Anna David

The Dr. Drew Podcast

PodcastOne / Carolla Digital

Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dr. Drew talks to publisher and New York Times bestselling author Anna David. Anna shares insights into the challenges facing the publishing industry today and reflects on the lessons learned from launching her own publishing company. Delving into the current state of the industry, she explores the reasons behind the successes and failures of celebrity books, as well as the resurgence of romance novels. Later, Drew and Anna delve into a discussion on trauma, exploring how the experience of parenthood can sometimes unearth past traumas. Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! CookUnity: Go to cookunity.com/DREW or enter code DREW before checkout for 50% off your first week. Biotiquest: You can get a 15% discount off the first three months of your Sugar Shift subscription by going to biotiquest.com and using cod e DREW15 Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at SHOPIFY.COM/drew AirDoctor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DREW and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Exclusive to podcast customers, you will also receive a free 3 year warranty on any unit, which is an additional $84 value!

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0:00.0	Thank you all. You're going to be here. Hey everyone, welcome the podcast appreciate y'all being here and again we are taking
0:14.7	advice if you guys have anybody you'd like me to speak to I'm happy to do it got lots
0:17.9	of interesting guests coming and I just sort of go for what interests me or
0:22.3	people that I know to be good authorities and interesting people
0:26.4	already like my present guest Anna David her book is on good authority the The the who is this it wrote this I don't think it was me it says
0:36.4	Anna David delivers practical advice on navigating modern methods of self-promotion
0:40.3	that can enhance your publicity and profits there There it is. That pretty much does it. But
0:45.4	publicity and profits. More importantly, Anna is a great writer and a writing coach and has been
0:50.7	writing great books for a long time books are you written now.
0:54.0	Eight. And so tell us about this one.
0:58.0	So this one, so for the last six years I've had a publishing company after just publishing six books
1:06.3	with Harper Collins and having the publishing industry eat my heart out over and over and over
1:11.0	again in a terrible way.
1:13.0	Wait, wait, hang on, you got to tell us a little more about that.
1:16.0	Well, Drew, you've published a book.
1:18.0	Oh, I know, I know it's a mess, but I'm curious what happened to you.
1:22.0	Oh my God.
1:23.8	It's just a horrible business and it's not their fault.
1:27.4	You know, it's a business where they don't really track success, they can't predict success. It's a business that operates primarily at a loss because they know
1:36.4	their big books are going to make all the money. So they basically give deals to all these people
1:41.5	knowing that they're not going to really invest in them, the books aren't going to make their money back, it's just a disaster.
1:47.0	And what I realized after six books, I was slow, is that I was never going to make money from book
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