Why You Should Write a Book if You Have a Podcast
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One of my favorite books from my college reading list is A Confederacy of Dunces. It’s a funny, tragic book that highlights the fact that someone will always think society is on a downward spiral…as well as hypocrisy.
An interesting fact about the book is that it almost didn’t see the light of day. The author, John Kennedy Toole, died tragically in 1969. A Confederacy of Dunces wasn’t published until 1980, thanks to work from another writer — Walker Percy — and Toole’s mother, Thelma.
A Confederacy of Dunces went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
I regularly think about all the incomplete and unpublished works out there — from authors and would be authors who didn’t, or couldn’t, get their books on the shelves.
Then I think about how easy publishing and distributing a book is today. And while the writing is still the hard part, that can be easier too.
Especially if you have a podcast.
What Podcasting has to do with Writing a Book
As someone who’s written 5 books over the last 12 years, I can tell you my process for each of them has looks more or less the same:
- Pick a topic I know very well — something I’m an expert in. Do some research to see what other books exist on that topic.
- Create a mind map or outline of everything I want…