From the archive! 🗃
In episode 265 Alison Jones chatted to Grace Marshall about how productivity isn't just about efficiency and how she shifted her focus to starting a new conversation about struggle 👉🏻 extraordinarybusinessbooks.com/episode-265-st…

“You have to get in front of what you’re writing. You have to look at it and you have to type a key. If you don’t, it’s just not going to happen.”

Errol Doebler knows a thing or two about discipline. He’s been a Naval Surface Warfare officer, Navy SEAL officer, FBI special agent…

‘It’s an uncomfortable struggle to... land that sharp, sticky center of the life brief, but it is so worth it.’
Thanks @BonnieWan for a fabulously insightful and honest conversation on #writing , #branding , #books and, well life.
extraordinarybusinessbooks.com/episode-397-th…

“Unless you have a way to differentiate, then you don’t really have any sort of justification for putting out yet another book.”

There’s not much Josh Bernoff doesn’t know about writing business books. And he knows that differentiation is everything. Whether it’s your unique…

'Whether you’re looking for a read with real ROI or busy writing your own business or self-development book, this is your place and these are your people.'
Finally made it to #substack with The (all-new) Extraordinary Business Book Club newsletter - subscribe for all things…

Only 2 years after I decided to go ahead with this... The (all-new) Extraordinary Business Book Club newsletter open.substack.com/pub/extraordin…

I so enjoyed my chat with Alison Jones on the Extraordinary Business Books podcast. Listen and get some amazing tips on writing your self-help book! extraordinarybusinessbooks.com/episode-386-ho…

Excited to be at #cheltlitfest with Lucy Ryan (wearing my #RevoltingWomen T-shirt): before that though How to Read a Tree with Tristan Gooley.

Being asked questions in this interview made me realise things that I didn't know I knew! Alison Jones is a great interviewer and so knowledgable about just about every #businessbook topic. extraordinarybusinessbooks.com/episode-384-mo… Pearson Business, Economics & Law Professional Books

Oh I LOVE this most recent Amazon review of #ExploratoryWriting : 'I was struggling to get off to sleep recently. I was worried about a situation with one of my clients and my head was just getting fuller and fuller of how 'disastrous' the situation was and how I had really messed…

Very excited to be here at Association for Project Management’s #WIPM conference - come and say hello and find Tam Watchorn’s Change Ninja Handbook and other great Practical Inspiration Publishing titles at 30% off!

“What matters most is that we publish books we believe in, well.” - Mary Cannam, Faber Books #ipgac
*applauds wildly*

Early example of purpose-driven leadership in publishing - the early days of Faber Books. Thanks for sharing this Mary Cannam! #ipgac

I am in Cam Lennon’s Amazon sales breakout at #ipgac and I am so glad he’s moved to Q&A now because my hand cannot cope with any more note-taking. Outstandingly practical and useful session. 👏

Lots more to learn on AI and its application within #publishing today at #ipgac but George Walkley ‘s summary is probably the distillation of it all: experiment intelligently.

Now it’s George Walkley with the first of his approx 86 sessions today on the ‘blistering’ pace of adoption of and investment in #AI and the implications for authors and publishers. #ipgac

We are here! #ipgac 2023 kicking off in the safe hands of Oliver Gadsby Who’s here?

Hosted a 2-Hour Reading Party last night!

If you're introverted, it's a great way to meet new people and discover awesome books.

Here's how to host your own 2-hour reading party:

1) Set up an event page using Partiful (it's free).

2) Pick a 2-hour time slot on a weekday like…

'I have too many books for my shelves, but that's the SHELVES' fault, not the books...' (In reference to cookbooks on BBC Radio 4's #TheKitchenCabinet this morning, but has wider applicability, I feel....) #nosuchthingastoomanybooks

If this wasn't on your want-to-read list already, do yourselves a favour and add it to your piles asap! 🙌🏻

Dr Lucy Ryan is starting a revolution. Are you joining?

Out on the 5th of September. Order your copy here: lnkd.in/ePNTDprc