Archive for October, 2012

Make Your Idea Matter: how Bernadette Jiwa turned her award-winning blog into a bestselling book

I stumbled across Bernadette Jiwa‘s lovely short book, Make Your Idea Matter, via a brief mention on Seth Godin‘s blog. Bernadette is a rare talent in a special niche: she is a brand name consultant and founder of The Story of Telling. Born in Dublin, she is based in Perth, Australia which she calls “one of the world’s most isolated cities […]

I am not Seth Godin (but you knew that)

Filed as: future of work

I woke up this morning with a jolt of humility. When Seth lifts his pinkie finger, hundreds of thousands of people listen. And thousands of them put down money – if he asks them to. This happened with his recent Kickstarter campaign. He raised $40K, his goal, in the first couple of hours. His total at the end of 30 days […]

Is writing a book on your 2013 list? Go for it.

Filed as: self-publishing, writing

You may have missed my bleeps around the interwebs about the opening of Beta Author Boost. Launching a program during the Presidential debates was not the best timing. Oops. The program runs from Nov. 15, 2012 – Jan. 24, 2013. Beta Author is a unique online workshop to help you write a short, kick-ass (aka high quality) eBook in 8 weeks. It […]

Why writing a book (even a short one) is scary

Filed as: self-publishing, writing

I’m going to divert from the official line for a minute and talk about FEAR as it relates to writing a book. The official line of the publishing revolution goes something like this, “Gee whiz, now anyone can write and publish an eBook to Kindle. Hey it’s as easy as writing a blog post and hitting publish!” Ha! If only […]