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If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  For years, I’ve interviewed people about how books helped them build authority, but Jeremy Weisz doesn’t have a book, which is precisely why I wanted him on the show as the podcast evolves from one that only focuses on authors building authority into one that showcases entrepreneurs who have built their authority in other ways. Weisz is the perfect example of that. He co-founded the podcast creation company Rise25 with John Corcoran and hosts the Inspired Insider podcast, using interviews not primarily to build an audience but to build relationships. He makes somewhere between five and 20 introductions a day, and his philosophy about podcasting runs counter to the way a lot of people approach it: rather than asking what a guest can do for him, he starts by figuring out what he can do for the guest. That approach has turned interviews into some of the most important relationships in his life and business. Around 2012, while recording a series on direct-response marketers and copywriters, Weisz was referred to Brian Kurtz, who later wrote Overdeliver, and the two became close friends. Years later, Kurtz invited Weisz to a dinner in Chicago, Weisz brought Chris Voss and someone at that dinner told Voss he’d bought 100 copies of Never Split the Difference to give away. This is essentially Weisz’s authority strategy in miniature: create something valuable with someone, stay in their orbit and keep connecting good people to one another. Weisz also has a system for making sure an interview doesn’t disappear the minute it’s released. Every conversation becomes a blog post, video and social clips distributed across 12 channels, which means the podcast is simultaneously a relationship tool and a content engine. Authors, he’s noticed, have an advantage here because they’ve already spent months or years figuring out what they think, giving them an almost unfair amount of material to work with. And yes, we still talk about books, because Weisz has seen firsthand what they do for authority even though he hasn’t written one himself. When he’s making one of those five to 20 daily introductions, a book can do much of the explaining for him, giving someone an immediate way to understand another person’s ideas without a call, meeting or elaborate introduction. For me, that’s the perfect place to start expanding this show beyond books, because the question I’m increasingly interested in isn’t simply what a book can do for your authority. It’s what makes someone else want to tell the world that you’re the person they should know. In this episode: Why Weisz approaches podcast guests by asking what he can give them rather than what he can getHow one interview with Brian Kurtz turned into a friendship, introductions and opportunities years laterWhy Weisz can make a much easier introduction when someone has a bookHow Rise25 turns one interview into content across 12 different channelsWhy authors have an advantage when it comes to creating contentThe question Weisz asks almost every guest—and the books he keeps recommendingWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to know if a book could help your business? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/book-score-card Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  THE EPISODE ABOVE WAS INSPIRED BY THE ESSAY BELOW. FEEL FREE TO READ OR LISTEN (OR BOTH!) Essay link 👉 https://behindthebookcover.substack.com/p/958c2e88-1b22-49b0-be41-28205d37b393 Doing your work for free can feel great. It can also feel terrible. It really depends on what you’re giving away and whether or not you’re treating the work and yourself like it’s valuable. I learned this long ago but recently had the opportunity to, let’s say, re-learn it.  This is a solo episode, recorded straight from the Substack piece I wrote this week called "The High Cost of Free". The thing is: doing free work can be extremely rewarding. I’m doing this right now for free (meta!). What I got wrong recently was treating an agreement to do something for free as if it didn't need to be an agreement at all. I planned a recovery-writing workshop with Carly Schwartz, a bestselling author who opened the San Francisco bureau of HuffPost and was the Editor in Chief of the city's biggest paper. We spent three months planning it as a pilot, unpaid, for a wellness center's community. Then, the day before, the guy running it canceled on us with no real plan to fix it, and I realized the problem wasn't the free part. It was that we never protected our own time. In this episode: Why doing something for free isn't the issue, and what actually went wrong with this particular agreementThe conversation I should have had before agreeing to the workshop, and the cancellation terms we skippedWhy authority doesn't exist in a vacuum, and how people learn what your expertise is worth by watching how you treat itThe difference between generosity and the absence of an agreement, and why confusing the two costs you more than moneyWhat I'd tell you to do right now if you've agreed to do something for free and haven't set the terms yetWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to know if a book could help your business? