To my great amusement, I read an article recently about how Silicon Valley tech workers are increasingly leaving handwritten notes in driverless SF taxis.

Some are love letters. Others are job posti...

Have you ever dreamed of standing on stage, watching a line of people—some with tears in their eyes—waiting to connect with you after your talk? There's truly no feeling quite like it. As authors, we ...

I follow a fantastic Substack for authors called The Creative Shift by Dan Blank. Please subscribe!

Recently, Dan covered the controversy surrounding Mel Robbins’s bestselling book, The Let Them Theo...

How do you cope with the spiraling madness of today’s world, with its monthly climate catastrophes, insane news headlines, and the emergence of an AI reality we don’t even know how to comprehend?

A f...

My fabulous friend Jordan Reeves, a founding member of The Story Cure online storytelling community, recently sent me this video of Dr. Becky speaking to students at Duke University. 

If you aren’t f...

I’ve had coaching clients ask me about using AI to do scientific research, so I was excited when I read about OpenAI’s new “Deep Research” feature in the New York Times. 

“It can do complex research ...

I just got an email from the Women In Publishing Summit (WIP) recommending that authors invest in paid editorial book reviews from Chanticleer.

Some snooping on the internet reveals that this is, ind...

 I’ve never followed Tony Robbins before. But a book coaching client asked me to watch a short portion of his most recent virtual personal empowerment event, The Time to Rise Summit, and to my great s...

 Apparently, there’s a dispute raging in the publishing industry right now: To Blurb or not to Blurb?

These days, the Big 5 (the traditional New York imprints like Simon & Schuster and Randon House) ...

 Apparently there’s a new trend: Therapists prescribing reading for therapeutic purposes.

Of course, humans have sought solace, escape and education in literature for centuries. For me, reading books...

We’re all so conscious of the political divide in today’s world. Friendships and families torn apart. And many of us heart-centered types would love to see greater reconciliation and mutual understand...

 I’ve written before about Author’s Equity, a new publishing imprint launched by Big 5 industry veterans and backed by James Clear and Tim Ferris. Their fantastic model is to share not 10-15%, but rat...