Walt and I were chatting over dinner at a fancy restaurant in VT. This was shortly after he’d published his first book, Journeys on the Edge: Living a Life That…
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Ask me, there’s a reason God invented currency: place a dollar amount on the table and both parties in a transaction can understand and agree upon the value of the products or services in question. And it doesn’t matter if one person wants book writing services while the other has no interest in growing fucking tomatoes. Two random puzzle pieces do not need to click into place.
Often, it’s your story that someone really hears, that someone actually connects with for the very first time. Sometimes the scales fall from your reader’s eyes immediately, sometimes a tidbit gets tucked away only to be retrieved when the need for it arises. It’s your story that switches up the game for your reader, even if she’s heard the lesson drawn from it a thousand times before. Often it’s the hidden lesson you tossed on the page in passing that resonates the most, something that never occurred to you to be important. It’s a mysterious thing, this transference of courage and wisdom.
On Saturday, I caught sight of a book about cooking with food scraps at my friends’ vegan café in town. Surrounded by The China Study, How Not To Die, and…
Several years back, I had the huge privilege of being interviewed by Denise Brown for a column she writes in the North Star Monthly, a northern New Hampshire publication. I…
Over the weekend, I attended a copywriting workshop in Florence, Italy. If you don’t know Laura Belgray, the woman who conducted the workshop, you really should. Her emails and sales…
Walt and I were climbing in the Rockies when we decided to stop and shoot this video. We’d just spent a few hours battling despair because we’d come across yet…
I’m guilty of binary thinking: you can either have this or that, but you can’t have both. Except when it comes to writing a book for your business. Do the…
For a lot of entrepreneurs, sitting down to write an entire book on their own seems ridiculously daunting. They have no idea how they’d ever come up with that much…
