Vicky Fraser

Biography

Vicky Fraser is the founder of Moxie Books and author of How The Hell Do You Write A Book? and Business For Superheroes. She helps business owners write life-changing books, connect with readers and new customers, and grow their businesses. She’s ghostwritten and launched books for some of the UK’s most successful business owners – and has coached many more business owners to write and market their own books.

In working with authors from a wide range of industries, Vicky has learned and practised the secrets behind writing and marketing a successful book. She teaches strategy and technique through her website moxiebooks.co.uk.

Now the official stuff is out of the way...

I Really Did Run Away With The Circus!

How does one accidentally end up with three TinySheeps? Answer: be in the wrong place at the right time, and come home with a surprise wonky lamb.

Not a joke. This is my ridiculous and delightful life.

This isn’t one of those About The Author pages where I tell you my rags-to-riches story. I’ve never been poor (for which I am incredibly thankful), and I don’t sit on a pile of gold (yet). I don’t measure riches in £-signs, although a big pile of dosh certainly helps things along.

Also, I don’t think you want my CV, do you? How dull is that?

Instead, I thought I’d open the window into my brain. Just a crack, mind. If I open it too wide, all the weird will pour out and swallow the world, kind of like VANTA black (look it up, it’s fascinating).

I’m not only a writer and teacher; I’m also a collector of small, cute animals, horrifying bruises, inappropriate facial expressions, and colourful socks.

And I did, in fact, run away with the circus. Kind of.

After my ever-patient and totally awesome husband Joe and our animal friends, and my love affair with writing, the other big love of my life is the circus and aerial arts. Specifically, trapeze, hoop, and pole dancing. Just don’t ask me to juggle; it rapidly turns into chaos and lethal projectiles.

24 Things About Me

1. I started out as a direct response copywriter and marketing bod, so when I tell you I can help you sell and market your book, I’m not bullshitting you. (I’ve spent years not just learning from the masters, but writing sales copy that gets results for me and my clients.)
2. I love, love, LOVE helping business owners gain the confidence to be more bloody interesting—and seeing them tell their stories in their books.
3. I’ve been pole dancing for more than 12 years—and, yes, I do the exotic stripper-style proudly (and often ineptly), mo-fos.
4. I love my cats more than is socially acceptable.
5. Ditto, my TinySheeps and my Beaky-Face chickens and Maisie Snake Fantastico.
6. Ditto, cheese and gin. I have more half-drunk bottles of gin than you can shake a stick at.
7. My addiction to buying books and leggings is totally under control.
8. I have a short hairtenntion span (it’s currently blue and silver).
9. I legit ran away with the circus (I’m a trapeze artist, and I do actual performances on a trapeze onstage. I have the scars and bruises to prove it).
10. I send an email to my email list subscribers every single day—and they make me money (if you want to sell and use your book, you should do this too. Ask me how).
11. When I decided struggling and working 18-hour days and having no weekends sucked big hairy donkey balls, it took me just six months to make my first £100k. I’m pretty damn proud of that because it means we’re now living in our dream cottage in the country. The only downside is, we can often see the outside through the walls. And I don’t mean through the windows.
12. Random ability: I can read and write ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (although I’m a little rusty these days).
13. I once made Drayton Bird scream (true story—ask him). And that led to an exciting opportunity…
14. I once rendered Dan Kennedy speechless for a few moments (also a true story).
15. I’m learning to draw cartoons, and I’m occasionally competent at it (I started cartooning so I could illustrate my own blogs, articles, books, and other marketing gubbins).
16. Once, when I was a teenager, I was in a band. We played at a pub, and they gave us free drinks. We drank so many free drinks, they cancelled our next gig and banned us.
17. My aim in life is to accept only excellence from myself. Occasionally I fall short because I’m human.
18. If you touch or attempt to touch my belly button, I will cut you (it’s nothing personal, it’s a reflex reaction: google omphalophobia).
19. I love words. Love them. Love the feel of them as they roll around in my mouth and the sound of them as they caress my eardrums. I love how they go together, of course, and the things you can do with them… but I love the words themselves.
20. I am learning patience through growing my own vegetables (did you know you can’t harvest asparagus for the first two years?)
21. I have discovered that “nice” isn’t valuable or helpful… but kindness and grace will get you a very long way.
22. I live by JFDI (just fecking do it). Sometimes more forethought would be helpful.
23. I spend more time than is probably sensible or sane working on my Zombie Plan (look, you never know what’s around the corner, okay?)
24. One of life’s tiny pleasures, for me, is putting on socks in the wind. It’s like a hug for your feet.

So now you know more about me than you probably ever wished to. Sorry. I’d like to know all about you now.

Tell me your story. Write it in your book.

Share it with the world. People are interested, I promise.

Where to find Vicky Fraser online

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