Comments on: Naked Conversations Book Review

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:46:14 +0000

Hi Shel – thanks for dropping by and I look forward to your next book.

Yaro

By: shel israel

shel israel — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:38:17 +0000

Thanks for all these kind words about Naked Conversations. Just so you know, I’m starting to write my next book, Global Neighborhoods on this same website.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:30:27 +0000

Your right Blaine, I should have included a link to the original blog, thanks for adding your comment.

I hope one day to write a fiction book and I think it will be very likely that I use a blog to do it.

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:20:05 +0000

I will add my two cents and state that I also enjoyed reading the book. The best part of the book for me, though, was not necessarily reading the finished work (or the advance copy I was able to take a look at), but the process of how the book got written.

The book started out as The Red Couch, but their publisher did not think that the name meant anything. Personally, I liked Red Couch better…

The idea, though, was that the book was written on the blog. As Shel and Robert finished interviews and got rough drafts of chapters done, they put them up on the blog so that the community could comment on them. As a result, they got editorial input from dozens of people as the book was in process. It greatly benefited as a result. If you visit the red couch link above then you’ll be able to look through the archives at the whole process, if you cared to.

Another reason that I liked the book was that I got my name in there at the end. My boss wanted to borrow it when I was done reading it though, and he hasn’t given it back yet. I have asked at least 3 or 4 times. It’s been about 10 months.