Launch Your Book

Hosted ByAnna David

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.


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How to Save Yourself From a Disastrous Book Launch with Scott Duffy

Scott Duffy is an entrepreneur and business strategist. He is listed as a “Top 10 Speaker” by Entrepreneur and has been named one of the “Top Influential People To Follow” by Yahoo! Finance.   He’s also the author of three different…

How to Get Over Yourself and Just Promote Your Book with Jerry Stahl

Jerry Stahl is the iconic author of Permanent Midnight (made into a movie starring Ben Stiller), among nine other books (among them, OG Dad, Pain Killers, I, Fatty, Perv, Plainclothes Naked, Happy Mutant Baby Pills, Bad Sex on…

How to Make Your Book Into a TEDx Talk with Bridget Sampson

Bridget Sampson is a Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, the author of Communication Secrets for Success and the co-author of Communication Training and Development. She’s also a TEDx speaker who helps other people write and…

How to Get a Journalist’s Attention with HARO Creator Peter 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…

Approaching Your Book Like It’s a Business with Bonnie Habyan

 is a communications marketing professional with an MBA in banking and finance. She’s been a news reporter, a wedding DJ and even a Miss Baltimore Oriole. But now she’s taken on a whole new role: as an author. Her book, The World…

What Your Non-Fiction Book Needs with Elizabeth Lyons

Elizabeth Lyons is the creator of the  and a five-time author whose , which she wrote because she couldn’t find another book on the topic and really needed it, sold over 20,000 copies. As someone who helps aspiring authors…

Hollywood Special: Turning Your Books Into Movies with Ben 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…

Hollywood Special: Making A Book Into a Movie with 50 Shades Producer Mike DeLuca

Mike De Luca has, arguably, more experience than anyone else out there when it comes to turning books into movies: three of the four times he’s done it (for The Social Network, Moneyball and Captain Phillips), he has been nominated for…

Ready-Made Book Special: Turning a Book Into a Course with Paul Angone

Paul 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…

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