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Become the Author the World Needs Now

Story Launcher is a platform for authors to grow and expand their authorship, knowledge, and wisdom while becoming the best version of themselves.

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Join me as I share a storyteller’s journey from being a busted-up and broken cowgirl to a best-selling author.

Writing takes time. We must give ourselves the time necessary to cultivate the writing we need to clarify the message.

Stories change people, and people change the world- The journey of becoming the person you need to become to write the book in your heart takes courage and grace.

Through doing and experience, one can write the words the world needs now.

Being told the experience does nothing for the student or the lesson. Good writing makes for a fine story, though, not yet the story that whispers from the depth of one’s soul yearning to be shared.

So, keep writing, learning, exploring, and experiencing along this journey until one day, the novel will reflect the portrait of the mind. Hold your intention and keep striving.

Story Launcher is a platform for authors to grow and expand their authorship, knowledge, and wisdom while becoming the best version of themselves.

In our writing groups, clarity is the driving force of intentional purpose.

Where inspiration and energy flow, freedom of possibility lives. Crafting is simple, and ideas grow and evolve spontaneously once accountability and space prevail.

The story writing process is simple, the execution habitual, and the syntax crucial.

Ideas are fleeting in the planning and organization of thoughts, sporadic thoughts like a flee-bitten squirrel in Georgia in August. Life, fears, criticism, fear of being seen, and even the fear of success are realities when the storyteller captures and shares their soul.

Writers and creators jump from tree project to tree project, never quite finding one that is their own yet launching it, like flickering sparks of ideas between the author’s ears.


Nothing is lost when given to creativity but a scattered thought, perhaps life’s experiences captured to now convey to my readers this journey of becoming a storyteller.

I am a storyteller who liberates all other storytellers to write their truth from the source, from the muse.

The storyteller’s journey from cowgirl to bestselling author begins, of course, with stories.

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Jophiel

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Arch-Agnel Jophiel is near me always and is my creative partner. 

My subconscious/higher self has enlisted the Archangel Jophiel often across the past years. 

I am beyond grateful and amazed at the synchronicities of this archangel’s identity, what my writing is devoted to, and how my Aligned Writing curriculum is presented in my publishing company.

I have understood inadvertently for years that my gifts are divinely inspired, and NOW I know this as fact. 

I thank the arch-Angle Jophiel for always being with me, God, and the universe for divinely inspiring me and all of my students that create and share beauty and truth with them and leave our readers inspired with positive light. 

Jophiel, or Jophie, is my superhero self. I am here to be the one to change the world, one book at a time. 

“The patron saint of artists, Archangel Jophiel’s name means ‘beauty of God’. She helps us to see and maintain beauty in life and supports us in thinking beautiful thoughts and in staying positive as well as in creating and manifesting beauty in our surroundings and hearts. Archangel Jophiel watches over artists supporting in creating beautiful art, assists us in slowing down and bringing calm to our lives, and heals negativity and chaos, helps to tame your ego, and to bring organization to a place or situation. When seeking wisdom or a shift in perspective Archangel Jophiel is the archangel to call in to uplift you and help you see things from a different point of view.

The angel Jophiel (Heb. יוֹפִיאֵל‎ Yōp̄īʾēl, “God is my beauty”), also called Iophiel, Iofiel, Jofiel, Yofiel, Youfiel, Zophiel (צֹפִיאֵל‎ Ṣōp̄īʾēl, “God is my watchman”) and Zuriel (צוּרִיאֵל‎ Ṣūrīʾēl, “God is my rock”), is a non-canonical archangel of wisdom, understanding, and judgment, art and beauty. She is listed as one of the Seven Archangels in Pseudo-Dionysian teachings. Due to the association with beauty, Jophiel is one of very few angels to be sometimes portrayed as female. However, many angels have no canonical gender, and are most commonly referred to by male pronouns.” Taken from Encyclopedia Ocult Live

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I am celebrating another glorious shift today, overcoming a massive gap in sharing my goal of shooting for the NY Times Best-Seller out loud.
I WROTE A LETTER TO JOSEPHINA, MY SUPERHERO ME! I am glad to have her along on this ride!


