Making a Small Fortune

Name: Making a Small Fortune
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781667853468
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Surviving Publishing, Parenting, and Porphyria

By Matthew Spaur

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Making a Small Fortune by Matthew Spaur is a captivating memoir that delves into the author's personal journey of financial reinvention. Through a blend of poignant storytelling and insightful reflection, Spaur shares his experiences of navigating life's challenges, striving for personal growth, and redefining success in a modern context.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy personal stories about entrepreneurship and the journey of building and sustaining a business. It captures the challenges and triumphs one faces in turning a small business idea into a successful venture, offering both inspiration and practical insights.

Having it all can leave you with nothing. "Could not put it down" -- multiple reviews

Description

At the height of the tech stock boom, Matthew Spaur wanted to have it all. He began a blended family with Connye and her three sons, and together they started a new weekly newspaper. But during their second Christmas together, Connye was diagnosed with porphyria, a rare genetic blood disorder.

Matthew suddenly became not only a new business owner in a cutthroat market, but also a rare-disease caregiver. As the stock market collapsed, the 9/11 attacks shoved the country towards recession and war. Two of the sons received their own dire diagnoses.

Could he really do it all, despite having never owned a business, worked on a newspaper, or been a parent?

Matthew's candid and often humorous memoir illuminates the profound struggles of modern family life, offering insights and solace to anyone wrestling with blended families, health challenges, economic dislocation, and/or burnout.

Making a Small Fortune testifies to the power of love, patience, and community in facing adversity. It's a compelling read for anyone seeking a beacon of hope when forging their own path to happiness.

This memoir's reward is insights shared by a man honest with himself and his strengths and limitations in a way that is compelling, actually quietly fascinating. — Jay Levin, Founder of LA Weekly newspaper

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781667853468

Publisher: BookBaby

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: BookBaby

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 467g

Pages: 290

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Biography & Memoir Matthew Spaur Non-Fiction

About the Author

Matthew Spaur is a marketing and strategic communications professional with more than 20 years' experience spanning many industries including education, HR, IT, energy, consulting, and publishing.

He was the publisher of The Local Planet Weekly, an award-winning weekly newspaper. His writing has appeared in South Dakota Review, Owen Wister Review, Wisconsin Review, Willow Springs, Into the Ruins, and Heliotrope, and in the anthologies Microsoft in the Mirror and Secrets. As a ghost writer for executives, his work has appeared in FORTUNE and numerous nerdy trade publications.

Spaur and his teams have won awards and nominations from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society for Technical Communications, and the Associated Writing Programs.

He earned an MFA in Writing from Eastern Washington University and an MBA from the University of Nevada, Reno.