How to Write a Bestselling Book (Ft. Erin Weidemann)

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Jordan Lee Dooley

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4.9 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode, Jordan talks with bestselling author and story coach Erin Weidemann about how to map out (and actually write) a book.

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0:00.0	We started going down the church around.
0:01.9	It was like, let's write a vote proposal.
0:03.2	Let's find an agent.
0:04.1	And we very quickly got shut down in our first literary agent meeting.
0:08.5	Because the end of the guy was like, he was so kind.
0:10.5	He was just like, look, this proposal is awesome.
0:12.6	All the artwork is awesome.
0:13.5	There's nothing on the market like this is so great.
0:15.2	And I was like, yes, this is amazing.
0:16.9	And he just goes, no publisher's going to touch this
0:19.8	because of the amount of money that is required.
0:22.2	Like, it's going to take so much of a financial investment.
0:24.5	And then he gave me all the reasons why it wouldn't work for me
0:28.0	as the author, right?
0:29.3	I had no social media.
0:31.3	I had no platform.
0:32.6	I had never written a book.
0:33.9	I was a full-time tea.
0:34.9	I had a totally different job.
0:37.3	Wasn't an entrepreneur.
0:38.8	Didn't treat it like a business.
0:40.0	Didn't even know how to do that.
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