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The half-life of relevance (and why panicking won’t save you)

The half-life of relevance (and why panicking won’t save you)

by AnnSheybani | Mar 27, 2026 | Life, Writing

Walt and I have this conversation probably once a month. Who was that woman — the one who wore purple and taught people to sell from the stage? Where’d she go? We genuinely cannot remember her name. And here’s the thing: a few years ago, she was...
I bought a cottage in Ireland. You can write a damn book

I bought a cottage in Ireland. You can write a damn book

by AnnSheybani | Mar 23, 2026 | Life, Writing

Have you put your book dream on the back burner because you can already think of ten reasons it won’t work? I was watching a fox and her two kits bound across the field one morning as Walt and I drank our first cup of coffee. In the upper pasture, a herd of...
The Door of Confusion (and why I won’t let you walk away from it)

The Door of Confusion (and why I won’t let you walk away from it)

by AnnSheybani | Mar 16, 2026 | Writing

She walks into our first call with a story that could stop traffic. I’m not going to share the details here because they’re hers, but trust me when I say she’s lived something that most people only read about — and survived it, came out looking like...
The guy who couldn’t write his book because he was too busy choosing how to write his book

The guy who couldn’t write his book because he was too busy choosing how to write his book

by AnnSheybani | Mar 9, 2026 | Writing

I have a client — well, sort of a client — who I’ve been talking to since last September. And when I say talking, I don’t mean a quick 20-minute Zoom. I mean long, sprawling two-hour conversations that kicked off in the fall, meandered through the...
That tell-all you’re dying to write? Read this first.

That tell-all you’re dying to write? Read this first.

by AnnSheybani | Mar 2, 2026 | Reading, Writing

I’d heard about Careless People long before I finally cracked it open in the airport. It had been sitting in my Kindle alongside all the other fantastic books I swore I’d eventually get to. But once I started the memoir, I couldn’t put it down. Which was...
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