Today I handed in to my publisher several pages of potential copy blurb + a synopsis + sample bios for me + ideas and notes on cover art possibility … but I’m still holding on to the manuscript, at least until this weekend. When you’re filming something, there’s a step before sound ...

He’s not a real person –– well, he is a real person playing a character –– but more and more my hero is this dude from a LAW & ORDER episode called Black Tie. Basically, he’s playing the best defense lawyer in NYC who is hired by a super-rich women when she’s accused of putting her di...

Although I have really taken a deep dive into Lumosity –– a website that promotes brain activity –– and through a few minutes of daily training my Brain Profile Index has doubled in the last 19 days (according to them) … tonight I had a moment of thinking, “What the hell is wrong with me?”...

In some ways, I have a pretty thick skin but in other ways, I do not at all. The Universe keeps sharing its lessons whenever I send out a mass-mailing. Four mailings ago, when I merged several old mailing lists, I heard from someone who was quite wonderful, but who wanted to rehash a transaction from 1998....

Belle and I traveled to Big Sur (after 2 early morning client calls) on 2/14/13 to be ready to marry Daniel and Lana in a magical, impromptu ceremony (involving rose petals on the ground, some toning, and staring into each others eyes) in national park. Afterwards, extraordinary dinner with the couple and ...

So last Monday, I had a BRILLIANT consult with Joanna Penn, who is a writer of mysteries and also has one of the best blogs focused on writing and publishing EVER.  I left the consult inspired (and a little exhausted) but mostly totally on fire about all the vast possibilities we had to promote my new...

According to The Urban Dictionary, the phrase OFF THE HOOK “is actually a modernization of a series of slang words. Closely related to off the chain, there refering to something being so “fresh” and “new” that its literally right off the store shelf. (started in reference to c...

I posted this yesterday on The Face Place, but this morning I re-started my fitness regime –– and intensely since I realize I have REAL deadlines approaching, like Cancun and then a book launch, where I prefer not to devolve into Truman Capote, but rather … well, can you think of a successful author ...

My last newsletter provoked a MAJOR response from my readers, really striking a chord. If you missed it –– here’s a LINK –– but in brief it told a Stephen Covey story about rocks and your priorities.  And of course, we only teach what we have to learn. Since I’ve had moments of feeling overwhel...