permission to do, but you haven't done it yet? I think this was definitely one for me, and I'm giving myself permission. I am letting go, even if that means just stepping back and letting author revolution and my books coast for a bit, so that I can create something new, and I'm pretty damn excited about it actually. So, all right, guys, I want you to again check out the transcript, check out the show notes authorrevolutionorg forward slash 263. And in the meantime, if that's not where you go or if you're just hanging out till next week, go forth and start your author revolution. Thank you.