4 Cold, Hard Facts

I had the opportunity to interview Ryan Sprenger last week about his publishing company, Book Rally.  If you missed it, you can listen to it by clicking here. Book Rally–a one-stop shop for book design, printing, publishing, and promotion using a crowd sourcing...
The Choices That We Make

The Choices That We Make

How much of your life do you consider blind luck, and how much do you attribute to the choices that you’ve made? Muslims are by their very nature fatalists. They believe that what is ordained is ordained; and no one but God can alter anything. Each event, small or...

I’m Back In Ireland Just In The Nick Of Time

Pull myself out of the U.S, drop myself in a totally different environment, and I’ve created for myself a clean slate. A chance to slip into a different routine, and commit to some much better rituals. Question is, where can you go to interrupt your bad habits...

I Refuse To Eat Cat Food

I just got back from Los Angeles, LA for those of you in the know.  I was attending AWP, a monster of a conference for writers, teachers, editors, and publishers. It’s sort of a big deal because there are over 12,000 people who attend, and you get to rub elbows...

Where To Go When You’re Blind

After months and months of working on a book, it’s easy to go blind to what you’ve got in hand. Especially if you’ve been going it alone without the guidance of a book coach like me. (Blatant PLUG!) You’ve been looking at the same arrangement of words for so...