So, now I’m on the other side of the table from my comfort zone. As the business owner and partner I have to think about much more than just how to deliver. It’s what to deliver as well.
I think we’ve done well in understanding our niche; new authors, good books, all genre’s. And our competition; well, there are lots of flavours of what we’re doing but we look to the traditional p-publishers as the market to watch. Why? Well, they have the market defined and at some point will think of digital as the primary format and figure out how to deal in the digital world.
We agreed to take November off to write our next great novel. It’s been hard for me to stay away from marketing and reviewing other authors’ work. But two more days and we’re back on focus.
My priorities for the next phase – publish books – is to finalize the details of the initiation phase – and move through to execution (how many projects jump into execution with key initiation steps still open). I hear the screams from the PMs out there – yes we’ve done our planning!!! It overlapped the initiation phase like so many business projects do, figuring out what we need to do and at the same time figuring out how to do it.
We have some great authors lined up and our first titles should appear at your favourite e-bookstore within the month.
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