This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 414.

The smartest most successful people on the planet have written and published a book.

All you have to do is spend 15 bucks in a few hours and you can learn the best things

that they know.

Hi, I'm Jeff Brown and this is the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast dedicated to your

personal and professional growth.

For each and every week, we sit down with another successful and inspiring author and dig into

his or her latest book.

And through my conversation with that author,

I help bring you the key insights and main ideas from their work. Today, we're joined by my friend

Chandler Bolt. He's the author of a book called Published, The Proven Path from Blank Page to Published

author. And you may be saying, well, wait a minute, Jeff, you've already had Chandler on to talk about that book.

Actually, that's not the name of the book anymore.

It's been updated.

Now it's called Published the Proven Path from Blank Page to 10,000 copies sold.

Wouldn't that be nice?

I'm going to be asking Chandler to share about the four purposes for writing a book and determining which one of those purposes makes most sense for you.

The pros and cons of self-publishing versus traditional publishing, what to do if and when you have trouble narrowing down your book ideas and plenty more.

And hey, be sure to stick around until the end,

because Chandler has already hinted to me that he's got several copies of his book,

the physical copy of his book published, that he is going to be giving away for free.

Not a shipping and handling type thing where you pay six or eight bucks to have it sent to you,

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