Reading time: ~2 end-of-Q3 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. Spoiler alert: I'm breaking lots of email rules in this issue: it's too long, there are too many links, etc., etc., so just hang onto it and come on back when you can pop around as it suits your fancy. To continue: I got to celebrate another trip around the sun last week. While I hear a lot of "you don't look 56!"...
8 days ago • 4 min read
Reading time: ~2 birthday-week 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 things first...Reader, The Honorée Corder Show has been out in the world for a whole week now, and I have lived to tell about it. Four episodes released, with lots of fun comments I'm enjoying reading, and Frappuccino is supervising every single edit in between cat naps. (She has notes. She always has...
15 days ago • 3 min read
Reading time: ~25 podcast launch-week seconds 🎤 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, Reader, we've finally arrived at launch week for The Honorée Corder Show. 🎤 After a year of working on it, months of "it's coming!", roughly ninety-bajillion notes, 22 interviews, a huge unexpected shift in strategy, and one launch delay, episodes one, two, and three are out in the world. If you've...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Reading time: ~2 International Literacy Day 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 International Literacy Day, Reader! It's a real thing (who knew?, it's today, and it is absolutely my kind of holiday. 📖 Before I dive in, be sure to check out my interview on RepTalk with Casey Boggs. We chat about how a book helps you to set up and manage your reputation. We also explore the...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Reading time: ~Seven* Super September minutes 🍂 *Just kidding. It's the usual 2 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. Can you believe it's September, Reader?! Last week we talked about finding someone who's where you want to be, and getting in the room with them. More on that this week, too, but first ... There's a lot to do this time of the year: it's the "2nd New Year," the 3rd...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Reading time: ~2 last-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. Last week I told you the water was two inches above my nostrils, and a whole lot of you wrote back to tell me to go take a nap. 💜 I did. I've been thinking about why I'm feeling over my skis. It's because I've said yes to too many things, and life has had other plans for my free time lately. It's fine,...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
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...
about 2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago • 3 min read