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Thought Readership #10: Why Savvy Authors Never Fear “Giving Away the Store”

Have you ever attended a writing workshop were one of the participants doesn’t want to publicly share their book idea because it’s so good someone is likely to steal it? Yeah, right! As avid readers of...

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Thought Readership #11: Innovation Curation: Scott D. Anthony’s “Little Black...

Innovation. Barely a day goes by without some piece of content related to that topic dropping into my e-mailbox. Are you finding that? And what about the 385 billion links that Google provides for the...

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Thought Readership #12: Three Simple Steps and The Power of Three

Consider how many things we’re familiar with that come in “threes”: Tenors. Magi. Bears. Fates. Virtues. Graces. Snap. Crackle. Pop. There is something magical about the number three, which permeates...

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Thought Readership #13: A Second in Eternity and the WIIFM Factor

In the days before the Internet and photo-sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket, and SlickPic, you could rarely escape the post-holiday season without someone inviting you to look at their vacation...

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Thought Readership #14: Toughening Up On Tighter Writing

Call me weird, but I often turn to the last few pages of non-fiction books (although never novels!) before making a decision whether or not to read them; what I find is rarely creative. Dan Pink’s...

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Thought Readership #15: #THOUGHT LEADERSHIP tweet – Why Size Matters

A while back I was playing “dueling authors” with a guy who claimed to have written 16 books (meaning he won the game!) and said he had two that he wanted to give me as gifts. Initially embarrassed...

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Thought Readership #16: Frans Johansson’s The Click Moment

There are moments in our lives that change everything. One of mine occurred in 1997 as I was taking a coffee break and flipping through a newsletter from the UK’s Guild of Health Writers. One of the...

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Thought Readership #17: Rock Your Business by David Fishof

I’ll come right out and say it: The ideas that most first-time authors’ have for their books suck. Because they’re derivative, unimaginative, and pedestrian. So it’s hardly surprising that most of...

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Thought Readership #18: 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions by...

Call me fifty shades of confused! Why is it that so many books have numbers in their titles? This question popped into my head the other day, sparked in part by the response by many independent...

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Thought Readership #19: INTO THE STORM by Dennis N.T. Perkins with Jillian B....

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Atonement, Hancock, Bonfire of the Vanities…I guess we’ve all got our “sour grapes” list of movies that should have been good, but were not. As Hollywood has long...

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Thought Readership #20: The GOODREADS Challenge

When you get to a certain age you think you’ve seen everything, right? But no, I logged onto LinkedIn recently to find a “Can you recommend me?” request from an “award winning fiction author/top...

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