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by ewest 4714 days ago
If you want your experience to come through, don't make it the primary point. Your experience will become apparent in the things you write and the way you write about them.

Out of the first 9 paragraphs in 'Focus on Delivering Results' you use "I" in 6 of them - you start 3 of them with "I". The excerpt reads more like a biography.

I don't know whether you worked with a copy editor - if you didn't, you should have.

You also should have had some independent reviews prior to publishing - maybe someone would have been kind enough to tell you about all of those "I"s - they make the text "feel" rough and unfinished.

You could go crazy with the "I"s in your "about the author" section, yet let the book's content speak for itself.

Given this, the excerpt diminishes the book's value for me, so it's unlikely I would pay $25 for it. If I wanted a biography, I would get a biography.