Join the Five Year Life™ Advance Reader Teams

Read the Books Before Publication. Help Make Them Better. Join One ART — Or Join Them All.

Most readers never get to see a book while it can still be changed.

They see the finished version after the questions have been chosen, the explanations have been written, the weak sections have either been repaired or missed, the confusing parts have either been clarified or allowed to survive, and every opportunity for a real reader to say “this works” or “this doesn’t” has already passed.

Five Year Life™ Advance Reader Teams are different. ART members receive pre-publication manuscripts free and read as much — or as little — as their time and interest allow. In return, I ask for something far more useful than generic praise: specific, book-based feedback about what you actually read, what worked, what did not, and why.

You are not joining a fan club. You are not agreeing to promote the books. You are not promising to read hundreds of pages on a deadline. And you are absolutely not required to post a public review.

You are being invited behind the curtain while the books can still become better.

The Five Year Life™ books began with a simple premise: enormous numbers of people are being forced to reconsider where their lives are headed, while millions more have never been forced to reconsider it at all — even when the road they are traveling is no longer the road they most desire.

The first three books form a natural progression. Your Last Paycheck™ helps stabilize the disruption and protect the runway. Reset Protocol™ asks whether the road you were traveling is still the road you actually want. Reset Protocol Workbook™ turns that strategy into written reflection and concrete 24-hour actions.

Efficient Love™ applies the same disciplined search for alignment to one of life’s most consequential decisions: choosing — and being chosen by — a compatible partner. Stark Naked Startup™ takes many of the same human questions into fiction: connection, desire, truth, technology, ambition, and what happens when an AI startup succeeds beyond anything its founders intended.

You can join one ART. You can join several. You can join all five.

Scroll down and choose the book — or books — that interest you.
Every cover is clickable, and every book has its own gold JOIN THE ART button.

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First, the Most Important Thing: ART Is Completely Free

There is no cost to apply. There is no cost to participate. There is no subscription, paid tier, premium membership, upsell, or hidden obligation.

ART members receive the available pre-publication manuscript or draft at my expense because your feedback has real value. You are helping me find weaknesses while there is still time to fix them.

You also do not need to read the entire book. One chapter, two Action Plans, several questions, or one substantial section can produce enormously useful feedback if you engage with it carefully enough to explain what worked, what did not, and why.

And if you are a fellow author: ART membership comes with an additional benefit. After you provide substantive feedback on one of my books, I will personally run your own manuscript — even a partial manuscript or completed chapter — through the same Triple Hat Critics™ methodology I developed for my five books. There is no charge. Details appear near the bottom of this page.

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What an Advance Reader Team Actually Is

ART is a simple exchange between an author and real readers while the manuscript is still fluid enough to improve.

• You receive early access. Depending on the title and its current stage, that may be a complete manuscript, a substantial draft, or evolving pre-publication material.
• You read what interests you. You do not need to finish the book, race through it, or turn reading into another obligation.
• You give specific feedback. Tell me what you read, what worked, what did not, and why. Tell me when something confused you, repeated itself, felt thin, dragged, moved too quickly, or unexpectedly hit home.
• You may catch practical problems too. Typos, broken links, bad formatting, contradictions, navigation problems, or anything else you notice are all useful.
• You may leave a public review after publication if you independently choose to. It is completely optional and must always reflect your actual opinion.

That is the ART relationship.

Real readers. Real manuscripts. Specific feedback while the author can still do something about it.

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What You Receive

• Free early access to the pre-publication material available for the ART you join.
• A direct voice in improving the final book. I personally review substantive ART feedback during revision.
• Optional acknowledgment by name in the published book if you want to be recognized. If you prefer anonymity, remain anonymous.
• Team Member Superhero recognition for especially detailed, useful, manuscript-specific feedback.
• First consideration for future Five Year Life™ Advance Reader Teams.
• Book-specific benefits on selected titles, including private or early-access material described below.
• For fellow authors: a complimentary Triple Hat Critics™ review of your manuscript after you provide substantive feedback on mine.

No benefit requires you to post a positive review. No benefit is payment for a public review. ART exists first and foremost to improve the manuscript.

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What I Ask From You

I do not need polished literary criticism. I need useful reader evidence.

The standard is simple:

Tell me what you read, what worked, what did not, and why.

Generic praise does not tell me what to preserve. Generic complaints or derision do not tell me what to repair. Specific feedback does.

Examples of useful ART feedback might sound like:

• “I read Action Plans 4 and 5. The first one made immediate sense, but I had to reread the opening of Action Plan 5 twice because I could not tell whether the advice applied before or after unemployment benefits started.”
• “Question 49 made me stop because I realized I dislike my employer, not my profession. The follow-up questions helped me separate those two things.”
• “The chapter moved quickly until this four-page section. Here I felt the same point was being made three different ways.”
• “I understood what the character was doing but not why she suddenly trusted him. I think the transition needs another beat.”

That kind of feedback can change a manuscript.

