There's that old phrase when one door closes, another door opens. And in the case of Ed Zwick, when a door closed for him, he didn't wait around. He just simply built a new door and opened the damn door himself. Howdy. I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each week I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling.

And folks, I am so pleased to have Ed Zwick in the podcast today to talk about his book

hits, flops, and other illusions. That's right. It is a book podcast today, which is rare.

We've never, we've never done this before. But let me explain why we're doing it.

But before I do that, I'm just going to talk about that analogy I made a second ago, because you see, this all started when Edswick was ready to shoot his reboot of his 30-something TV show, but the pandemic began and canceled it.

And he wasn't sure if the show was ever going to get made. And during

lockdowns, had no clue what was going to happen, as none of us did. And, you know, he got to a

point where he started going through his past career. And he would tweet out these just great

tweets that were kind of enlistical form. And I mean that in a good way. They were very digestible and

fascinating and easy to read. But because they were almost in listical form, you always wanted

more, which is a great thing to do to your audience, leave them wanting more. So in my analogy

that I set up in the beginning with one door closing and another door opening, but Ed built

his own damn door because he didn't wait around for an

opportunity. He simply created one. As the 30-something TV show closed down, Ed created this memoir

and gave him something to spin his creative tools and give a very fascinating look at his

career, advice to young writers, and just a lot of lessons and absolutely entertaining

stories along the way. Not only did the book launch to fantastic critical raves, which it

totally deserves, it also hit the New York Times bestseller list. Of course, you could purchase

it anywhere you purchase your books. You could also listen to Ed Read It Himself on Audible.

And one thing not enough people talk about is, yeah, you could get this at your local library as well.

But what's really fascinating is if you use the free app, Libby or Hoopla, those connect to

your library with your library card.

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