So, I started working on Action Steps. Number one was my social media marketing campaign. I started digging up old content and campaigns that didn’t excite me like the feeling this bigger, glorious goal had earlier today, so I went for a walk!


Yep, I felt off! Out of wack.


While away from my computer, I realized what I have been sharing is not working anymore. When I went back and connected the emotion of why I want to be a New York Times Best-Selling author,


I want to experience success and create my legacy, love, and service, yes!


I also know that becoming a NY Times best-selling author is necessary. Becoming a NY Times best-selling author is inevitable to the scale I will release my story and voice to the masses! And created this.


Now we’re talking. Be watching for more details to follow❤️
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A Christmas Letter

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 I’ve buried myself in failed toffee and pools of melted divinity graced with noses, mouths, and eyes to look as if they were intentionally melted snowmen…

Such is a good cry this time of year and best, yet it is the ignition switch to my writing a Christmas letter.

In preparing for Christmas events, it becomes clear that all the preparations are the true gifts we share. The journey of preparing for Christmas, like most events, is the gift we give and receive.

The perfect tradition I do for myself each year is cleaning up, completing tasks from 2023, and preparing for the New Year. It is in the cleaning out and letting go of the old and making space for the new that I enjoy the season.

I was working on writing an email marketing campaign for my publishing company, Story Launcher, as I began cleaning out and preparing for Christmas; I was also working on taxes, shopping for gifts, and babysitting the grand pups and baby Autumn. I was in the midst of copy edits for Morningstar’s series and writing a memoir when I decided to spend my days keeping Christmas my #1 priority. I have done so for weeks now, and I have 5 failed candy attempts.

Now, I’ve regained my seat at my desk, picked up where I left off before candy burning, and begun cleaning my hard drive, so to say, preparing a place in my life for more writing and storytelling in 2024.

And a Christmas letter!

With the many Christmas preparations I’m enjoying, and as the gingerbread dough chills, I’m planting many seed preparations for 2024. The first Story Launcher’s Aligned Writing Pilot Project for anyone who has a positive message to share with the world, to establish their clear vision and outcome to write the 1st draft in just 4 months and create an online coaching business blueprint. Please PM on FB @OndiLaure if you’re interested in getting your book written in 2024!

Enjoy your Christmas preparations this year! Remember that the journey to our desired destination is the fun and the joy!

Tell Your Story; Heal yourself

Writing is Therapeutic, Indeed!

Writing your memoir, the story that has shaped you is most certainly the path to healing.

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Sometimes, we look at writing a letter, a blog post, an article, or even a book as a chore…

I challenge you to look at the project before you and ask, “How am I looking at my writing tasks? Am I avoiding the writing that could best serve me?”

Whatever the writing project is before you, could this project literally (puns always intentional) help you?

Could your project, the writing of your story, heal you?

Writing is releasing. Writing is an exercise in unleashing past traumas and letting go of negative experiences and emotions that often manifest in negative aspects of our lives either in disease, injury, or illness.

Writing your memoir, the story that has shaped you is most certainly the path to healing.

This therapeutic benefit of writing your story doesn’t stop there because once we have found this release through the writing of our story, we open ourselves up for new positive energy in our lives. We also provide magnificent benefits to others.

The possibilities blossom when we recognize that our own story can help someone else transform their own life!

Life is often challenging and hard. You have come through your own hells to, now, be gifted the chance to help another human being through your story.

Today, look back at your own journey and ask yourself, “How could my writing of my story transform my own life, my family’s lives, and the world?

Step into your greatness, rise above your fears and imagine what potential your story has to serve.

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The World Needs your Wisdom, Now

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%FIRSTNAME%, What are you waiting for?
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Story Launcher helps authors like you take their idea, their inspiration, to a publishable manuscript in just 8-weeks!

Our clients receive: access to individualized course materials, membership to our specific Facebook groups, weekly live Q & A sessions, monthly editorial consults, individualized feedback, and accountability.

No two books are alike, and each author deserves specialized and individual attention…. 

Story Launcher’s programs are for: authors, entrepreneurs, visionaries that have a clear mission and have worked on their book for 6 months or more. Our programs are not for tire-kickers, or anyone looking for a ‘get rich quick’ writing program.

If your way is not working, you need Story Launcher’s programs, NOW!

