Since the launch of her memoir, What Everyone Believed: A Memoir of Intuition and Awakening, Bay Area-based author (and Cornell grad) Christine Hoeflich ’83 has been recognized as one of the Bay Area’s most promising new authors.  In addition to a rave review this past summer from Silicon Valley’s Women’s Connection Magazine, the book was most recently reviewed in the November/December 2008 issue of New Age Retailer. 

Adding on to that great accomplishment, the memoir was selected as an Award-Winning Finalist in the autobiography/memoir category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.  This year’s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries, and Hoeflich beat out hundreds of other talented authors to garner the finalist selection. Congratulations Christine!

With all of her newfound success, it’s hard to imagine that the book was almost never published.  Initially, her editor tired to persuade her to write a “how-to” book instead of a memoir.  Despite her editor’s strong resistance, she followed her instinct (after all, it is a book on intuition) and completed her memoir, self-publishing the nonfiction work so that she could have full editorial control.

Crediting her time at Cornell as a source of inspiration, Christine explains, “I think Cornell with its emphasis on a well-rounded education, and learning in any field of endeavor helped me learn to follow my intuition, including the professors that influenced me.” 

Excerpt from New Age Retailer book review: 

This is a book about writing a book, a book of self-help, advice for writers, advice on parenting and relationships, all written by a person who was not a writer!

Author Christine Hoeflich had no intention of being a writer.  A left brained, Ivy League-educated engineer, she attended a Soul Recognition Workshop in 2001 that included a channeling from The Counsel of Light.  The message to write a series of books on spirituality was clear, though it made no sense at the time.  It was a process through which she would be guided. Coming from a place of not knowing how to write creatively, the author learns that letting go allows creativity to flow.  She learns (and teaches the reader) how to listen to the inner mind, thereby changing the vibrational quality of consciousness.

Find Christine’s book for purchase at:  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22What+Everyone+Believed%3A+A+Memoir+of+Intuition+and+Awakening%22