As someone whose mood is directly linked to the weather (for better or for worse), I find myself practically skipping as I write this post…Spring is springing, people! A colony of butterflies in my brain just got their wings. And yes, I realize that sounds like I’m on drugs. A drug called Sunshine! And coffee. [...]
April 2011
If you hand me a book, the first thing I’ll do is crack it open, stick my nose right in the center of the pages and give it a giant inhale, eyes closed as I soak up one of my favorite smells in the world. I may look like a crazy person, but I don’t [...]
Now that the initial book launch frenzy has subsided, it’s time to do some Monday-morning quarterbacking on what I think went well and what I would do differently. Hopefully this is helpful to aspiring authors out there, and at the very least interesting to the rest of you! “A professional writer is an amateur who [...]
Someone asked me this in an interview the other day. It’s a perfectly fair question. I didn’t know what to reply other than,”Yeah…I guess so.” Don’t think I haven’t already asked myself this exact question a hundred times while writing, editing and promoting my book. Facing this question on a regular basis is the price [...]
Editor’s Note: Before we jump in — for those curious about how the book is doing: sales have gone up and down, but the book is holding steady at #36 in Career Guides (after peaking at #11). I’ll post a more detailed update next week. As for Amazon reviews — we’re at 49 out of [...]
“Any fool can act when everything is going right. The true test of an actor is what happens when everything starts going wrong.” –A quote that TEDxCMU host Dr. Michael ”Doc” Chemers shared with me after I delivered my speech I had the great honor of delivering the opening speech for TEDxCMU (Carnegie Melon) this Sunday — [...]
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