Quick Wins interview with Alicia Ingram, book editor and ghostwriter, discusses how consultants and aspiring authors thinking about writing a book can begin the process even with a busy, demanding work schedule.
Alicia shares tips and strategies on the book editing process,  how to decide whether to self-publish vs. going through a traditional publishing house,  while Christie shares examples of her journey authoring her first book while working a full time consulting job.

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We’re going to be doing a Quick Wins interview. If this is your first time tuning in, Quick Wins are when I have the utmost pleasure of connecting with individuals, discussing products, ideas, or services to help round out your consulting toolkit. Our guest is Alicia Ingram. She is a ghost writer as well as a book editor. Alicia is one of the editors that helped me with my book, The MECE Muse. In interview, we get a chance to connect and talk more about the writing process, the publishing process for go getters out there that are aspiring authors or maybe in the throes of writing their first book. I share more insights in terms of the journey that I took with my first book, The MECE Muse.
Alicia and I are teaming up. We’re going to offer you the best of both worlds. If you sign up for our webpage, you’ll be able to start getting free resources, information and tips on how to write a book. We’re excited to be partnering together, bringing some good insights to you. We hope to be able to connect with you in the future.
Interview with Alicia Ingram
Alicia, thank you so much for joining us on The MECE Muse Unplugged. How are you doing?
I’m doing well. Thank you so much for having me.
What part of the world are you currently sitting in right now?
I am currently in Chicago.
Alicia, maybe you can take a moment and introduce yourself to the go-getters of The MECE Muse Unplugged.
First of all, I want to say congratulations on a successful book launch. I’ve been seeing so many great things about us. I want to first congratulate you on all of your current and future success. I’m a ghost writer and book editor. I specialize in non-fiction books as well as memoirs, helping aspiring authors start and finish their books. I’m a big advocate of people sharing their knowledge, sharing their expertise, not just getting it out there, writing a book for the sake of writing a book, but writing a powerful book. I’m pretty much as far as helping aspiring authors get their books done and get them done well.
If you’ve picked up a copy of The MECE Muse: 100+ Selected Practices, Unwritten Rules, and Habits of Great Consultants, Alicia’s one of the editors of the book. Working with her helped me take the book from good to great. I’m super excited that she’s joined us and she’s going to help you all not only write a book, but write a well written book, which is such a great way to say it because she does just that. Maybe you can share how did you get started in the world of book editing and ghostwriting?
It’s something I fell in to. I’ve always been just a huge reader. I received my undergraduate degrees, two degrees actually, in social policy and in journalism. Early on, I learned I’ve always been into writing. I learned to write different styles of writing. When I started off as a social policy major, which is more political science, we did a lot of academic papers, research position papers, where we take a complicated policy and argue the position. We use a lot of big 25-cent words. That was a big word, so instead of “use”,