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Hello Seven Podcast

073 How to Get a Six-Figure Book Deal with Sara Kendrick of HarperCollins Publishing

Hello Seven Podcast

Rachel Rodgers

Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business, Education

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Join me and Sara Kendrick this week as we discuss a fascinating insight into the world of non-fiction publishing. We discuss what you should and shouldn’t include in your book proposal, what publishers are looking for and why self-publishing may hinder your chances of getting a book deal in the future, among much more. If you want to write and publish a book, you don’t want to miss this episode! Get full show notes and more information here: http://helloseven.co/73

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0:00.0

Your agent is everything. So you have to have an agent who hasn't pissed off half the world. If you feel like your agent is crazy, they probably are. You should probably find another agent.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Hello 7 podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Rogers, wife, mother to four children,

0:23.1

a lover of Beyonce, coffee drinker, and Afro wearer. And I just happen to be the CEO of a seven-figure

0:29.4

business. I am on a mission to help every woman I meet become a millionaire. If you want to make more

0:35.2

money, you are in the right place. Let's get it going.

0:40.2

So everyone, this is Sarah Kendrick. Sarah is the senior acquisitions editor at Harper Collins

0:46.5

leadership, which according to my agent is the Harvard of publishers at the moment.

0:51.5

They're the ones that published the Blockbuster hit Girl Wash Your Face and her

0:56.6

follow up as well, which I cannot remember at the moment.

0:59.3

Girl stop apologizing.

1:00.7

Girl, stop apologizing. Thank you. So all of y'all, now you know who Harper-Collins leadership is.

1:07.2

And so Sarah acquires values-driven business, leadership, and professional development books

1:13.2

that inspire readers to challenge themselves and take their lives to the next level,

1:17.3

which is exactly what all of us do, right, in our various lines of work. So that's really exciting.

1:22.1

She works with authors who are experts in their field and helps them shape their message to the

1:26.1

literary marketplace, which is different than, you know, the way we go direct to a consumer and sell to them.

1:32.3

It's different when you're trying to reach a larger group of people and going through,

1:37.0

you know, a publisher and then also Barnes & Noble and getting access to the distribution

1:41.1

that publishers provide.

1:43.1

HarperCollins leadership strives to take content

1:45.0

further by creating digital assets as well. That was one of the things that I was so excited about

1:49.0

in my contract is that there's also a course that's part of it. So there will be like an online course

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