books
Recommended Reading
No one goes north this time of year, so I took a weekend off and headed up north with my son on a road trip to Door County. A whole bunch of new books were released, so the timing was perfect to catch up on some reading. Alex Van Halen’
Why would you write a book in 2023?
It doesn’t make much sense to write a book in 2023 — especially a nonfiction book. In fact, your readers would likely pay 10X as much to get the same information in a video-based course. But, for many reasons, some of us still prefer creating books over any other medium.
The Books of No Excuses
I buy books to dissect their strategies as much as to read. A sub-genre of these purchases is the “no excuses” book — a book that exists to show you why you have no excuses not to publish your next book. Kevin Kelley’s new book, Excellent Advice for Living, is
Your 3-Step Book
What if you could create a table of contents for everything you’ve posted online? How many chapters would you be proud of? I’ve done it. It’s not difficult. It’s not even as time consuming as you might think. The secret is constraints. Don’t worry about
When Pay to Play Doesn’t Pay
Seth Godin just posted about the search tax you’re paying: “Amazon took in more than $30 billion in ad revenue last year, money spent to elevate some products over others in the hierarchy of attention.” Amazon, like Google, YouTube, and Apple’s App Store are often referred to as
The Most Useful Book Cover Constraint
Love plain linen hardcovers. Wisdom without hype. pic.twitter.com/nlvHCAWcMe — Derek Sivers (@sivers) September 6, 2021 I can’t tell you how many hours and how much money I’ve spent on book cover design. But, for nonfiction, nothing beats the stamped, cloth cover. It somehow adds more weight
Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals [https://amzn.to/3CZ1xxR] by Oliver Burkeman I have to admit, this is the time management book I probably would have written myself. Is there’s anything better for your time and project management than having someone else write your book for you?
Be a Lazy Billionaire
I was inspired to start updating my oldest available book, The Van Halen Encyclopedia [https://www.cjchilvers.com/the-van-halen-encyclopedia], by a few great ideas I’ve seen from others over the past month. I thought they might inspire you too. I began by updating the book in real time on
A Lesser Photographer Gets a New Cover
I loved the work Daniel Benneworth-Gray [http://danielgray.com] did on the A Lesser Photographer [https://amzn.to/2Z1kGxB] eBook cover, so I asked him to make a version of it for the print book, and now both versions have the same awesome cover design. The new front cover of
