Carol Costello

Biography

Carol Costello has made her living as a freelance writer for forty years. She has worked as an investigative reporter in Chicago, a freelance acquisitions and developmental editor, a ghostwriter or book doctor of some 30 books (including two national best sellers), and has published under her own name The Soul of Selling and Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption.

CHASING GRACE follows ten year old runaway Cathy Callahan's quest for healing and the divine over thirty years of her life. It is a raw, humorous look at spiritual coming of age, at unconventional ways to heal deep emotional wounds, and at finding grace and greater purpose in surprising places despite desperate odds.

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.

Her message is that you can get exactly the results you want, and at the same time honor, respect, and appreciate everyone with whom you speak. You can sell with a higher purpose, based on your own personal values—and still get the numbers you need to succeed. She focuses on the honor and joy of selling, and on how to have fun and make money while becoming the person you've always wanted to be. www.soulofselling.com.

Carol is a student of meditation and the Vedanta, and a hiker. She lives across the street from the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco and speaks around the country on selling as service, creativity, and self publishing. M.A. University of Michigan.

Where to buy in print

Books

Change or Die: A Novel of Spiritual Evolution
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 52,510. Language: English. Published: January 16, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Inspirational
This inspirational spiritual thriller pits Cat’s quest for Spirit against her Shadow as she uses Spirit to create a free, clean, unlimited fuel source. Fiery battles are unleashed between power and grace, and between good and evil within herself, with her quantum physicist mentor, and with the malicious Consortium. Finally Spirit reveals its deepest, most surprising secret.
Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 118,280. Language: English. Published: August 31, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Coming of age
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Cathy Callahan runs away at age ten to escape her mother’s abuse and find God. After thirty years of funny, brutal, uplifting adventures, she finds unexpected grace in the last place she thinks to look. This 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.
The Soul of Selling: How to achieve extraordinary results with remarkable ease (and not lose your soul in the process)
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 72,600. Language: English. Published: June 28, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Sales
The Soul of Selling gives you six simple, powerful steps to guarantee the sales results you want—and also to sell in an authentic, generous spirit that honors you, honors your contacts, and honors what you offer. You serve others, and feed both your soul and your bottom line. You take the guesswork out of results, and the stress out of selling. Relationship selling meets big-time results.