Latest Booklaunch Podcast Episodes
The State of Publishing Today with Kevin Anderson
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - April 24, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsKevin Anderson never meant to get into the publishing business after growing up in a small town in Canada before getting his PhD and graduating summa cum laude from Harvard and starting a tutoring company. Nevertheless, that tutoring company transitioned into what is now a massive publ...
How to Get Your Book Everywhere with Annabelle Gurwitch
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - January 10, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsAnnabelle Gurwitch is an actress, activist, and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize finalist I See You Made an Effort. Her other books include: Wherever You Go, There They Are, and You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up (coauthored with Jeff Kahn). She was the co-host...
Make Sure You Write the Right Book with Dave Chesson
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - January 03, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsDave Chesson is the creator of Kindlepreneur.com, a website devoted to teaching advanced book marketing which even Amazon KDP acknowledges as one of the best by telling users to “Gain insight from Kindlepreneur on how you can optimize marketing for your books.” Having worked with such a...
Get Your Book in Stores with Ashlea Hearn
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - December 27, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsAshlea Hearn is not only a 1st Lieutenant in the Army Reserves but also the author of Genesis Mortalis, Book 1 of the Take It Trilogy. We met when she reached out to me about the upcoming release of that book. But here's what's relevant: by that point, I had noticed this lovely person ...
Make Sure Your Readers Can Afford You with Scott Duffy
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - December 20, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsScott Duffy is an entrepreneur and business strategist who's listed as a “Top 10 Speaker” by Entrepreneur and has been named one of the “Top Influential People To Follow” by Yahoo! Finance. 'But that's not why I brought him on the pod. I brought him on because he's also the author of t...
What It's Like to Be Chosen by Oprah with Greg Behrendt
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - December 13, 2023 00:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsGreg Behrendt is the #1 New York Times best-selling co-author of He’s Just Not That Into You and It’s Called A Breakup Because It’s Broken. He's appeared on every TV show known to man, including Oprah, The Tonight Show and The Today Show, is a life long standup comedian and co-hosts the...
Use Your Book to Build Your Brand with Katie DePaola
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - December 06, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsKatie DePaola is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and the founder of Inner Glow Circle, a company dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs find their glow and live purpose-driven lives. But most relevantly for our show, she is the author of At Least You Look Good: How to Glow Through W...
How to Set Up an Author Podcast Tour with Alex Sanfilippo
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - November 29, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsAlex Sanfilippo is the host of the top-rated podcast Podcasting Made Simple, the founder of PodPros.com, a software company focused specifically on the podcasting industry and the co-creator of PodMatch, a service that matches podcast guests and hosts together for interviews. That's not...
Raising Money for Your Book with Craig Stanland
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - November 22, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsBoy, does Craig Stanland have a story to tell. It starts with the FBI knocking on his door, followed by two years in prison. But that's not really what we delve into here. Instead we talk about the book he wrote on his experience—and the one major mistake he made. Now that he's at wo...
Getting Press for Your Book with Peter Shankman
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - November 15, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsPeter Shankman is many things, among them a five-time best selling author, entrepreneur and corporate in-person and virtual keynote speaker who focuses on customer service. But in this episode I got him speaking about something so many of you ask me about: HARO, or Help a Reporter Out.....
How a Book Could Make You $5 Million with Rich Goldstein
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - November 08, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsRich Goldstein is a patent attorney, speaker, host of the Innovations and Breakthroughs podcast and, most relevantly for this show, the author of the bestselling book The ABA Consumer Guide to Obtaining a Patent, which was published by the American Bar Association. He's someone who und...
How to Write a Book Everyone Recommends with Rob Fitzpatrick
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - November 01, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsThis may be the most useful podcast I've ever released. That's because it's with a guy who's an expert on something EVERY author wants: getting people to recommend your book. His name is Rob Fitzpatrick and he's a former programmer who dropped out of grad school to go to YCombinator wi...
Use Social Media to Sell Books with Zara Barrie and Dayna Troisi
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - October 25, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsI literally don't have the words to describe the experience of recording this episode but suffice it to say that it was the most fun interview I've ever done. Back story: Zara Barrie and I knew each other online (I find her incredibly glam and we're mutual fans of one another to the po...
The Slow Climb to Selling 100,000 Books with Paul Angone
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - October 18, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsPaul Angone had an extremely unusual journey to success as an author. First, he tried to sell a book. For eight years. Nary a bite. Then a blog post he dashed off went viral. Very viral. From there, he was able to sell a book based on that blog post to a publisher. The problem was tha...
Build a Twitter Following Using Your Book Material with Jesse J. Anderson
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - October 11, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsJesse J. Anderson's journey to bookdom is unlike any other guest I've had on the show. For one, he's not launching a book to help build his business. Also, that book—Refocus: A Practical Guide to Adult ADHD—hasn't launched yet. In fact, he hasn't even finished writing it. Why, the...
