Comments on: I am Writing a Book

By: BH

BH — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:24:42 +0000

Hi Scott, would be glad to review your book.

By: milex86

milex86 — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:52:59 +0000

Hi Scott, I’d like to review your book… it would be a new challenge for me!!

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:22:36 +0000

Actually Max, the book is halfway finished right now and I expect to be done the first draft by June. If you want my advice, start right away. The shortest distance between now and a goal is to start now.

By: max night

max night — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:04:20 +0000

Writing a book is one of the most difficult and yet rewarding things you can do. I congratulate you on starting a 300 page book. Thanks for posting a few responses to my comments. Its not often I get to talk to people on the Internet. the last time I responded on here to your articles was a month ago. As Ive said, the anime I planned on writing will instead be a book because I feel a book will get a wider audience. Its going to be quite a tragic story, about curses and the consequences of being born with them. i hope your book will get some following because many of your articles are very helpful and reassuring to what I already apply to my life or believe. good luck towards publishing it!

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:29:14 +0000

Thanks Robin, I’ll contact you when it gets closer to a release.

By: Robin Edman

Robin Edman — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:10:04 +0000

Hi Scott,

I would be happy to review the book as well.

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:50:55 +0000

Rob,

Thanks for the info. For a number of reasons I’m going to start just by releasing the book on this website, but I’ll definitely consider trying to do an actual book deal if popularity here continues to grow.

By: Rob Donoghue

Rob Donoghue — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:35:14 +0000

I’ve worked through lulu on several projects, and if you want to keep control of the project and see more of the money go into your pockets, I have nothing but good things to say about them and their service. They’re a good choice, so big thumbs up.

But that said, your writing seems solid enough that I’m wondering why you are going that route. This is not a slam against self-publication by any stretch, but there are certain realities of distribution which are difficult to overcome. If your sole target market is to be viewers of this blog and people who accidentally stumble upon it at lulu (Love em, but their storefront is far from unified) then awesome, but that seems a limitation.

Now, for all that there are lots of good reasons I could see. That the book is being written for your sake, that the process of pitching it would be too onerous, that you actively support the POD aesthetic, that this is just a supplement to what you want to release as free content, maybe something else.

But at the end of the day, you’ve written some good stuff, and I think a book would be fantastic – I’ll certainly pick it up – and it would certainly seem to merit at least consideration for traditional distribution, even if you pull a Godin and also release it for free.

Anyway, for all that, good luck with your book!

By: Personal Development Radar - 31/03/2007 - Personal Development Ideas Blog

Personal Development Radar - 31/03/2007 - Personal Development Ideas Blog — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:25:28 +0000

[...] Scott had sent me one of the chapters of his new book, and I can see there’s a post where he shares his plan for what will be his first book. Good luck, Scott! I think you’re doing great! [...]

By: Antony Jepson

Antony Jepson — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:43:51 +0000

Hello Scott.

I would also be glad to review your book.
Just give me a shout through my email.

Antony.