Books & Essays

Brad has been writing essays and speeches for many years and includes the more current/relevant ones here. His first book, Lucky That Way, was written the summer of 1998 and published that November. Then during a concentrated five-month period from November of 2001 till March of 2002, he wrote his next two books, One Shovel Full and Get Things Done.

Most recently, as the President/CEO of Groundbreaking Press, Brad had published a book on the current state of the book publishing industry and why it is important that those people, "with a book inside of them, screaming to get out" should take advantage of the changes in technology and publish. The book, Why Publish, is available at the Groundbreaking Press bookstore and Amazon.

One thing Brad discovered, as a publisher who has spoken with hundreds of authors and published over thirty books in the past three years, is that every author has their own process for writing, that there is no "right way" to write a book. Below is a short concerning Brad's process and how his second and third book were written.

"I started out to write a book about storytelling and the power it had to change people's attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions. My writing process involves waking up sometime between three and six am with the next chapter in mind. I go to the computer and spend the next four to five hours pounding it out. Well, I noticed fairly quickly that not all the chapters I was writing fit into a book on storytelling ... it turned out I was writing two books at the same time. I never knew when I woke up which book the next chapter would fit into. I finished them both in the same week."

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