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The Book: Why | Table
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Why We Wrote This Book in the First Place
We are the people that our girlfriends turn to with all their questions about
workplace traumas. After a couple of years of this, we realized that the
questions, problems and recommendations were giving us a nauseating case of
deja vu-induced vertigo. We decided to research business resources for women.
What we found was as dry as toast and about as appetizing.
So we conceived The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work
to answer the questions, offer solutions and, most importantly, put it all in
perspective. We are writing The Big Sister's Guide to
give all those working gals out there the one thing we wish we had had when we
were starting out and climbing up: a coupla funny, ballsy, smart-mouthed Big
Sisters who could get us to stop crying and start laughing and tell us in no
uncertain terms what to do and how to do it.
We were so highly motivated by the clear vision that we had for The Big
Sister's Guide that we completely ignored the feasibility
of actually producing it given our circumstances at that moment in time. We
both had clients, unfinished projects and laundry piles the size of Kilamanjaro
to deal with. All pretty compelling reasons to reject (or seriously postpone)
thinking about making The Big Sister's Guide happen.
But, we were women on a mission.
Within two months of our first discussion, we had finished a 75-page proposal
for The Big Sister's Guide, which more than one
publishing house reported: "Was one of the best book proposals we've ever
seen!" It just goes to show what passion and ignoring the pile of laundry can
achieve. We are currently crafting our Big Sister Guide Workshop Seminars and
passionately envisioning The Big Sister's Guide on
the top slot of The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list.
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