David Hancock is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author, and the founder of Morgan James Publishing. As the founder of Morgan James Publishing, David was selected for Fast Company Magazine’s Fast 50 for his leadership, creative thinking, significant accomplishments, and incredible impact on the industry over the last ten years. I wanted … Read more
One of the staples of the modern music world is the “Greatest Hits” album. When an artist has been around for a while, and they’ve had at least a few hits, it’s customary for their record company to release a new album that re-packages all those hit songs. Have you ever thought about the work … Read more
What do powerful words look like? When you think of powerful words, you probably imagine Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address, or JFK giving a speech about America’s mission to go to the moon. Or maybe you imagine an author like Maya Angelou talking about how she overcame a difficult childhood. But powerful words aren’t … Read more
Edward Gibbon was one of the most famous historians of all time. As the author of the six-volume set, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he showed the world that history could be informative and entertaining, all while making the ancient world accessible to the contemporary reader. Gibbon was born … Read more
If you’ve been listening to my podcast for a while, then Jennifer Harshman is no stranger to you. She has been a guest a few times before, and each time she’s shared lots of wisdom about productivity and writing. Jennifer is the owner of Harshman Services, an agency that provides editing and other services to … Read more
What causes some writers to be successful and not others? Is it talent? Opportunity? Or just plain old luck? That’s what many people believe. When they see a writer who is successful, they attribute it to chance. They assume that if you bloom, it means you happened to get planted in a good garden, and … Read more
Every writer talks about wanting success, but what does success actually mean? How do you measure it? Is it even a worthy goal in the first place? Those are all valid questions, but they’re not the questions we should be asking first. The great physicist Albert Einstein gives us some great guidance here. He said, … Read more
My guest today is Karen Anderson, and she imminently qualified to talk about what it means to be successful as an author. She is a Strategic Book Coach and Associate Publisher for Morgan James Publishing (full disclosure: I am a proud literary scout for Morgan James!). Karen is also a nationally published author, a co-author … Read more
As writers, we have a lot of different ways to measure success and failure. More often than not, the first place we look for validation is from external sources. Were we as successful as that other writer? Did the client hire us for that gig? Did our book launch go as planned? Do our social … Read more
A common problem among writers is that we often do not prepare. We tend to look at writing as a mainly creative endeavor, instead of viewing it as a project that should be managed. In practical terms, this means you need to plan in three different ways if you are going to be successful in … Read more