S02E12-050 Intentional Creative Rest with Jessie Cunniffe

Guest Bio

Jessie Cunniffe* is a professional blurb writer and book blurb coach from Sydney, Australia. A passionate advocate of the indie author community, Jessie has dedicated herself to taking the pain out of blurb-writing with her custom blurb services and two signature courses: Book Blurb Magic and The Spicy Blurb Playbook. When she’s not writing or dreaming up the next BBM product, Jessie can be found journaling, exploring new ocean pools, and playing her guitar. On the occasion that Jessie manages to snatch some reading time, she’s probably buried in P. G. Wodehouse or Agatha Christie.

Links

Contact Jessie

FREE blurb cheatsheet: anatomyofabookblurb.com

Website: www.bookblurbmagic.com 

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @bookblurbmagic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookblurbmagic

Things you can enter

WHATS IN THE CHEST

From Jessie: Access to her Book Blurb Magic Course. From BCP: $25 Voucher

Treasure chest Give-away 2: (open 17/06/2025 closes 19/07/2025)

 https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/treasure-chest

Otherworldly emergence Novella: (Open 05/07/2025 Closes 07/07/2025) https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/emergence

Contact the Team

Finding Elara Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FindingElara

Discord : https://discord.gg/Ap8EWpPn

BCP Website: www.bcpcreative.com.au

BCP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bcp.creative/

BCP Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bcpcreative

Contact Dianna

Website: www.dlnix.com

Facebook: (DL Nix) https://www.facebook.com/Faepatriantales

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findingelara/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@findingelarapodcast

Sponsor Info

Book Reality https://bookreality.com/

Shadow Lair: https://ko-fi.com/findingelara

Show Notes

• Inspired by Becoming a writer Dorothe Brande
• Regular Consistent writing built trust in self to become a secure creative
• Grew up in the Blue Mountains – surrounded by tourist atmosphere
• To beat overwhelm, got an assistant and built a team. Rostered a 4 day work week to ensure intentional creative rest.
• Reward self with Spare time.
• Walks around the city to clear head.
• Dealing with rejection – remember it is collaborative and you have to be creatively vulnerable.
• Writing habit tip = Consistency
• Other creative endeavours, hand crafts. (knit, cross-stitch, beading)
• Playing it safe never works, you have to be creatively brave.

Quotes By Jessie

Overwhelm comes for feeling like we should be doing something in a particular way … becoming aware of the ebs and flows and being ok with the need to rest so you can come back better than before is the secret.

I know that when ideas slow down it’s not that I am running out of ideas, It’s that I haven’t had enough creative rest.

Consistency is the buzz word; it’s the important thing.

Learning to be creatively brave

Look at expectations

• Are they Realistic?
• Are they Serving you?
• Are they helping you get more done?

Fast fire questions

1. Would you rather be a table or a chair? Table
2. Are you a dog person or cat person? Dog
3. Who is your favourite superhero? Not a superhero person
4. If you were to have a magical power what would it be? There were 2 – Flying or Invisibility
5. What is the first think you would do with a huge lotto win? Buy a Waterfront Apartment

Buffy Night

Graham Green Book Club

https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B000APVBKI

She loves how Meta the stories are and what they inspire in her about writing every day.