I’m delighted to announce the launch on DailyLit of a brand new series — Seth Godin: Unboxed. This series (available for free) includes an excerpt from bestselling author Seth Godin’s latest book, Poke the Box, combined with a number of his most popular, insightful blog posts.

I was extremely fortunate to have been invited to spend a few days with Seth (along with about a dozen amazing women entrepreneurs) for an intensive three-day workshop in his office. He inspired, challenged, and impressed us with his insightfulness, candor (he tells it like it is), and generosity (he even cooked lunches for us each day!)

Here’s what this new series is all about: Seth Godin: Unboxed gives you the kick you need to shake up your life. It combines an excerpt from bestselling author Seth Godin’s Poke the Box, with some favorite posts from Seth’s Blog that have been most “liked” on Facebook and most re-tweeted. And if you’re not familiar with Poke the Box, it’s been described as “a manifesto that just might make you uncomfortable. It’s a call to action about the initiative you’re taking—in your job or in your life. Godin knows that one of our scarcest resources is the spark of initiative in most organizations (and most careers)—the person with the guts to say, ‘I want to start stuff.’”

I hope you’ll be as inspired by this new series as much as Seth Godin has inspired me!

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I’m thrilled to announce that DailyLit has just launched as its next Big Read, “White Horse”“, a short story by bestselling author Margaret Atwood.

I met Margaret Atwood a few months ago and was immediately impressed with her inquisitiveness and interest in how technology is affecting the future of publishing. I am grateful that she agreed to make her short story available for free on DailyLit for everyone to enjoy.

“White Horse” is part of a collection of short stories published in Moral Disorder.

Here’s what the critics have said about this story and the collection as a whole:

“Stories like ‘The White Horse’…prove Atwood is still a master of the compelling, peculiar portrait of human behavior.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“…Atwood’s stories evoke humankind’s disastrous hubris and phenomenal spirit with empathy and bemusement.”
—Booklist (Starred Review)

“Crisp, vivid detail and imagery and a rich awareness of the unity of human generations, people and animals…make Moral Disorder one of Atwood’s most accessible and engaging works yet.”
—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

“Her stories are sophisticated, reticent, ornate, stark, supple, stiff, savage or forgiving; they are exactly what she wants them to be. They are stories from the prime of life.”
—Times Literary Supplement

Enjoy!

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 40 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

I’ve been listening to DailyLit readers who’ve asked for more literary fiction (thanks to those who filled out our survey!) I’m pleased to announce the launch on DailyLit of Urban Waite’s short story, “The Life and Death of Seals”, which I really enjoyed. Here’s a description of the story:

“The Life and Death of Seals” is a story about a family in turmoil, dealing with the ups and downs of love. Two brothers are forced to deal with the complicated relationship between their parents, a rift threatening to tear the entire family apart. It is during the course of one afternoon on a desolate beach that the boys must sort through their complicated memories and find a way to move forward.

You can find this story here on DailyLit. And there’s still time to fill out DailyLit’s survey to make your wishes known.

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 35 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

Today’s my birthday, and as I blew out the candles on my surprise breakfast treats, I wished for happiness for my family and me. Well, OK, there is my broken laptop that badly needs replacing (hint, hint) but second, absolutely, was happiness. So, with that, I’m launching a month’s worth of Happiness Quotations selected by bestselling writer Gretchen Rubin (of The Happiness Project). I’ve known Gretchen for a couple of years now, and she continues to impress me with her curiosity, intelligence, and, well, with just being a basically lovely person. Here’s what she says: “One of the best ways to boost your happiness is to take the time to think about happiness. This month, you can read a short, thought-provoking quotation about happiness every day.”

So with that, I hope you’ll join me in receiving these daily hand-picked happiness-boosting quotations that you can find on DailyLit here.

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 35 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

I am thrilled to announce that DailyLit has just launched MBA Mondays, written by the incomparable Fred Wilson. MBA Mondays combines lessons learned in business school with real-life examples taken from Fred’s experience in the business world.

Fred Wilson is a partner at Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on disruptive startups. His investments include Twitter, Foursquare, and Etsy. MBA Mondays was originally published every Monday on Fred’s blog, avc.com.

Here’s what Fred writes:

My friend Pravin sent me an email last week after my “How To Calculate A Return On Investment” post. He said: “I wish there was a class that I could take that would teach me how to properly research stocks/companies for investment purposes and how that could be made into a private tutoring business. It’d be for people like me, people who didn’t go to school for business but still are interested in understanding all the jargon, methods of investing, etc and how to apply it to a buy and hold strategy.” Pravin then went on to say that the post I wrote was exactly the kind of thing he was looking for and that he’d like to see me do more of it. So with that preface, I’d like to announce a new series here at AVC. I’m calling it “MBA Mondays”. Every Monday I’ll write a post that is about a topic I learned in business school. I’ll keep it dead simple (many people thought my ROI post last week was too simple). And I’ll try to connect it to some real world experience.

The benefit of reading MBA Mondays via DailyLit is that you can set your schedule to read a lesson every Monday—or whenever you want.

Still, the name MBA Mondays lives on.

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 35 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.