Hack writers will be replaced by AI. If your ideas are pedestrian and your writing is boring, you may as well give up. All the more reason to stand out. Bold authors get noticed. Timid, workaday writers don’t. And if you don’t get noticed as a writer, you won’t accomplish your goals. There are basically…
Are you trying to decide which of several book ideas is best for you to spend your time on? If you’re in this position, you need to determine which potential book will best advance your career. In what area do you want to be known as an expert? Are you solving a big problem for…
I’m grateful to the hardworking podcasters and video creators who’ve been interested enough in my book to interview me. These are some of the most creative and best-prepared thinkers out there, working hard to come up with new perspectives that will benefit their listeners and viewers. Here’s a short list of unique interviews I’ve just…
If you missed my Webinar with Amplify Publishing last week, you can now see it on YouTube. It’s here and also viewable below. In conjunction with the Webinar, Amplify is now offering a 20% discount, which will typically save you $5.99, on purchases of Build a Better Business Book. Buy here; at the top of…
In December, I told you I had prostate cancer. In February, I let you know I had completed radiation treatments. After treatments, it takes three-plus months for your body to settle down enough that they can test and see if the treatments worked. That’s happened now, and according to my latest blood test, I’m basically…
When I updated my site, I updated the contact form. Now you have to check “I am not soliciting advertising, contributed articles, or links on this site” or you can’t submit the form. So the morons doing link-farming for contributed articles (which I have never accepted) check that box and then solicit me anyway. Here’s…
Yup. COVID finally got me. I’ve attempted to lead a boring, well-vaccinated life so far, and it worked — until I got on a plane with 200 other people flying back from Scotland. Between a five-hour layover and a two-hour delay, my wife and I were wiped out. So we let our guard and our…
I’m assembling a crack team of regular readers and prospective authors who’d like to participate in the launch of my book Build a Better Business Book over the next two months. What you get: insider perspectives on what’s happening, early access to content, and camaraderie with fellow authors on the same quest, and, within reason,…
I set out to help authors. Fifteen years and 50 books later, I keep hearing the same questions — about everything from how to create ideas to how to select a publishing path to how to do book promotion. So I put everything I knew in one place: my new book Build a Better Business…