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Feel Free: 50 Ways to Let Go and Find Peace in as Little as Five Minutes presents escape hatches that will help you center, bring you pleasure, and let you reclaim your sense of self in small but sanity-saving increments.
About the author
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Summary
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Foreword
Anna Marlis Burgard is the founder of Islands of America: A River, Lake and Sea Odyssey (www.islandsofamerica.com), for which she’s escaped to more than 130 of the U.S.’s 20,000+ islands. She lives on Tybee Island, Georgia, where she eschews shoes, takes moonlight beach walks, and aspires to live a life of supreme independence.
- Her titles have sold in the region of 100,000 copies, and have been published in print and digital formats
- Her most recent book, The Beachcomber’s Companion (Chronicle Books, 2018), has sold 13,000 copies in 16 months, and, through her own PR efforts, garnered significant media attention (see below) and reached 650K targeted Facebook followers. Through signed copy giveaways on those pages, she was consistently able to spike Amazon.com sales rankings, reaching #1911 in all of books and becoming a consistent bestseller on the site. The book is in its fourth printing and has been licensed by Galison for gift products, including a puzzle that’s sold 4,000 units in 6 months (and was chosen for Macy’s second STORY display, “Outdoors” for summer 2019), boxed note cards and a journal. She will reach out to new Facebook groups inviting ideas for freedoms, sharing her own to build similar engagement.
- Her books have garnered significant media attention, including feature articles and starred reviews (see review examples, below)
- Her print and digital articles have been published by Atlas Obscura, Garden & Gun, National Geographic Traveler, Parade and more, reaching millions of readers (see recent articles, below)
- She has appeared at literary festivals including Miami Book Fair International and Southern Booksellers Association