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/book-score-card Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  Paul Peters’ second-grade teacher told him he'd never amount to anything and he believed her long enough to spend 14 years sitting on a message he knew he needed to write down. Thankfully, he eventually realized she didn’t know what she was talking about and he wrote his first book in three months. That was 2021. He's now up to book number 10, with four more on the way, and the book became what put him in proximity with Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy and Joe Vitale (he co-authored a book with Canfield along the way). All of this compounded into a TV show, a novel headed toward a movie adaptation and a wife he met—and later proposed to—on his own show. In addition to talking all about publishing, we spent this episode getting into the difference between intentional and unintentional mentors, why he believes most people fail at manifestation and why forgiveness was the piece that let him break a cycle of addiction and self-sabotage. In this episode: How to earn access to mentors you admire without the relationship feeling transactionalWhy Paul never saw himself as a writer until after he'd already become one, and what that says about identity and successWhy he believes most people fail at manifestation, and what has to happen internally before visualization actually worksHow writing his first book led him into rooms with Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield, and eventually onto stages of his ownWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to know if a book could help your business? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/book-score-card Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  Erin Haag will tell you the hardest part of writing her book had nothing to do with writing. It was realizing she had a process at all. She'd spent 20 years living inside spreadsheets, working with pricing and profitability for companies large and small, running the same nine-step method with client after client without ever once noticing she was running a method. It took a ghostwriter combing through her brain dump to point out what she'd been doing on instinct the whole time. That book, Give Yourself a Raise: The Mindset and Math You Need to Get to Your First Million, is now the entry point to her entire business. Clients have to read it before they can work with her, which means they show up to the first call already speaking her language instead of needing to be taught from scratch. It's also turned into a lead magnet, a speaking circuit credential and, memorably, a photo op next to Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl release in Times Square. We get into the mindset blocks that keep smart, successful women underpricing themselves, why she's not worried about giving away her "trade secrets" and why she thinks nobody should write a book if their business isn't still evolving. In this episode: Why Erin handed her own IP to a ghostwriter because she couldn't see the process buried inside her own expertiseThe nine-step process she didn't know she had until someone else pointed it out to herThe study on how men overestimate their performance and women underestimate theirs, and what it means for pricingWhy she's built a certification program that lets coaches license her method instead of working for her directlyWhy she isn't worried about giving away her "trade secrets" in the book, and what actually happens when readers try to implement it aloneThe real reason most authors are disappointed by book sales, and why she'd rather have one $50,000 client than 1,000 casual readersAlso, Erin is gifting Behind the Book Cover listeners the first chapter of her book for free. Only read it if you want to make a lot more money than you already are. You can download that chapter here. Want to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to know if a book could help your business? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/book-score-card Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  I did something special for this episode: I'm releasing the 10-minute talk I gave recently at Genius Network, with their permission. It's everything I've been saying on this podcast, just distilled into 10 minutes flat. The talk centers on what I call the LEG method—Leverage, Elevate and Grow—and it starts with a hard truth: hitting the bestseller list or landing a big media moment doesn't actually change anything on its own. I had a book hit the New York Times bestseller list and could barely afford cab fare to the party. I had another book sell 100 copies and bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in business, because of what I did with the moment (and not with the moment itself). I walk through three examples that show what leverage, elevation and growth actually look like in practice. Dan Nicholson used his book to showcase his lens as a CPA and raised his prices 30%. Bonnie Habyan turned her book about her mother into a TEDx talk with over 400,000 views. Matt George carried his book everywhere, turned a plane conversation into his first consulting client and eventually built a seven-figure business and a spot teaching at Harvard Business School. The point isn't the copies sold or the followers gained. It's whether you can take one relationship and turn it into five, then take five opportunities and turn them into 10. That's what leads to legacy. In this episode: Why the average reader's household income (over $105,000) outpaces the average Facebook or YouTube user, and what that means for who you're actually reaching with a bookThe Inc. magazine finding that if a founder isn't visible, the brand usually isn't eitherWhy published entrepreneurs can charge 37% more than non-author