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Chris Preston talking about working with Tommy Baker

Chris Preston

Mark Swain talking about working with Tommy Baker

Mark Swain

Before the books and the keynotes

Four Guinness World Records. NBA All-Star Jam Session, Phoenix. Guinness Reckord TV, Stockholm.

Guinness World Record certificate: spinning a football on forehead for 11.9 seconds, Stockholm, 2001
Guinness World Record certificate: longest duration spinning two basketballs using one hand, 32.88 seconds, Phoenix, 2009
Guinness World Record certificate: most consecutive chest and head rolls using 3 basketballs, Phoenix, 2009
Guinness World Record certificate: most basketball headers while spinning two basketballs, Phoenix, 2009

All of this is from a previous life using the same successful framework this service is built on. If you want the full background on my sports career, my other site has the complete story.

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What carries across is the extraction. Whether it was deconstructing a physical skill into repeatable steps or building a book's architecture from a single conversation, the process is the same: find the structure, test it, and make it hold. That is what the Blueprint Session does, and it is what twenty years of this kind of thinking trained me to do.


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But the conversation is only the starting point. I learned the rest by writing my own book. A book is not a collection of ideas. It is an argument. Finding that argument is the hardest part, and it is the part that takes the most time.

The book is already in you. The problem is that you are too close to see its shape.

From writing my own book, I quickly discovered I could help others find the shape of theirs. I built a production system with editorial intelligence at every stage: structure, voice, genre architecture, argumentation. My skill is extraction and iteration. Getting the material out of your head, running it through that system, and refining until the result sounds like you at your most articulate.

This service exists because I believe the most valuable books come from the people who have lived the expertise. My role is to ask the right questions, capture what matters, and make the result inevitable.

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