It’s official… I’ve been published!
I have to say that driving home from the pick-up place with 20 copies of a book that I contributed to was mind-numbing, made me giddy and had me talking to myself all at the same time. Without a doubt, one of the best experiences of my life.
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The book is called More Space – Nine Antidotes to Complacency in Business, and it’s a collection of writings by 9 prominent businessy bloggers:
- Jory Des Jardins from Pause
- Lisa Haneberg from Management Craft
- Rob May from Businesspundit
- Johnnie Moore from johnniemoore.com
- Robert Paterson from PEI’s Future
- Evelyn Rodriguez from Crossroad
Dispatches - Curt Rosengren from Occupational
Adventure - Marc Orchant from Marc’s Outlook on Productivity (among others)
- Jeremy Wright from Ensight.org
In my opinion, More Space is an incredibly important project. In many ways I didn’t realize how important until I held it in my hands. More Space is the collective knowledge of bloggers. Being applied to the real world. So that business people can be informed, entertained, given perspective and helped along their journey.
More Space is huge.
It’s available for pre-order now. It’ll be released on the 25th. You can also view it free online if you so desire. And, I’ll be giving away 5 copies at some point this week (you can also buy copies from me directly if you want).
My entry is called “Jonas’s Letters: 5 Honest Letters From an IT Manager”. It’s really a “Screwtape Letters”-like look at business, some of the things that are wrong with IT management and a whole host of other things. I’ll be honest, I don’t like it, but that’s most likely due to the fact that it’s my first work of fiction since high school.
I love the rest of the essays, though. I’ve spent the last half hour thumbing through pages of the book floored at what the team put together. Well done everyone!
October 12th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Congrats! And do writers *ever really like their own work? LOL
(Jory’s link is broken.)
October 12th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
It is very good. I read through a bit yesterday. Excellent work by you and the entire team.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Congrats Jeremy. I saw Evelyn’s post yesterday and I’m certainly impressed with the project.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:41 pm
Excellent work, Jeremy! Congrats on being an honest to goodness published author!
October 12th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
Hi Jeremy!
You may remember meeting me at Pete and Mary Ellen’s. Mark and I were in St. Stephen last weekend for Thanksgiving but we didn’t get a chance to say hi, although we did enjoy hearing the “BRAVO” comments at SCV.
Anyhoo, CONGRATS on your great news! This is only the beginning!
There was an interesting article in the Ottawa Citizen today…please go to http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6df0ebdc -5816-4c1c-8247-fde611bb6375
E-mail me for the user name and p/w.
Blessings!
October 12th, 2005 at 11:33 pm
Cool, congrats.
October 13th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Hey – congrats! And, well done. ‘would love to read it.
October 13th, 2005 at 1:25 am
Congrats, man! Looks good.