quiz questions
This is a fun quiz I just made up to celebrate 10 Years, 10 Books and 10,000 Sales.
Sit back, relax and read this to get some insights about my writing, my books and my author journey.
JULIE’S BOOK QUIZ
Q1: What book has the highest sales?
Q2: What book is – shhhh, don’t tell my other books – my favorite?
Q3: What book was the hardest to write?
Q4: Which book ended up a lot different from its original concept?
Q5: What book is the best written?
Q6: What book did it not occur to me to write until it was pointed out to me?
Q7: What book is the most underrated?
Q8: What book has had a long-lasting impact on my family’s habits?
Q9: What book did I always know the title to before I wrote it?
Q10: What book was the easiest to write?
Q [Bonus]: What two-word phrase do I incorporate in every book I have written (excluding the children’s picture book)?
question 1
Q1: What book has the highest sales?
A1: Easy Peasy Potty Training
Notes: Easy Peasy Potty Training is my first book so it may seem obvious that it has the most sales as it has been around the longest. However, it also solves a specific problem and has a lot of great reviews so it still sells well.
Fun fact: Easy Peasy Potty Training is not just my best-selling book, it makes up over half of the lifetime sales from all of my books!
question 2
Q2: What book is – shhhh, don’t tell my other books – my favorite?
A2: Crappy to Happy
Notes: I just loved writing Crappy to Happy. It was the first non-parenting book I wrote. I felt that I was finally writing exactly what I was put on this planet for. I still stand by everything I say in that book and hope it helps mamas and everyone else as much as it has helped me.
Fun fact: Amazon has banned all ads for this book due to the Crappy to Happy title containing “profanity”.
question 3
Q3: What book was the hardest to write?
A3: Maxy-Moo Flies to the Moon
Notes: I had absolutely no idea about meter, stress and rhythm when I embarked on a writing a rhyming children’s picture book. I also learned a lot about illustrating, designing and formatting this type of book. Although I did end up outsourcing those areas, I can now talk confidently about RGB versus CMYK!
(Not so) Fun fact: It was such a steep learning curve that I have not produced another children’s picture book…yet.
question 4
Q4: Which book ended up a lot different from its original concept?
A4: Find Your Purpose in 15 Minutes
Notes: After writing Bucket List Blueprint and Super Sexy Goal Setting, I knew I wanted to write a book on finding your purpose. I thought it would be similar to my previous books – a simple ‘how to’ guide. It wasn’t until I realized there was a pattern in how life purposes were written – often using the same words and phrases – that I pivoted the book around the concept that you could write out your life’s purpose in a very short amount of time.
Fun fact: For the longest period I wanted to call the book Find Your Purpose in Five Minutes. But after analyzing how long it took the 100 friends and family early adopters to write out their purpose, I finally appreciated I couldn’t call it that. I don’t know why I resisted it as “15” sounds so much better.
question 5
Q5: What book is the best written?
A5: Embrace Your Awesomeness
Notes: Well, Embrace Your Awesomeness, is my 10th – and currently last – book so it makes sense it is the most well-written (IMHO). I really like each of my chapter opening stories especially the one about the bat.
Fun fact: Written during the pandemic, I always knew I wanted the words ‘banana-pants crazy’ to be part of the sub-title for this book.
question 6
Q6: What book did it not occur to me to write until it was pointed out to me?
A6: Bucket List Blueprint
Notes: I was writing parenting books and had a mama focused blog and website so it just didn’t occur to me to write a true self-help book. I had already written Crappy to Happy but that was aimed at getting mamas to be happier. I had a session with an author coach who helped me uncover that self-help was my true love and Bucket List Blueprint was born.
Fun fact: Written after I embarked on a wacky challenge of checking off 40 bucket list items in the year I turned 40.
question 7
Q7: What book is the most underrated?
A7: Clutter-Free Forever
Notes: This really is a book about living your best life and helping the world by enjoying having less disguised as a decluttering book.
Fun fact: I decluttered something from my home every day for a month and wrote about my findings on the socials as research for this book.
question 8
Q8: What book has had a long-lasting impact on my family’s habits?
A8: Easy Peasy Healthy Eating
Notes: My kids were still very young when I was researching Easy Peasy Healthy Eating. I like all the suggestions I wrote about but there was one in particular that has had a long-lasting positive impact. We introduced my kids to eating a variety of raw vegetables just before dinner. Ten years on and they ask for their bowl of vegetables and gobble them up every single night.
Fun fact: The mantra of ‘you don’t have to eat it’ is something I have to remind myself to be OK with after a childhood of having to finish what was on my plate. It really does lead to much more relaxed and enjoyable mealtimes, especially as I know the kids have at least had some vegetables earlier each evening.
question 9
Q9: What book did I always know the title to before I wrote it?
A9: Super Sexy Goal Setting
Notes: Unlike Bucket List Blueprint and Clutter-Free Forever, which both took me an age to decide on a title, I always knew the title for my goal-setting book. As a result, I was able to incorporate the ‘sexy’ theme all the way through it.
(Not-so) Fun fact: This book has the lowest sales and poorest reviews of all my books so maybe ‘sexy’ wasn’t the best idea after all?
question 10
Q10: What book was the easiest to write?
A10: Rediscover Your Sparkle
Notes: Once I hit on the SPARKLE acronym, the book practically wrote itself. I felt like I was in a constant flow state writing it. Sure, it is the shortest book I have written (for adults) but it was so easy to write that I felt like I was guided.
Fun fact: I absolutely love getting emails with the subject line ‘Sparkle Day’ where people tell me they are embarking on their own Sparkle Day. Please send more!
bonus question
Q [Bonus]: What two-word phrase do I incorporate in every book I have written (excluding the children’s picture book)?
A [Bonus]: Zombie Apocalypse
Notes: I like the idea of an Easter Egg phrase hidden in all my books. I am not sure how I decided on “zombie apocalypse” but I was watching a lot of ‘The Walking Dead’ at the time so I guess it is because of that?
How well did you do?
Send me an email with your quiz tally out of 10 and get a free ebook of your choosing. Email: julie@julieschooler.com