I know a secret about writers who finish their books.

I’VE WORKED ON MORE THAN 200 BOOKS.

I've learned the difference between the authors who publish their books and those who are still floundering 3, 5, 7 years later.

Both types of authors enter the book-writing process with a half dozen or more book ideas. The flounderers start writing a book that morphs into a different book that isn’t quite the book they want to write so it meanders in yet another direction. They show up on my doorstep when they’re a few years into the process—and some never finish their book.

THE WRITER WHO FINISHES THEIR BOOK TAKES THE TIME UP FRONT TO FIGURE OUT WHICH BOOK TO WRITE FIRST.

 

This Is How I Know

These are just some of the more than 200 books I've worked on.