BookThinkers Newsletter #9 — Resistance Is Real + Steven Pressfield Reads LIVE Next Week

This Week at BookThinkers

Next Tuesday night (June 2nd), one of the most important authors in the creative world reads LIVE. This week we're getting you ready.

Here's what's going on:

⭐ Instagram Highlight — A New Voice Worth Following

This week Nick introduced someone he met recently and immediately knew would become a close collaborator: David Fullmer, creator of the Superhuman Rhythm — a life cadence built around business, health, growth, and pushing human potential.

David's goal is to help 5 million people by 2030. Nick's take: some missions you hear and immediately know are real. This is one of them.

If you're someone who takes personal development seriously, David is worth following.

⭐ Live Author Readings — Steven Pressfield | Monday, June 2 at 7 PM EST

This is the big one.

Steven Pressfield — author of The War of Art, Gates of Fire, and his brand new novel The Arcadian — joins Live Author Readings on June 2 for what might be the most anticipated session yet.

If you've read The War of Art, you already know what it means to have that book in your hands. The concept of Resistance — the invisible force that keeps creative people from doing the work they were meant to do — has helped millions of writers, entrepreneurs, and artists understand why they self-sabotage, and more importantly, how to fight back.

Steven will be reading from both The War of Art and The Arcadian, his new novel — a Clint Eastwood-style historical thriller that he believes can reveal deeper truths about reality than nonfiction ever could. Nick spent a day with Steven at Rick Rubin's Shangri-La Studio in Malibu filming content for the launch, and the conversation that day made one thing clear: this is someone who has earned every word on every page.

He wrote for 17 years before earning his first penny from writing. He kept going anyway. That's the story. And next Monday night, you can hear it directly from him.

Tuesday, June 2 | 7 PM EST | Free — register now

Podcast Flashback — Steven Pressfield | The War of Art

There's no better week to revisit this one. In this episode of the BookThinkers podcast, Nick sat down with Steven Pressfield to talk about The War of Art — the book that named the thing every creative person feels but couldn't explain. Resistance. The force that shows up the moment you decide to do something that matters.

Steven's story alone is worth the listen: 17 years of writing before earning a single dollar. Odd jobs to stay afloat. Keeping going anyway. If you've been circling something you haven't started — this conversation might be the push.