Through solo question-and-answer episodes as well as interviews with best-selling authors, entrepreneurs and publishing insiders, New York Times bestselling author and TEDx speaker Anna David breaks down the best ways to launch a book that will change your career—and life.
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A book’s journey is far from over once it’s been launched. In fact, it’s got a whole lifetime ahead of itself. And so while this podcast leads you through writing and launching a bestselling book, its ultimate goal is to help you create a book that changes your career—and your life.
When someone says they’re in a writing group, that can mean many things. They may be doing a “write your book in a weekend” class or sitting down with fellow writers once a month. For Tim Gager, it means showing up five days a week, online, for the past three years. That’s because Tim runs…
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Nicolas Cole is an author and the #1 personal development writer on the internet with more than 75,000,000 views on his work. Cole rose to internet stardom in 2015 when he became the #1 most-read writer on Quora, accumulating tens of millions of views on his viral articles, and his work being republished in Time,…
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Carlyn Montes De Oca is a passionate animal advocate, international speaker and multi-award winning author of Dog as My Doctor, Cat as my Nurse who has also been featured on ABC and CBS and in Woman’s Day magazine. But it was what she did for her most recent book, Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry,…
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Ian Altman is one of the world’s top expert on sales, with his Same Side Academy rated as one of the top 5 Sales Development programs globally. But instead of focusing on sales, we talked about how he has used the book he co-authored, Same Side Selling, to attract clients to his business. We also…
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Joel Weldon is not just a Hall of Fame speaker who’s been speaking for over four decades but he is also a true legend in the speaking industry—having been paid to speak at over 3,000 events and personally coached over 10,000 speakers. In this episode, we talked about how to nail your pitch letter if…
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This week, I usher a new baby into the world… My book, On Good Authority: 7 Steps to Prepare, Promote and Profit From a How-to Book That Makes You the Go-to Expert, is now out and this week’s episode is an excerpt from the audiobook. It’s the book’s introduction, which is all about how we’re…
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Do the words “networking for your book launch” make you want to curl up in a small ball and rock back and forth? This week’s guest will assuage your anxieties…or at least get you to uncurl. Ryan Paugh isn’t just a thought leader, but also a community-building, relationship-forging, entrepreneur-enabling force to be reckoned with. And…
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Traditional publishers lie. They tell you that you have to sell 10,000 copies of your book for it to be successful. Or 5000. Or 1000. They’re wrong. I’d rather sell 100 copies of my book to the right reader than 10,000 copies to readers who won’t really care. In this episode, I explain why. This…
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Good news: going on podcasts is the best way to promote your book. Podcast listeners are eager to learn and read books. Even more good news: Podcast hosts love to book authors. So there has to be a catch, right? Well, here it is: most of us are pitched daily, in the worst ways. Listen…
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Nicole Kalil is someone who practices what she preaches. A fugitive of the C-suite at a Fortune 100 company, she has coached hundreds of women in business and speaks around the world. When she was gearing up to her launch her book, Validation is for Parking, she heavily invested in social media (to the tune…
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