Cinderella Goes Surfing: A Modern Day Fairy Tale
At 32, the author–our modern-day Cinderella–faces a Maverick's-size wave in the form of divorce and career change. The wave shatters the familiar: all the author's expectations about what her life will be like. Her German friend, leaving a 5-year study of Buddhism at Tassajara Zen Center, takes the author surfing for the first time just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The experience sets in motion a new tide which grows over the next decade, taking the author to Hawaii in search of the women who surfed with legendary waterwoman Rell Sunn; throughout California; south to Mexico and Brazil, east to New York City, Cape Cod, and Narragansett; and finally to France and Spain. The author's story of self-discovery and reinvention is interwoven with surfing, photography, and the women she meets along the way.
Intended audience is female, aged 12 to 100. A memoir, with photo book to follow. The related Blog and Music Videos featuringSuperFly SurfSpy will generate PR and sales for the book.
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How can I Surf 2 Bliss?
First of all, surfing is a state of mind. No surf board required! It's about living in the "now", maintaining your balance amidst change, and doing so with style.
Surfing may be the closest humans ever get to flying. When you feel the wave take your board, you pop up, and glide down the face of that wave, it's like floating on a magic carpet. You feel the wind, salty spray....the ease of it all.....an incredible freedom. As you paddle in at the end of a session–exhausted but happy–you're not thinking about your job, your bills, or that sticky situation with your colleague or significant other. You're daydreaming about a trip, or a business you want to start, or simply the wicked dinner you'll whip up, tonight!
Surfing helped me find my nirvana. I hope my own story of self-discovery and reinvention--and those of the fine, fierce, fabulous femmes I found along the way--will inspire you to live your own life more fully, and collaborate with others to build a world of blissful harmony.
-Heather Hiett
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