The Usual Error book

Whoa!

The limited edition is sold out! We sold all 100 limited edition copies in four and a half days, so we’re unfortunately out of stock of the book right now. We didn’t expect them to go so quickly!

But we are taking pre-orders for the unlimited edition!

It will look like this, but the cover will be blue instead of orange, and won’t have the “limited edition” thingy across the top.

It’s so new we don’t even have a picture of the cover yet!

You’ll get a signed copy of the book!

You’re probably here because you’ve been waiting for this book to come out for ages, and you wanted to be one of the first to get your hands on it. If so, you can go ahead and scroll to the bottom.

For the rest of you, here’s what makes this book spiffier than other books on communication.

1. It’s based on real-world experience that actually works.

It’s not some psychologist’s opinion on how communication ought to work. It’s two real live people’s experience of how communication does work. Every technique in this book is one we learned ourselves, often the hard way - by misunderstanding each other over and over again until we figured out what was going wrong. Each time we figured out something new, we’d write it down and put it in the book.

2. It will stick in your head and improve your life.

Most books on communication are full of the authors talking at you, with a little bit of made-up stilted-sounding dialogue thrown in for good measure. But that’s not how people learn best. That sort of book is likely to make you read it, say, “Hmm, that was good,” and then go back to communicating the way you did before. That’s not our goal with this book. We want to teach you useful and awesome things that will make your communication (and your life!) better.

Some people learn best from explanations, some learn best from stories, and some learn best visually. Generally, people learn best from a combination of different methods. In every single chapter, in addition to explaining a communication technique that can help you in some way, we’ll also tell you a story or two about how it helped us in our life, and we’ll show you an illustration of the concept to help you hold an image of it in your mind. (All the pictures on this page are illustrations from the book.)

We intend to do everything in our power to make you as cool as possible, including helping the book become a bestseller, so that you can brag about having a signed, personalized copy of a bestseller. It’ll be signed not only by Pace and Kyeli, but also by the infamous illustrator Martin Whitmore. You can’t get much cooler than that.

We appreciate you!

Book Preorder Form

NOTE: Preorders will NOT be shipped before Christmas. The unlimited edition won’t be ready until January 5th. And remember, shipping time estimates count from when we receive it, which is not today. This is a pre-order, after all. (:

If you’d prefer to wait and buy it on Amazon, we’ll post an announcement to the newsletter and the blog as soon as it’s available. But those, of course, won’t be signed or personalized.

P.S. If you want a sneak preview of the book, you can listen to chapter 1 of the audiobook or peek inside.