Paul Redmond is the author of the Leanpub book Docker for PHP Developers: A guide to using Docker for PHP development. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Paul about his background, his work for Laravel News and his Bitpress project, his process for writing books, what it's like having a self-published book picked up by a conventional publisher, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

This interview was recorded on August 28, 2018.

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W. Jason Gilmore is the author of the Leanpub book Easy Laravel 5: A Hands On Introduction Using a Real-World Project. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Jason about some of his favorite projects from the past few years, including the creation of a system for predicting what books a publisher should be publishing, and a couple of really cool services built using the Laravel PHP framework, Jason's latest job as the CTO of DreamFactory, and finally they discuss the most recent update to Easy Laravel 5.

This interview was recorded on August 27, 2018.

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a bestselling and award-winning author who also writes a very popular blog on the business side of book publishing, which is an invaluable resource for authors in all genres.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Kristine about her background as a writer, journalism and politics in the US, the impact of war on the mail-order book business in the US in the early 1990s, the recent scandal involving alleged theft of revenue at a prominent New York-based agency, why Kris doesn't chase online bookstore algorithms, and a number of issues facing authors of all kinds, including those who are self-published and those who are published conventionally.

This interview was recorded on August 16, 2018.

Taylor Otwell is the creator and maintainer of the popular Laravel PHP framework and the author of the Leanpub book Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Taylor about changes to Laravel and developments in the Laravel community since their original interview nearly five years ago, in September 2013. They also discuss Taylor's unique and successful approach to using Patreon, and the importance of working on the hard things first in new software projects, amongst other things, including Star Trek.

This interview was recorded on August 24, 2018.

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Mark Graban is the author of the Leanpub book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Mark about how he has widened the scope of his work from healthcare to large organizations generally, how a bad system can lead good people to do bad things, how to view a chart as "the voice of a process," overreacting to data, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

This interview was recorded on August 10, 2018.

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Nate Dickson is the author of the Leanpub book Painless Git: A Sane Person's Guide to Distributed Development. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Nate about his background, a little about politics and religion, working on Mormon websites and the sophisticated online outreach of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, what it's like doing an MBA as a writer and tech professional, finishing Breath of the Wild, his books, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

This interview was recorded on August 3, 2018.

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Todd Sattersten is the author of the Leanpub book Every Book Is A Startup: How Authors Uncover Felt Need, Hack Growth, and Build Bestsellers. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Todd about his background in engineering and publishing, how he works with authors, and why he thinks every book is a startup.

This interview was recorded on May 25, 2018.

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Carla King is an author and founder of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp series. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Carla about her background as a writer, how she got into motorcycles and travelling solo, the impact of 9/11 on travel writing and publishing in the United States, why every self-published author should set up their own company, and more.

This interview was recorded on May 24, 2018.

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Jutta Eckstein is the author of the Leanpub book Author of Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Jutta about her background in tech, how pair programming works, "consent decision making," "Beyond Budgeting," her books, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience as a self-published author.

This interview was recorded on May 25, 2018.

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Eberhard Wolff is the author of the Leanpub book Microservices - A Practical Guide: Principles, Concepts, and Recipes. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Eberhard about his background in tech, working a big company versus freelance and consulting work, getting political on Twitter, when you should use microservices in your software and why, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

This interview was recorded on May 2, 2018.

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