by AnnSheybani | Jul 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Can I ask you a question? Why do you want to write a book? Seriously, do you even know? What’s your purpose for doing so? • To create a beautiful work of art? • To tell your life story? • To outline your message? • To serve as an expert calling...
by AnnSheybani | Feb 4, 2023 | Uncategorized, Writing
I think author Jon Corteen and his two books, The Profit Culture Formula and The Catfish Interview, offer a terrific lesson to those looking to write a book, particularly if they serve multiple avatars. You can package your content in myriad ways, but you’ve...
by AnnSheybani | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
I spent my whole life afraid to make a mistake, to take a wrong turn. I latched on to a man early on because I was convinced he had the map, that he’d get us both on the one right road. So sure I’d end up in the wrong place on my own, I followed him to Iran. Not...
by AnnSheybani | Sep 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Do you remember when you were in grade school and you had to line up in the gym and wait to get picked for a team? There you’d stand for a dog’s age as every other kid but you got chosen. Man, that feeling of not being quite good enough! Maybe you...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
OK. It’s time to dispel with a myth, one that’s going to cause you a number of problems if you persist in buying into it. Book promotion, as much as we’d all like to believe otherwise, is the job of the author. You heard me right. Now let me...
by AnnSheybani | May 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
I get the occasional irate email from those who don’t appreciate the way I greet them in my newsletters. I mean, some folks get incensed. Case in point: Ann, I am not a Lima Bean. Please don’t insult your readers. Just say, Hi, or Greeting…But...
