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Publishing advice with receipts, stories, and stamina.
Author U Your Guide to Book Publishing turns publishing questions into author-ready advice. Dr. Judith Riles and her guests move from intellectual property and AI tools to grocery-store book signings, sponsorship strategy, publicity basics, and the emotional stamina writing requires.
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Author U Your Guide to Book Publishing is a long-running advice show for authors who want the business of books explained in plain, usable terms. Dr. Judith Riles leads conversational interviews that often begin with a quote from Snappy, Sassy, Salty Success for Authors and Writers, then move into the day’s publishing problem. The show is practical first. It cares about what an author can do next, what might cost money, what might save money, and what needs to be understood before signing up for a service or promotion. Intellectual property episodes bring in Colin O'Brien to talk through trademarks, assets, and protection. Marketing episodes make room for AI help, publicity that still works, promotional swag, sponsorships, and unusual sales channels. The grocery-store book signing conversation is typical of the show’s strength: it gets specific about membership fees, book entry fees, card fees, sales tax, scheduling, percentages, and payment timing. Nothing stays abstract for long. Sponsorship advice also gets brought down to earth, with QR codes, returns, event books, logos, and the difference between goodwill and trackable business value. The show can wander into personal stories, friends, household moments, and memories, but those detours usually come back to authorship. It is warm without being slick. It is promotional without sounding corporate. Some episodes also step away from selling and into endurance, especially when writing is framed as isolating work that needs joy, breaks, and small moments of positivity. The overall feel is a generous publishing table conversation: part interview, part caution sign, part pep talk, and part business checklist.
Made for: For authors, writers, and self-publishers who want practical help with marketing, protection, publicity, sponsorships, selling, and staying resilient through the process.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by translating guest expertise into author-facing decisions, with unusually concrete examples from book signings, sponsorship tracking, IP protection, AI tools, and publicity work.
The AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast is ranked by Feedspot in the TOP 10 podcasts for Book Marketing and in the Top 100 in Author-Publishing Careers by Goodpods.If you want to write and publish a book ... if you want to know the latest in book marketing strategies ... if you want to know what tools an author should be using ... and if you want to be successful as an author, Author YOU - Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles ... Everything You Want to Know But Didn't Know What to Ask is for you. You will hear about statistics, scenarios, and strategies on what to do now! Judith features a variety of experts, besides herself, that are visionaries in publishing, book…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Judith Riles turns the business surrounding books into specific decisions about rights, distribution, reviews, sponsorships, and author development.
Author U Your Guide to Book Publishing treats authorship as a working business, with Judith Riles steering practical conversations about the decisions surrounding a book after it is written.
Judith Briles found her book still selling after her rights reverted. Your author paperwork suddenly looks interesting.
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Grocery-store book signings, weekly payouts, and the math behind fast author payment.
Dr. Judith Riles centers the episode on the practical side of a grocery-store book-signing program, and the money details are the main draw. The annual $100 registration, the $25 book entry fee, the 62 percent sales share, and the weekly payouts by Zelle or paper check give the…
A practical look at sponsorships, QR codes, and keeping event marketing trackable.
This episode moves AuthorU into sponsorships and returns, with Judith Riles’s question about whether book marketing is noise or a symphony serving as a useful frame.
A publishing-minded conversation that balances predator warnings with small practices that help authors keep going.
Publishing comes across as a shifting field that asks authors to keep watching the trade, notice openings as they appear, and stay alert to predators who can turn ambition into financial loss. Dr.
This episode treats book reviews as part of the work of selling a book.
This episode treats book reviews as part of the work of selling a book, not a vanity exercise. Judith Riles and her guest walk through why professional reviews can carry more weight than customer reviews, how editorial reviews show up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and why a…
A rights dispute turns copyright from abstract protection into a hard publishing-business problem.
Copyright looks less like paperwork and more like business exposure when an author no longer knows who controls a book, where it is being sold, or whether royalties are reaching the right person.
A grounded conversation about a long writing life, with genre-matched beta readers as its most practical takeaway.
AuthorU's conversation frames the title's success across a long working life: writing steadily, showing up, making a book, launching it, then learning how to keep a series moving.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
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This episode continues a discussion with IP attorney Colin O'Brien about protecting authors' intellectual property rights in book publishing.
This episode features an interview with an intellectual property attorney discussing IP protection and legal strategies for authors to achieve success in book publishing.
This episode explores how authors can leverage AI and build effective teams in book publishing, featuring insights from internet millionaire Tom Antion.
This episode explores traditional publicity methods that remain effective for authors, emphasizing persistence, perseverance, and promotion in the evolving book publishing industry.
This episode discusses marketing strategies for authors in the context of book publishing, focusing on promotion and sponsorships during the 'fire horse' year.
Grocery store book signings get a practical once-over.
Sponsorship sounds simple until an author has to prove it worked.
Laura Beltson says about 40% of happiness comes from what people choose to focus on, not just circumstances or a built-in set point.
Judith Riles opens the conversation on book reviews and why they matter.
This episode explores how authors can achieve success in book publishing by navigating industry changes, avoiding predators, and leveraging opportunities over a long-term creative journey.
This episode provides authors with a crowdfunding game plan and insights on book publishing trends, avoiding predators, and leveraging opportunities in the evolving book trade.
This episode focuses on creating a book marketing game plan, emphasizing that marketing is crucial for author success and offering insights from publishing professionals.