Blog Category: Self Publishing

In a recent podcast episode, Anna David, writer extraordinaire, analyzes my book launch strategy and nails it. I’m reprinting the transcript of the podcast below. But if you’re interested, you can listen to the podcast here. Episode 333: A Play-by-Play Breakdown of How James Altucher Launches a Book Hi there. Welcome to Launch Pad, a […]

Andrew Yang Saves the World I was really nervous for this one and giddy afterward. I’ve had a thousand questions for Andrew Yang, an American entrepreneur and former presidential candidate, and he answered all of them. We talk universal basic income, behind-the-scenes details of the campaign, law enforcement, career advice, and the most frustrating parts […]

Editor’s note: This article began as 19 pages. So instead of sending it to you all at once, I broke it up into a series. Check out Part 1: Should We Care About the Economy? And stay tuned for more on this topic tomorrow. In each newsletter I will offer some ideas and step-by-step suggestions […]

This is doable and there will be demand. A no-B.S. book that will help people and spread rational thought in an irrational media environment. A lot of this info can be gained from smart Googling. THE  ULTIMATE CORONAVIRUS BOOK: WHAT IS THE CORONAVIRUS? Where did it start? Where did it continue to spread? How does […]

Maria had a crush on Mark. But Mark was going out with Jen. And I had a crush on Maria but I thought I was too worthless for her. Mark wanted to be a writer. He read James Joyce and could quote Thomas Pynchon. He had a beard. He wanted to write “The Great American […]

In the Choose Yourself Publishing Group, I post a new book challenge approximately once a month. [Get access to the Group here.] The idea of each challenge is: The book can be done in a month The book doesn’t have to be big (30-50 pages is fine for a self-published book. More of course is […]

My days as a writer had ended. I had a bad experience with publishing a book in 2010. In 2009 I published a book that had sold almost nothing. My publisher hated me. My agent didn’t want to work with me. I lost interest in writing the kind of books they wanted me to write. […]