Steve Stack Virtual Book Tour

Thriving Too has the great good fortune to be able to interview Steve Stack on his Virtual Book Tour. Steve has just published his first book . . . It Is Just You, Everything's Not Shit, which started as a brilliantly uplifting blog full of Steve's chosen Wonderful, Lovely and Really Great things. . . .and was quickly picked up by The Friday Project .
Hi Steve, Thanks for stopping by the blog for chat. We know how busy you are with your book tour so feel really thrilled to have you here.

Steve: Not at all, I am delighted to be a guest at this wonderful site.

Tessy: Does this book reflect your outlook on life? Do you really spend your day thinking, Wow, thats cool... wow, thats fantastic?

Steve: Don't we all spend some of our time thinking stuff like that? I would actually consider myself a realist rather than an optimist but compared to some people I seem the be the happiest chap on earth.

Tessy: I think that comes across in the book Steve, you seem very open to appreciating all sorts of things in every day life. This positive focus must be a very good way of ensuring personal happiness? One of my favourites you mention in your book is the feeling you get when you have a meeting cancelled and find you have the time freed up. If you had to choose your top three from the book which ones would they be?

Steve: I have good and bad days the same as everyone else but I tend to remember the good days more - that is a pretty decent way of ensuring personal happiness I reckon. As for my favourites? I have to be careful how I answer as another blogger Clare is running a competition to see if anyone can guess my all-time fave and I would hate to spoil it. If I were to pick the three I enjoyed writing the most they would be Bacon Sandwiches, Bookshop Browsing and Falling In Love.

Tessy: That's so lovely. This positive outlook must make you a magnet to women Steve? This is certainly how I try to motivate some of my teenage students to appreciate the good things around them. How do you cope with all that attention?

Steve: Oh, I just blush and mention the fact that I am spoken for. That seems to do the trick.
You raise an interesting point though. I know lots of women who are attracted to [bastards][delete and replace with 'not very nice persons. Ed] and freely admit to being so. Nice guys are often knocked down the pecking order. To be fair, that has not been my personal experience. In general if you are nice to people then they are nice to you.

Tessy: Women are very attracted to men who see the best in them, rather than their flaws. (Aren't men the same?) I think your attitude would prove pretty irresistible. Tell us what it has been like working with Scott Pack ... he has a really tough reputation doesn't he?

Steve: Oh, I didn't have much to do with him to be honest. Clare Christian, the founder of The Friday Project, signed me up and another Clare (Weber) was my editor. What I do know of Scott suggests that you shouldn't believe his press. Also he is being nice enough to host a further leg of my virtual book tour so I will speak most highly of him, at least until that is done!

Tessy: Steve we wish every success with the book, I will keep dipping into both the blog and the book to remind me to keep my perspective firmly on the lookout for people and things to appreciate. Thanks so much for giving us your time!

The book is a great Christmas gift - and you can even get signed copy with a personal message for the cheeriest or gumpiest recipient by ordering on Steve's brilliantly uplifting blog or Amazon