Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business (forthcoming September 2015)

My latest book project is on how to start and run a successful vegan business. It features practical and inspirational success strategies for vegan business owners and entrepreneurs, with insights from 60+ professionals.

I knew there were a ton of general business books out there, many of them excellent for any small-business owner starting up. But there was nothing specifically for the owners of vegan-run businesses. While many of the challenges, advice, and strategies apply to any business, running an animal-free operation brings its own set of extra, specific challenges.

I wanted to find out from vegan business owners and entrepreneurs themselves what their secrets of success were. How did they cope with the challenges of running an ethical business? What did they learn? How did they grow?

This book will be published September 2015 in both paperback and e-book formats. For more information, visit www.veganbusinessmedia.com/vegan-ventures

I have contributed chapters to the following:

Circles of Compassion: Essays Connecting Issues of Justice (forthcoming 2014), edited by Dr Will Tuttle

I have contributed an essay to this anthology by Dr Will Tuttle (author of The World Peace Diet), which explores how the seemingly disparate issues of human, animal, and environmental rights are indeed connected.

Authors also provide practical guidance about how to make the individual, systems, and social changes necessary to effectively create a peaceful and just world for all.

My essay is entitled Why Compassion is Essential to Social Justice and explores my own experiences of sexism, racism, homophobia and speciesism.

This title is published by Vegan Publishers.

 

Plant Powered Women: Pioneering Vegan Female Leaders Share Their Vision for a Healthier, Greener, Compassionate World (2014), edited by Kathy Divine

I am interviewed in this collection of contributions by women from across the globe who are thriving on a plant-powered (vegan) diet and lifestyle.

The anthology features plant-powered health professionals, athletes, a chef, the CEO of The Vegan Society, media pioneers and journalists, animal sanctuary founders as well as women who have revitalised their health by embarking on the vegan lifestyle.

My interview is in the vegan journalists and media pioneers section.

This book is published by Create Space.

 

 

I am the editor of the following titles:

Trans People in Love (2008), with Tracie O’Keefe

This is a collection of real-life stories by people who are transsexual, transgendered, intersex, androgyne, multi-gendered, non-gendered and their experiences of being in love and in a relationship.

This honest and respectful volume tells clinicians, scholars, and trans people themselves of the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to a romantic relationship, what skills and mindsets are needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in all stages of transition can create stable and loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling.

This book is published internationally by Routledge, a division of Taylor & Francis.

 

 

Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex & Gender Diversity (2003), with Tracie O’Keefe

This is an extraordinary collection of real-life stories told by a wide-range of sex and gender diverse people.

These healing tales of struggle and transformation reveal just how creative, resourceful, and adventurous the individuals in this community can be and also helps to bridge the gap between ignorance and understanding.

As each incredible story unfolds we become part of the author’s journey to self-acceptance and join the celebration of their new life.

Page by page, we laugh, cry, and learn to appreciate these wonderful courageous people and the road they walked to be their true selves.

Finding the Real Me is a landmark book that encourages us to embrace diversity, to never fear our differences, and to remain always in awe of our amazing possibilities.

This book is published internationally by Jossey Bass, a division of John Wiley & Co.

 

Self-Hypnosis for Life: Mind, Body & Spiritual Excellence (2000)

This is an easy-to-read, step-by-step, original, information-packed compendium which introduces the novice to self-hypnosis and is also a work that therapists can use with their clients.

It shows you how to achieve your full potential mentally, spiritually and physically with self-hypnosis using naturopathic principles of living.

Topics covered include learning self-hypnosis; habit breaking; installing new patterns of behaviours; breathing re-education; eating & weight control; raw food veganism; exercise motivation; confidence building; self-health promotion and healing; values; beliefs & attitudes supplementation; creating inner peace, love, happiness & calm; developing states of excellence.

This book is published by Extraordinary People Press.

 

Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations (1999)

This book explores beyond the boundaries of known concepts of sex, gender and sexuality.

It dispels much of the mysticism around physical sex, artificially constructed gender and the diversity of sexuality.

As well as considering gay, lesbian, transsexual and transgendered identities, Dr O’Keefe also looks at the intersex groups such as hermaphrodites, and people who identify as androgynous or as being without sex or gender.

This book is published by Extraordinary People Press.

 

 

Investigating Stage Hypnosis (1998)

An in-depth investigation into the world of stage hypnosis and its dangers.

In the first ever book to provide an in-depth investigation into the world of stage hypnosis, Tracie O’Keefe examines the devastating side effects suffered by some volunteers.

The book includes theories and experts’ opinions. It gives first-hand accounts from the victims themselves about their traumas and the battles they have to get legal compensation.

This book is published by Extraordinary People Press.

 

 

I am the co-author of this non-fiction book covering the subject of transsexualism:

Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference (1997) with Tracie O’Keefe

This book covers the whole transsexual experience from start to finish, giving the facts comprehensively.

Included are the views of the experts, families, friends and partners of those who are compelled to undergo such a dramatic metamorphosis.

Given is the kind of information that may now lead the world to reconsider that transsexuals are born and not, contrary to popular belief, made in Casablanca.

This book is published by Extraordinary People Press. It is now out of print and only available from second-hand book sellers.