Building the Fort with Chris Heivly

What do you do when a professor flunks you in freshman English and tells you that you can’t write? If you’re Chris Heivly, you co-found MapQuest, build startup communities around the world, and then write books anyway. On this episode of Author Hour, Chris joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about _Build the Fort_, his playbook for the economic developers and community builders trying to make their cities better places for entrepreneurs. Chris shares why all the work is in the outline, how a foreword from Brad Feld unlocked testimonials from Steve Case and Richard Florida, the early-morning writing routine that got his manuscript done in under four months, and why three years after launch the book still sells in bulk and keeps him on stages around the world. For more information on Chris Heivly, visit https://scribemedia.com/authors/chris... For more information on _Build the Fort_, visit https://scribemedia.com/published-boo...