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Book Deal Masterclass

Melissa's acoldaes:

New Your Times lists for:

-Audiobook of the Year

-Paperback of the Year

As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with her husband grows distant. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines—a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan—and increases her dosage regularly.

Following her doctor’s orders, Melissa takes the pills night after night until her body begins to shut down. Only when she collapses while holding her daughter does Melissa learn that her doctor—like so many others—has over-prescribed the medication and quitting cold turkey could lead to psychosis or fatal seizures. Benzodiazepine addiction is not well studied, and few experts know how to help Melissa as she begins the months-long process of tapering off the pills without suffering debilitating, potentially deadly consequences.

Each page thrums with the heartbeat of Melissa’s struggle—how many hours has she slept? How many weeks old are her babies? How many milligrams has she taken? Her propulsive writing crescendos to a fever pitch as she fights for her health and her ability to care for her children. “Propulsive, poetic” (
Shelf Awareness), and immersive, this “vivid chronicle of suffering” (Kirkus Reviews) and redemption shines a light on the prescription benzodiazepine epidemic as it reaches a crisis point in this country.

Book Deal Masterclass is the masterful creation of Melissa Bond, we like to wave her flag because this product is amazing.

Melissa designed, worked, crunched, created and produced this course and she has recruited and teamed with a number of developers, IT wizards and creators to both create and manage this amazing product and the educational experience you will have in the cohorts. We really mean amazing- because when you hear the stories of the authors that get this packet process right it takes a LOT of work, the process is not taught, and as an author you are so in your work you can't get out objectively to see it from outside- so what do you do? hand it over to someone else? NO! that sacrifices your art- and they just won't care they way you do for your art and getting it right. But then, how do you actually get out and get it right over and over again- without spending literally years or hiring a personal team... well, we couldn't find the answer to that either; this is WHY we developed this VERY unique system that allows you full control of your art, full editorial license yet has a professional team work WITH you to not only tell you what to do but to provide to you the skeletal framework AND actual professional copy for you to craft WITH US for YOUR PACKET! This is truly so unique- and then there's Melissa. She is intellectually brilliant, AND a brilliant creative AND has been writing her entire life- like wrote on the walls, mattress and anything she could get under her pen even as a little girl. It's her life's work, and she paid the full price for the pro education to get her book deal. She put it all on the line and STILL worked on it constantly and it took YEARS to get it right. This is from a brilliant prolific non-stop personality and it STILL took all that AND somewhere north of $10,000. So when we say this program will save you time, headach, work and $$ we stand behind that 100%. It's designed with heart. It's employs real people, those real people optimize the grunt work with AI and stay at the helm of the process, education, and product you receive.

This is the real deal.

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