I’m in Asheville, North Carolina. It’s the longest I’ve lived anywhere.

My main focus for 2023 is Otterpine, where we help independent authors create beautiful high quality print books—both inside and out—without being completely dependent on Amazon. It’s been an amazing process to help authors disrupt the typical process of printing and publishing through Amazon KDP. We’re staying small and mighty, and my focus is to grow Otterpine through the measures of connection and value.

It’s been a fun ride to see where this work continues to take us, and I’m so grateful for the incredible relationships we have with our clients. A few books that we released in 2022 include My SuperHero Sleep, How to Live, and Designing the Mind Gold Edition. We also worked on the production of a card deck called Mindsight: Introspection Cards.

Our current clients include Derek Sivers, My SuperHero Foods, Military Money Manual, Adam Levy, Robert Goodwin, Ryan Bush from Designing the Mind, and more. We work with clients in many capacities, but lately to help more people, I’ve been doing more consulting and coaching as well. You can learn how to work with us here.

This year I’ve committed to reading more and writing more. In the past I’ve aimed to read 50+ books a year, but I’ve let go of a lot of goals like that. I’ve spend a lifetime on creating goals and metrics to increase productivity, but these days I’m committed to creating less goals. I believe this allows for more space to foster creativity. And ready to read more of the super long books I’ve avoided just to meet an arbitrary goal of reading more books. Go figure. 🙂

Outside of the work for our clients, I’m not on social media anymore. Instead, I’ll post more updates here and through my newsletter (—- > to sign up). As a super private and very introverted person, I’m so happy to be done with this struggle of believing I need to be on Instagram for [enter whatever reason].

I’m also spending time with Mary Carol over at Azalea Bindery to learn more about the craft of hand bookbinding. Excited about how this will help to inform the work that we’re doing with author clients!

Also making lots of sourdough bread, and I usually have some kind of craft project in my hands.

And here’s what I’m reading.