Reading time: ~2 spooky-season 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. Hi Reader! Last week I asked you to grab 15 minutes and a blank page and map every way your book could make money… and to circle the one you keep saying you'll get to "someday." 👀 Yes, I think I'm talking to you! It's October, the month for facing the things that give us the heebie-jeebies. So let's face...
7 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: ~2 spooky-season 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. Hi Reader! Last week I asked you to grab 15 minutes and a blank page and map every way your book could make money… and to circle the one you keep saying you'll get to "someday." 👀 Yes, I think I'm talking to you! It's October, the month for facing the things that give us the heebie-jeebies. So let's face...
9 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: ~3 empire-building 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 I'm hosting a special in-person Empire Builders Mastermind session here in Nashville. Normally, October is a virtual meeting but sometimes ya just gotta get together and strategize, right? Right! Speaking of EBM, its been hanging out at the bottom of this newsletter for the past several weeks. This...
14 days ago • 3 min read
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!"...
21 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...
28 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months ago • 3 min read