The Secrets Behind Landing a Traditional Book Deal feat. Neil Gordon
Big Conversations with Haley Hoffman Smith
Haley Hoffman Smith
4.8 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Many of us dream of landing traditional book deals with large advances and a prestigious publisher. But, the process to get there can seem nebulous. In this episode, Neil Gordon comes on to share all his knowledge and advice on just that.
Neil works with executives, influencers, and thought leaders to help them get six-figure book advances, and be seen on shows like Ellen and Dr. Oz - plus double their speaking fees. Prior to becoming a communications expert, Neil worked on the editorial staff of Penguin Random House where he worked with New York Times bestselling authors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, you're listening to the Big Conversations podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm your host, Haley Hoffman Smith. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm an entrepreneur, a bestselling author, and a Forbes most influential speaker. |
| 0:11.4 | You're in the right place if you're ready to step into the bigger life that you were destined for |
| 0:15.9 | because we're about to get real on how to do so. |
| 0:18.6 | So let's get started with today's big conversation. |
| 0:25.4 | Hi everyone and welcome back to big conversations. I am so excited to be joined today by |
| 0:30.6 | Neil Gordon, a communications expert who helps you sharpen the acts of your message as a thought |
| 0:36.4 | leader. And we are going to talk today about the number one question I get asked that I frankly don't know the answer to, but Neil does, |
| 0:43.3 | which is how the heck do you get a traditional book deal? |
| 0:47.3 | So thanks for coming on, Neil. |
| 0:49.3 | Thank you for having me, Haley. |
| 0:50.3 | So let's go back to the start. |
| 0:52.3 | How did you get interested in thought leadership and shaping |
| 0:55.9 | messages and how this relates to getting book deals today? Well, it's funny. I talk a lot about |
| 1:02.4 | messaging and speaking and marketing and all of that stuff these days. But the funny thing is, |
| 1:08.5 | per our conversation, Haley, today is that I got my start with |
| 1:12.1 | book publishing. I used to work at Penguin before they merged with Random House, and I was a low-level |
| 1:18.4 | editor at Dutton, which is a division that published both fiction and nonfiction books and had a lot of |
| 1:24.8 | New York Times best-selling authors and the whole thing. So all the |
| 1:27.6 | perceived glam and veneration that we assigned to traditional publishing. And I was at the heart of that. |
| 1:33.8 | Wow. And what I like to say to people is that the assumptions that we might make around a person |
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