The Margin of Safety: Why most books flop and how to survive anyway
Build creative resilience, raise your income floor, and protect your writing career from the unexpected while planning for long-term author success.
Do fewer things better...
The hardest things to do most of the time is less, even when it's clearly better than the alternative.
The HAPI Compass framework
A simple four point system to finding alignment and giving yourself direction, designed to help you to build a successful and thriving career that nourishes you mind, body, and soul.
Stop Playing the Part of a Marketer to Sell Your Books
Build the foundation of your marketing strategy like this instead.
The Golden Age of Weird is here
Weirdness isn’t a liability anymore. It’s a career path. The more the average gets automated, the more the extraordinary stands out.
Break your biggest blocks: Craft Con highlight reel
If you are saying or have ever said anything like that, I’ve been cooking up something to help you break through your biggest blocks with my friends at Plotdrive.
WTF is Hapitalist presentation record
Everything I’ve learned about building a successful creative career, condensed into one digestible system.
The art of joyful expansion into consumables with Maggie Beeler
How to actually build a creative brand without selling your soul or drinking the Amazon Kool-Aid.
The Dresden Files paradox
How to lead your readers somewhere new without losing them
How authors can stand out by defying logic
How can you break capitalism today, even a little bit, for fun and profit? Explore how financially reckless decisions, like giving away high-value content for free, can help you succeed.
Wannabe Press Income Report - Q3 - 2025
Writer MBA, the company I spent the last several years building, has burned to the ground. Can I rise from the ashes? Yes, I can...probably.
The Best Audience Development Tips of Your Life
Cultivating visibility online as an Introvert even if you go viral.
What am I missing here?
and other questions to ask when you're blocked and can't seem to keep going.
Building an integrated sales ecosystem
Unlock a practical strategy to create an integrated ecosystem that balances different sales modalities into one sustainable business practices.
Social. Media.
The two paths of social media and why you’re failing by trying to do both
It's magic that anything works at all
A grounded, honest essay about managing disappointment in the creative life, and why success often depends on your ability to keep going when things fall apart.
The Secret No One Tells You About Success
No one tells you this when you publish your first book, but it’s not your cover, your story, or your ad strategy that determines if you’ll succeed.
Writing nonfiction that resonates so deeply people have no choice but to change
A complete guide to writing powerful nonfiction that builds reader buy-in, creates emotional connection, and actually transforms people.
Setting SMART Goals for Success
Do you have a goal, or do you have a burden? Learn how to make goals that will energize you instead of feeling like a weight dragging you down.