competitors for the same expertiseThe uncomfortable math behind traditional publishing—a New York Times bestselling author who sold 150,000 copies over six years and still only netted $87,000 after agent, editor and publicist feesWhy my friend Alex Strathy's Before the Bestseller seeded 1,000 copies into the marketplace with the explicit goal of not selling booksWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  I've had guests who sold thousands of books with no marketing budget and guests who spent a fortune and watched it vanish. Amy Chan has lived both versions, with two different books, a few years apart. She's the author of Breakup Bootcamp: The Science of Rewiring Your Heart, a book that landed her in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and on Good Morning America. The Observer once called her "the scientific Carrie Bradshaw." Her follow-up, Unsingle: How to Date Smarter and Create Love That Lasts, should have been the easy part. She'd already done this once. She had the credibility, the press list and the audience. Instead, she hired a consulting agency for $10,000 that got her zero speaking gigs and a spreadsheet of "outreach" that turned out to be mass cold emails. She paid a TikTok agency another $10,000 to run an influencer campaign tied to TikTok Shop. It launched three weeks late and sold three books. She spent $24,000 on a publicist and calls it the only line item she doesn't regret. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, she wrote a Substack article about the whole thing. It resulted in more book sales than everything else she'd done that year in the first 48 hours, beating even her appearance on Tamron Hall. We get into all of it: what actually moved copies, what she'd never pay for again and why she still hasn't spoken to her publisher since the book came out. In this episode: The exact breakdown of where $44,000 in book marketing money went, and which parts she'd light on fire again without hesitationWhy a Substack post she almost didn't publish became one of her best sales days ever, beating a national television appearanceThe agency that quoted her $65,000 to get her on the USA Today bestseller list, and why she now doubts the list matters at allWhy she hasn't spoken to her publisher since her book launched, and what that says about the relationship between authors and the houses that sign themWhat it's like to have a book option sold three times, with a pilot script written and then scrapped, and why she pulled her own Substack post about itWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to know if a book could help your business? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/book-score-card Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  Criminal defense attorneys aren't typically known for writing philosophical Holocaust novels. Then again, Ron Chapman isn’t your typical criminal defense attorney. Published under the pen name R. William Chapman, Empyrean is a true departure from Ron’s two nonfiction books. Fight the Feds and Truth and Persuasion may have Ron build his authority but Empyrean, which will be arriving this fall, helped build his soul. Ron spent two years on Empyrean, writing roughly 300,000 words to land on a final 78,000. He calls himself a "pantser," Stephen King's term for a writer who lets characters decide what happens rather than working from an outline. One of the main characters, he told me, has become part of how he thinks through his own days. As a criminal defense attorney, Ron has found that fiction gives him an outlet nonfiction and legal work never did, a way to work through the frustrations of his job and his time as a marine on paper instead of carrying them silently. We get into why he turned away from traditional publishing in order to keep creative control, why agents kept asking him to make the book "the next Hunger Games" and why he thinks authority today comes from letting people see your actual flaws rather than polishing a bio. He also explains that he’s using a different author name for Empyrean so that it can stand on its own, disconnected from his identity as a lawyer. In this episode: Why Ron chose the Holocaust as a subject, and how a childhood visit to a concentration camp shaped the projectThe reason he's publishing Empyrean under a pen name instead of his ownWhy he turned away from traditional publishing to retain full creative control over the bookHis case for why raw honesty, not polished marketing, is what actually builds trust with an audienceWhy he believes the short feedback loop of platforms like Substack is bad for serious writing, and why the slow grind of writing still mattersWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  When you have millions of people out there who already consider you an expert, it’s hard to imagine that you’d also want to do an authority-building book. Yet Jake Claver, who’s already co-written two books, just released his first solo one, Everyone Gets to Win—and it's a fable, not a business manual. He's spent the past five or six years building multiple companies and living by a philosophy of aligning incentives rather than playing zero-sum games, and instead of writing another how-to book, he wrote a parable his own son could eventually read. Jake and his business partner Max met on Twitter and built a mastermind group with about 17,000 members focused on financial education and pooled investments through special purpose vehicles. They co-authored two books together—Wealth in Numbers was the first—before Jake decided to