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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 you’ll hear podcasts, and on my YouTube Channel. Every episode reveals the moment my guest stopped blaming and started being “cause” (not effect) in a tough situation—and what happened next!

The name. All of my other show name ideas were taken. 🤣

Why radical responsibility? It's super easy to cast blame on, well, pick one or three: parents, ex, neighbors, boss, the government, the weather, or even global warming. And I'm not saying any or all of those are without responsibility. However, knowing you are cause, and not at the effect, of life--and you *can* own every aspect of it--that's taking radical responsibility.

I've got an entirely new newsletter I'm publishing over on Substack (Issue #1 drops this Saturday, June 5th). You can find it (and like, comment, and subscribe as you desire) here: https://substack.com/@thehonoree​

What else? Tentative launch date is July 13th.

Can I help? I'm so glad you asked—you can listen, engage, and share. Stay tuned for future insight on everything.

📚 MEMOIR, PRESCRIPTIVE NONFICTION OR BOTH?

If the show's premise is interesting, it occurred to me there's already a book version of it I haven't shared about here for quite some time. This type of book is tied not only to radical responsibility but also to a question I get about publishing a memoir pretty much all the time.

For those of you wanting to write a memoir because "everybody tells me I need to write my unique and interesting story" (and all due respect, everybody is unique and has a great story), consider using your story and the lessons learned as a way to give the reader what they really want: help and to avoid avoidable mistakes. Written in the form of part memoir, part prescriptive nonfiction.

The Divorced Phoenix: Rising From the Ashes of a Broken Marriage is just such a book, with some of my own story mixed with how to choose yourself, pick up the pieces, and rebuild like a phoenix from the ashes. (Yes, it may seem much harder, but it is also much better).

While it was written for anyone coming through a divorce, the bones apply to anyone climbing out of a broken anything—a business, a partnership, a season of life.

TL;DR: Own the situation, do the work, and you come out the other side as someone you respect. 💜

To close the loop on why blend these two instead of one or the other, it's because readers look for themselves in an author's stories (specifically their own story), and sharing some applicable advice is also a welcome win.

👉 Grab The Divorced Phoenix on Amazon. (It's 53% off right now!)

Have a great week!

Honorée Corder. Author. Executive Book Producer. ​​​​​​​

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