Fresh (if you can call it that) from the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025, I’m here this week with a candid look at what we and other publishers were talking about over those three hectic days – global sales, routes to market, Amazon and its new algorithm, AI, digital library platforms, translation…Continue reading| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
‘At some point, the right to be you ends and your obligation to others begins.’ ‘Just be yourself.’ It’s the most uncontroversial advice in the world, right? Wrong, s…| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
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’At the lowest end of what a business book could be is, yes, it’s a calling card… [But] what if your book was transformational?’ Parul Bavishi – editor, former literary scout, co-founder of the London Writers’ Salon and host of the Writers’ Hour podcast – knows something about the realities…Continue reading| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
‘ Nobody cares about you until you show that you understand their problem, their situation, and you care about them.’ As a former international speaker bureau owner, Maria Franzoni know…| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
‘You need to kind of kick off this persuasive chain reaction and enlist people to the cause of your book.’ In the book trade, James Spackman is known as ‘The Pitch Doctor’. From an illustrious start to his career in the post room at Bloomsbury to sales, marketing and agency…Continue reading| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
When she started her first job reporting on farming, trying to work out how to move into interior design, Sally Percy had no idea she’d forge such an extraordinarily successful careeer as a business journalist and author. But the lessons she learned in her earliest days – how to write…Continue reading| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
People who write business books – at least, business books worth reading – tend to think a little differently. This ‘Best Bits’ episode features a formidable line-up of disruptors, each…| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
‘I see confidence as something that’s rooted in how we feel before any words, something which touches on sensations.’ What do you think of when you think of sports coaching? Elite lean performance machines preparing to break records? Mike Porteous has competed and coached at elite level as a triathlete,…Continue reading| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
“How do you want your book to make people feel? Start with the feeling and then work your way backwards.” When you’re all about creativity, social justice and empowering individuals to transform pain into positive action, how do you design a book launch that reflects that? Kerry Tottingham rejected the…Continue reading| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
What does a good working life look like in the 21st century? Dr Hilary Cottam, OBE has spent the last five years exploring this question through collaborative workshops she calls ‘imaginining…| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
‘Our definition of success has led us to a place that’s actually constrained us from exploring what we’re capable of. We’re not getting the innovation or the collaboration t…| The Extraordinary Business Book Club