write a fable. The genre wasn't incidental. Jake wanted something simple enough that a third-grader could understand it, and vague enough on names that the real people whose situations inspired it could keep their privacy. We get into why he thinks you don't need ten years of expertise to start building authority (20 to 50 hours of hands-on experience beats four years of school, in his view), why niche podcasts tend to sell more books than massive ones and how he thinks about his sprawling list of companies not as separate businesses but as pieces of one long-term goal—the same way he'd frame Elon Musk's companies as everything required to colonize Mars. In this episode: Why Jake chose a fable over a straightforward business book for Everyone Gets to WinHis case for why 20 to 50 hours of hands-on experience can outweigh years of formal studyHis case for why you don't need a decade of expertise to write an authority-building book—20 to 50 hours of hands-on experience beats four years of school, in his viewThe co-authoring process behind Wealth in Numbers, including how he and Max split the work—Max spent about a year on research and writing while Jake proofread for alignmentWhy he thinks a book still matters even with millions of followers already built, and the "billboard" perception he says only authorship can buyHis book launch playbook—getting listed in Barnes & Noble and Amazon, front-loading reviews and why building a social media following first makes a launch land harderThe Grant Cardone and Alex Hormozi examples he points to as proof that a short book can convert readers just as well as a record-setting launch weekend canWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  What do most people get wrong when it comes to publishing a book? That’s what I asked Sierra Melcher of Red Thread Books, a nonfiction publishing house where 59 of 77 titles have won awards—including two Nautilus Book Prizes. Sierra believes that the finished, printed book is a side quest. What she's actually in it for is the person who emerges on the other side of writing one—someone who spent years convinced they couldn't do this thing, who goes through the "dark night of the soul" of the writing and publishing process and who comes out the other end asking a completely different question: not "What can't I do" but "What else can I do?" Sierra came to this the hard way. She's dyslexic, tried to write for a decade and was certain she couldn't. Now she's watched dozens of authors—from a nurse paralyzed in a hospital parking lot to a supply chain expert with a wildly niche book that landed her a job saving a company millions—go through the same transformation. We talked about the moments clients try to quit right before publication, why she still cries with clients over manuscripts and her surprisingly relaxed, curiosity-first take on AI in the publishing world. In this episode: Why Sierra believes the physical book is a "side quest"—the real product is the transformed person who wrote it, not the object itselfThe recurring pattern of authors trying to quit right before publication, and why she treats holding their feet to the fire as part of the jobHer framework for evaluating every nonfiction book she publishes: "How could we do this differently?"—applied to grief, love, business, or personal changeWhy she believes AI is a revolution, not an apocalypse, and where she personally draws the line on what she'll let it do for her versus never let it touchThe exercise she runs with every author to fight impostor syndrome: visualize the exact person who needs your message, because the book was never about you in the first placeWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  David Homan has a background so sprawling that introducing him almost broke the show: composer with seven albums and now the person who quietly runs what may be the largest private network of "connectors" on the planet—2,800 of them and counting. His book, Orchestrating Connection, co-written with UC Irvine professor Noah Askin, landed at #2 on the USA Today bestseller list for business books the week it launched. But the real story isn't the list placement—it's the decade of networking philosophy that got him there. What I loved most about this conversation is how unflinching David is about the parts nobody tells you about publishing: the friends who promise to show up and don't, the launch-day silence from people you'd bet on, and the eight-year-old sending WhatsApp videos threatening a family friend into buying the book. We also got into his new startup, SOAR Connect, which is trying to solve relationship intelligence without doing what every other tech company does with your data. In this episode: David's five-principle system for "orchestrating connection"—curiosity, vulnerability and diversity as strategic tools, not soft skills, for building real relationship valueWhy he built a private, no-membership network of 2,800 connectors around one hard rule: you can only stay if you ask for what you needThe book as catalyst, not finish line—how it changed his credibility and fundraising even though everything he was doing was already true three years earlierThe hard truth about launches: for every 1,000 people who actually showed up, roughly 2,000 who promised to didn't—and why that's the real lesson for authorsWhat SOAR Connect is building—a relationship intelligence platform based on trust scores, designed so your data stays yours instead of being harvested like everywhere elseWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  A