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Status On My Next Book

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Well my next book – which is really more of a booklet  – is out of editing.

My plan is to take some of my past Fan To Pro columns on job searching and improve and enhance them to form a tight guide to oddities on the job search.  It’s gone pretty well, and I expect to be publishing sometime in November.

I’ve had great feedback from my pre-readers and I think it’ll be very useful for folks on the job search, especially those who want to try and get out of a rut or take their job search skills a bit farther.  I’ll probably be pricing it pretty cheaply as an e-book.  Not sure I want to do a physical book, but more on that later.

It’s a bit under 40 pages, and doing it’s been interesting:

First, I really feel the idea of using blog content as the seed for a book actually works.  I wasn’t initially sure about the idea (I mean, why not just do a reprint?), but instead it’s like the original posts are the basis for another useful form.  What works as a blog post in my ranty-coach didactic style doesn’t work as a book, and what you can do in a book and a blog differs.

Secondly, after you get feedback on a series of blog posts and/or look over your work, you can incorporate that into the based-on work, and this ads a lot of value.

Third, it’s a way to make your content accessible in a  different manner.  People don’t want to have to go back to your blog all the time, or have to find printouts, or whatever.  You can give things to people in a different useful format.

Fourth, and something I hope to explore later, if you’re producing a physical object (a book or magazine), there’s something new to leave for posterity.  Something that can be passed on, put on a shelf, gifted easily.  There’s something satisfying about that.  This may not happen with this book – but we’ll see.

So hang in there, it’ coming . . . and starting to wonder how I present these books on my sites, so suggestions welcome . . .

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

 

Progress: Quest for Employment

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So my rewrite of my “how I found a job fast in 2012” book has been named “Quest for Employment.”  Not sure that’s the best title, but then again I’ve never taken a lot of specific blog posts and made them into a booklet.  I have done general compilations, but not this.  So hey, I’ll take a lame title.

Anyway, I’ve had trouble getting back to it after a series of events, visits, and now illness.  So I plan to get back to it and try and finish it this month or at least early November.  The idea is to do it as a simple, low-priced, effective ebook, probably $1.99

What I want to do with it is take articles from my series and rework them into sort of a “plus” version.  The idea is that after completing a series, I could then improve it, enhance it, and take what I learned to create a coherent book.  So if people liked the series, wanted to get more, or just wanted a low-priced compilation, it’d be a great purchase.

I rather like this idea.  I get to create a great series (and in many cases blaze new trails), and then the lessons learned get applied to producing a great book.  I even validate that the idea is a good one.

Right now the state of the book is mostly re-editied, and I’m also adding useful resources to each section.  I also am adding “To Dos,” my rather famous thing from many of my books – saying what you have to do right after reading.  Always gets people motivated, and helps you feel active.

I’ll keep the updates here – because I ALSO have two other series I want to try this on if it works . . .

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Theoretical And Real Dimensions In Script

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A book is a TARDIS.

Inside is a world much bigger than it’s outer form.

It can lead to you wondrous adventures and fantastic places.

It can hold infinite surprises.

It has infinite potential.

It can enchant you for a lifetime.

It’s best with a companion or two.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.