Author U Your Guide to Book Publishing

Get Your Memoir Written … and Published

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast, Dr. Judith Briles invites Writing Coach and PR Expert Dan Janal to join her. You will learn the latest changes on Instagram and how to implement for your social media and influence building on Instagram. Embracing them will enhance your 2026 marketing and publishing success.

Dan Janal is the author of more than a dozen books. His latest book deals with his adventure in overcoming a cancer diagnosis in his memoir: Reframing Cancer: New Perspectives on Hope, Healing and Happiness. Dan also helps business and healthcare executives write books as their ghostwriter or executive book coach and developmental editor. His websites are ReframingCancer.com and Janal.com.

Your takeaways include

-How a memoir is different from a biography.

-What roadblocks he had in writing his book.

-Typical roadblocks authors encounter in memoir writing.

-How to make people—book buyers—care about your story when they are going through their own pain.

-Writing styles to use to capture readers' attention.

-Advice for people writing their memoirs.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

Many authors aspire to get their books into streaming or on the big screen. Joining Judith Briles today is Viki King, author of How to Write a Movie in 21 Days – The Inner Movie Method and a consultant to thousands seeking a Hollywood connections. It is a remarkable publishing success with over 40 years in print. It has been translated in many languages around the world and is revered as an industry standard guide in Hollywood and internationally.

Thousands of readers say, “This book is my bible.” And not just for screenwriting, it takes readers by the hand and leads them through the action and adventure of their own life. And now you have an hour with Viki to create another pathway for your book.

Your take-aways include:

-What are the “heartbeats” every screenplay requires?
-Tips for writing a movie from the perspective of a 50 year movie consultant.
-What the power is when using 3 x 5 cards and sticky notes.
-What are the impossible obstacles that scripts reveal?
-Why tweaks and rewrites deliver logics and analytics.
-How to structure the 120 pages of a screenplay.
-What is the future of cinema?
-What's the dream that you want to come true? Is it okay with you if it does?


Join in ... you will learn a lot!

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 22 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

Writing and publishing in today’s world is NOT as hard as most believe. To “ease the overwhelm and stress,” bring your authentic communication skills to your book marketing and in person events. Joining Judith Briles today is Terri Murphy, author and TED Talk speaker. She has spent decades translating her entrepreneurial and sales experience into insights that authors can use.

Think of this session as an envelope opening to reveal savvy tips for your author success.

-Author tips to make your communications shine.
-Use the power of humor to bring energy to your communications.
-Feel the beast within to create proactive building of your community.
-Why the AMInstitute.com Headline Analyzer is part of your secret communicating sauce.
-Why storytelling eliminates the frazzled, fragmented, and frustrated in any audience.
-Why understanding behavior styles facilitates better communication.
-Why integrating humbleness accelerates your connecting.
-Why it’s essential to have outside filters.

And of course, much more.

Join in ... you will learn a lot!

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 22 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

Authors hidden beliefs shape their publishing journey and success. Joining Judith Briles on today’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast is Heather Elliott, author of Same Sh*T, Different Day and 7 Critical Mindset Strategies to dive into why so many authors get stuck in completing books and supporting them once they are published. How authors sabotage their goal intentions and how others do. Heather reminds listeners that their brain … their creativity … is their intellectual property. And only the owner of the brain can make changes to it. Heather’s website is www.MindfulChange.com

Your takeaways include:

-Recognizing that most personal beliefs that include behavior and actions are seeded by the age of seven.
-Why so many live the same live over and over.
-Why trying to “apply tools” often breaks down under pressure.
-Why and how personal change can be sabotaged internally and externally.
-Why the secret sauce for successful authors is that they write and market from their hearts, writing from the inside out.
-How to break the “Ground Hog Day” effect and how profound change can emerge.
Discover what 3D and 5D psychology is and why authors should care.
How authors can avoid limiting beliefs and mindsets.
Why the infrastructure mindset creates the blueprint for author success.

Join in ... you will learn a lot!

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 22 million listeners and viewers downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

How to Grow Your eMails with the Ultimate Opt-In

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles invites dives down into the elements of the Why and How to create an Opt-In lead magnet for the website. The goal—to attract new visitors and gather emails of followers. Available in audio only and video on YouTube.

You will take away:
-Why an Opt-In is an essential website element.
-What your website needs.
-Why types of Opt-Ins work best.
-Where an Opt-In should be places.
-How to create a marketing campaign for your author’s Opt-In.
-When to replace an Opt-In.
-How to create a funnel release of additional info after an Opt-In is downloaded.


And, of course, much more.
Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 22 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.