The Published Author Podcast

Dr. Nanette Miner has gone the traditional publishing and self-publishing routes, and after navigating both, she’s a strong advocate of self-publishing. Nanette is the author of eight business books, including her most recent one, Future-Proofing Your Organization by Teaching Thinking Skills. Nanette also authored 101 Media & Marketing Tips For The Sole Proprietor, and there’s a fascinating story behind this book’s origins, which you can discover in this episode.

Paul Epstein had a life-changing experience at a San Francisco 49s’ executive retreat some years ago.  As head of sales and business development with the 49ers, Paul went with colleagues on a two-day retreat. He came away from the experience transformed, finally knowing what his personal “Why” was. “I knew my mission, and I now had clarity on my core values,” Paul tells Published Author Podcast host Josh Steimle.

David Hancock walked away from mortgage banking and a massive salary after directly experiencing the power of a book on business growth. David’s passion shifted when he realized he wanted to help other people with the same secret weapon that Jay Conrad Levinson gave him in the late ‘90s. Jay, author of Guerilla Marketing, explained to David during coaching sessions that to win big clients and be in demand, he needed to write a book.

John Lee Dumas delivers some incredibly powerful advice in his interview with show host Josh Steimle. “If you're a first-time entrepreneur trying to become an author, I have one incredibly strong piece of advice for you,” says John. “Come up with and create the number one solution to a real problem out there in this world. If you do that, and create content around that, people will beat a path to your doorstep every single time.”

Sara Bliss, a New York Times best-selling offer of 11 books, had always wanted to be a writer, even from a young age. She went for interviews right out of college and was turned down mainly due to shyness, but she pushed through and willed herself into being a writer. Having written for magazines, and working for a freelance writer, Sara explains that she was just waiting for the opportunity and topic to write her own book.

Jennie Nash transitioned from being a fiction author to a book coach—she’s been there and done it. With a tremendous amount of knowledge of both aspects of publishing, Jennie has impeccable credentials, making her one of the best book coaches available today. Jennie joins Published Author Podcast host Josh Steimle to talk about what serious entrepreneur-authors need to know about working with a coach.

After enduring a couple of bouts of writer’s block, author and journalist Blake Snow has learned not to sit down with the intention of writing a whole book. Instead, he breaks a book into chunks, accomplishing one chapter at a time.

Marketing pro Andrea Fryrear has authored two successful books and her advice to would-be entrepreneur-authors is to just sit down and write your book.  If you can’t write your book then just sit and write, even if you think it’s terrible, and do this consistently every day.  Our guest on this latest episode of the Published Author podcast tells host Josh Stimele she would get up at 5 a.m. every day and right for about 60 minutes, no matter what.

An artificial intelligence expert who’s worked with the United Nations and IBM wrote a book on AI when he realized people are asking the same two questions about the subject: What should I be doing? How do I actually get started? Entrepreneur-author Neil Sahota says: “Most of the books were very technical, and people couldn't understand or they were really fear mongering. I thought: ‘I will solve this problem. I'll write a book for non-technical business leaders so they can answer those two questio

Paul Edwards advice to ghostwriters: Paul’s advice to entrepreneur-authors and ghostwriters: Very strong empathy with the reader. A big part of this is understanding what will persuade the reader: Not in a purely emotional form, but in a form that engages both the emotions and the intellect. It moves them in a positive direction. You have to know what to write and what not to write and when to write it.