<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">I may have mentioned (about a million times) that my <em>Grymm &amp; Epic Guide to Blogging</em> is one of the bonuses in the <a href="http://bit.ly/f0ykQn">World Changing Writers Workshop</a>, run by Pace and Kyeli and featuring some seriously amazing writers (SARK! Bindu Wiles! Ali Luke!)</span>

It’s too late to sign up to the live-action workshop, but is totally not too late to get the World Changing Writers Workshop in-a-Box! (box not included). This is all the awesomeness of the workshop – the audio files, the transcripts, the workbooks, the bonuses, and all the madnesss – wrapped up in a pretty zip folder for you to enjoy at your own pace.

And it’s on sale till Monday. For $297. After Monday the price goes back up $445.

50% of the sales from this promotion are going to the 50 for 50 – Colleen of the Communicatrix is raising $50 000 for her 50th birthday, and giving it all to WriteGirl, an organization to help aspiring young writers achieve their dreams. So not only are you changing the world with your writing, you’re helping others to change the world, too.

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I don’t normally use this newsletter to recommend products, but that’s how much I adore this course and recommend you do it. Up to you – totally no biggie if you decide it’s not for you.

Here endeth my special announcement. Back to categorizing my photographs of the lead singer of Eluveitie according to his level of hotness.

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Here on Grymm & Epic, I talk mostly about business – but I’m a true believer that you are happiest when your business – what you accomplish in life – is a reflection of the person you are inside, and when you’re able to reach out and help a group of people who you identify with. In life, everything we do comes back to the basic truth that human beings are inherently gentle and kind.

I wrote about this, and in particular, about the kindness of MY people – the metalheads – over on Amanda Oak’s amazing blog – Kind over Matter. This post – The Kindness of Metalheads – was published while I was away, but I’d love it if you wanted to go and have a look at it and maybe leave a comment over there, or here, or on your own blog, and let me know what you think.

And, you should also check out the rest of the Kind Over Matter blog – a world of inspiration for artists just like you who believe that the best work is that which brings kindness to others. I especially love this recent post by Dyamond Robinson-Patlyek called Fight Fire with Love.

Also, yay, I’m back!

Don’t miss all the fun! Sign up to receive blog updates by RSS or Email, and while you’re in a signing-up mood, don’t forget the Grymm & Epic Gazette – you’ll get my FREE ebook “Unleash the Beast: Release Your Inner Creative Monster”, as well as a weekly dose of creative inspiration. Grymm!

I’ve been utterly blown away by the response to my new writing packages. You guys were so enthusiastic I spent nearly every waking moment before we left for Germany creating press releases and writing blogs and talking on Skype at all hours of the morning and night. (That’s the only problem with doing consulting from New Zealand – we’re so far ahead of the rest of you, I’m always having to wake up at 4am to talk to someone. It’s all good, though.)

I’m still taking orders for new writing packages, but keep in mind I am on holiday. And it’s a real holiday too, meaning I’m not working till I get back to New Zealand on the 16 August.

Some of you have been emailing asking why I decided to create writing packages. “Surely,” someone said, “you’d be better off sticking with your old services page?”

After reminding him my name is Steff, not Shirley, I assured him I’ve had a much better response to the packages than I ever did to my “hire me” page, even when I promoted my services quite heavily.

Read On…