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Work Smarter, Not Harder

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Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay

Hi. Yeah, just the other day, just yesterday actually, I did a book signing event with several other authors at a local bookstore, The Last Word Bookstore at Savage Mill. Anyway, not only did I not market it, I failed to tell anybody on any of my lists. I didn’t put anything on social media. The only thing I did was talk to some people that I happened to be with that weekend and at some other times, and that was all I did. And I thought, my goodness, what has happened to my marketing skills that I’m not doing anything.

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Publisher or Producer?

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A bit of zen wisdom for you!

I definitely had to slow down in order to get anything done. I had to slow down or I’d have burnt out entirely.

But I ran across some reading on Substack that really spoke to me that I thought I’d share.

I also made a video, which you can see here. In a week, unless you become a paid subscriber, in which case you can watch it now.

I have it up on Substack on audio only. Is it a podcast or just me talking about shit? Who knows? We’ll see.

Here’s the summary generated by Rev.com.

Speaker 1 [Me] discusses a piece they read on Substack called Poetic Outlaws, “The Solitary Art of Self-Creation” and reflects on their own life and accomplishments. They express pride in their work as an author and their journey in self-publishing, despite the challenges. They also mention a book called “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying” by Bronnie Ware, which they found impactful. The speaker shares the five regrets listed in the book and relates them to their own life experiences, including their career changes, expressing feelings, and maintaining friendships. They also mention a short film they created called “Dimed and Nickeled”.

Not perfect, but close enough. 🙂

And thanks for the plug for the movie, Rev.com. You’re awesome! 🙂

The movie will be available to free subscribers next week. So consider this a teaser, I guess!

So … do I sign up for this? 🙂

Honest to God …!

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National Book Lover’s Day

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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Today is National Book Lovers Day.

To quote from the article:

Book Lovers Day appreciates the medium that has withstood and preserved its importance in time — literature. Our love for books knows no bounds — someday we’ll write a book on it.

The modern book is made by binding paper, but before the invention of paper, books came in the form of tablets, scrolls, and engravings. Every civilization had its own way to document events. Some time in 3500 B.C., the Mesopotamians would make markings on clay tablets using a pointed device, made from the stem of the reed plant, called the calamus. These writings on the moist clay were called ‘cuneiform.’ Approximately 20,000 of these tablets were discovered in modern-day Iraq.

And here’s how books are made! By the Big Five publishers, that is. 🙂 And other publishers with huge print runs.

Of course, you could always do this. I would, but my office is so crowded, it barely holds my computer, my desk, and the growing stack of books I’ve been reviewing.

And I’m working as hard as I can to achieve this! 🙂

PS: Here’s something you might want to check out.

And don’t miss this! 🙂 Speaking of … 🙂 I wonder how many of those were written in-house.

More to come on that.

Finally, in even more interesting news.