listener asked me a two-part question: as she gets ready to publish her book and launch her speaking career, what's the simplest, most economical path to having a box of copies on hand, and what should she budget to get there? I love this question, because I'm currently doing the exact thing she's asking about with the relaunch of On Good Authority. I've been following what I call the Alex Strathdee method—seeding signed, gift-wrapped copies into communities run by people I know and treating the request as the favor it is rather than a favor I'm doing them. That approach has already turned into an October speaking opportunity, and it's why my answer to her question is simple: never sell books after you speak, because giving them away builds far more value than the $60 you might walk away with from selling a few copies. Printing runs about $3 a copy—with shipping as the real cost to budget for—and I'd rather spend $1,000 giving books away than make $1,000 selling them, because that investment tends to turn into far more down the road. In this episode: Why treating a book gift as a favor to someone's community, not a favor from you, changes how people respond.The specific packaging details—stickers, highlighters, custom cards, ribbon—that turn a free book into a memorable gift instead of a giveawayRobert Cialdini's concept of reciprocity and why gifting a book creates a different kind of obligation than selling oneHow collecting addresses at events, following Joe Polish's thank-you-card approach, led to an unsolicited podcast invitationP.S. — Want me to answer your book question on a future episode? DM me on Instagram (@annabdavid), message me on LinkedIn or email [email protected]. Want to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  Most traditionally published authors go through a moment (or 100 moments) when they realize that their publisher isn’t actually doing anything for them. Some just accept that while others ask themselves the age-old question: can I get my rights back? That’s what a listener asked me this week: when a publishing contract expires, is it better to renew or get the rights reverted? I'm not a lawyer, and I don't know the details of this person's contract, but I'm naturally biased toward reversion. I got the rights to my book Party Girl back from HarperCollins, and it changed everything. I republished the book under my own imprint with the cover I actually wanted, then rewrote it years later as a PG version that landed me coverage in the Wall Street Journal and a spot on Access Hollywood. That said, staying is worth it if your publisher is actually providing value: real marketing, real distribution, strong retail presence. I never had that kind of relationship with any of my publishers, and I'd say it was closer to antagonistic, probably partly my fault for being slow to understand how publishing actually works. This isn't all or nothing, though. You can go back to your publisher and ask what they'd actually commit to before deciding either way, and if reversion feels like a nightmare because you don't want to deal with relaunching on Amazon yourself, I get it (and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that this is exactly the kind of thing Legacy Launch Pad does for people). In this episode: Why publishers have no incentive to help you use your book to build your own business, only theirsThe Amazon control most traditionally published authors don't realize they're giving up—no A+ content, no author excerpts, no ability to fix your own descriptionThe Party Girl category mishap—how a publisher listed the book as humorous science fiction and what that reveals about how much attention publishers really payWhy higher royalties, pricing control and cover control are the biggest practical arguments for getting your rights backThe negotiation questions to ask a publisher (sales benchmarks, marketing commitments and better royalty terms) before deciding whether to renew or walk awayP.S. — Want me to answer your book question on a future episode? DM me on Instagram (@annabdavid), message me on LinkedIn or email [email protected]. Want to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  Two of you sent me questions that looked different on the surface but landed in the same place: how to market a book under a pen name, and why past launches haven't performed the way you wanted. My answer to both is the same. Lead magnets, newsletter lists and social media followers have done almost nothing for me, and the data backs it up. Justin Timberlake and Billie Eilish still had their books fail despite millions of followers, and Amy Chen sold just three books off a $10,000 TikTok campaign. What actually builds a career is relationships and by leading with generosity long before you need anything back. A Wall Street Journal story I read recently proves the point. A self-published book called Theo of Golden has sold more than 2.5 million copies and hit number one on the New York Times list, nearly three years after it came out, because the author's niece personally sent it to more than 70 book clubs and treated every reader who wrote back as an advocate. That's the whole lesson. If a reader feels completely seen, they become your publicist, and someone else recommending your book will always land harder than you recommending it yourself. Word of mouth isn't luck—it's built intentionally, one relationship at a time. In this episode: Why lead magnets and newsletter lists have produced almost nothing in the way of actual clients or salesThe Justin Timberlake, Billie