Death By Deadline: Finding Humour In The Fine Print

By Miss Emma L Orr and Emma Orr

If you've ever found yourself still editing at 11:59pm, wrestling with a broken portal upload, or rewriting the "final" version for the twenty-eighth time, this book is for you.

Death By Deadline: Finding Humour in the Fine Print is the first joke book dedicated to the wild, frustrating, and oddly hilarious world of bids, tenders, and RFPs. Packed with over 300 original jokes, this collection shines a light on the shared struggles of proposal professionals everywhere - from compliance matrices that go ignored, to SMEs who vanish when you need them most, to evaluators who ask the same question four different ways just to test your sanity.

This isn't just comedy for comedy's sake. Written by bid consultant Emma L Orr, Death By Deadline uses humour as reverse psychology. Years of experience have shown her that people often ignore best practice advice - but laugh at a joke, and suddenly the truth behind it hits home. By poking fun at the ridiculous parts of the RFP process, this book encourages readers to reflect on how things could be done better (without the usual lectures).

Whether you're a:

Bid Manager juggling deadlines and stakeholders

Proposal Writer trying to align 12 authors into one voice

Sales or Business Development Lead navigating the tender minefield

Or simply someone who has lived through "track changes trauma"

...this book will make you laugh, groan, and most importantly, feel seen.

What you'll find inside:

300+ jokes and one-liners covering every corner of the proposal lifecycle

Relatable humour that exposes the madness of deadlines, SMEs, compliance, procurement, and portals

A lighthearted way to connect with colleagues, kick off team meetings, or simply survive another submission cycle

This is the perfect desk companion for anyone in the profession. Share it with your team, leave it in the office kitchen, or pull it out when the next deadline looms - because sometimes the only way to get through the pressure is to laugh at it.

Death By Deadline is more than a joke book. It's a rallying cry for bid and proposal people everywhere: we may not control the deadline, but we can control how we laugh about it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTZC1WHP
• ISBN13: 9798264226519
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"