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Seth Godin’s Poke the Box, Doubt, and the Will to Publish

by Joel Friedlander on March 16, 2012 13 Comments

Seth Godin’s Poke the Box, Doubt, and the Will to Publish examines Godin’s manifesto in the light of self-publishing

Filed Under: Reviews, Self-Publishing Tagged With: A Self-Publisher's Companion, doubt, indie author, motivation, Poke the Box, self publishing, Seth Godin, the Domino Project

Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance by Jonathan Fields

by Joel Friedlander on September 29, 2011 2 Comments

Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance by Jonathan Fields is a book of entrepreneurship, life advice, and attentional training

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: indie author, Jonathan Fields, motivation, Uncertainty, Writing

What Self-Publishers Can Learn From Restaurant Impossible

by Joel Friedlander on August 9, 2011 7 Comments

What Self-Publishers Can Learn From Restaurant Impossible and Chef Robert Irvine’s approach to saving failing restaurants.

Filed Under: Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Marketing, motivation, publish a book, self publishing

How to Get A New Perspective—Move the Furniture

by Joel Friedlander on May 10, 2011 9 Comments

How to Get A New Perspective—Move the Furniture shows that waking ourselves up once in a while can lead to fresh thoughts and new perspectives on old issues

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: habits, motivation, publish a book, self publishing

7 Reasons Not to Self-Publish—Is This You?

by Joel Friedlander on March 12, 2010 42 Comments

Yesterday the publisher services company Lulu.com announced that John Edgar Wideman, two-time winner of the Faulkner Award for fiction, would be publishing his new collection of short stories, Briefs, Stories for the Palm of the Mind, in conjunction with Lulu’s new VIP program. Wideman has been published for years by Houghton Mifflin, according to the […]

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: John Edgar Wideman, Lulu.com, motivation, self-confidence, Self-Publishing

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