Why NOT You Designing the WHY NOT ME book cover?

WHY NOT ME?!? A dozen lessons a year on an island taught me about living my dreams, and how you can live yours too

Stacy Hope Small

Stacy Hope Small is a writer, CEO, and travel expert. She began her career as a magazine journalist in 1991 after graduating with a B.S. in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. As an award-winning freelance journalist, Small’s writing on topics from travel to fitness has appeared in publications including Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Self, Fitness, and the New York Times. She traveled around the globe on assignment reporting on luxury travel trends for 15 years, launched Elite Traveler Magazine for the private jet crowd in 2001, and started her own luxury travel firm Elite Travel International in 2005.

Small was named by her travel industry peers as the “Most Innovative Travel Advisor” in 2013 for her creative use of digital marketing, and is known as the “Google of travel” to her portfolio of high-level tech, media, finance, and entertainment clients. She balances her time writing, managing her company, and overseeing worldwide travel for top executives at companies including Facebook, Google, Apple, Pinterest, and Sony. Small currently resides in Carlsbad, CA with her three rescue dogs.

Why Not Me?!? aims to inspire readers to drop every fear and follow their heart and soul to live the life of their dreams. Small's true story balances personal experience with spiritual lessons and guidance and includes a dozen lessons a year on Maui taught her about living her dreams with the goal of showing others the possibilities for them to do the same.

Women, ages 25-65, who are feeling stuck or unfulfilled in their current relationships, jobs, and overall lives. Anyone wanting to make serious changes and needing a jumpstart will be inspired after reading Small's story of losing both parents to cancer, starting a business with zero funds, and finally saying screw it to the glamorous jetsetting life she was leading that looked good to others but felt horrible to her. Women globally will relate, especially those who have experienced trauma, drama, loss, love, death, grief and other traumatic life experiences.

I like the idea of a white background with simple/dark easy to read font, possibly a palm tree/beach/island-y image to make it fun and playful yet still easy on the eye with the title and subtitle very easy to read.

nothing too busy. Don't want orange/red backround. Prefer to stick with greens/blues/purple/black/white. Simple font appeals to me more than anything too scripty or fancy.