Need a doctor's note to justify your reading habit? Here you go!

A recent article in The Washington Post explores how reading fiction may benefit our brains, particularly our ability to understand an...

The biggest challenge every author faces today?

Selling books.

My friend Yrmis Barroeta of My Headquarters. Club sent me a marketing move this week that immediately caught my attention.

An author n...

MacKenzie Scott, the author and philanthropist formerly married to the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, recently announced that she'll publish her next novel in serial format on Substack, one installm...

These Bestselling Books Got Rejected Again and Again 

Let me cheer you up with the kind of story we authors always love to hear.

A story about books that were rejected numerous times before going on...

AI is changing publishing faster than most authors realize. 

And if you're a writer working on a book right now, you may be wondering:

What happens when you're competing with books that can be produ...

This article is written by Jen Tate, Chief Creative Officer at Your Bestselling Book, coauthor of several Amazon bestsellers, and producer of an award-winning documentary film. 

If you're anything li...

How Writers Can Use Place to Make Your Story Unforgettable

Since leaving Honolulu in early June, we've spent a few weeks in Northern California, landed in New York City, driven to Maine and back, and...

Trade Reach for Relevance: Why the Right Readers Matter More Than a Bigger Audience 

When it comes to promoting a book, it's easy to believe that bigger is always better.

More followers. More podcas...

I invited Andrea Sullivan, who founded the VyVE CEO Mastermind group with Gary Vaynerchuck, to talk with the authors in the Summer Cohort of Your Bestselling Book. She spoke about a critical aspect of...

Intellectual property (IP) is everything. Your book is IP. And building the value of that IP begins long before any camera rolls.

These were the key lessons the Your Bestselling Book Summer Cohort an...

Dr. Michael Housman is an OG of the AI world. He started researching machine learning in his 20s, around the time most of us were just discovering the internet. Today he runs an AI consultancy and spe...

In my nearly three decades in the publishing industry, the most persistent and heartbreaking belief I encounter among new authors is that finishing the manuscript is the finish line. They imagine that...