If so - let's see em' 👇

in case anyone had any doubts I am a big geek... this is how I party on a Saturday night. I made my first GIF. content challenge day 4 ... ok and moments later... i have made another one. and a third one now... going to bed or else I will break the internet single-handedly tonight. 15 min later. ... ok. just one more I swear, then I will go to bed. pps. shit just got real. I uploaded my first `GIF to GIFY https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNzRxZ2Q1ZmprcWx6cGwwaTRwNDUxeDN5cnVzbHB1M2x5bDBra2ZjMCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/wMqy573aZ0FLdj5rUW/giphy.gif

What I'm building this June — and the shift behind it For over a decade, I've run an elite publishing house, Red Thread Books, taking nonfiction authors all the way through. Manuscript to launch to awards. We've put 77 books into the world and 55 of them have won awards. It's been good work. And it's been ten years of being the bottleneck. I have had a school community for nearly two years for my authors and for cultivating aspiring authors. I have had a few different strategies, with varying success, but it is time to shake things up. Earlier this spring, I had a moment of clarity I haven't been able to shake: I'd rather help 100 authors publish their own book well than keep publishing 10 a year through my full done-for-you service. Inspired by @Diana Frank who I originally met in this community, I remembered to do what I love & what I am good at... So this June, I'm running the first pilot cohort of something I've been holding back for a long time, an 8-week Publishing Mastermind. Six to ten authors. Live teaching every week. Hot-seat coaching on their real manuscripts, covers, and launch plans. Personal introductions to my vetted network of editors, designers, formatters, and launch partners, matched to each author's budget and goals. Pilot price: $2,500. Future cohorts will be higher. This isn't a course I built once and forgot about. It's the work I do every day, distilled into a structure I can deliver at scale without it eating me alive. Three things made the difference in getting me here: 1. Naming the bottleneck honestly (it was me) 2. Letting Founding Leaders co-build the community around it 3. Picking a small pilot cohort instead of trying to launch big WHO CAN RELATE? If you're building something similar, moving from done-for-you to taught-to-many, I'd love to compare notes. And if you know a nonfiction author with a near-done manuscript who's been circling self-publishing for too long, send them my way. The pilot enrolls through June 9.

And how long in advance? Not asking for a friend. 🤣

For those of you who don't know me, I've been in goosofy for over a year, won a Goosify blitz, and partied in Costa Rica with a lot of amazing goosify folks like @Rositsa Aleksandrova @Jen Ritchie @Bill Widmer @Mogene Christensen @Joshua Gatonyi @Becky Teresa @Samanda Rasmussen @Kai Lorenz and of course got to meet the goosify team irl like @Goose Dunlavey @Tony Loew and @Vincent Roswandowicz . Since being here, I've written a book with goosifier and publisher @Sierra Melcher and fellow goosifier @Diana Frank . I've also learned from goosifier, skool games winner, touring musician, and AI master @Quincy Patti who helped me learn how to build my own app. And now, here I am working after my 4 kids went to bed on a Sunday night, working on an app to systemize everything ive learned about social media and marketing into an app (like @Goose Dunlavey suggested from my 1:1 coaching call from him) with my published book on my desk and a Lego lapras gracing my presence. I used to think Goosify was about silly memes, gifs, wacky adventures, pokemon, rainbows, and unicorns. Its actually about getting around kickass people that will change your life (and also a little bit about pokemon). This year's word is SCALE and im feeling it deeply in this moment. Cheers to all the OG goosifiers that have mucked through the trenches and are now finding pastures 🥰