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About the author
Eric Beaty
Eric Beaty began his entrepreneurial career as a well-known guitar instructor and performing artist among the Bluegrass guitar circuit. Before dedicating greater focus to his writing career, Eric created and authored several guitar instructional courses and companion books.<br><br>As an additional resource, Eric produces content on his YouTube channel—currently with 700+ videos, 17K+ subscribers, and 19K+ monthly views and growing—on the topics of guitar instruction, entrepreneurship, writing and publishing, and more.<br><br>In the years since pursuing writing as a career, Eric has authored many books, stories, poems, essays, blog posts, and songs. The basis for much of Eric’s writing comes from a great many notebooks and journals which he fills with his experiences, ideas, and stories.<br><br>In addition, Eric has also participated in—and thrice won—the popular writing competition National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which begins anew each November.<br><br>The first two books in Eric’s SMART FOCUS series became Top 100 Paid Bestsellers in their categories on Amazon, alongside several of his favorite authors and their books. <br><br>More recently, Eric created his own Substack publication <em>Gleaning Words</em> where he "gleans" the best entries from his many journals. Visit <em>Gleaning Words</em> at https://gleaningwords.substack.com.<br><br>Originally from Monterey, Tennessee, Eric now lives with his wife, Melissa, and their one-year-old son, DJ, in the ever-growing city of Crossville, Tennessee, where he is at work on his next writing project.