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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The new podcast name debuts with a first-of-its-kind (at least for me) episode: a compilation of thoughts from the different publishing experts who have been on the show. I was able to get both recorded and written thoughts from a bunch of my favorites, including Dave Chesson, Roseanne Cheng, Amber…

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…

Amber Vilhauer is a leading digital strategist but she’s so much more. The founder of NGNG (No Guts No Glory) has come up with a system more ingenious than any I’ve ever seen when it comes to helping authors corral their network to support their book launches. Longtime listeners know…

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…