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Eat, Pray, Love Author Elizabeth Gilbert to Appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"

Elizabeth Gilbert’s #1 New York Times bestseller Eat, Pray, Love (Penguin) was already selling like wildfire across the U.S. before Elizabeth was featured on last Friday’s “Oprah Winfrey Show.” Oprah was clearly moved by the book and, in conversation with Elizabeth over the course of the show, drew out personal elements of Eat, Pray, Love that made it one of the most compelling interviews she has ever conducted. In the wake of this program airing, sales of Eat, Pray, Love climbed to new heights, with key accounts reporting record sales numbers for the week ending 10/6. Close to 2.3 million copies of Eat, Pray, Love have been shipped since Penguin published the title in trade paperback in February. More than 1 million copies have been shipped in the past five weeks.

Ken Follett’s World Without End Featured in USA Today Cover Story as the Highly Anticipated Book Arrives in Stores Across the U.S.

Dutton author Ken Follett is featured in the USA Today cover story in the "Life" section of today’s edition, which offers insights into Follett’s illustrious career and the process of writing World Without End, which Entertainment Weekly gives a laudatory A- review. These high-profile media hits coincide with Dutton publishing the title in the U.S. today, with booksellers everywhere featuring this historic sequel to Follett’s Pillars of the Earth.

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Janet and I are thrilled to contribute to the Penguin blog this week. We are beginning our Passion Test - Reclaim Your Power tour this week at the Boulder Bookstore in Boulder, CO, tomorrow night at 7:30 PM (303-447-2074) and then The Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch in the Denver area on Wednesday at 7:30 PM (303-470-7050).

We'll keep you posted as we travel and do our best to share something useful along the way.

Intention - Attention - No Tension

These three simple principles hold the key to creating anything you choose to have in you life.

Intention: Having a clear picture of what you choose to create. This is the whole purpose of The Passion Test process. "When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only to the extent you are clear."

Attention: "What you put your attention on grows stronger in your life." Give attention to the things that you choose to create. On a practical level, this means do everything you can think to do, then come back to the third principle. . .

No Tension: Let go of your attachment to the outcome. You only have control over the action you take, never over the results. This is why one of the 7 keys to a passsionate life is "Staying Open."