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The #1 lesson when printing your book

Your first box of books arrives. You open the first copy and realise that something’s not right. Maybe it’s a typo in your introduction, the wrong diagram in Chapter 1, or you wrote a reminder to yourself about adding another case study… which somehow made it to print.Whatever the issue, you now have a big […]

Judging a book by its cover: Designing Book Blueprint

I have a mixed history with designers.You see, my significant other is a former graphic designer. Today he’s a training manager at a software company, but tends to take on a lot of design responsibilities on the side of his main role. As a result, any time I’ve wanted to create anything with a visual […]

Dry, dull and verbose: Behind the scenes of my editing journey

After quickly pumping out my book, I was feeling pretty confident. I let it sit for a week, gave it a quick read and thought, ‘This is decent.’Then I sent it to my editor, Carolyn.Four days later, I received an email:‘Your book needs quite a bit of work, more than I expected… Is there a good time […]

Why didn’t I write a book sooner? The biggest stumbling block on every entrepreneur’s self-publishing journey

One of the most valuable questions for any business owner is, ‘what can you do that will make the biggest difference in your business, right now?’In my case, I knew it was writing a book. Having worked with over 100 entrepreneurs, I’d seen the difference that writing a book made to their businesses – some became […]

Opening the kimono: Behind the scenes of my self-publishing journey

Last year I started to get a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. I’d worked with tens of entrepreneurs on their manuscripts by that stage and printed book after printed book started arriving in the mail. As my pile of client books grew, a nagging little voice spoke up in the back of […]