Hey guys, you're listening to the Big Conversations podcast. I'm your host, Haley Hoffman

Smith. I'm an entrepreneur, a best-selling author, and a Forbes most influential speaker.

You're in the right place if you're ready to step into the bigger life that you were destined for

because we're about to get real on how to do so. So let's get started with today's big

conversation.

Hi, guys.

Welcome back to big conversations.

And I wanted to thank you so much for over 10,000 podcast downloads.

I just checked Libson today.

And we hit over 10,000, which was a benchmark that I was really

looking for. And so I just wanted to thank all of you who have ever listened or downloaded

or shared or reviewed because it means the world and I love having these big conversations

with you. So thank you for that. Today we're going to be talking about self-publishing and

marketing your book.

So a few weeks ago, I guess this was two weeks ago now, I published an episode with Neil Gordon,

who used to work on the editorial team at Penguin Random House. And he shared some really good

information around landing a traditional book deal. So a traditional book deal refers to when you submit a book proposal or a manuscript,

a book proposal is for nonfiction books, manuscript is for fiction, to a publishing house,

i.e. a place like Penguin Random House or Simon & Schuster or Harper Collins. And then they can

buy the rights to the book from you, giving you what's

called a book deal or a book advance where it basically says, we're going to pay you this amount

of money. Then we'll publish the book and you won't make any more on the book until your advance

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