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Presenting The Complete Guide to Landing a Book Deal

Everything you need to know to evaluate your idea, own your platform, craft a proposal, assemble a team, negotiate an offer, and write your book

Parts 1-3 available now:

fortelabs.co/blog/the-compl…
Part 2: Evaluating Your Book Idea

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How to objectively evaluate your own idea, and vet it according to the same criteria publishers will use to decide whether to make you an offer
Part 3: Own Your Writing Platform

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On the critical importance of establishing a direct relationship with your future readers, on a platform (website + email list) that you control from day 1
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Tiago Forte
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1/ I'm testing different cameras to use with Zoom

Here is:

1. Built-in Facetime camera on Macbook Pro
2. External webcam Logitech C922x Pro Stream webcam 1080p
3. Panasonic Lumix GH2 DSLR with CamLink
2/ Lumix is clearly better. But we had to do some work in the settings to remove all these overlays
3/ This is the background blurring effect we're after. The lens is good, with a wide aperture f1.7, but I need to add depth and detail to the background in order for it to be visible
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Tiago Forte
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I've always had a strange form of synesthesia that I wonder if anyone else shares: I perceive words as numbers and vice versa. So my brain automatically divides words or phrases in half, and those with even numbers of letters on each side are more pleasing
This has always made doing math in my head difficult, because I process numbers in word form. So I get bogged down with even simple calculations by the completely irrelevant fact of how long the associated words are
But I think it makes writing and music easier, because the rhythm and cadence that words (or notes) have to fit into feels very intuitive and natural
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Tiago Forte
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1/ This excellent explainer about the economics of bundling by @nbashaw is also one of the key ideas needed to understand online education today

divinations.substack.com/p/bundle-magic

Online courses are bundles, and understanding that helps unlock a lot of things
2/ If you make a course that directly solves just one, utilitarian problem, like “how to make a to do list” or “how to set up a blog” or “how to make cupcakes” them you’re competing with the endless supply of amazing, completely free content on YouTube
3/ Using the example from the post above, you’re like the individual newsletter writers competing head to head with every other writer in their niche on the basis of quality and price. All you can do is be better OR cheaper than everyone else
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