14 tips for writing a book in 29 days… and then doing it again the next month

NOTE: This post is for writers. If you’re not a writer, you may choose to skip this one… but come back soon, because you’re going to love my next post.

Last month, I wrote about how I took my book Fat Vampire from raw idea to publication in 29 days.

Then, last night, just four weeks later, I published the sequel: Fat Vampire 2: Tastes Like Chicken.

Now, maybe that seems … Continue Reading

11 Ways to be stupidly effective

Last week, I ran a post about how I took a book from idea to publication in less than a month. I got a lot of comments and emails about that post, all of them very flattering and many asking for more detail. The question underlying all of those emails and comments, however, was, “But… how did you actually do that?

And again, that’s a very flattering question because it implies that … Continue Reading

From idea to publication on Kindle in 29 days

I just published a new horror/humor book called Fat Vampire. It’s about a man who gets turned into a vampire and finds himself in a society filled with “perfect vampires” and has to fight for his life (undead life?) through prejudices that label him unfit to be what he has become. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Etcetera.

That’s not the reason you should care about this post, though. The reason you should care — … Continue Reading

How Chachi got his groove back (and what it means for you and your dreams)

Meet my buddy, Charlie Clausing.

I’m apparently the only person to call him “Charlie.” To just about everyone else, he’s “Chachi,” as in “Joanie Loves.” That means his relatives call him that, his old friends call him that… and all the people who know him as an artist call him that. But we’ll come back to the artist thing in a minute.

Back in 2000, when I was 24, when I was fresh out … Continue Reading

I’m looking for a few good men and women

Last week, I released my manifesto, How To Be Legendary: A Realistic Guide to Being the Superhuman You’re Supposed To Be.

To say its reception was “good” would be a gross understatement. People downloaded it to the tune of hundreds of copies per hour, shared it with their friends, tweeted quotes from its pages, and sent me a lot of great feedback and thanks, for which I’m really, really grateful.

What I said … Continue Reading