We’ve all failed. But what we do with that failure is what determines our future. Some people give up when they meet an obstacle, but for Amy Lyle, she writes successful novels.
Amy Lyle is an author and screenwriter who grew up in Marietta, Ohio, which is in the heart of Appalachia and known for a population that is partial to moonshine and prone to acts of violence. She has penned two Amazon Humor & Entertainment best-sellers, The Book Of Failures and We’re All A Mess, It’s OK, and is the writer and co-host of the popular UI Media talk show, “In The Burbs.” Amy recently shared her big idea of “Finding the Funny in the Crummy,” for Beacon Street’s TEDx event. She and her husband, Peter, are raising four children and three giant dogs together in the suburbs, just north of Atlanta.
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- Amy’s unique way of marketing her book: getting an alpaca to promote her work
- Finding humour in your failures
[10:23-32:40] Turning Failures Into Books
- How her first book came to be
- Amy’s tip for writers to completing a novel
- The importance of authenticity in writing
- The book production process
- Amy talks about the value she gets from writing a book
- Getting featured in different pictures and TEDx
- The challenges of writing her first book and how she overcame
[33:00-39:05] Last Tips and Final Thoughts
- What’s next for Amy
- The books that inspired Amy
Key Quotes
“It’s a really valuable thing to be able to admit your mistakes and go a step further and see the humor and you can’t always see the humor in them right away. But you can normally given enough time.” – Amy Lyle
Resources Mentioned
The Amy Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle Book of Failures: A funny memoir of missteps, inadequacies, and faux pas
The Queen’s Gambit (2020) Russell Dennis Lewis: Mike
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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