Updates, Interviews, Books, and Tour Stops

What Are You Doing?

It’s a busy time of the year for The Minimalists, but we’re enjoying every minute of it. Here’s what’s happening right now in our world…

The Minimalists National Meetup Tour — 33 Cities

The first leg of The Minimalists National Meetup Tour starts on November 26, 2011. Visit our meetup tour page for dates, times, and locations for all 33-cities. We’re looking forward to meeting you and laughing together. Ryan is brining his black Sharpie in case anyone wants him to autograph their iPad or Kindle.

To help us gauge potential attendance, please one-click RSVP (“maybe attending” or “definitely attending”) on the tour page.

Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life — Coming Very Soon

The wait is almost over. Our first full-length non-fiction book, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life, will be published on December 8, 2011. We spent a year writing this book, and we’re excited to finally share it with you.

Live a Meaningful Life will give you greater insight into our personal lives, our troubled pasts, our struggles with discontentment, our battles with depression, and the changes we made that led to more passionate, fulfilled, happy lives. This book thoroughly outlines how we changed the five most important areas of our lives and shows you how you can apply our changes to your life.

Falling While Sitting Down — Correction & Updated Version

Are you one of the many people who purchased a copy of Falling While Sitting Down: Stories? If so, thank you for helping it debut at #3 on Amazon’s Bestselling Short Stories list. The book itself received several great reviews.

If you enjoyed the book, please leave a review on Amazon (regardless of the format you purchased). Those reviews really help.

If you haven’t yet purchased Falling While Sitting Down: Stories, you can get it for $3.99 on Kindle (Amazon).

Minimalism: Essential Essays — Unexpected Success

Special thanks to everyone who supported our very first book earlier this year. Minimalism: Essential Essays is a collection of 29 of our favorite essays about living a meaningful life with less stuff (plus two unpublished essays not available anywhere else).

Thanks to your support, this book reached #4 on Amazon’s Bestsellers List for Non-Fiction: Happiness. And that makes us happy. It also received a ton of great reviews.

If you enjoyed the book, please leave a review on Amazon.

If you haven’t yet purchased Minimalism: Essential Essays, you can get the PDF version for $3.99 here:

It’s also available for #3.99 on Kindle (Amazon) and Nook (Barnes & Noble).

Joshua Fields Millburn.com — Professional Facelift

Dave and Jeff over at Spyr Media just finished an amazing major facelift for JoshuaFieldsMillburn.com. Check it out if you’re interested.

Interviews — Video, Audio, and Print

We’ve been interviewed all over the web lately. These are a few of our favorites:

How The Minimalists Built an Audience (Video Interview on Think Traffic)
Author and Minimalist Joshua Fields Millburn (Audio on Intrepid Radio)
23 Incredibly Useful Insights to Becoming an Expert (JFM on Expert Enough)
Fact or Fiction: Interview with Joshua Fields Millburn (on Life Rapture)
HORNE Minimalism Design Interview (JFM on HORNE)
How Less Can Be More (Unlimited Magazine)
How Minimal Are You (JFM in InTreehouses Magazine p. 47)

If you’re interested in interviewing The Minimalists for your website or blog, email themins[at]themins.com and we’ll take a look at your request.

Free Essays for Subscribers

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