Tony Lyons

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Tony Lyons: whiskey sour (2 1/2 ounces rye, 1/2 ounce lemon juice, sugar in shaker with ice, served up with cherry and dash bitters) Tony tells the wild story of meeting in Woody Allen’s apartment in person to sign the deal to publish Woody’s ‘banned’ book, what it was like working with Melania Trump on her memoir, how he personally got the audio recording of Alan Dershowitz’s Epstein accuser that exonerated Dershowitz, the extensive fact checking involved with publishing RFK Jr.’s book, his mission for Skyhorse Publishing, and the type of employee at Meta/Facebook whose book he’d pay big money to publish.

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0:00.0	Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the SiriusXM app, and you can see us in studio.
0:18.6	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:21.9	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of
0:26.9	some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers
0:31.4	as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes
0:36.6	revelations.
0:41.0	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Tony Lyons.
0:44.8	Tony is the owner, founder, and publisher at Sky Horse Publishing. He founded Sky Horse in 2006,
0:50.7	and it has become one of the fastest growing publishers in the country. Tony has 26 imprints
0:55.7	publishing books from categories like children's books, military history, literary fiction,
1:01.2	true crime, and sports. There are 12,000 books in the catalog, and Tony's planning to publish
1:07.0	about 400 books this year alone. Recent Skyhorse authors include Malania Trump,
1:12.9	Cheryl Hines, Woody Allen, and NBA superstar Tim Hardaway, proving that Skyhorse has become
1:19.3	a great option for top authors outside the Big Five publishing houses. Tony, congrats on all the
1:24.5	success and welcome. Yeah, thanks. thanks. It's great to be here.
1:48.5	We're going to settle in with a whiskey sour, which there are options of, like one option of making this includes an egg, which I decided not to do. I don't know if you normally have it with an egg. Yeah, I'm fine with or without an egg. All right. We're going to do, that could get slightly gross. So we're going to do it without the egg and go bullet rye, sugar lemon.
1:50.6	Seems amazing.
1:51.8	I desperately need one.
2:02.7	And you guys, so a 2006 founding date has you guys coming up on your 20th anniversary of Skyhorse.
2:04.2	That's amazing.
2:13.4	Yeah, I have a great memory of the months before I founded Skyhorse where I was trying to get people to invest in it.
2:19.2	And I kept getting these great leads for people, and I had a standard walk walk that I took about a six-mile walk all around New York
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