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Cathy Derksen shares her unexpected journey to becoming a published author and the impact of multi-author books on visibility for creative entrepreneurs.

What if the book you never planned to write became the business you were always meant to build? Cathy Derksen didn’t grow up wanting to be an author. She wasn’t a writer. She’s dyslexic. Books weren’t even on her radar, let alone publishing them. But somewhere between a divorce, a career change, two teenagers, and a quiet voice she couldn’t ignore — she ended up in a book. Then another. Then she started making them herself. Today Cathy has contributed to twenty-four anthologies and created ten multi-author books of her own, giving over two hundred people the chance to become published authors for the first time. In this conversation, she shares how it all started, what it really takes to coordinate a book with twenty authors from around the world, and why the multi-author model might be the most underrated visibility tool in a creative entrepreneur’s toolkit. Highlights The calling doesn’t always make sense. Listen anyway. Cathy’s first chapter wasn’t planned. It wasn’t strategic. There was a book being put together called Emotional Intelligence, Mental Health Matters and something in her just knew her story had to be in it. She’d just come through a divorce, a complete career…

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