Making Waves by Libby Brown, Co-founder This End Up Furniture Company and Fowl Cay Resort

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MAKING WAVES is your ticket to ride with Libby Brown as she recalls a life’s journey taking chances. From the potholes to the free-falls, take an off-road adventure with this gutsy woman who rides shotgun with risk and barrels headlong into a life she never dared dream of.

Disrupting her two toddlers and her suburban comfort zone, the author takes her first leap into the unknown to co-found the crate furniture phenomenon, transforming $500 and a hole-in-the-wall shop into a 253-store mega-chain. But the backbreaking workload requires too much time on the road and Brown unflinchingly considers the price of success. When This End Up is bought out, the 39-year-old entrepreneur finds herself with gloriously broad choices as she searches for Risk #2.

Bluewater cruising aboard a 70-foot motor yacht from Florida to Venezuela would not at first appear to be such a risky proposition. But death-defying exploits contrast with a heavenly setting — an act of piracy following a dazzling sunset, a terrifying accident on a postcard-perfect day, a deadly storm out of a clear blue sky — making life on the high seas frightening and thrilling, and the decision to remain at sea a deliberate confrontation with risk. Traveling enough miles to circle the globe two and a half times satisfies wanderlust just as Risk #3 rises like a mirage out of the turquoise sea.

A private island for sale in the most beautiful part of the Caribbean seems the perfect new gamble. But unable to envision the harsh terms of development on a remote cay in a foreign country, the co-founder of Fowl Cay Resort struggles against towering odds to make her dream of an island paradise come true. An exhausting gauntlet of legal, construction and cultural problems creates the most difficult challenge of the author’s life before an uneasy peace can be found amidst danger, worry and deceit.

More than the true story of a seriously successful entrepreneur, MAKING WAVES will inspire you to take a chance on yourself. ”It’s frightening to step into the unknown. But if you never risk it, you’ll never know what might have been. And simply by taking that step, win or lose, you succeed.”

What would you do if you weren't afraid to fail?

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Libby Brown lives with her husband Stewart, and they divide their time between Richmond, Virginia and the Bahamas. Libby is Co-founder of This End Up Furniture Company and Fowl Cay Resort.

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Making Waves recently received a glowing review from Armchair Interviews!

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Making Waves is now available on Amazon.com and bn.com!

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Libby was keynote speaker to an audience of 254 at the Lynchburg, Virginia Chamber of Commerce 2008 Women of Worth event on October 17.

Christine Kennedy of the Lynchburg Chamber says:

“Libby Brown spoke at the Lynchburg Regional Chamber’s 4th Annual Women of Worth event and really helped the women in attendance understand that it’s possible to take risk and succeed. She stayed and talked with attendees and her approachable and interactive nature was just what we needed. If you are looking for an author, speaker and female professional who can attest to risk taking and the rewards, Libby can do it!”

Andrea Sisco of Armchair Interviews joined Libby on a panel discussion titled “Author, Editor, Publisher and Distributor Too: 21st-Century Self-Publishing” at the 2008 James River Writers Conference at the Library of Virginia on October 11.