What Really Matters for a Book's Success? (A Literal Scattergram)

I spent hours on this thing, and only like a fifth of you were subscribers back then, so enjoy this re-post while I'm on vacay.

HI FROM THE PAST! This is a scheduled post; I am on vacation this week. It’s a rerun of a newsletter that originally ran on May 11, 2020.

One thing I forgot to include on the scattergram is a book’s title. Titles matter a lot to authors AND to the commercial success of their books. Titles should be right at the top of the “caring level about right” quadr…