In publishing, a “sleeper” is a book by a non-famous, first time author with huge potential. We think we have a classic sleeper coming in May, with Pamela Slim’s Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.
Hats off to our art director Joseph Perez for this cool jacket, which features fantastic blurbs from Martha Beck, Seth Godin, Bob Sutton, John Jantsch, and Rich Sloan.
We’re also thrilled by this excellent advance review in Publishers Weekly:
Inspired by her successful blog of the same name, life coach Slim shows readers how to navigate the terrifying yet gratifying transition from corporate drone to entrepreneur. She strikes a perfect balance between emotional encouragement and practical advice: “Hating your job intensely,” she writes, “is not a business plan.” What’s here is: the nitty-gritty of getting a business off the ground, legal considerations, making the best use of social networking sites, the components of a business model, organized creative brainstorming, financial advice, shopping for self-paid insurance and benefits, and helpful anecdotes of real-life entrepreneurship. With her humorous insights into corporate life and an appealing no-nonsense yet empathic tone, Slim deals swiftly and incisively with anxiety, fear and hesitation. Readers will cheer as she teaches the tricks behind finding “what makes you purr”—what people will pay you to do, what you have a great passion for and what you are genetically encoded to do. This is a standout in the start-your-own business genre.
You can check out Pam’s blog at www.escapefromcubiclenation.com or follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pamslim.
Pam’s blog has been an inspiration to me, and to my fellow “intra-preneurs” who have considered or actually ventured outside the comforts of a fur-lined rut in the corporate world to pursue our dreams.
I look forward to sharing this book with many of my professional colleagues and personal friends – as a resource to help navigate the uncertainty that is inherent in such a life-changing event. We are all impacted by the current economic storm, but what we do with the wind is up to us.