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»> PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED AND UPDATED EDITION
Tie 4-Hour Workweek was turned down by 26 out of 27 publishers.
After it was sold, the president of one potential marketing partner, a large bookseller, e-mailed me historical bestseller statistics to make it clear—this wouldn’t be a mainstream success.
So I did all I knew how to do. I wrote it with two of my closest friends in mind, speaking directly to them and their problems—problems I long had—and I focused on the unusual options that had worked for me around the world.
I certainly tried to set conditions for making a sleeper hit possible, but I knew it wasn’t likely. I hoped for the best and planned for the worst.
May 2, 2007, I receive a call on my cell phone from my editor. “Tim, you hit the list.”
It was just past 5 P.M. in New York City, and I was exhausted. The book had launched five days before, and I had just finished a series of more than twenty radio interviews in succession, beginning at 6 A.M. that morning. I never planned a book tour, preferring instead to “batch” radio satellite tours into 48 hours.
“Heather, I love you, but please don’t $4%* with me.” “No, you really hit the list. Congratulations, Mr. New York Times bestselling author!”
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