Your Book Has a Signature Speech Hiding Inside It Aloha Reader, Last week, we talked about why the conversation around your ideas shouldn’t begin and end with your book. Your book gives you stories, concepts, and frameworks worth sharing and those ideas should travel. Today, I want to talk about one of my favorite ways to help them travel: a signature speech. I might be a little biased about this one. I started competitive public speaking (speech & debate) in middle school and continued...

A Book Is a Terrible Place to Hide Your Best Ideas Aloha Reader, There’s something I’ve noticed after years of working in the publishing industry: too much pressure is put on books to be the finish line. Authors spend months, or even years, figuring out what they want to say. They refine the stories, organize the ideas, and finally find the language for something they may have spent a career learning. Then the book comes out and everyone celebrates! The author shares the Amazon link with...

He went looking for the mother he'd never known. What he found is the heart of this book. Aloha Reader, I want to tell you about a book, An Orphan’s Journey Home, which we just finished working on in collaboration with a fabulous author, Bill Steen. I haven't been able to stop thinking about his story since we finished it. Bill was orphaned in West Germany in 1955, when he was nine months old. He spent his first years in a children's home, and then an American Army family adopted him, which...