Reading time: 2.18 546 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, Outside my window, the jackdaws are taking a break from pulling bits of my house off my house to eat everything in the bird feeders. There are three of them and they’re working together. Occasionally a fourth joins them, but mostly it’s these three. Jackdaws are the gymbros of the garden bird world, but in a fun way, not in a mansplaining-why-I’m-deadlifting-95kg-wrong way. One is picking at the fat balls and scattering...
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Reading time: 2.14 530 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, Amidst the brown envelopes from HMRC, telling you that you’ve forgotten yet another tedious piece of official business, peeps an orange corner. But not Junk Mail Orange; it’s an orange that beckons. There’s a pattern, and it looks like something from a previous age. “Pull me out. Open me,” it whispers. The envelope has got a real stamp on it. The stamp has a picture of a dinosaur. There’s a postmark, from Cornwall. You...
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Reading time: 1.12 282 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, Did you know the dog training world is more than 61% women? I didn’t. Because to look at the people who have the most powerful platforms in that industry, you’d think it was mostly men. The people who get the speaking gigs, the big platforms, the TV interviews — they’re the ones who get the biggest paydays. And let me tell you, they are NOT necessarily the ones with the best skills. That’s partly why one of my new...
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Reading time: 4.25 1,050 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, I’m gonna need a pinny, a handmade hazel basket, and a pilgrim bonnet. Plus ample tea and cake. Because when it comes to gardening your way out of existential dread, there is a GODDAM AESTHETIC AND I WANT IT. Look. We can sit and wring our hands about the dystopian headlines that keep flying at our faces like unwanted dicpics or we can get productively angry and plant a garden. I’m lucky enough to have vegetable beds...
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Reading time: 1.21 318 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, I’ve just heard that THREE of my authors are shortlisted for the Business Book Awards and this is actual footage of me reacting to that news. I really do get this excited for my clients. MASSIVE congratulations to Laura Chamberlain for Brilliantly Bouncy and Janine Coombes for The Easy Yes, both in the Short Business Book category. And massive congrats to Ekua Cant for Your Platform Power, in the Business...
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Reading time: 1.19 310 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, Stare at the screen And watch the NASA feed And clean out the chickens And wash up the mugs And plant the courgettes And tidy the greenhouse And hoover the shoes And organise the books And tile the bathroom And read about the Beckhams And rewire the house And stretch my shoulders And sort out my wardrobe And make a daisy chain Anything, in fact, other than write the book I am supposed to be writing. This, my friend, is...
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Reading time: 1.42 401 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, I’ve been fizzing with excitement for the past couple of days reading through the intake forms from K and K who have signed up to do MicroBook Magic. A HUGE welcome to my first MicroBook Magicians! I can’t wait to see your books take shape. Both their names start with a K but this is NOT a requirement if you would like to join us too. They both have big ideas for their micro but mighty books and they both have similar...
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Reading time: 3.42 877 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, Watching the Artemis II mission over the past 10 days, and the reaction to it online, has healed something in my soul. Have you SEEN those four incredible humans? They’re bloody poets, bro. Have you seen how delighted and kind and competent they’ve been throughout? Have you seen how much they’ve hugged each other??? Turns out, we’re not turning away from tech. We’re turning away from tech bros and their endless nonsense....
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Reading time: 2.32 601 words Read this email in your browser Hey Reader, Did you know the Business Book Awards has a category for short books? It does — and I found out yesterday that three of my past MicroBook Magic authors are among the entries! The shortlist is revealed on Tuesday, so I’m currently vibrating with excitement waiting to find out if they make the cut. I’m probably biased, but each one of them deserves to win. Laura Chamberlain told me all about it on our coaching call (yes,...
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