Book sales and “the slow death of the literary novel”
The New Statesman has a piece on "The slow death of the literary novel," and how lower advances and royalties are making it harder for authors to make a
REST in the November Leader Box
(from Twitter) Leader Box, a new monthly subscription service that selects new books about leadership, just made its first delivery. Rest is one of the first two books!
Work-life balance is about years, not days
[This is a repost of a piece I first published on Thrive Global.] When I was working on my book Rest: Why You Get More Done When You
Fortunately Basic Books’ marketing is light-years better than this
I don't know if this is real or not (I assume not), but this exchange is utterly hilarious.
Goodreads giveaway
REST will be out in just over two weeks, and to celebrate, I'm starting a Goodreads giveaway. I'll be giving away ten autographed hardcover copies of the book.
The alchemy of publishing
So this showed up in my timeline this morning: REST by @askpang came in last week! Design, #lettering and #illustration, plus inspired some changes to my creative practice.
Another thing to look for when I’m in London: Nick Littlehales’ new book on sleep
Nick Littlehales, a sleep coach who's worked with many world-class athletes and is a fellow Penguin Life author (I can't tell you how cool it is to be able to
Another book advocating doing less: Tiffany Dufu’s Drop the Ball
Well this looks interesting: Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu, a renowned voice in the women’s leadership movement,
“National Socialism in pill form:” Drugs and the ideology of perpetual work in the Third Reich
One of the images that always sticks with me when I think about the virtues of rest (and mention in my book) is that of Winston Churchill regularly
Charles Darwin on reading page proofs
it's now less than three months before REST comes out. I received a draft of the book jacket yesterday, and it looks fabulous: it's a nice warm, soothing