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Beautiful Writers Podcast

Rhonda Byrne & Kelly Noonan Gores: Their top secrets for birthing global bestsellers

Beautiful Writers Podcast

Linda Sivertsen

Writing, Authors, Books, Book Deals, Writers, Arts, Bestsellers, Book Proposals, Publishing, Society & Culture

4.7 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The magical duo of Rhonda Byrne & Kelly Noonan Gores are rounding out a bucket list week here at the Beautiful Writers Podcast. After years of dreaming, writing, podcasting, and, more recently, recording my latest book, the audiobook for Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams & Messy Manuscripts—with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors (aka the guests of this show!) pubbed just before posting this episode. When I thought about who, among all the writers in the worl...

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0:00.0

So the secret book is lining the window.

0:08.4

I remember W.H. Smith in London at Heathrow, how many bookstores they had.

0:13.2

Everyone that I walked past, you know, the secret was like lined up.

0:17.8

And I would just get so choked up that it was doing so well and hadn't even been

0:24.2

written. And I didn't think I was going to be the writer. I just knew there'd be a book.

0:29.7

Did you pass, I was so choked up. It was doing so well. And it hadn't even written. It's so

0:36.5

genius.

0:42.7

I remember Simon and Shilster saying to me, what category is this book?

0:46.8

Spirituality, religion, we're thinking is in that category.

0:49.0

I say to them, you've got to be kidding me.

0:50.7

This book is for everybody.

0:52.9

It's not in a category.

0:57.6

Why do you want to limit it? Yeah. Because they have to put it on a shelf.

1:03.9

I know, but I just didn't want it limited. I said, this is going to be in the front window of every book.

1:11.3

Oh my God. I know. You were a marketing person's neighbor. I was. I was.

1:13.5

Beautiful listeners.

1:16.3

Today is a celebration day.

1:23.8

For starters, the audiobook for beautiful writers, a journey of big dreams and messy manuscripts with tricks of the trade from best-selling authors just dropped.

1:28.9

I could think of no one better to celebrate with than Rhonda Byrne.

1:33.7

Rhonda is the creator of The Secret, the film that was an overnight sensation in 2006,

1:40.6

going instantly global on the internet, something that had never happened before.

1:46.8

The movie became a book published in 50 languages, making it one of the longest-running

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