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Today I learnt that KOKORO missed the Sunday Times Bestseller list by just 25 books in its first week of sales. Time to take a deep breath and share a ✨new Confessions essay✨… Read 'Confessions of a Self-Help Author Part Three' here (for free): bethkempton.substack.com/p/confessions-…

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With gratitude to Waterstones Canterbury 📚 (and @jasup13) for this gorgeous window display recommending KOKORO which is out now!

Thank you so much for sharing and recommending KOKORO Xx

Thank you team. I appreciate you more than you know Xx

Thank you Caroline, for all you do to get my work out in the world, and as a treasured friend Xx

Thank you for doing such a beautiful job with KOKORO. I appreciate the whole team so much Xx

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Thank you so much to @waterstones Canterbury @waterstonesrose for this gorgeous display of my books ahead of Kokoro's publication on Thursday! (Image courtesy of James )

✨NEW ESSAY✨ Some reflections from a remote hermitage in Japan, on the way we are constantly pulled to be visible even though our best creative work actually happens when we resist that pull…
You can read it here
bethkempton.substack.com/p/life-less-th…

To celebrate the release of my new book KOKORO I am offering my biggest ever giveaway with a prize worth over £1000. 🩵You could win a private virtual tea ceremony via Zoom with an Kyoto-based English speaking tea master + more!
-> bethkempton.com/kokorogiveaway

🌸 #tinyspringpoem is back!🌸 I feel some poetry coming on... We start tomorrow. I post a one-word prompt each day for 15 days on Insta and Substack @bethkempton and you get 10 minutes to write a poem. It's free and fun. Who's in?
Beth Xx

I just heard that my publisher has already reprinted KOKORO, and it hasn't even come out yet. This has never happened with any of my books before and it is thrilling, as well as slightly terrifying. KOKORO is so personal, a letter from me to you.
-> bethkempton.com/kokoro

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❤️ Here's the essay, friends: bethkempton.substack.com/p/when-life-co…

✨Friends, I have something special for you!✨ As promised, here is ‘FAREWELL WINTER’ a one-off bonus episode of the Calm Christmas Podcast to embrace the turn of the season and mark the leap year gift that is February 29❤️ Tune in on Apple, Spotify or bethkempton.com/podcast

COVER REVEAL - The cover of my new book 'KOKORO: Japanese wisdom for a life well lived' features a full moon over Gassan (lit. moon mountain), a remote Japanese peak known as the mountain of death and the past. KOKORO is out on April 4 💙 bethkempton.com/kokoro