Ten years from now, when someone picks up your book, what will they think of you? The woman on the other end of the phone line paused for a long time. Then she said, “No, I’ve never written a book before.” “Well,” I said, “there’s a book out there by someone with your name. I came across it » Read More
3 Hard Truths About Self-Publishing
06 Sep 2023
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Self-publishing has exploded in the last decade. Bowker indicates that ten times as many books were self-published in 2021 as in 2011. Part of the reason is that self-publishing has become easier and easier to do. Self-publishing has a lot of benefits. Authors like the control self-publishing gives them over every » Read More
Authors: 5 Benefits of Walking
30 Aug 2023
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Quick! What do Charles Dickens, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Albert Einstein have in common? They all loved to walk. So did Claude Monet, Ernest Hemingway, Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Van Beethoven, and Marie Curie. Hundreds, maybe even thousands, of creative folks loved to walk. There must be something to it. There » Read More
3 Ways to Master the Transition from Writing a Blog to Writing a Book
23 Aug 2023
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Atomic Habits is one of the most successful nonfiction books of all time. Before he wrote the book, James Clear wrote a stupendously successful blog. You might guess that it was an easy transition from writing blog posts to writing a book. You would be wrong. Here’s how Clear described things in his 2016 Annual » Read More
What you would do, begin it
26 Jul 2023
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“What you would do, begin it. Boldness has wonder, power, and magic in it.” There are several versions of that quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust.” It’s good advice no matter which version you prefer, especially if you’re a writer. What you would do Whether it’s a book, a blog » Read More