1156. A Day in the Life: What's It Really Like to Be a Book Publisher?
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Morgan Gist MacDonald began her career in academia, as a Sociologist, but soon found the entrepreneurial pull to take her skills as a researcher, writer, teacher, and leader into building a publishing company, from the ground up.
She is an author, speaker, and the founder of Paper Raven Books, an innovative publishing company designed to help first-time and experienced authors alike through the writing, publishing, and marketing process so they can get their books published and build a loyal readership and a long-term career as an author.
Morgan believes that even an unknown debut author with no connections, platform, or following truly can sell tens of thousands of copies of a book, gather thousands of reviews, and attract fans of their work that will come back for more, year-over-year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:16.8 | Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:27.0 | On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do. |
| 0:39.5 | Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Morgan Gist McDonald, and our topic, |
| 0:45.3 | A Day of the Life, what's it really like to be a book publisher? |
| 0:49.5 | Welcome, Morgan. |
| 0:51.0 | Dawn, thank you. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm so glad to be here with you all. |
| 0:53.8 | It is our pleasure. Morgan, are you using your talents doing glad to be here with y'all. It is our pleasure. |
| 0:55.2 | Morgan, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
| 0:58.1 | I sure am, and those talents have really changed and morphed. |
| 1:01.8 | I thought they were all about writing and editing. |
| 1:04.7 | That's what drew me to books. |
| 1:06.4 | And as it turns out, being a book publisher is even more than that. |
| 1:09.6 | We're going to dig into that whole story. |
| 1:12.4 | Morgan Gist McDonald is an author, speaker, and the founder of Paper Raven Books, |
| 1:18.9 | an innovative publishing company designed to help first time and experienced authors alike |
| 1:23.9 | through the writing, publishing, and marketing process so they can get their books |
| 1:28.7 | published and build loyal readership and long-term career as an author. |
| 1:33.6 | Morgan believes that even an unknown debut author with no connections, platform, or following, |
| 1:39.6 | truly can sell tens of thousands of copies of a book, gather thousands of reviews, and attract |
| 1:45.1 | fans of their work that will come back for more year after year. Well, an amazing journey, Morgan. |
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