Some authors write from imagination. Others write from experience earned over years of living through something hard enough to teach them what others may never see. Kati Dahlstrom belongs to that second group. Her book, Turtle in a Racehorse World, grew from her real life, her real challenges, and her honest wish to help people understand disability in a way plain explanations seldom accomplish.
Kati lives with physical and neurological conditions influencing how she moves, communicates, and processes the world. She spent much of her life navigating spaces built for people who move faster, speak quicker, and react immediately. Her book came from a desire to explain her experience without anger, blame, or self-pity. She wrote so teachers, friends, co-workers, and even strangers could understand people who move through life at a different pace.
Her work stands as truth. It comes from lived experience, not theory. It offers insight many families, caregivers, and communities have already used in discussions about empathy and inclusion. Readers have publicly said Kati’s explanations helped them understand someone in their own life. Parent groups have shared her message because it helps them teach compassion to children. Nothing in her story needs embellishment. Her reality already carries weight.
The Power of Authors rests on moments like this. A person decides the world needs clarity. They sit down, write honestly, and share their experience in the open where others can see more clearly. Books grounded in true experience can shift how people speak, listen, and respond to one another. Kati did not set out to change public policy or influence an institution. She set out to explain what life feels like inside a body not built for speed. She wanted people to understand someone like her without fear, impatience, or misunderstanding.
Her voice adds to the long history of authors who told the truth long before an audience asked for it. Real stories often move people more than instruction manuals or speeches. A single paragraph from a lived experience can do more than an entire textbook on human behavior.
Over many years of publishing, I have watched readers meet truth on the page and walk away changed. No marketing plan can create the kind of connection real stories build. Readers respond to honesty. They recognize courage. They pay attention when someone writes without asking for sympathy. Kati’s book holds that same steady quality. It invites readers to slow down, consider others more carefully, and see the human being behind the struggle.
This is why The Power of Authors matters. When people ask how writing shapes society, the answer sits in books like Kati’s. Change does not always come from rallies or speeches. Sometimes it comes from one writer who sits at a table and chooses to describe her life so others can understand someone in theirs. Her work has been shared in circles dedicated to disability awareness and kindness. It offers practical insight for anyone who wants to treat others with more patience.
Kati’s story reminds us authors do not need fame for influence. They need honesty, courage, and a willingness to speak plainly about what life has taught them. Her book stands as proof. A true story, told with clarity, becomes a tool others can use.
As we continue exploring The Power of Authors, we offer a simple truth: real stories open doors. They soften misunderstanding. They build connection where silence once stood. Writers willing to tell the truth help readers see more clearly, feel more deeply, and act with more compassion.
When an author writes from lived experience, they give readers a chance to understand someone they may have overlooked. That is power. Quiet power, steady power, real power. The kind shaping homes, communities, classrooms, and friendships every day.
The book is available now on Amazon: http://bit.ly/3K6o8AM.
If you’d like an autographed copy, you can order it here: http://bit.ly/4pgmzjM.
Author Campaign Method (ACM) for Authorpreneurs
This is Publication Consultants’ motivation for constantly striving to assist authors sell and market their books. Author Campaign Method (ACM) of sales and marketing is Publication Consultants’ plan to accomplish this so that our authors’ books have a reasonable opportunity for success. We know the difference between motion and direction. ACM is direction! ACM is the process for authorpreneurs who are serious about bringing their books to market. ACM is a boon for them.
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Cortex is for serious authors and will probably not be of interest to hobbyists. We recorded our Cortex training and information meeting. If you’re a serious author, and did not attend the meeting, and would like to review the training information, kindly let us know. Authors are required to have a Facebook author page to use Cortex.
Correction:
We take the quote by Marcella Smith, Small Press Business Manager, Barnes & Noble seriously: “The author is essential to the success of the book, giving energy behind the book to make it something that a customer will come in and ask for. That is what makes the difference in a book that sells, that develops legs, and has a life of its own. Otherwise the book goes on the shelf and stays there for three months. Then it gets returned.”
This is Publication Consultants’ motivation for constantly striving to assist authors sell and market their books. ACM is Publication Consultants’ plan to accomplish this so that our authors’ books have a reasonable opportunity for success. We know the difference between motion and direction. ACM is direction! ACM is the process for authors who are serious about bringing their books to market. ACM is a boon for serious authors, but a burden for hobbyist. We don’t recommend ACM for hobbyists.
We’re the only publisher we know of that provides authors with book signing opportunities. Book signing are appropriate for hobbyist and essential for serious authors. To schedule a book signing kindly go to our website, <
An Author Page on Amazon Author Central is a serious author ACM requirement and desirable for the hobbyist. Author Central is a free resource designed to help authors become more active participants in the promotion of their books. In Author Central you can manage an Author Page, update information about your books, and view Customer Reviews and sales information for your bibliography. If you don’t already have an Author Page on 
We hear authors complain about all the personal stuff on Facebook. Most of these complaints are because the author doesn’t understand the difference difference between a Facebook profile and a Facebook page. Simply put, a profile is for personal things for friends and family; a page is for business. If your book is just a hobby, then it’s fine to have only a Facebook profile and make your posts for friends and family; however, if you’re serious about your writing, and it’s a business with you, or you want it to be business, then you need a Facebook page as an author. It’s simple to tell if it’s a page or a profile. A profile shows how many friends and a page shows how many likes. Here’s a link <> to a straight forward description on how to set up your author Facebook page.
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