Episode 411 - Tim Grahl - Publishing a Book

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🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 411 of The Paleo Solution Podcast we have guest Tim Grahl. Tim is the author of Running Down a Dream and Your First 1000 Copies, and works with authors and creatives to help launch books (including my own, which he was a huge help with). Listen in as we talk all about the hows and whys of publishing a book.

Show Notes

00:46 – Summary/Pre-Intro
2:17 – How Tim got into publishing
5:52 – Why would someone publish a book?
10:17 – When does someone need an agent?
14:25 – Battling with publishers on changes
18:15 – Support from publishers
20:50 – Experience with The Paleo Solution book
22:40 – Writing a book for your business
25:13 – Cost of doing a professional book
29:18 – Publishing as a service, royalties, and
32:50 – Obscurity, passing the threshold, and pluses and minuses of releasing serial content
43:19 – Free plus shipping
45:10 – What is your goal with writing a book?
48:50 – Having a platform
50:44 – Tim’s book Running Down a Dream
57:21 – If it’s hard it’s because you’re doing it right
1:02:03 – Where to find Tim

Websites:
BookLaunch.com
RunningDownADream.com

Book: Running Down a Dream

Transcript

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0:51.0	I get a lot of questions about should an individual write a book, how
0:57.0	should they go about doing it, should they self-publish, what are the ins and outs of getting
1:01.0	on the New York Times Best Sellerers List and stuff like that.
1:03.2	I've been kicking around for quite a while how to tackle this and then it
1:07.2	occurred to me that we might bring the guy who helped me with my book
1:10.8	launch for Wired to eat Tim Grohl, Tim is an expert in this whole
1:14.8	book launch story. He also has recently published his own book called Running Down a Dream
1:20.1	and it was a really cool podcast and that Tim is one of the arguably most knowledgeable
1:26.2	people in the world on the book launch and publishing scene, all the ins and outs of what
1:31.9	you should and shouldn't do, you you know and it's kind of a
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