Co-founder of Author.Inc. 4x NYT bestselling editor and former Director of Special Projects for Tim Ferriss. Charlie has helped some of the biggest names in business turn their ideas into books that move markets.
The best book launches are won months before publication. Here's why pre-launch validation, title testing, and cover design matter more than launch week.
Why 90% of nonfiction books sell fewer than 1,000 copies, and what the top 1% do differently with structure, covers, and titles.
How to go from book idea to finished draft in under six weeks, test your title before you commit, and sell thousands of copies without a traditional publisher.
Authors who do their own marketing outperform those who outsource it. Here's why Author.Inc's done-with-you model is deliberate, and what the proof looks like.
Geoff Woods had no email list and 2,000 LinkedIn followers. His book sold 100,000 copies and built an eight-figure business. Here's how he did it.
Ghostwriters cost $65K-$150K and lose your voice. Speaking your book gets a first draft in 39 days, in your words. Here's how.
Writing your manuscript is 20% of the job. Cover design, editing, distribution, and strategy are the other 80%. Here's what turns a draft into a book.
The typical nonfiction first draft takes 9-12 months with a near-100% failure rate. Our speak-your-book process changes that.
Geoff Woods sold 100,000 copies for $700K in book revenue. The business revenue was 23x that. Why copies sold is the wrong way to measure a book's ROI.
Codie Sanchez's first draft was a big idea book. We rebuilt it as a manual. Here's what we changed and why the useful version always wins.
Anthropic paid $1.5B over pirated books used for AI training. If you own your book's IP, it's now a licensable asset on top of everything else it does.
Most business books fail because of structure, not writing quality. Here's how to get the architecture right before you start writing.
3.5 million books come out every year. Fewer than 10% sell 1,000 copies. Here's what separates books that last from books that get published and forgotten.
Fewer than 10% of nonfiction books sell 1,000 copies. Most of that traces back to one decision made too fast: which book to write. Here's how to choose.
Traditional publishing trades your IP for distribution you no longer need. Self-publishing trades quality for speed. Neither was built for experts.
Geoff Woods sold 2,000 copies before launch with no email list. Your book is business infrastructure, not a finished product. Here's how to treat it that way.
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