This is packed with everything you wish someone would tell you, straight from the mouth of someone who did it horribly WRONG and lived to publish over and over again. If you’ve ever wanted to buy a best selling author a beverage (hell, a case!) and get it straight, you want this one. Don’t let the length fool you. It’s PACKED.
The bullet list of things you shouldn’t do in Chapter 4 is worth the price of admission. But newbies will totally need the “this is how I f–d up my life following conventional wisdom” before they get there. Plus down and dirty conversations about money. How to make it and how to KEEP it. Love a man who talks money strategies to me. Love!
LOVE the contrarian advice blowing publishing myths out of the water. Including DON’T write to market. It’ll change before you get there. (Who’d you rather trust – people who write hundreds of advice books about writing, or a guy who’s knocked it out of the park earning a living writing fiction after totally plowing it into the ground listening to the “experts”?)
The narrator is fabulous. I love a good voice who fades into the background so that you’re completely immersed in the author’s words, rather than being conscious someone is reading to you. Wehrlen becomes the author’s voice so perfectly that I forgot there even was a narrator until the credits at the end. That’s perfection for me.
If you want all the down and dirty business advice and reality checks about publishers from a guy who sold big, lost it all, and made a killer comeback in the modern market, this is definitely for you. I’d much rather hear from someone who screwed up big time and will give it to me straight so I don’t. “I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.”