Erika Hall’s Post

There are many human activities that are far more difficult, I know, but writing a book is *hard*. Heck, writing is hard. It's such a hack for us humans. So I really truly appreciate all of you who've read what I've written and let me know when it's been helpful or how it could be moreso. Maybe you've heard A Book Apart is winding down. It's rough out there for independent businesses and especially publishers, for real. We're in the process of transferring Just Enough Research and Conversational Design over to Mule and publishing them ourselves. Yes, we are planning future revisions, too. (Mike got out ahead of the whole thing, as he does). If you've bought either of my books in the past 6 months, I'm not going to be seeing any royalties from that. Bummer. So it goes. A bunch of you did buy books, and that part matters to me a lot. What I can do right now, is make Conversational Design available as a free download for a little while during this interim period. I would like you to read it if you haven't, given [gestures broadly at the ambient nonsense]. https://lnkd.in/gshMpzbm What you can do, if you'd like, is buy a copy of (the totally updated, all new) Design Is a Job (https://lnkd.in/gt4sEaJm), because we had that printed ourselves, the printer has been paid and we get the full benefit of your $9. (And you will enjoy it). And also and *especially* send a note to any/every one of the other ABA authors to tell them personally how their work helped you. Especially especially to the authors of the more recent books who have been can I say shafted by this whole thing. They are all good people who worked very hard to make something useful.