Carol Costello

Carol Costello is the author of CHANGE OR DIE: A Novel of Spiritual Evolution, CHASING GRACE: A Novel of Odd Redemption, THE SOUL OF SELLING, CREATIVITY ON DEMAND: Write in the Zone, SELL YOURSELF WITHOUT FEELING PUSHY, CREEPY, OR WEIRD! and other books. She is a student of meditation and the Vedanta, a speaker on creativity and spirituality, a spiritual director trained at Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA, and lives at the beach in San Francisco.

Until she began writing her own books, Carol made her living as a popular freelance book doctor, editor, and ghostwriter of 30 nonfiction books, including 2 best sellers. She now enjoys honing her shelling skills, travel, and both hiking in nearby Golden Gate Park and in hiking heavens like Montana's Glacier National Park.

Carol holds an MA from the University of Michigan.

www.carolcostello.net

CHASING GRACE: A NOVEL OF ODD REDEMPTION reflects Carol's experience as a student of meditation and Advaita Vedanta, investigative reporter in Chicago, book editor, world traveler, and hiker of the Rockies and the Grand Canyon. It is a raw, humorous look at spiritual coming of age, at unconventional ways to heal deep emotional wounds, and at finding greater purpose in surprising places despite desperate odds.

CHANGE OR DIE follows the heroine of CHASING GRACE to her next adventure. Cat has everything—a condo on the ocean in San Francisco, a booming career, a great backhand—but she is losing her sanity and her soul. The one thing she has wanted all her life is slipping away, an intimate connection with Spirit, the Divine Mind from which the universe is shaped. A man from her past, maverick quantum physicist Josh Siegel, promises her that and more if she will join him and three other carefully selected women in a scheme to harness Spirit’s power for a free, clean, unlimited fuel source. Doing so, and teaching others to do so, will trigger an evolutionary leap in consciousness that saves humans from extinction. Cat jumps at the chance. But at Shamballa, Josh’s retreat in Sonoma’s Valley of the Moon, she realizes that he has dangerous hidden motives and even more dangerous enemies. As Cat’s uncanny gifts with Spirit emerge, so do deadly, long-concealed fears and anger, unleashing a fiery battle between good and evil in herself, with Josh, and with the malicious Consortium that runs the world and wants to stop them. Some change, some die, and Spirit reveals to Cat its deepest, most surprising secret.

Carol developed THE SOUL OF SELLING sales method to bring more ease, meaning, and enjoyment to the extraordinary results she produced as Sales Director for three vital start-up companies over her 30-year career. The book offers six simple, powerful steps for getting great results--in the spirit of service, and in a way that feeds your soul. www.soulofselling.com.