We have a proven writing, pitching, and marketing system for authors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who want to publish their book to best-selling status and create their LEGACY.

There are 4 specifics that you need to achieve best-selling status:

1.     A clear, concise, and beautiful book

2.     An author platform of 10,000+ fans

3.     A service-oriented mission

4.     A community and support network to help keep you aligned and on track

These 4 assets alone will ensure you are creating a best-selling book and your LEGACY work.

You will see results in Story Launcher’s programs because we provide: individual attention to every author and their book. (Again, there are NO two books alike. And each demands it’s own unique approach.)

For example, our client Mrs. Callie Katz’s book, Sweat or Silt- A Guide for the Female Entrepreneur with Grit. (Launching now! Join us for the book launch at:
https://www.storylauncher.com/comesweatorsilt )

Callie is stepping into her greatness and following her dreams of being a best-selling author. She is prepared to take her book and her list to grow her business, gett on stages, empowering others, and yes writing more books!

Are these results that you are looking for, %FIRSTNAME%?

Then the first step to schedule a BREAKTHROUGH CALL and take advantage of our fall rates. Your book inspiration won’t wait. The world needs your wisdom now. We can only work with 5 new book project this fall and we are filling up fast!

If you are ready to step into your greatness and launch your legacy book, stop waiting and click the link below, now, to grab your fee book breakthrough call so that you can launch your book to best-selling status.

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Books Change People People Change the World

Changing the World One Book at a Time

Share your favorite books with us in the comments and let other readers know what book you are reading now.

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I am Ondi Laure, a.k.a The Story Launcher. I help authors, visionaries, and change seekers to write and craft their best-selling books in 8-weeks (The rough draft no doubt).

I do this because BOOKS CHANGE PEOPLE AND PEOPLE CHANGE THE WORLD. 

Story Launcher was established in 2019 to provide a system that empowers authors, visionaries, and change-makers to harness the tools, resources, and support that they need to write their books, publish their books, and launch their message to ultimate success. 

We do this through our dynamic writing environment, rich in spontaneity, accountability, and structure. We then publish their books as elegantly and cost-effectively as possible to ensure the highest return on initial investment and the greatest retention of each author’s royalties by increasing book sales and opportunities beyond the first printing. 

Thinking back on your own life’s journey what books shaped you? What books changed you?

The books that shaped me early in life, mostly fiction novels and yes many classics, were:

  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Back
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Haper Lee
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
  • Foucault Pendulum by Umberto Eco

The countless nonfiction books that continue to influence my journey include books like: 

  • The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
  • TNT It Rocks the Earth (And all his books) by Claude Bristol
  • The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear

Share your favorite books with us in the comments and let other readers know what book you are reading now. At the moment, I’m reading The Power of Broke by Daymond John. Love it!!❤️

Writing successful Sci-Fi and Fantasy

What does it take for an author to write compelling and successful Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories?

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There is no such thing as fiction. Who are we to say that alternate realities do not exist?

This is the inspired theme that I use presently in my own fantasy stories of The Morning Star series, and the divine theme that I teach to my aspiring authors across my Story Launching programs.

To write a compelling Science Fiction and or a Fantasy story, authors are coached to write their world as if they are as real as their own believable reality that they reside.

The success of any Sci-Fi and Fantasy Story depends entirely upon the believability of the world they are creating, and this believability begins with the author believing it first.

The preparation and creation of this world, of course, is expanded and expounded upon by the author as the story evolves. And many of these details may never appear in the narrative for the reader. The details of such believable realities are woven and crafted by and for the author ultimately as the book’s foundation.

And only from this believable world do the setting, characters, dialogue, conflict, theme, and story emerge.

Bridging the Gap to Fiction

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There is a difference between fiction and nonfiction. You have heard me say before there is no distinction between the two and they are both the truth. Even the most otherworldly of fantasies are created from the heart and mind and carry worldly, human ideals and a human soul. If both fiction and nonfiction are created in you, does that not mean they are both the truth?

Deep sighs? Don’t worry, because despite what I have said above, there is a stark difference between the two. Let us dig deeper and find some qualities that distinguish fiction from nonfiction.

