The Expert Author Community blog
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The Expert Author Community blog comes from inside a community of more than 325 experts, consultants and leaders who have written and published non-fiction books together over the past ten years. Here you will find our annual list of new business books by members, practical pieces on planning and writing a non-fiction book, and honest stories from members about what it took to finish.
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TyAnn Osborn on A Life Aligned
TyAnn Osborn spent years running strengths workshops before writing A Life Aligned, a book for people whose careers look…
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Graeme Cowan on Great Leaders Care: Developing Safe, Resilient and Successful Teams
Graeme Cowan reduces caring leadership to three questions a manager asks daily: Am I okay? Are we okay? R U OK? He explains…
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Jo Muirhead on The Entrepreneurial Clinician
Seven years after The Entrepreneurial Clinician, Jo Muirhead revisits its central advice to build a practice on your own…
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Shyam Barr on Educate to Self-Regulate
Shyam Barr wrote Educate to Self-Regulate to give teachers practical frameworks for building self-regulated learners. Two…
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Anne Gately on Sunburnt
Anne Gately's Sunburnt sets her Stage IV melanoma diagnosis alongside peer-reviewed research on tanning and the history of…
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Emma Lagerlow on Worthy and Wealthy
Emma Lagerlow's five pillars put self-worth first and money fourth, a sequence she says she would keep today. She talks…
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Tony Frost on The Professional
Tony Frost started The Professional in 2018, before ChatGPT and before the pandemic, and signed off the manuscript in early…
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Clint Rahe on The Cognitive Athlete: Sustainable Peak Performance for Leaders, Thinkers, and Doers
Clint Rahe breaks cognitive performance into conditioning, transition, performance and recovery, and says transition, the…
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Donna McGeorge on Red Brick Thinking
Donna McGeorge has written five books on how people work, from The 25 Minute Meeting to Red Brick Thinking. She talks about…
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Ian Lees on Becoming Leader of Leaders
Ian Lees argues that leading other leaders is a different job rather than a bigger version of the one before it, and that…
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Chris Harrop on The Problem Solver's Playbook: Your Field Guide to Solving Hard Business Problems
Chris Harrop spent three decades advising CEOs at Bain & Company before writing The Problem Solver's Playbook....
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Jenny Brockis on The Natural Advantage
Jenny Brockis, author of The Natural Advantage and four earlier books, on why she thinks the evidence for time outdoors has…
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Gayle Dallaston on Garden On The Verge: A New Approach
Gayle Dallaston planted her own verge garden in 2017 and has spent the years since looking at why so many similar projects…
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Janine Stratford on Leading for Tomorrow, Today
Janine Stratford coaches school leaders who were strong classroom teachers before being handed responsibility for leading…
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Sarah Gray on It's not you, It's Perimenopause
Pharmacist and nutritionist Sarah Gray on writing It's Not You, It's Perimenopause: why she set a high evidence bar for…
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Salli Cohen on Rollercoaster
Salli Cohen's Rollercoaster argues that the policy cycle is a theoretical model mistaken for real work, and that listening…
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Dr Renee Rubin Ross on Inclusive Strategic Planning for Nonprofits: A Five-Step Process to Expand Energy, Alignment and Opportunity
Dr Renee Rubin Ross on what about 100 beta readers taught her, the Step 0 she had missed and why polished plans get shelved.
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Benita Bensch on Seen Again: Light on Matrescence
Benita Bensch on naming matrescence, invisibility in farming families and the hardest part of Seen Again to write.
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Just Be Bloody Good: Lessons From Our April 2025 Community Book Launch
Emma Lagerlow, Tony Frost and Salli Cohen review each other's books and talk cutting, publishing and titles.
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What These Books Did to Their Readers: Our October 2024 Community Book Launch
Monique Zytnik, Dr Shyam Barr and Dr Jenny Brockis read each other's books at our October 2024 Community Book Launch.
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Why a Book Is Three Big Projects: Lessons From Our April 2024 Community Book Launch
Michelle Scheibner, Jade Miller, Ilona Vass and Charlotte Blair review each other's books at our April 2024 launch.
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Where's All the Red Pen? Lessons From Our October 2023 Community Book Launch
Jacqui Clarke, Karen Stein and Laetitia Andrac swap books and share three roads to print at our October 2023 launch.
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Is It True? Is It Helpful? Lessons From Our March 2023 Community Book Launch
Peter Scott, Melo Calarco and Sarah Martin review each other's books and talk vulnerability, covers and rejection.
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Kerryn Harvey on Mostly Ups: How I Survived a Flesh-eating Bacteria
Kerryn Harvey on what the page asked of her that a keynote never did, and the long rehabilitation people rarely see.
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A Help Sign Where the Conclusion Should Be: Lessons From Our December 2025 Community Book Launch
Siobhan O'Riordan, Sarah Gray and Andrew Sloan review each other's books and talk readers, scope and endings.
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Penelope Barr on Win the Night to Win the Day: Sleep Well. Work Better. Live Best.
Penelope Barr on running around 150 experiments on her own sleep, and why she won't give you five rules.
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Why Are You Writing a Book? The Purpose Question Most Authors Only Half Answer
Writing a book to build authority is the result of a good book, not the reason for one. Here is the question that works.
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Thinking About Writing a Parable or Business Fable? Here’s What to Know First
What a parable or business fable can do that a how-to book cannot, and how to tell if the form suits your book.
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What have I learned about Book Awards by being a judge?
A book awards judge on what gets noticed, how to choose the right category and how to use a win.
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This is rubbish, and I'm going to give up
How Lisa Taylor turned self-doubt into a powerful book launch moment.
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Breaking up at your own book launch
How Andrew Sloan turned real-time vulnerability into the heart of his book launch.
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28 New Business Books You Should Read in 2026
28 new nonfiction business books published in 2026, on leadership, culture, resilience and growth, from our authors.
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The Work That Transforms You (Not Just Your Book)
Seven mindset and writing shifts from an Open Book coaching session, on ritual, structure and writing for you.
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The 9 Pillars of Crafting a Winning Business Book
Use the Book Screening Canvas to test and sharpen your book idea into a strong commercial concept in 15 minutes.
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Meet Expert Author Community Author Dr. Shyam Barr: Educator, Researcher, and Author of Educate to Self-Regulate
How Dr. Shyam Barr wrote Educate to Self-Regulate, filling a gap in resources for educators on self-regulated learning.
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