Turning Your Books Into Movies with Ben Mezrich
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - October 04, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsBen Mezrich has sold over 10 million copies of his books. And, by the way, that’s not even the impressive part. The impressive part is that he sells EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS BOOKS as a movie or TV show; in fact, if Hollywood isn’t interested in the treatment, he doesn’t even write the b...
How to Sell Ads in Your Book with Alex Strathdee
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - September 27, 2023 00:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsAlex Strathdee is no ordinary writer. That's because he's as much an entrepreneur as he is a writer. How do we know this? Because when he wrote his book, Experience Over Degrees, and it didn't transform the world—or even his life—he didn't just shelve the book and the experience like ...
Turn Your Book Into a $7.5 Million Product with Mike Koenigs
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - September 20, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsMike Koenigs is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, co-host of Capability Amplifier podcast with Strategic Coach founder Dan Sullivan and 13-time bestselling author, Mike is regular contributor to Entrepreneur and Forbes. He's interviewed, consulted and advised celebrity clients, bil...
How to Prep for Your Book Launch with Sober Sexpert Tawny Lara
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - September 13, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsTawny Lara is a self-proclaimed natural born promoter. She's also a delightful person known as The Sober Sexpert, co-host of the Recovery Rocks podcast and author of the book, Dry Humping: a Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without Booze. This was recorded months before the b...
How to Get on Podcasts to Promote Your Book with John Corcoran
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - September 06, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsJohn Corcoran may be my new favorite human. A former White House speechwriter and attorney who worked in Hollywood, he now runs Rise25, which helps businesses get more clients, referral partners and strategic partners through their done-for-you podcast service. In the brief time we've ...
An Entirely Amusing Episode with Joel Stein
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - August 30, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsJoel Stein wrote a weekly column for Time magazine for 20 years, was a columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times and is the author of the books Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity and In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You’re Better Than Someone W...
How to Get an Influencer to Promote You with Jess Lahey
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - August 23, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsJess Lahey can talk about so many things so brilliantly that interviewing her felt a bit like walking through an outlet mall: so many choices and they all look so good! But really, here's what you need to know: She's a former New York Times columnist and current Atlantic contributor, p...
The Secret to Becoming a NYT Bestselling Author with Jennifer K. Armstrong
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - August 16, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsJennifer Keishin Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything; a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; and Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, an...
How to Get Readers to Hire You with Jay Abraham
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - August 09, 2023 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsJay Abraham is the world's highest-paid marketing consultant, a proven business leader and top executive coach in the United States. As Founder and CEO of The Abraham Group, Inc., Jay has spent his entire career solving complex problems and fixing underperforming businesses. He has sig...
Why Authors Should Be On Social Media with Jane Friedman
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - August 02, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsJane Friedman is an icon in the publishing space. With over two decades of experience in the business, she is truly considered the world's leading expert on traditional publishing, self publishing and where the twain shall meet. She's the curator of The Hot Sheet, a biweekly paid newsle...
The Reality of Traditional Publishing with Jeff Garlin
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - July 26, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsDo you really need me to tell you who Jeff Garlin is? Well, the simple way to handle that is to tell you that he stars on arguably the most adored show of all time (Curb Your Enthusiasm). But he does so much more than just come to you via your SmartTV. He's also a standup (um, obv), ph...
How to Get a Big Name to Blurb Your Book with Ed Kressy
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - July 19, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsEd Kressy is not your average human. He's much sweeter than your average human and his sweetness emanates from him. He also has a much crazier story than your average addict with a crazy story...and this is coming from someone who's heard every crazy addiction story over the past two ...
Blog Your Way to Book Success with Derek Murphy
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - July 12, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsDerek Murphy is a USA Today bestselling author with a PhD in Literature, who’s been featured in CNN, writes fantasy and sometimes lives in castles. When not trolling obscure bookshops, he prefers to be sipping espresso, surrounded by kittens and pursuing research on what it means to be ...
Selling Your Book Traditionally After Self-Publishing with David Nihill
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - July 05, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsOriginally from Dublin Ireland, David Nihill is the founder of FunnyBizz Conference, bestselling author of Do You Talk Funny?, winner of San Francisco International Comedy Competition, runner up in the Moth’s largest US Grandslam storytelling competition and the first-ever Irishman to h...
Getting Articles Published & Landing an Agent with Estelle Erasmus
On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business - June 28, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsEstelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, writing coach, teacher for Writer's Digest and adjunct instructor at New York University. The former editor-in-chief of five national consumer women's magazines, her work has appeared in dozens of media outlets, including The New York Time...
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