The 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge starts on Monday, and the Facebook group is already pretty busy. One of the tasks the challengers will be working on next week is creating a synopsis of their book, which is fearsome hard, so I decided to get them limbering up today by asking: ‘How are you feeling […]
Continue readingAre you still waiting for the secret of success, productivity, happiness? A significant – and significantly profitable – section of the publishing industry is given over to books promising to make us better versions of ourselves. I’ve now interviewed several of the authors in The Extraordinary Business Book Club. And what’s astonished me is how […]
Continue readingThere’s a particularly extraordinary interview on this week’s Extraordinary Business Book Club, as you’d expect for the first week of a new year. David Taylor, The Naked Leader, is one of the world’s top leadership coaches and management thinkers. What’s extraordinary about that? Well, it’s just that he doesn’t act or write like a high-flying […]
Continue readingI’m a big fan of Reedsy, the publishing professionals online marketplace. I was on the panel of judges that awarded them the 2016 Quantum Innovation Award (against some VERY stiff competition) – we were impressed by the way they serve both the new indie author community and traditional publishers so effectively, a neat trick which […]
Continue readingOne of the first episodes of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast featured an interview with Michael E. Gerber talking about one of the most extraordinary business books of all time – The E-Myth Revisited. So it feels very appropriate that we end 2016 with Michael talking about his new book, Beyond the E-Myth: The Evolution of an Enterprise: From […]
Continue reading‘It was really useful. I came away with two or three ideas for a book and I’m clearer now about which one I’m going to pursue first and how it fits with my business.’ That was Glenda Shawley, speaking after the Year of the Book workshop back in January. She’d just spent an afternoon with […]
Continue readingMy kids still love being read to. Even the 13-year-old. They’re perfectly capable of reading books for themselves these days – and do, voraciously – but there’s still something wonderful about the ritual of reading together. Picture books are designed to be read aloud, and the best, like Julia Donaldson’s, have a music and rhythm […]
Continue readingWhen I interviewed Michael E. Gerber for the podcast on Tuesday, I went into the conversation better prepared than almost any other interview I’ve ever done. Not only had I read the book (it’s a short, readable book, my favourite kind) but I’d listened to an audio trailer while I was fixing lunch the day […]
Continue readingIt’s the season of dreadful cracker jokes, so in the spirit of ‘When is a door not a door?’* here’s a festive riddle for you: Q: When is a book not a book? A: When it’s a series. OK it’s a rubbish joke, but the point is very serious. One huge mistake that first-time authors […]
Continue readingI’ve just finished one of the most moving interviews I’ve ever conducted on The Extraordinary Business Book Club. Last year I ran an online summit – World-Changing Writers – and one of the many stellar book folk I interviewed was Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth series. (When I left coprporate life to set […]
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