A GTY Update

Well…

I’ve been absent quite a bit from this blog, but now that I’m in the home stretch on the new book, I plan on showing up here 2 to 3 times a week. For those of you who are new to this site, I hope you’ll tune in often and respond to the posts with candor and gusto. For those of you who’ve wandered off while I’ve been otherwise occupied, I hope to make it worth your while to come on back and hang around.

Let me start by catching you up on the latest publication developments:

I’ve finished the rough draft of Greater Than Yourself (yep, we finalized the title–subtitle is still to come. Suggestions?) submitted it to my editor at Doubleday, and now I’m waiting for his edits. Then, the…um…joys of the re-write will ensue.

The official publication date is January 13, 2009. Hey, I’m not saying it should be made a national holiday or anything, but maybe you can mark your calendars anyway.

And I’m happy to say that the forward to the book will be co-written by author/gurus Pat Lencioni and Matthew Kelly.

Why do you need two people to write the forward? I hear you cry.

True, it’s a little unorthodox. But there’s actually a damn good reason.

Which I’ll be sure to explain next time around.