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Weekly Tips for Writing & Publishing Your Bestselling Book

The New York Times published a quiz that has been making the rounds in writing circles, and if you haven't taken it yet, ...

Many authors assume Amazon is the beginning and the end of the publishing conversation. And for good reason: It’s where approximately 85% of books are sold. Plus if you sign up for Kindle Unlimited, g...

I've warned you before about bad actors in the publishing world. I told you the story of my friend Carl, who paid a ghostwriter $10,000 only to be, well, ghosted. YBB friend Shawnee Delaney wrote a gu...

Often, when I’m interviewing potential book coaching clients, they’ll say something along the lines of, “Is it even worth it? What if only 10 people read my book?”

“Well,” I reply. “First of all, if ...

With social media and short-form content overloading our attention spans, the way readers consume books has fundamentally shifted. While the market for traditional books has seen a steady decline over...

I was delighted to read an article in The Wall Street Journal recently titled Companies Are Desperately Seeking 'Storytellers.

According to the reporter, the percentage of LinkedIn job postings that ...

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Weekly Tips for Writing & Publishing Your Bestselling Book

A fascinating study came out of Cornell University recently, which made me think of every single one of you writers.

Authors everywhere are in a panic. 

We’re wondering: Now that SEO (keyword search) is being replaced by GEO (AI search), how will people discover new books and writers?

We’re still not sure how Chat...

Remember when admitting you spent Saturday night with a book was social suicide? That was certainly the case back in the 90s, when I was in college. 

Well, apparently reading is so sexy now that peop...

Remember Blockbuster? Chances are, if you’re over 40 then you used to spend your Friday nights browsing the New Releases shelves to take a few movies home for the weekend.

Then Blockbuster got eat...

Over the past few years, many PR people have told me: “Nobody reads anymore. Everything is video now!” 

I was reminded of their admonitions when reading Derek Thompson’s brilliant Substack piece, Eve...