Here’s one thing Seth Godin said when we spoke that keeps bouncing around my head. You can have it in yours, too – here, see what you make of it. He’s talking about people sidling into auditoriums to hear a speaker but positioning themselves near the back, on an aisle seat, ready for a quick […]
Continue readingToday’s blog post can be found over at Birds on the Blog – a musing on the hidden benfits of writing, including wisdom from Euan Sample, Michael Neill and Seth Godin in conversation. http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/writing-putting-words-to-the-music/
Continue readingThe Extraordinary Business Book Club Facebook group just hit 500 members (in fact it’s at 503 as I write). So far there’s no sign of Mark Zuckerberg bringing me champagne and flowers, but I’m sure he’s on his way. I founded the group last year as World-Changing Writers, ahead of the online summit of the same […]
Continue readingIt’s Day 5 of my 10-day business book proposal challenge, SO much great work going on in the group and some amazing titles taking shape. Today’s task was all about your author biography, and people are finding that this has benefits way beyond simply putting their proposal together. Here’s what one participant said: ‘Making this […]
Continue readingYesterday I wrote about the people at the beating heart of the book industry: publishers, writers, readers. Today I’m grateful for a different group of people altogether – my Mastermind sisters. When I left corporate life to set up my own business I expected to feel isolated. I knew I’d miss the thousand tiny day-to-day […]
Continue readingAfter the excitement of the IPG Autumn Conference yesterday, a more sober but no less interesting IPG Board Meeting today at the offices of Harbottle & Lewis, sponsors of the forthcoming IPG Independent Publishing Report. We saw some of the top-line findings reported by Nielsen’s Jo Henry at the conference yesterday and today discussed the […]
Continue readingHeading home from the IPG Autumn Conference and buzzing with a heady combination of inspiration, new ideas, old friends and red wine. But I only have time for a short blog, so from the plethora of inspiration I’ll go with Nicholas Lovell‘s closing remark, that ‘Nobody knows anything.’ Lovell is the author of The Curve […]
Continue readingThis week’s episode of the Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast features Barbara Gray, who has self-published her book Ubernomics using the Reedsy platform. There’s lots of fascinating stuff in the interview about publishing options, economics, writing, blogging and more, but one exchange really stood out for me. Barbara has a ‘library’ area on her site, […]
Continue readingTomorrow my 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge kicks off – over 10 days I’ll take a group of business people and would-be authors step by step through the proposal document, helping them to clarify their thinking about their book idea, target readership, competition and so on. I first ran this challenge in June ane while […]
Continue readingIn my day now is a 15-minute slot at around 6.25am after I’ve run to warm up, done an online bootcamp, stretched, and then sit in the garden cooling off and writing. It won’t last forever of course: pretty soon the mornings will be too chilly, dark and often too wet and I’ll be forced […]
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