Anna David, Publisher, Author, Speaker, Podcast Host, and Television Personality: The tragedy I see is people work really hard on their books and then they pay attention to it for a week and then they move on to the next. That book is there for the rest of your life.
Film Courage: If no one reads your book, you’ve written a journal?
Anna: Yeah, I stole that line from my friend Richard.
Film Courage: It’s a good one.
Anna: It’s my same friend who said he feels so sorry for people the week of their book release. I think that without an audience how audacious is it for you to think people are going to read your book? I was that audacious. I just thought Well it’s out there, obviously people are going to care. The reality is you’ve got to spend time:
-Nurturing [your audience];
-Finding your audience;
-Making them aware of you;
-Making sure they care about what your topic is.
Then you actually write something that people…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Anna David is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels and six non-fiction books. She has appeared repeatedly on Today, The Talk, Good Morning America and had a running segment on G4’s Attack of the Show that she co-hosted with Olivia Munn for three years. Her company, Legacy Launch Pad, writes and publishes books for thought leaders and her podcast has featured interviews with authors such as Robert Greene and Chris Voss. Her first book, Party Girl, is in development as a film tentatively scheduled to be shot in 2023.
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