Behind the Book: Selling on eBay
I started in 2003 when eBay was still a digital garage sale, and made twenty-five thousand dollars in a year clearing out my own closets. That eBay is gone, so the 2015 book needed rewriting.
Tag: Relationships
Marriages under strain and the coaching that helps, including an approach that treats a crisis like one.
Business BooksBehind the Book: Networking Without the BS
A system went down on a Friday night and I discovered that twenty years in the industry had produced nobody I could call. I sat in an empty office surrounded by broken computers and worked out what was missing.
Digital TransformationBehind the Book: The Birth of the Augmented Human
The Death of Thinking is the diagnosis and this is the answer, following the same twelve people down the path they did not take. The practices are small, they compound, and they are what I do.
Character DevelopmentBehind the Book: The Relationship BULLSHIT Men Fall For
I wrote this for specific friends who could not work out why relationships kept going wrong. The credential behind it is not on the sales page: eight years photographing performers meant thousands of hours of unguarded conversation with women backstage,…
Character DevelopmentBehind the Book: Complications
Complications was a deliberate turn away from my usual military and science fiction. Here is why I set out to write a book women would enjoy, and what it taught me.
Fantasy FictionScience Fiction and Fantasy Romance Writer’s Handbook
Speculative romance is not ordinary romance with special effects. It works when the supernatural or futuristic element amplifies a character's psychology
For Executives & ProfessionalsAnthony Markey: Everybody Is Worth a Coffee
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
FebruaryValentine’s Day
Valentine's Day is February 14. Why the love letter is a lost art, why writing about love is so hard, and how to say it in your own words instead of a card's.
For Executives & ProfessionalsThe System Crashed on a Friday Night. I Had Nobody to Call.
A complete failure, millions on the line by Monday morning, every vendor number unanswered. Twenty years in the industry and not one person I could call.
Book ReviewsPride and Prejudice
The sparring of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy across class and pride, in a perennially beloved comedy of manners, courtship, and self-knowledge. Wit, irony, and psychological precision have kept it fresh for two centuries. A near-perfect social novel and a…
Grief and LossRon Sukenick Tribute Page
A tribute to Ron Sukenick, founder of The Relationship Strategies Institute, author of Networking Your Way to Success, and master of the giver's philosophy of networking.
Book ReviewsWuthering Heights
A Gothic novel of extraordinary intensity and psychological depth, built on a remarkable nested structure and a fusion of wild landscape with wilder passion. Deliberately dark, populated by intentionally unlikable characters, and emphatically not the love story it is so…