Book Marketing

How to Write Gooder

Always avoid alliteration. Be more or less specific. Be consistent. Don’t be redundant. Don’t be superfluous. Don’t repeat. Exaggeration is a zillion times worse than understatement. Head off cliches like the plague. Never ever generalize. Prepositions are not to be used to end a sentence with. Exaggeration is a zillion times worse than understatement. Never […]

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Going to the Library Gives a Big Kick

Here are a few notes I shared on my social networks today. But I thought they were important enough to share here as well. Going to the library gives people the same kick as getting a $2,282 raise according to a study by the UK’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport. Going to the library […]

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Do Epic Terrifying Unheard of S**t!

Go forth and be a force of the awesome. Do epic, terrifying, unheard of shit. Click To Tweet Wherever life takes you, leave the place shaking, disrupted and trying to imagine what it was like before you came. Be a force for change. For pondering. And re-pondering. For love and the belief in the good […]

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Teach Them to Long for the Endless Immensity of the Sea

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry You have to teach people to long for the thing you want them to do. You […]