…Well, a few things.
Straight up, I’ll be filing my final Sunday Life column this week.
Almost 130 experiments in how to make life better…you’d hope I’d have found an answer, hey?? I kinda have, but that’s for another time.
A publisher once said to me, “Never do a column for more than two years. The first year you find your feet, the second you find your voice and after that you repeat what you said in the first two years.” I tend to agree.
And as many of you who read this blog know, I’m not one to hang on to things. I like to move where my voice keeps fresh.
So, from the New Year, I’ll be working on a bunch of new projects (TV and print), as well as ebooks.
Yes, ebooks.
I’ve been really rather thrilled with how rewarding ebook publishing is.
[For those new here, my ebook I Quit Sugar ebook went on sale about 8 weeks ago and has been hitting good spots around traps.]
Ebooks are a direct conversation. They help directly. They share authentically. They deliver what I want to share straight to where I want to connect.
Ebooks are new – according to Darren at Problogger, who is something of an international expert in this kind of thing, there are only about 20 or so bloggers making a living from ebooks here. So no one really knows where it will wind up. I’m the first “traditional” journalist to enter into it…I’ve been told.
Some general thoughts:
Media – and life in general – is moving faster than ever. Everything is speeding up. Flux is our permanent state now. I find this exciting.
They call my generation the bridging generation. We Gen Xers…we’ve had to bend and straddle and dance back and forth as we adjust from the ways of yore to, well, this new multifaceted, layered, messy, instant, constant, technology-based way.
I hand wrote my law essays at uni, but was the Tech Head in my office when the internet arrived while I was doing my newspaper cadetship at News Ltd.