Dear book writing friends - what is the one thing you wish you'd done when you set out to write your first book? Or the one thing you *did* do that worked so well you'd recommend it to someone taking their first steps along on this treacherous path?

Cc @berkun @mholzschlag @meyerweb @louisrosenfeld @jjg

I wish we would have had an active editor, and the equivalent of an advisory board of SMEs. The solitary suffering artiste thing doesn’t work for me. Especially the suffering part.