The name’s TheBotBeyondTheBrainz. Or, as my friends call me, Annie. My sports career began with climbing, but now also contains a heck lot of long-distance, endurance sports adventures. My favorite way to move is human-powered, which leads to the best way to travel: slowly and sustainably.
I’d gotten in touch with her after days of applying to literary agents and hearing nothing but the sound of deafening silence from my inbox. “How the heck does anyone ever get a book out?!” In an act of desperation, I reached out to @shelbystanger, asking her on book publishing advice, as many of the guests on her podcasts are published adventure writer themselves. This is what I learned.
I love going on my adventures solo. But I can’t do this one alone.
Will you help me?
I didn’t start out with a plan on how to write these stories. But I did think I knew what the finish line would look like. I thought I would eventually, somewhere in the past, stumble upon a story that would explain how I got here. A turning point, a plot twist of sorts.
My brother and I officially set a new FKT: “In Ringbahn We trust”! And if that ain’t gonna strengthen the sibling bond, I don’t know what will. What I do know is that:
I used to feel bad about my lack of focus, my tendency to prefer being a Jack-Of-All-Trades rather than a specialist at just one thing.
But I won’t apologize for it anymore.
That story I like to tell of when we were chased out of town by the mafia. Pt.2
That story I like to tell after a beer or two of when we were chased out of town by the mafia. Pt.1
That I became a climber could not have been more random.
