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I ask Amy what she’s finding most exciting these days. “Everything,” she tells me. “I’m excited about everything!”

Amy Spitzfaden

Amy loves her full-time job at PCSC, Inc., in Peterborough, New Hampshire, a company that helps publishers build audiences in print and online. Amy’s primary role is to manage the social media presence of PCSC and its client publishers. She also contributes to social media on several other accounts, including MIU’s.

PSCS is made up entirely of sidha and meditator employees. Recently, the company moved to a new, Sthapatya-Vedic office building. (Sthapatya-Veda is an ancient form of architecture that was taught in the Vedas.) “Due to the building’s orientation to the sun, we feel refreshed by the quality of light throughout the day,” Amy tells me.

Thanks to employment at PSCS, the community of meditators and sidhas is growing in their area of NH, just two hours from Boston, MA. Amy’s husband, Ravi Both, also works for PSCS in marketing and web design.

Amy and her husband, Ravi

If you have read Amy’s MIU Profile, you know that she won the Inkfingerz Award for her first novel, Untold, in 2013. Amy is now working on her second novel, Fingerprinted Hearts, which she actually started in 2010, before she wrote Untold.

“When I started Fingerprinted Hearts, I was younger and going through a confusing time,” Amy says. “After much rewriting back then, I felt she book was still not coming together.” Now, with more experience in life and writing, Amy says this second novel is gelling. She hopes it will be published in a year or two.

Participation in several online forums, such as IndieWriters and GoodReads, gives Amy such support as beta readers, social media contacts, and advice on book promotion. Amy also huddles with two close friends once a month to write together. “Since two of us work full-time and the third is a mother of two and student, we inspire each other to keep going on our writing projects,” Amy explains.

Looking ahead, Amy says she and Ravi have two main goals for the near future: to build a “tiny” house, and perhaps a guest house, on her parents’ 34 acres in New Hampshire, and to spend some time in Holland near Ravi’s family.

Ruthie Hutchings is a contributor the the MUM blogs. She did graduate work in English Literature at Emory University, holds an MA in Professional Writing from Maharishi University, and also does writing and editing for websites, magazines, books, and instructional materials.