Bookpile: September 2011
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art– Totally weird because Seth references this book in the one of his I read below. I picked it up because of someone else’s recommendation and had finished it by the time I read Seth’s book. This is a fascinating read, treating comics as an academic…
Dealing with blog overload
As I sit here, I have tabs open to edit posts for seven different blogs. Seven. Oh, and I have a few more that I’m just not trying to guilt myself into working on at the moment. At least three active, a couple dead and probably a few others I’ve…
Wishing and hoping and thinking and … getting nowhere
You won’t get him Thinking and a-praying, wishing and a-hoping ‘Cause wishing and hoping and thinking and praying Planning and dreaming his kisses will start That won’t get you into his heart Wise words from Dusty Springfield, folks. She understood that it takes action to get what you want. Been…
Bookpile: August 2011
Read This Before Our Next Meeting – My friend Al has a book! Go, Al! I actually was on the pre-release list (so the book was sent to me free in hopes of a review) and had it read by the day it came out. In reality, I had it…
Waiting for the magic that’s never coming
Giving out more free and vague marketing advice to people wanting to copy my hire a boss concept. The most common thing I say? I had magic (AKA Seth Godin) on my side. You can’t build a marketing plan around that. My success is deceiving. (Well, the speed of it,…