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!"...

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...

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...