How to be personal, without devulging privacy?

That said, isn't that what loads of people do? I mean seriously, some people build 10s of lists and they are certainly far from being an expert on some or even many. So many people use writers to make their ebooks and market them as if it were them. Just to give you one example, there are publishing companies out there who write ebooks to cater to many different fields, using I would imagine hired writers.

Yeah whatever you do, don't assume a cartoon identity... people will never trust you and you won't sell anything... oh wait the Pink Panther pushes insulation, Ronald McDonald pushes burgers, Esurance girl, superheros sold underwear, Elsie the cow, Spuds MacKenzie, Tony the Tiger, on and on...

List of American advertising characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don't look at the Truth About Abs cartoon guy either...

that would never work

Dude, anyone can tell a story... To make it worth anything the reader has to be able to relate and connect with YOU. The fastest way to do that is by giving them YOU.

I wouldn't be writing a book about herpes to begin with. There's nothing in it after you solve their problem.

I wouldn't be selling anything about herpes unless I was a trained professional.

I also suffered with Herpes and what I did was find a cure. That was my main focus and I understand that you don't want to show people you because neither did I so what I did is stop being ashamed. I made mistakes in my younger years which we all do. What I want you to do is check out my website and click on the link at the bottom once you read my story. Once you click on the link at the bottom you will be let to my full website there are also doctor's you can talk over the phone with or you can go into their chat room. Believe me if it worked for me it will work for you to. Becoming Disease Free

It´s not... research mms. The FDA doesn´t like it... oh well.

If you are serious about writing about it, and motivated by a desire to share it, then placing yourself and your story at the centre of it is, in my opinion:
1. The only honest thing to do
2. An amazing selling point

People buy stories, and are uplifted often just because someone else shares their own experience of something they relate to.
I come from a psycho-therapeutic background where, traditionally everyone is obsessed with anonymity. But I have learned that clients need to know that the person they are talking to actually has some real sense of their pain.
So, maybe you need to look at your motivations.
If you want to make some money are not interested too much in helping others, (which is fine) then it may be better to try something else.
If you want to make some money helping others, take a breath, have some faith, get some inspiration from those who have faced challenges and then gone on to write about them, and own your name.
This is only my opinion.
Good luck.

What is your story?
So, you found out you had Condition X.
Then you.....
As a result, this happened....
From which you want to say this to others: 'xxx'.
If you can fill int he details of that story here, I am sure others will help you.

Perfectly. You probably already know that the totality of the shooters were in psychotropic drugs. Drugs of which if you read the small print say: they can cause suicide or assassination episodes.

I have one lady in my community who tried to suicide, not once but twice under the influence of antidepressants.

Here is the thing... in this type of niche, whether you hide or become an advocate.

It is a tough choice. I am an empath, for the longest time I hid it not wanting to be confused with crazy or woohoo. Not anymore.

It did took me some shivering to get off the fence, but there is no way to stay on the border. if you don´t choose, the wind will do it for you.

Sandra