When do you call it quits?

🌟What happens when the agent with whom you have a relationship turns down your first proposal AND tells you your credibility is in question? If you’re Dayna Abraham, you keep going. You write a new proposal that gets you a 6-figure book deal AND you write the...

What I’m reading now: Barnflower

In Ireland, I would sit on the couch and watch my neighbor’s grazing cows through the living room window. Each morning John’s border collie would hit the pasture and drive the herd down the hill to the milking parlor. The dog would appear again in the evening when we...

Sometimes it’s not about the money

I sell book-writing and publishing services. That means I have to market said services: highlight the potential benefits of sinking time, energy, and money into a book project as well as point out the typical stuff that gets in the way. Basically identify the gap...

Speaking of soiling your family name…

Prince’s Harry’s memoir sold 1.43M copies on release day. That M stands for million, in case you’re unfamiliar. Which is next to unheard of. Even before the shiny-covered tell-all hit the shelves, scuttlebutt abounded. And that...

Burnt to a crisp

I don’t know about you, but I feel like I skidded into the holiday season on empty. I blame it on managing a full book of business with a lot of moving parts, a major move across the pond on relatively short notice, and my exhausting tendency to people-please. I know...