The Bard Press EssaysWeek 3 – February 18, 2021 Last week, an author I know who is working on a book sent me the title and book description for his project: The Doer-Leader Dilemma: A Trail Guide Companies need their best people to grow into leaders. At the same time, no company can afford to lose […]
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The Few, The Many, and the Reality of Power Laws
The Bard Press EssaysWeek 2 – February 10, 2021 Whenever I get excited about book publishing, I inevitably end up ranting about power laws. Of course, this is made worse by the fact that few have ever heard of the power laws. So, heads around me start to nod like a class full of students […]
What Can Bestselling Books Teach Authors and Their Publishers?
The Bard Press Essays Week 1 – Feb 3, 2021 I have been wondering for years what is different about bestselling books. There are so many factors that affect the overall success of a book. Many of those factors we can’t control, but there might be just as many factors that we decide upon early when […]
Full Shelf – Page Fourteen
There are so many links I come across and there is not enough time to write longer posts about all of them. Borrowing an idea from Ben Dowdy and his Misfill feature at The Pen Addict, I have started sharing these links in a blog post with a short description about why each article is interesting […]
What it’s like to be an intern at Bard Press
This January I had the opportunity to participate in a short online internship with Bard Press. Although I worked with Todd Sattersten, the publisher, for just under a month, I was surprised by how much I learned in that short amount of time. So, I wanted to write a blog post about my experience with […]
Full Shelf – Page Thirteen
There are so many links I come across and there is not enough time to write longer posts about all of them. Borrowing an idea from Ben Dowdy and his Misfill feature at The Pen Addict, I have started sharing these links in a blog post with a short description about why each article is interesting […]
2020: The Year In Review
I wanted to end the year with a final post that pulls together everything we saw in 2020. Sales With one week left to report, Bookscan says business book sales are down 11.5%, compared with 2019. This gap had been much wider in the spring and summer months, but the fall and holiday seasons have […]
The Best Business Books of 2020
As we reach the year’s end, I wanted to share the best business books of 2020. I have been creating year end business book lists for over 15 years and I have used many different methods. Some years, it was just my favorites. When I worked at 800-CEO-READ (now Porchlight Books), we created an official […]
Full Shelf – Page Twelve – Special Edition
Welcome to a special Best of 2020 edition of Full Shelf! This week, I am going to attempt to round-up all of the 2020 best of business books lists and put them in one place. I am also going to post my meta-analysis of the big lists and what those lists collectively say about the […]
Book Review: Unapologetically Ambitious
Every business book is a behind the scenes story in some way. With CEOs, they share the story of their rise to the top. Consultants take you inside the companies they have worked with to show what handful of things made their clients successful. Business fables do the same through a fictional narrative and are […]
