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. Just like that, it's Tuesday again. FAST! Thanks to everyone who expressed excitement about my upcoming show, followed me over on Substack, said nice things. So super cool, much appreciated. 🤞🏻 HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY The email reads, "I'm finished with the first draft of my manuscript, and I just hope my...
9 days ago • 4 min read
Reading time: ~1 quick minute 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 been hinting at some big news, and here's the first piece of it: 🎙️THE HONORÉE CORDER SHOW The Honorée Corder Show: Where Origin Stories Meet Radical Responsibility is coming soon! Overview. It will be a ~40-minute video podcast recorded at and distributed by the Cumulus Media Studios, also distributed everywhere...
16 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: ~2 meaty 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. I hope your Memorial Day weekend included a little slow, a little sun, and at least one excellent burger. 🇺🇸 🍔 Quick update: the secret project I keep teasing is now seven-ish weeks out, so this'll be short (I'm not stressed, you're stressed!). 🤣 Let's get right into it and tackle a piece of on-Amazon copy that some...
23 days ago • 3 min read
Reading time: ~2 meaty 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. First, a huge thank you to everyone who hit reply last week with your one-sentence pitch! Some were already razor-sharp (you know who you are 💪), and a handful were one sentence followed by three paragraphs of "but also, also, also..." 🤣 We're going to talk about those "but also's" today! Last week I shared a link to my...
30 days ago • 6 min read
Reading time: ~2.5 min 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 went to Vegas last week, and I'm sitting on my hands with some really fun news. Hint: go here if you LOVE '80s music, movies, etc. Now pull up a chair, because I have a quick story and a not-so-quick lesson... 📚 TWELVE AUTHORS, ONE QUESTION, NINE BLANK STARES As one would do, I was hanging out with some fellow authors...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Reading time: ~3 min 🌮 Happy Cinco de Mayo + Taco Tuesday = This is what we've been training for! Welcome back to the Weekly Book Business Brief — your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. If today involves any combination of chips, guac, salsa, queso, or a piña colada (margarita?) the size of your face: lo apruebo. It's a holiday. It's a Tuesday. Woo hoo! 🥑 Now grab your taco and pull up a chair, because today I'm talking about a huge...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Reading time: ~3 min Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the Weekly Book Business Brief — your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. Some quick insight into my life right now, because some of you have asked. A few weeks ago, my mom (who lives in a memory care facility) was in the hospital in Ohio (she's doing much better), Byron's dad is in the hospital in Louisiana (jury is out on this one, all prayers are welcome)--and we've been in both places....
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Reading time: ~2 min Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the Weekly Book Business Brief — your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. Now, let's get into it. 📚 BOOK SPOTLIGHT I've been writing books for more than two decades and I've seen an invisible force standing between aspiring authors and their books. It's the belief that "writer’s block" is a real thing. But I don't believe it is. After writing almost 70 books, there's a hill I'd die on:...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Reading time: ~2 min Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the Weekly Book Business Brief — your weekly shot of strategy, tools, and real talk for authors building a book-based business. Let's get into it. 💡 THE BOOK SOLD ABYSMALLY (TOTALLY AVOIDABLE) This one hurts to share, but I see so many authors make the mistake of being cute or clever with their titles, only to suffer the same fate as one of my books. Back in 2015, I published Business Dating. It was a book about how to be an effective...
2 months ago • 4 min read