I will not limit our deep dive to obvious differences like setting, world, dialogue, climax, tone and style. Mind you, these qualities are crucially different between fiction and nonfiction. So too is the fact that one category is based on objective physical events, while the other is based on creations from a subjective mind.

There are many fine lines to consider in discussing the difference between fiction and nonfiction. There is the threshold we all cross as we are pulled into a powerful story. There is that illusory quality making a nonfiction book seem to read at times like fiction. There is an inner voice that compels us to tell our mom, best friend, or grocery clerk about a tale that has just gripped us to our core. There are special moments when authors recreate fantasy experiences we lived through as children, just when we thought those adventures were nothing but memories to us.

I’m talking of a bridge separating fiction from nonfiction, placing stories atop islands of our own creation. There is a magic pulling us in in those moments, removing our physical lenses and leaving us with only truths of the spirit. The truths of human existence, experience, and relationships too.

The magic of fiction is this bridge it creates, a bridge spanning the gap between teaching and knowing, and a bridge which has been created countless times before us. 

The magic of nonfiction resides in its ability to ground us; to remind us we are physical beings in the here and now. However, I submit to you that the magic of fiction is supreme. It reminds us we are essentially spiritual beings and as such our existence spans all of time, not just the here and now.

Fiction authors and storytellers across time have created and recreated their magic for us, removing our physical lenses and introducing us to spiritual truths. Such authors include greats like Dostoevsky, Homer, Shakespeare, Twain, Hemingway, and contemporary greats like Doige and Hildebrand.

These authors have mastered their craft to such a degree they can literally whisk us up and set us upon journeys that take us from the physical into the spiritual realm. The brilliance of each journey depends on the reader’s willingness to open themselves to it, so they might travel with this same author again and again.

As writers and creatives, we receive unexpected and divine callings. These callings are telling us we must share with others our knowledge of the universal truths binding the physical and spiritual worlds together.

This is a crucial undertaking, a divine obligation, a gift given to the artist. Being called to share the universe’s wisdom with those in need of receiving it is a blessing. We must not selfishly withhold the ideas and messages given to us by the Muse, but rather share these insights with the world.

Is not the Muse a provider of spiritual gifts? Ideas, fleeting thoughts, and inspirations are granted to us, by it, from the spirit world, not from our conscious reality. The Muse lies at the heart of the fictional aspect of ourselves, an aspect that is as real as the nonfictional aspect.

We have abundant ideas, insights and notions available to share, as I expressed in my latest article on The Muse. Our challenge is finding the courage to capture the inspirations and clues, then invest the time and love to cultivate them. That is something we do not do enough of today.

Have the courage to harness your inspirations and step out into your greatness, regardless of whether you are ridiculed or scorned. For it is this quality which sets the great messages and messengers apart.

Have the courage to trust your gifts, both physical and spiritual. They are worth sharing with the world. Let the naysayers point and scorn if they want to. Share your beautiful message with the world regardless of them, and allow your creations to become your legacy.

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What is The Muse?

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Is it our creative inspiration, that energy fluttering amidst the ethers of our consciousness, awaiting our trust to bring it to light?

I think the Muse is a beautiful idea; a wondrous source of inspiration and intelligence.

Yet, when an artist expects the Muse to seek them it does not. When an artist, be they writer, painter, or other creative, demands the Muse to deliver it does not answer them.

Then there are those moments when the Muse sits near, patiently waiting for a creative conscious to grasp hold of a thought and write upon it. But some thoughts slip through the creative’s grasp, to be bounced along to the next willing creative conscious.

For just as the universe expands infinitely, so too does creative inspiration.

The Muse, too, is abundant throughout the universe.

There is no end to this source of creativity. Creative inspiration and the Muse are plentiful and always giving to the creative conscious open to receiving their gift.

The challenge is to put aside the busy work, those unnecessary worldly things, and make creativity our priority.

Make your writing a priority over all else!

Until this happens, until the book or novel becomes the author’s primary focus and intention, the book will remain unwritten.

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This is a crucial time. A time for the writer, and the artist, to take heed and consciously demand control of the outcome of their inspirations.

The first step a writer must take to control their inspiration and the visiting Muse is to trust. Trust that the ideas and insights are yours. Trust that you have the grace and wisdom to write, to take your inclinations by the hand and carry them to their fullest potential.