Books That Matter to Pam Slim
Ever yearn to break out of your work cell? I have the book for you, Escape from Cubicle Nation. Once you break out of that cell, do you yearn to find the “thread that ties your story together”? I also…
Does Your Manifesto have integrity?
Don’t Just Ship It In the past 8 or so years, corporate manifestos, entrepreneur manifestos, and creative entrepreneur manifestos have popped up in many places. Some of them seem true. Many feel derivative. Manifestos are provocative mission statements (1). Numerous Internet…
Books That Matter to Martha Frankel
A writer can dream, can’t she? Martha Frankel dreams big and then lives it. In her own words: “Here’s how lucky I am: I got addicted to internet poker, lost a fortune, but then sold a book about it. And my family…
Fabled Stories of Publishing
2014 might be the year you create a book that matters. I hope so. We need books that change our minds and change our lives. We need stories that expand our imaginations and expand our hearts. My small team and…
Books That Matter to Michael Bungay Stanier
Books change our world views and spark revolutions, inside and out. [Tweet this] Books awaken what’s dozing. Books crack open our hearts and our lens of possibility. Books matter. Today marks our first feature for the second annual Books That Matter series. Books That…
17 More-Than-Manifesto Reminders to Help You Live the Quest
Certain tenets ink my brain like lines from a resonant poem or song. They define who I am and keep me centered when I feel like I’m veering off-track. These tenets arise from lived heart expansion and heart explosion, from…
Women, Speed, & Other Publishing News
To flourish in the publishing life as a thought leader or artisanal author, know the book biz and know your options. Easier said than done, right?
6-Word StoryQuest Writing Contest Winners
Take your novel, memoir, trade nonfiction book, your creative mess-in-the-works, your business brand identity, and distill it into 6 words. It’s not easy. As more than one person has observed, coming up with ideas is easy. Keeping them simple is hard…
Loners and Lovers: Advice for Creatives
In college, I ogled over a smoky black-and-white photograph of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In their book-flooded study, Jean-Paul sits at his desk on one end of the room, and on the other side Simone sits at hers….
The Art of Wandering for Writers & Business Artists
“I was cultivating stupidity.” That’s what Andre Dubus III said when he wrote his first memoir, Townie. The son of a prominent short story writer, Dubus had met success as a novelist, the least of his successes being that The…
