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...

 Our CMO Kelsey Makaiwi, Millennial podcast host and creative extraordinaire, just informed me that Google maps has a section called, “Vibe.” And it’s the first section she checks when looking to try ...

One of my favorite modern authors, Adam Gopnik, wrote in The New Yorker recently that he shares with such “creative and prolific” souls as the Brontës, Kafka, and Proust a propensity for insomnia. ...

“Thanks to the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg, social media is simply getting worse. Much, much worse.”

• Time Magazine, Jan 10, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the end of content moderat...