Whitney Gossett is a woman after my own heart. A former literary agent who has sold numerous books to Big 5 publishers (including 26 New York Times bestsellers), she saw that traditional publishing was broken. …

Christina Nicholson has seen all the bad publicity pitches. A former TV anchor who hit “delete” faster than publicists could send her terrible pitches, Nicholson is the CEO of Media Maven, a PR agency that offers an online course and group program to help people get media coverage without having…

Brian Sachetta is the author and owner of “Get Out of Your Head,” a brand and book series that seeks to help folks overcome anxiety and depression. As a software developer, he combines his experiences in the tech world with previous mental health battles to draw parallels between computer systems…

Tony Lyons, the CEO of Skyhorse Publishing, is not one to shy away from controversy. He’s known, in fact, for picking up books from other publishers when the authors are “cancelled.” I’ll be honest…I was scared to record this conversation because the times we live in — where anything you…

Of all the interviews I’ve done, the one I’m asked about perhaps the most often is with the iconic Robert Greene. This, of course, is not surprising. Greene is an icon in the writing world — as adored by rappers as he is by intellectual entrepreneurs for his meticulously researched…

Chris Voss is someone who seems to have popped up out of nowhere before beginning to appear everywhere. A former hostage negotiator, Voss watched his New York Times bestselling book, Never Split the Difference, become an instant classic in the business world as entrepreneurs soaked up his tactics. But how…

Misty McAfee is an author, marketer, real estate agent and delightful human. She’s also someone who has some writing out there that could be relaunched — in particular a book on codependence she released in 2015 and a play she released in 2021. In this episode, we went through both and discussed how she could change her title, cover, description, publishing company and more. We also discussed what made her launch the way she did, how to relaunch a book while keeping your existing Amazon reviews and what happens when you dedicate a book to a now ex-husband.

Did you launch a book and have it not go according to plan? That’s what happened to John Checki, which is why he’s the ideal person to feature on my new type of episode, “How to Fix a Broken Book.” He released his book, Spend Time and Save Money, in…