Eilish, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez and Amy Chen examples that prove followers and views don't equal salesWhy relationships built in book clubs, Facebook groups and Threads outperform social media presenceThe Theo of Golden story—how one self-published book hit 2.5 million copies and the New York Times list nearly three years after launch, through 70 book clubs and one relentlessly personal outreach campaignWhy treating every reader like an advocate is the single highest-leverage thing an author can doP.S. — Want me to answer your book question on a future episode? DM me on Instagram (@annabdavid), message me on LinkedIn or email [email protected]. Want to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  A client of mine named Jimmie Applegate asked me a question I get from almost every author I work with, even though he was too polite to ask it quite this bluntly: he has a published book, Addicted to Failure, and a great Psychology Today feature to his name—and he still doesn't know what to do next. Instead of answering him privately, I answered him on the show, because I know that so many other authors wonder the same thing. Jimmy got the press hit. That part's done. But the Psychology Today feature is living in exactly one place—Psychology Today—instead of his website, his LinkedIn, his speaker page and every bio he's ever written. I walk through what we call “the $50,000 press hit” at Legacy Launch Pad: the document I give clients that shows them how to take one media win and multiply it into 50 different pieces of content, mentions and proof points. I also get into my own Good Morning America clip. The appearance sold maybe five or six books directly. But it's brought in a steady stream of new business because of how many times I've referenced it since—in videos, in Substacks, in podcast episodes, in my own bio and everywhere else (including here!) In this episode: The $50,000 press hit framework—how one media mention becomes dozens of touchpoints across a website, LinkedIn, speaker pages and biosWhy every bio you've ever written (Amazon, Facebook, network directories) needs a fresh audit and an update the moment you become a published authorThe six-month relaunch: revisiting Amazon categories, keywords and book descriptions instead of assuming a launch only happens onceWhy sending a book beats sending a brochure, a PDF or a deck—the case for replacing every prospect touchpoint with a physical copy insteadThe 100-person list exercise: writing down everyone who could change your business and checking, honestly, who has actually received a copy of your bookP.S. — Want me to answer your book question on a future episode? DM me on Instagram (@annabdavid), message me on LinkedIn or email [email protected]. Want to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/pocket-anna Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying to capture your email or anything. You can just download this PDF that's going to tell you exactly how to turn an authority building book into revenue, speaking, authority, and no exaggeration, a whole new life.  Paul Colligan has written 13 books, is in the Podcasting Hall of Fame and has helped Donald Miller, Brendan Burchard, JJ Virgin and Joe Polish turn podcasting into what he calls a “grown-up business strategy” instead of a hobby. He also sent me a question I love: when you already have a working book, how do you know if it’s time to write a new one or keep leveraging the one you’ve got? I have very strong feelings about this one, mostly because I got the answer wrong for six years and recently got right. And Paul’s specific situation is one a lot of multi-book authors may recognize. He has a workhorse title, How to Podcast, that has been the category-defining book in its lane for years. But the world has changed underneath it—AI, the death of “if you build it, they will come,” the shift from downloads to impact. So….does he update it? Write the new manifesto? Write nothing and double down on the consulting? I had a take on all of the above—and more. In this episode: The six-year mistake I made early in my career that the publishing industry rewards you for makingWhy cranking out a new book every 18 months might be hurting your authority instead of building itThe specific move I told Paul Colligan to make with How to PodcastThe Amazon trick that lets you treat an old book like a new one—and why almost nobody uses itThe exact month of the year I would release a relaunch (and the month I’d never release one in)The audiobook question every “updated edition” author has to answer—and the answer that surprised meWant to know more about my company? Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is a boutique hybrid publisher for entrepreneurs and established founders. We help clients create books that build authority, attract opportunities and grow businesses. More info 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com Want to ask me how to build authority with your book to generate seven-figure returns, speaking opportunities and high-value clients? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/book Interested in working with a selective hybrid publisher that focuses on strategy, authority and long-term business growth—not just publishing a book? 👉 https://www.legacylaunchpadpub.com/applyAnd if you just want to know more about me,  👉 www.annadavid.com Remember, if there's anyone in your life who you know could be considered an authority in their field if they were better known, share this show with them!