by AnnSheybani | May 20, 2024 | Writing
If the title is powerful enough, it doesn’t matter what’s in the book. Maybe you’ve heard this said. Everything Men Know About Women proves this theory because that book has sold more than 750,000 copies and its 120 pages are … blank. Coming up with a strong title for...
by AnnSheybani | May 13, 2024 | Reading, Writing
Years ago, and I mean yearssssss ago, Walt and I attended a Brendan Bruchard conference. That’s where we recognized that we could create a business out of just about anything we pulled out of our backends. I mean, we met people who were making money doing the most...
by AnnSheybani | May 6, 2024 | Writing, writing lessons
As much as we’d like them to, our readers don’t tend to remember strings of concepts, statistics, or cold, hard facts. Especially page after page of them. The best way to make information sticky is to tell them a story, to deliver the necessary points, at...
by AnnSheybani | Apr 28, 2024 | publishing, Writing
I run into writers who do not understand the publishing world AT ALL. Take the nice person who commented on this video. If it’s taking you two years to get published–and I’m not talking about the traditional production process, which feels like...
by AnnSheybani | Apr 21, 2024 | Writing, writing lessons
Have you written a complete draft of a book, one with tons of bugs still in it? Are you wondering what comes next; what you’re supposed to do, specifically, during revision? If you’ve written a book that doesn’t require a narrative arc—motivational, self-help, or...
by AnnSheybani | Apr 15, 2024 | Reading, Writing
In this Instagram video, the authors Ryan Holiday and Robert Greene discuss the true sense of fulfillment that comes from sinking your focus into a long-term book project instead of seeking a splashy insta win. Robert Greene is best known for The 48 Laws of Power a...
