In 1996, everything about Joe Biel’s life seemed like a mistake. He was 18, he lived in Cleveland, he got drunk every day, and he had mystery health problems and weird social tics. All his friends’ lives were as bad or worse. To escape a nihilistic, apocalyptic worldview and to bring reading and documentation into a communal punk scene, he started assembling zines and bringing them in milk crates to underground punk shows. Eventually this became Microcosm Publishing. But Biel’s head for math was stronger than his ability to relate to people, and it wasn’t until he was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome that it all began to fall into place. This is the story of how, over 20 years, one person turned a litany of continuing mistakes and seeming wrong turns into a happy, fulfilled life and a thriving publishing business that defies all odds.

Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Autism (Punx)

Biographies & Memoirs

Biel, Joe

Arts & Literature

Microcosm Publishing

Unfuck Your Writing: Stop Listening to Bullshit Advice Just Write Better, Get Published, & Share Your Inner World

Reference

Harper, Faith, Ph.D.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Microcosm Pub

Ever since he came out as autistic, people have been contacting Joe to share their stories and ask questions. The most common question by far: How do I find a romantic partner? This zine gives some hard-won tips on topics like figuring&nbsp;out what you want out of a relationship, making friends,&nbsp;having good boundaries with your friends, the difference between flirting and harassment, how to have a fun date and get to know someone when eye contact and prolonged conversation aren't your strengths, how to express your needs and make sure you're hearing your partner when they express theirs, and how to maintain a healthy, happy long term relationship.&nbsp;Lots of life-saving info is packed into these pages! If you're on the spectrum, this is for you. If you're a neurotypical person with a partner on the spectrum, a zine just for you is coming soon.

How to Human With Autism: Friendships, Dating, & Relationships

Parenting & Relationships

Harper, Faith G.

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

Autism Faq: Everything That You Want to Know but Didn't Know to Ask.

Accountability is an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for and to repair the harm caused by one's actions. It features prominently in our relationships, personal lives, and professional lives. Everything from stealing money from work to lying to a friend to making a mistake at school that caused someone else to get in trouble to pressuring your spouse into having sex when they aren't interested to murdering a stranger on the street each require accountability; albeit dramatically different kinds.

How to Be Accountable: Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries, and Relationships (5-Minute Therapy)

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to book publishing written by a successful book publisher. So, you want to publish books. Publishing is an incredibly rewarding yet endlessly complicated profession. This readable, comprehensive, and empowering book serves as a resource and reality check for anyone considering launching a press or publishing a single book. Author Joe Biel draws on 23 years of experience in all parts of operating a small publishing company to teach you the skills of the trade, from distribution, operations, inventory, scheduling, and accounting to development, sales, publicity, and marketing. Readers will come away with the confidence to succeed and a big picture overview of why publishing matters and how to plan and run their business fairly and sustainably. This book is equally useful to publishing beginners looking for a realistic overview of the process and for already practicing publishers seeking a deeper understanding of accounting principles, ways to bring their books to new audiences, and how to advance their mission in a changing industry.

People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business from the Ground Up (Good Life)

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Autism Partner Handbook: How to Love Someone on the Spectrum (5-minute Therapy)

Harper, Faith G., Ph.D.

In this, the third issue of Joe Biel's award-winning, ongoing look at the Critical Mass movement, we are given a well-researched analysis at the history of bicycle activism and police spying in Portland, Oregon. The result is an engaging and readable combination of story, activism, and history. Over the course of 44 pages, Biel looks at why a city so bike-friendly as Portland has virtually no Critical Mass ride, while cataloging the ways the Portland Police Department has interacted with local riders and historic activism. Says Biel, "It's concerning how many times a cyclist has repeated to me the police's version of Portland's cycling history or how years later new rumors are created about what happened." Strange and inspiring, Bipedal, By Pedal #3 is essential, illuminating reading for cyclists and non-cyclists alike.

Bipedal, By Pedal: Issue Three: A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland, Oregon

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Every autistic person is capable and worthy of having happy, healthy, fulfilling friendships and relationships. This workbook takes you step-by-step through getting to know your own wants and needs and engaging with others whose wants and needs are compatible. The result of a collaboration between autistic publisher Joe Biel and Dr. Faith G. Harper, bestselling author of Unfuck Your Boundaries and Unfuck Your Intimacy, this workbook can be completed on its own or alongside The Autism Relationships Handbook. Exercises include evaluating your relationship history, figuring out what you want in your relationships and what steps you need to take to achieve your goal, how to identify someone who's a good potential friend or date, how to express your needs and boundaries, how to hear and respect the other person's needs and boundaries, and how to have relationship building or strengthening conversations.

The Autism Relationships Workbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love

Harper, Dr.

A People's Guide to Business: Nine Rules for Success

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