Greetings!
As the holidays end and the New Year begins, we wanted to update you on everything PATHFINDERS-related.
First of all, a huge THANK YOU to everyone who submitted their story last year!
We were overwhelmed by the number, quality and range of entries. Which was an excellent problem to have! The next few months were spent reading through everything and beginning to piece together the final book – a deeply engaging experience thanks to your amazing writing.
Submissions were into triple figures and stood at over 125,000 words – but by careful editing we’ve been able to include nearly 100 stories, and 70,000 of these wonderful words.
There are lots of incredible tales in there. To take a random sample, we’ve got the stories and advice of:
- two teachers who never made a six-figure salary combined, but retired as millionaires in their 30s
- a restaurant employee on minimum wage who will be able to retire before he turns 45
- a new police detective living in a rough neighborhood with family on the way
- a couple who, rather than waiting for old age to have the adventure of a lifetime, turned their lifetime into an adventure – and still reached FI
- an infectious diseases physician at the height of a global pandemic, threatened with being let go
And much more!
We’ll be writing to everyone who appears in the final book soon.
There’s a ton of wisdom and wit throughout the material, and we can’t wait to share it with the world. We know it’s going to be a huge help to others.
We are delighted to report that work on the manuscript is now complete! The book is being typeset as we speak.
There’s still a long road between now and publication of course – proofreading, illustrating, final revisions, printing, eBook, audio and more to come – but this is a significant milestone and we wanted you to be the first to know.
There are also two big PATHFINDERS things coming your way soon.
The first is the cover, and it’s coming so soon that it’s a mere paragraph away. We are thrilled to unveil it now:
Our goal was to honor the legendary cover of JL’s The Simple Path to Wealth, while also capturing the nature of PATHFINDERS. We really hope you like it!
The second is you can pre order it now:
The book won’t be out till October 2023 because of printing times (and all that typesetting, proofreading and so on to make it as perfect as can be!), but you’ll be able to secure your copies ahead of the holidays – and there’ll be lots of other goodies to share too.
Wishing you and yours a joyous end to the year and a brilliant 2023!
With warmest wishes and thanks once again,
Harriman House
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The post above is from a message my publisher for Pathfinders sent to the mailing list for news on the book. I wanted to share it with you. They have been awesome partners in this project!
If you’d like to be on the mailing list yourself, here’s the link:
If you are interested in ordering the book now, here is the for pre-sales:
Pre-ordering is a great way to support the book if you are so inclined.
Thanks!
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Over the next couple of weeks I will be sharing with you two of the stories from Pathfinders:
Staying the Course in Wartime, from a Ukrainian contributor.
When Your Country Becomes a Global Outcast, from a Russian contributor.
Both these are from the section of the book Staying the Course. Providing both samples from the same section is probably very poor marketing. But as both are ripped from today’s headlines, I trust you can see why I chose them.
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Copies of the Taiwanese edition of The Simple Path to Wealth just caught up to me in our travels. Looks cool!
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