Eileen’s Lesson: You should write a book about all of these HR lessons.

“I love your newsletters. You should write a book.” That’s what people have told me for years.

Guess what? After going back and forth with my awesome marketing team at Incite Creative, I did.

It was easy peasy, or it should have been. I have had years of material to work with. But some of that material, well, it was dated and not really book ready.

What did we need to do?

1. Sort through 20+ years of stories that I’ve written to determine which ones were book ready
2. Edit the stories and then edit them again
3. Hire an illustrator
4. Proofread the stories and proofread again with a professional proofreader
5. Format the book for publishing and then proof it again
6. Create an ISBN #, which is some publishing thing that identifies the book
7. Sign a contract with Amazon that basically gives them the right to print your book and take all the money
8. Upload your book, which goes through multiple checks before they say, “OK, you can sell it now, good luck!”

All this is to say, writing a book is a lot of work even when you have all the material. Was it worth it? Give it a read and let me know!

–Eileen