Each year I plan, and generally achieve, a goal of reading a book a week.
I hope to read even more this year as a result of implementing a very late New Year’s Resolution of cancelling my subscription to Sky Sports!
The books I read are about as mixed a bag as you could possibly expect.
Last week I finished the JK Rowling novel The Casual Vacancy.
The week before that Queen Emma and The Vikings (if you haven’t heard of Queen Emma chances are you will have heard of both of her husbands, Ethelred and Canute), and I am now well into a book about Athelstan the first King of the English.
Whilst I favour Anglo Saxon history I will read a few Harlan Coban and Lee Child novels and really anything I can get my hands on that takes my interest.
Andrea bought me a book for my birthday called Why Humans Like To Cry.
But reading books is one thing. Writing one is another thing altogether.
There is a saying that “there is a book in each of us”. This may be true but chances are that will be exactly where it stays!
So why write a book? Is it just ego or is there more to it?
At Informed Choice we love passing on information and guidance. That is why we write so many blogs.
Writing a book is simply an extension of that. We can create a document that helps a lot of people.
So tomorrow when we write Your Money Day: One day to take control of your finances, rather than have just 500 or so words to get our message across we can have 20,000 or more to do that job.
But the words that we choose to put into our book have to be really useful to the reader. They also have to be written in such a way that we can hold the reader’s attention.
After all what we don’t want is for Your Money Day to be the one book in 50 that readers set aside unfinished simply because it didn’t grab their attention.
Ultimately though it will be you the reader who decides if the book is useful and readable.
I look forward to be part of the co-authoring team tomorrow!
