It's a wild time at (the recently renovated) TCM headquarters. I'm coming off a crazy couple of weeks at the "day job" (J1), and I'm in the usual end-of-month deadline hustle for my online columns at ShopRate and elsewhere.
Yet, as creative stuff tends to do, I can't stop thinking about two backburner projects that have been forcing their way to the front.
- The "Tenth Anniversary Edition" of Grow Your Band's Audience should get to shelves in time for the holiday season. It still baffles me that ten years have passed since I wrote the first collection of articles that build the foundation of the book. When it was time to put the book into paperback, I spent about five Saturdays in a row working from the Borders in King of Prussia, while Lori was working at an optical shop there. Funny how the really impactful things in life just seem to flow. Even though I've been trying to schedule out blocks of time to work on some of the new material for the new edition,
- HobbyPreneur shouldn't even be on my to-do list this week, but it keeps showing up there when I find great clippings to add to my research file. There's something to this, and the great phrase I heard this week from the folks at Y Combinator about being "ramen profitable" kept buzzing around my head. So I'm finding myself focusing on it during the nooks and crannies of my day.
So, if you see me scrabbling away on my iPhone, I'm probably storing up more source material for one of those two projects. In the meantime, I still need some juicy mortgage questions to answer for my financial columns. You should totally submit a question. (Close friends: Yes, I still appreciate the irony behind my evolving into a personal finance columnist. I promise to write more on that soon.)
