I learned yesterday that my book, Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling That Propels Careers, will be published by JIST Publishing.

The book was the non-scholarly companion to my doctoral dissertation, so I am thrilled to have it accepted for publication. A common goal of academics is to have their dissertation research published. I’ve had marginal success in publishing the scholarly portion, so it’s very satisfying to publish the non-scholarly.

I’m also gratified because the entire impetus for starting A Storied Career was my interest in the value of storytelling as the way to advance one’s career (in A Storied Career, I’ve obviously branched out to many other kinds of applied storytelling). Although other authors and even scholars have written small pieces about this connection, I’m the only one I know about who has made it a centerpiece of research.

A sister site of A Storied Career, Quintessential Careers, has published Tell Me About Yourself as a quasi-ebook under its Quintessential Careers Press imprint, and I have also been serializing the book in A Storied Career’s blog-within-in-a-blog, also titled Tell Me About Yourself. (I’m up to Chapter 7 out of 10 in the serialization). Both these versions are free. Since I don’t know whether JIST will feel kindly to having free versions out there in cyberspace, interested readers may want to take that opportunity now.