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The World Needs You To Believe.

Meghan Stevenson
2 min readSep 20, 2022

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Less than 10% of people reading this will work with me. Ever.

It might surprise you that the biggest obstacle I face in landing book deals isn’t getting a publisher interested or even securing a literary agent.

Those tasks are easy compared to getting folks to believe.

Try a quick experiment with me for a second. Point your arm directly out from your shoulder. Close your eyes and move it as far to the right as you can.

Open your eyes and check out how far your arm is. Got it? Good.

Now — believe that you can move your arm further.

I know. This might sound wackadoodle, but humor me for a second.

Believe that your arm can go farther. Close your eyes, and move your arm to the right.

It went farther, right? This is a simple yet effective exercise for why belief matters.

I believe that anyone can get a book deal — including you.

But 90% of people who see my ads online or read these articles disagree.

To be fair, this lines up with research of entrepreneurs overall, which shows that —

  • Fewer than 7 percent of businesses in the U.S. generate over a million dollars in sales
  • And that only 3…

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Meghan Stevenson
Meghan Stevenson

Written by Meghan Stevenson

I help entrepreneurs, experts and thought leaders create book proposals that sell to major publishers. I also run marathons, save senior dogs and love the Mets.

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