I had an interesting conversation today with a fellow-runner today about cutural norms in different countries. One that particularly came to mind was escalator etiquette on the London underground, which is a particular obsession of mine. I am one of those people who get irrationally enraged at people who stand on the left – a […]
Continue readingThis week in the This Book Means Business Bootcamp we’re focusing on how you can use the process of writing your book to build your professional network (and indeed use your professional network to write your book – nice bit of bilateral symmetry). I love this week’s task as it always creates so many ‘aha’ […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is over at BookMachine – reflections on my conversation with Guy Kawasaki. https://bookmachine.org/2017/02/15/24365building-the-book-in-public/
Continue readingI usually do Extraordinary Business Book Club interviews by Skype, but today I drove the 45 minutes or so to Liphook, deeper into Hampshire, to meet Ross Lovelock of Scquare. Despite the lovely leafiness of Liphook, or maybe because of it, the internet is apparently dial-up slow. So we sat in Scquare’s meeting room overlooking […]
Continue readingIn the This Means Business Bootcamp this week one participant raised the knotty issue of imposter syndrome. She made the insightful point that in answering the hypothetical critic standing over her shoulder as she wrote, demanding to know what right she had to voice that opinion, she ended up putting in ‘waffle’ – qualifying words […]
Continue readingI spent a very enjoyable hour or so this morning with Susan Heaton-Wright: former opera singer and now executive voice coach, and a fellow podcast host. I interviewed her for my podcast and then she interviewed me for hers – Superstar Communicator. I know that sounds ridiculously meta, but it was actually fascinating to come […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is over at BookMachine – Draw me a picture: Why books are becoming more visual. ‘We’re wired for pictures. Most of the information our brain processes is visual and we’re good at processing it really fast because we’ve been doing it for millions of years and our survival has historically depended upon it: […]
Continue readingMy online bootcamp for graduates of the proposal challenge begins tomorrow, and you can almost taste the anxiety and excitement in the group. Suddenly it’s just got real: having crystallised their vision for their book in the proposal, now it’s time to step up and start writing. One of the comments that participants in […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is a guest post over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/drawing-book-idea/.
Continue readingI am hiding in the Cotswolds. I have run away from home. After two years of trying, I’ve discovered that it is next to impossible for me to write my own book in my own house, surrounded by client work, family, a dishwasher that needs unloading, and a million other potential distractions. So far I’ve […]
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