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Geez, I wish I would have written the below post on being creative, but alas it was written by a briliant fellow, Hugh MacLeod, who also does those funky business cards you’ve seen somewhere and tons of other creative renderings.
And while this post is some 3 years old - it’s still one of the best [...]

One of my favorite authors was killed on Monday in a car accident. David Halberstam was truly a revolutionary journalist and writer and he will be missed. Roy P. Clark of Poynter.org wrote a very good piece on him here.

B.L. Ochman has a great treatise on how to pitch to bloggers. Pay attention to it - it’s a very good primer on what bloggers need to perhaps cover your books, your music, your art or even your navel. (Yes, there are blogs dedicated to belly button topics.)
Don’t be afraid to pitch to bloggers, really [...]

This week, I had the great pleasure of talking to an award-winning photographer today about how to stay inspired as an artist and I had the wonderful opportunity to see Isabelle Allende speak about writing as a revolution.
Why is it important to you?
Because many of us, somehow become stuck in our profession or what we’re [...]

Here’s a superb interview with author and blogger John Moore on Starbucks and marketing.

1. Hi John - your Changethis.com manifesto "What Must Starbucks Do?" and your book "Tribal Knowledge" are garnering much buzz. Can you give a brief background on your role at Starbucks and from whence you came?

My Starbucks career began in 1994 when [...]

Yo-Yo Ma: Nothing great ever produced in isolationMercury News wire services
Excerpted Article: "The notion of cultural purity is a dead end, said famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who was born in Paris to Chinese parents and came to the United States as a child prodigy.
Ma’s internationally recruited Silk Road Ensemble involves instruments such as Indian sitars, [...]

If you’re on the fence about whether or not you have enough expertise or knowledge to write a book, the only way to really know is to get the hell off the fence and start writing! To aid you  - here are the "top ten reasons you should write a business book."
1. You have [...]