Living in Seattle, both a literary and an entrepreneurial city, I found that very often conversations steered inexorably toward books – one read or, better, one that should be written. Aha! What if I could help turn these conversations into action? What if these nontraditional authors – the founders, innovators, thinkers and tinkerers – had a publishing partner?

Georges Bank is a nineteenth century tale of power and greed set in the stormy waters off Gloucester, Massachusetts and in the steamy fishermen brothels ashore. Maggie O’Grady, an Irish immigrant, becomes pregnant after an encounter with her first employer, a rich Boston merchant, who discards her penniless in a Gloucester brothel. Maggie raises her son in the brothel and in time finds love with a fisherman.

It is the second in a series of The Amazon Way strategy books by John Rossman, a former Amazon executive who today is a highly sought after advisor and speaker on creating digital capabilities. His debut book, The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World’s Most Disruptive Company, recently was released as a second edition with updated content.