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You Do Not Owe Me a Public Review

If you later decide to review a published book on Amazon, Goodreads, another retailer, your own site, or anywhere else, the review should be entirely yours: your opinion, your words, and your decision.

I do not buy reviews. I do not require reviews. I do not condition ART membership or ART benefits on reviews.

If you voluntarily write something about the book that you would permit me to quote in marketing, I will ask permission before using it.

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Choose Your Advance Reader Team

Click the book cover or the gold button directly below it.
Join one. Join several. Join all five. Every ART is free.

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YOUR LAST PAYCHECK™

First, Financial Triage After the Layoff. Second, Mapping Your New Personalized Career Path in the Age of AI.™

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Your Last Paycheck™ begins where a career disruption becomes a financial emergency. Its 23 self-contained Action Plans address the immediate questions: what to secure, what to cut, how to protect cash and credit, how to stabilize the household, how to survive a long job search, and how to begin rebuilding income without making panic-driven decisions.

Then the book turns forward. A major portion examines the AI-transformed employment market and maps 100 emerging job and career paths across the corporate ladder — including roles that build on decades of existing experience without requiring you to become a programmer.

This ART is especially relevant if you have been laid off, fear you may be, are living through a forced career transition, are supporting someone who is, or simply want to prepare while the paycheck is still arriving.

ART Team Members also receive early access to The Upwork Exposé™, a separately sourced examination of the platform for readers considering freelance work as bridge income.

JOIN THE YOUR LAST PAYCHECK™ ART
GET THE CURRENT MANUSCRIPT FREE

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RESET PROTOCOL™

Beyond The Road Less Traveled: The Road Most Desired™

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Reset Protocol™ asks the question that often comes after disruption — and sometimes long before it: is the road you are traveling still the road you actually want?

The book is built around 108 carefully crafted questions drawn from recurring themes observed across approximately 33,000 candid, one-on-one mentoring relationships over more than four and a half decades. These are not 108 disconnected journal prompts. Each question has a specific job and is supported by framing, case examples, Internal Dialogue, drill-down questions, a 24-hour Action, a Hope Moment, and a Deeper Question.

And you do not have to read the book cover to cover. The Question Picker™ helps you enter wherever the pressure is today, and four reading paths let you choose the depth that fits your life: Question du Jour, 7-Day Triage™, 9-Month Sectional Reset™, or 108-Day Deep Reset™.

This ART is for readers willing to tell me whether those questions really do what they were designed to do.

JOIN THE RESET PROTOCOL™ ART
GET THE COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT FREE

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RESET PROTOCOL WORKBOOK™

Strategy Defines The Destination. Tactics Move Your Feet.™

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Reset Protocol Workbook™ turns the same 108-question framework into an active write-in system. Each question occupies its own two-page unit with concise framing, carefully crafted sub-questions, substantial writing space, and a practical 24-hour Action.

The Workbook can be paired with Reset Protocol™, but it also stands on its own. If you already know that what you need is less explanation and more structured implementation, you can begin here.

It uses the same Question Picker™ and the same four reading paths, which means you do not have to start at Question 1 or finish all 108 questions. One useful question, honestly worked, can be a complete session.

This ART is especially valuable because Workbook feedback is different from normal reading feedback. I want to know whether the space works, whether the prompts go deep enough, whether the 24-hour Actions are realistic, and whether the two-page structure actually helps you think and act.

JOIN THE RESET PROTOCOL WORKBOOK™ ART
GET THE COMPLETE WORKBOOK MANUSCRIPT FREE

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EFFICIENT LOVE™

I Had 1,200 First Dates So You Don’t Have To™

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Efficient Love™ grew out of a ten-year personal experiment that began with one question: could I become much more efficient at identifying genuine long-term compatibility before both people invested months or years discovering that the fit was wrong?

The experiment ultimately involved approximately 2 million visitors to NovelistSeeksHeroine.com, more than 15,000 serious responses, and approximately 1,200 first dates. Out of that experience grew a structured compatibility methodology built around the Profound List, Profane List, and DIDO List — three lists from each person, creating six lists that must work in both directions.

The objective was never simply to find someone who matched me. It was to find a relationship in which both people could genuinely say the other person matched what mattered to them.

That decade ended with one proposal and the marriage that continues more than two decades later.

Efficient Love™ ART members receive an unusual additional benefit: private access to the restored 350-plus-page NovelistSeeksHeroine.com archive, running from the original code and unavailable to the general public.

JOIN THE EFFICIENT LOVE™ ART
HELP SHAPE THE MANUSCRIPT BEFORE PUBLICATION

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STARK NAKED STARTUP™

Book 1 of the Stark Naked Startup Novel Series

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Stark Naked Startup™ is the fiction outlier in the Five Year Life™ Series: an adult, romance-forward techno-thriller about four founders who believe they may have found a technological answer to one of humanity’s oldest problems — loneliness.

What begins as an AI startup story accelerates into something much larger: connection moving faster than ordinary courtship, sexual intimacy becoming extraordinarily powerful, a truth architecture escaping its original purpose, and consequences significant enough to attract the attention of governments.

