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Besides the rewarding struggle to write, another major source of motivation to complete BROKEN were works—mostly self-made and published—discovered along the way. Each discovery of an announced book was a boost to bring the making of BROKEN to launch. Here’s a wholehearted acknowledgement to the people who took the book out of them, put it out there, and energized me to finish my new book:
Get Funded: A kick-ass plan for running a successful crowdfunding campaign
by Nicole Delger
Read her Interview
Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
by John Clifford
Read his Interview
It Will Be Exhilarating: Indie Capitalism and Design Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
by Studio Neat
Discovered via Swissmiss
Insites: The Book
by Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks of Viewport Industries
Discovered via Swissmiss
Without Their Permission
by Alexis Ohanian
Clients From Hell: A collection of anonymously-contributed client horror stories from designers
by Channel V Books
Breakthrough
by Alex Cornell
Discovered via Swissmiss
Execute
by Drew Wilson and Josh Long
The Art of Explanation
by Lee LeFever of Common Craft
Enough
by Patrick Rhone
Clutter Free
by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits
Starting + Sustaining: A Book to Help Plan, Launch, Run, and Support Your Own Web Application
by Garrett Dimon of Sifter app
Content Chemistry: An Illustrated Guide to Content Marketing
by Andy Crestodina of Orbit Media Studios
Step by Step UI Design
by Sacha Greif
The Art of Being Unreasonable
by Eli Broad
Scaling PHP
by Steve Corona
Frictionless Freelancing
by Aaron Mahnke
Don’t Go Back to School
by Kio Stark
Discovered via Swissmiss
Entrepreneurship Guides & eBooks
by Less Accounting
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and The Future of Work
by Scott Berkun
Breaking the Time Barrier
by FreshBooks
Stop Tweeting Boring Sh*t: The New Rules of Work
by Division of Labor
Blockbusters
by Anita Elberse
Obsessively Thorough Software Design
by Clark Valberg of Epicenter
Content Marketing
by Copyblogger
For Better or For Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families
by Meg Cadoux Hirshberg
These Days: A Novel
by Jack Cheng, an art director turned full-time writer
The Food Traveler’s Handbook
by Jodi Ettenberg of Legal Nomads
Read her Blogger’s Quest(ionnaire)
Customers Included
by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry of Creative Good
Above The Fold
by Brian Miller
Practical Typography
by Matthew Butterick, who wrote Typography for Lawyers
Experience Design
by Patrick Newbery and Kevin Farnham
Purpose Economy
by Aaron Hurst of Imperative
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This is the third post, after the launch of BROKEN, that reflects on how this book was made. More to come in this series about aspects related to writing and self-publishing. Read the previous write-up: Gathering for potential: CreativeMornings’ role in making my book BROKEN.
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