Reading time: ~.25 minutes 🌅 Welcome back to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. This week's brief is extra brief because I've got some things I'm working on and I'll be honest and totally vulnerable here: I'm over my limit. The water level is two inches above my nostrils and I'm gasping for air. No need to send in a team, I've got this. But what I can't do today is write any more than this: When you...
9 days ago • 1 min read
Reading time: ~2 dog-days-of-summer minutes ☀️ Welcome back to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. Happy August, Reader! We're still "in the thick air soup" (it is SO HOT!), Mr. Corder is still declining to grill (send snacks 🤣), and our sweet Shadow has transitioned to immunotherapy and a new pain med. We're bracing ourselves for the inevitable. ❤️🩹 Let's focus on the position: Did you analyze your...
23 days ago • 3 min read
Reading time: 2+ hot & sweaty summer minutes 🍉 Welcome back to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. We've officially hit the stretch of summer where the Tennessee air feels like soup, and Mr. Corder insists it's too hot to grill (but a gal's gotta eat--what do I do?! 🤣). Seriously, I hope you're staying cool and enjoying some family and/or vacation time. My motivation level has been a little lower these...
30 days ago • 3 min read
Reading time: ~2 post-final minutes 🏆 Welcome back to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. Well. That was a final. 🏆 Whether your team lifted the trophy Sunday night or bit, hats off to what turned out to be a wild World Cup game! Mr. Corder, the fam, and I watched most of the final during Sunday family dinner, and I'm officially done with soccer stress until 2030. #whew If you got to write down your...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Reading time: ~2 Bastille Day minutes 🇫🇷 Welcome to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. Happy Bastille Day, Reader! 🇫🇷 And happy World Cup final week to those of you (like me) sneaking in what's happening with the matches around all of the real life stuff going on. Which brings me to an interesting July coincidence: 237 years ago today, a group of French citizens decided—loudly, publicly, dramatically—it...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Reading time: 2 World Cup minutes Welcome to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. Well, that was a weekend. 🇺🇸 I hope your 250th was full of the good stuff—fireworks, family, one perfectly grilled thing, and (if you're me) at least three servings of watermelon. Mr. Corder and I did a little round with the neighbors. It was super fun! And then I woke up Sunday morning thinking about what an audacious...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Reading time: 3 meaty minutes Welcome to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. A few things going on behind the scenes around here… My Show launch has been pushed to early September. I'll talk more about why in a future Brief. (And I can't wait to share about it!) Thanks for all of the health suggestions. I'm officially "mended" and back on the productivity train--beep beep! Seriously, though, I'm looking...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Reading time: 3 meaty minutes Welcome to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. A few things going on behind the scenes around here… My Show launches July 13th—three weeks! 🎙️ I'm not freakin', you're freakin'! I'm still recovering from the crud. I've officially had my first z-pac in ten (!) years, took my first steroids ever, and was wildly disappointed by the codeine cough syrup. I drank a gallon of fire...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Reading time: 1 minute; Execution time: Unknown Welcome back to the Weekly Book Business Brief—your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. I've got 10 episodes in the can of The Honoree Corder Show (coming July 13th 🤯). The Empire Builders Mastermind summer meeting is in the books. Summer has come in hot. How are you? 📸: Brittany Scarlett Stevens 🎯 MONETIZE YOUR BOOK WITH A MASTERMIND The Empire Builders Mastermind Class of 2026 summer...
2 months ago • 2 min read