The book contains explicit adult relationships and is intended for readers comfortable with erotic content woven into a high-stakes technology story.

This ART is particularly valuable because fiction readers notice things no manuscript audit can completely measure: whether the characters feel alive, where tension drops, where attraction feels earned or unearned, where pacing accelerates beautifully, and where it simply moves too fast.

JOIN THE STARK NAKED STARTUP™ ART
READ THE MANUSCRIPT BEFORE PUBLICATION

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Who ART Is For

ART is probably a good fit if you are the kind of reader who notices things.

• You underline, highlight, question, argue with, or actually use what you read.
• You are living through a layoff, transition, reset, reinvention, relationship decision, career crossroads, or another moment where one of these books speaks directly to your life.
• You are a coach, consultant, counselor, HR professional, manager, mentor, or advisor who regularly sees other people facing these issues.
• You are an author who understands how valuable another serious reader can be before publication.
• You are a fiction reader who instinctively notices character, pacing, tension, credibility, and emotional payoff.
• You simply enjoy helping turn a promising manuscript into a better finished book.

ART is probably not a good fit if your only objective is to collect free books and disappear. You will not be charged, chased, or punished if life gets in the way — but the word Team is there for a reason.

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Privacy and Respect

Some Five Year Life™ books deal with extremely personal subjects: money, career loss, ambition, relationships, sexual compatibility, identity, fear, and decisions that may never be anyone else’s business.

You never have to disclose your private life in order to give useful ART feedback.

You can tell me that a question was useful without telling me your answer. You can tell me a relationship section felt accurate without describing your relationship. You can tell me a financial chapter confused you without sharing your finances.

Privacy makes honest feedback easier. I respect it.

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Questions?

Questions about an Advance Reader Team?
ARC@FiveYearLife.com

General Five Year Life™ inquiry?
Info@FiveYearLife.com

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A Final Note

There are very few moments in the life of a book when a reader can say something and know the book may actually change because they said it.

ART is that moment.

If a paragraph is unclear, I can still rewrite it. If a question is weak, I can still strengthen it. If a chapter drags, I can still tighten it. If something important is missing, there may still be time to put it in.

You do not have to be a professional editor to notice any of those things.

You only have to be a real reader willing to tell me the truth about what happened while you were reading.

That is enough to matter.

Thanks,

Robert

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA
CEO and Publisher, Good-Man LLC
Founder and Author, Five Year Life™ Series
44X Founder · Rocket Scientist ·
Four and a Half Decades of Mentoring ·
Chief Dragonslayer™ — Business & Love ·
Novelist Who Successfully Found His Heroine™

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PS — A Special ART Benefit for Fellow Authors

If you are working on your own book — finished manuscript, partial manuscript, or even a substantial completed chapter — I know how difficult it can be to obtain criticism that is both detailed and genuinely useful.

Over approximately 18 months, I developed a manuscript-review methodology for my own Five Year Life™ books called the Triple Hat Critics™.

It forces the manuscript to be reviewed through three different professional lenses:

• Senior Editor — structure, clarity, continuity, factual integrity, usability, prose, and production problems.
• Literary Critic — reader experience, voice, pacing, emotional impact, originality, credibility, and whether the manuscript actually works as a book.
• Marketing Director — positioning, differentiation, audience, promises, sales-page parity, marketability, and whether the book is communicating why anybody should care.

I built it for my own manuscripts. I do not sell the methodology, and I do not distribute the proprietary review instructions.

But I will use it for fellow authors who become real ART participants.

After you provide substantive, specific feedback on one of my manuscripts, I will personally run your own manuscript — or the material you have completed so far — through the same Triple Hat Critics™ methodology and give you the resulting report.

No charge. No upsell.

It is simply one author saying thank you to another reader who helped improve his book.

READ ABOUT THE TRIPLE HAT CRITICS™
FREE FOR QUALIFYING FELLOW ART AUTHORS

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P.P.S. — If you’ve ever wondered what 1,200 first dates, more than 15,000 serious responses, and a decade-long personal quest actually produce, there is a page on this site you probably should not miss. It is the real backstory behind Efficient Love™ and the decade that made it possible. Some of it is embarrassing. All of it is part of the story.

THE STORY BEHIND NOVELIST SEEKS HEROINE™
READ THE 10-YEAR BACKSTORY BEHIND EFFICIENT LOVE™

P.P.P.S. — The frameworks behind these books grew in part from approximately 33,000 candid, one-on-one mentoring relationships over more than four and a half decades. Many lasted years, and some continue today. The accumulated perspective from those relationships is what I call Compound Knowledge™.

EXPLORE COMPOUND KNOWLEDGE™
WHAT IT IS — AND WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU

P.P.P.P.S. — If you are a corporate buyer, HR leader, coach, program director, outplacement provider, university, or other organization interested in bulk purchases, organizational deployment, or integrating Five Year Life™ books into an existing program, the Special Sales page explains the options and which books best fit different use cases.

CORPORATE & SPECIAL SALES
EXPLORE BULK ORDERS & ORGANIZATIONAL USE