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...

Want to try a fun experiment?

Open up ChatGPT and type in the question: "What are the best books on X topic (eg, transformational memoir, romantasy, business) by debut authors?" Then do the same in C...

Last summer, Anu Ramraj, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner turned AI entrepreneur, and her daughter Avanti Ramraj, a Stanford student, teamed up to write a book about what artificial intelligenc...

This week, I read a Substack post from Ethan Mollick, the Wharton professor behind the wildly popular One Useful Thing email newsletter, which I found absolutely fascinating. 

You may know Mollick as...

A few weeks ago, an email arrived in my inbox from Sundar Rajan, a thoughtful writer I have been consulting with on his book Tesla = Dhyāna: Self-Driving to the Self. While many of you have written to...