The Story Economy Blog

When you walk into a bookstore and your daughter sees the book she’s been seeing on the desk in your office for weeks, actually there in the bookstore, part of a display that contains other books that are clearly real books, and finally gets that you…

What an interesting thing it is to have your book release not just on the last day of the year, but on the last day of the decade. Would I Lie to You? The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World That Lies comes out today, December 31, 2019! It makes…

  We invest our time and/or money to read a book mostly because of a feeling we are seeking, whether it’s reassurance, relief, belonging, understanding, or some feeling we can’t quite articulate, but we recognize it when a book description taps…

The first person I gave a copy of Would I Lie to You? The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World That Lies to was my 84-year-old very spry mom. Isn’t she the most adorable thing you’ve ever seen? I wasn’t exactly nervous, because we have a…

  I’ve become slightly obsessed with Monica Lewinsky. Yesterday, I watched her 2015 TED talk, called “The Price of Shame.” This was after listening to actor Dax Shepard interview her on his Armchair Expert podcast a few weeks ago. As…