Author Hour

Do you wish you could quickly get the best ideas from new books? That's what Author Hour is all about. Each week, we give you the best ideas and stories from a new book, through an in-depth conversation with the author. We cover all types of non-fiction: business, fitness, investing, self-help, and more. Listeners will get an entertaining and useful summary of each book, in a fraction of the time. A must listen for avid readers and aspiring authors.

Author Hour is a arts podcast hosted by Eric Jorgenson, with 340 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Eric Jorgenson hosts Author Hour, a arts show with 340 episodes published.

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  21 Authors, One Book: How Autobahn Built Rock Your Business With Brandon Pipkin

  Oct 1, 202631 min

  Rock Your Business: Navigating the Road from $50 Million to $500 Million and Beyond is the offensive follow-up to Rock the Recession , the 2019 book Autobahn Consultants founder Jonathan Slane co-wrote just months before the 2020 shutdown. Where the first book was about protecting a business in a downturn, this one gathers 21 voices from the Autobahn network, from a founder who sold to a Fortune 500 competitor to the former head of a Nike football division, to show business owners how to grow from $50 million to $500 million. In this episode of Author Hour, co-author Brandon Pipkin joins Eric Jorgenson to explain how a book with 21 contributors actually comes together: co-authors interviewed together so they could challenge each other in real time, a single editor shaping it into one coherent voice, and a deliberate decision to skip an AI narrator so every co-author could read their own chapter of the audiobook. Brandon also walks through Autobahn's top-of-funnel playbook, including video boxes for prospects, handwritten notes to 100 VIPs, and a QR code that trades the free audiobook for an email. He closes with honest advice for anyone on the fence: write the book when you can't not write it, make a mess, and get it out of the drawer. For more information on Rock Your Business , visit https://scribemedia.com/published-books/rock-your-business

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  How to Market Without Marketing: Scott A. Martin's Groundswell Playbook

  Sep 25, 202652 min

  What if you could market without marketing? After more than 30 years in marketing, advertising, and strategy, Scott A. Martin set out to solve that "unsolvable problem," and the answer became his book, Groundswell . Built around his formula of build, give, grow, transform, the book now sits at the center of everything Scott does: his consulting firm, his podcast, and his community all share the same name. In this episode, Scott joins Scribe CEO Travis Stoliker to share a complete playbook for marketing a book. He explains why he turned his case studies into a "living book" community, how he uses signed copies, stickers, and a free meet-the-author call to build direct relationships with readers, and why he boosts his own podcast appearances as ads. He also shares the story of how a reader invited him to speak at TEDx, a talk that now has half a million views, and why he believes authors need to stop chasing attention and start building trust. For more information on Scott A. Martin, visit https://scribemedia.com/authors/scott-martin For more information on Groundswell , visit https://scribemedia.com/published-books/groundswell

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  Better Than an MBA: How Julie Newman's Book Became Her Strongest Career Lever

  Sep 24, 202642 min

  Julie Newman wrote Pull Don't Push to fix a message she had watched go wrong at more than 50 Girls in STEM events: well-meaning speakers telling girls they don't belong in STEM, then asking them to join anyway. Her book, written for the educators and outreach coordinators who shape kids' choices, makes the case for "pull" messaging instead, explaining what engineers actually do and why it's one of the most rewarding careers a young person can choose. In this episode of Author Hour, Julie tells Eric Jorgenson how a single frustrating keynote became a book, why she was afraid educators would reject a message that told them they were doing something wrong, and why the opposite happened. She also shares the surprise payoff: the book paid for itself before it was published, landed her a salary increase of more than $60,000 in a single job change, and has helped her average a 15% raise every year since. Julie explains why writing a book with Scribe was better for her career than a master's, an MBA, or a PhD, and why you only need to be a few years ahead of someone to help them. For more information on Julie Newman, visit https://scribemedia.com/authors/julie-newman For more information on Pull Don't Push , visit https://scribemedia.com/published-books/pull-dont-push

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  Chase the Light: Becoming Unbreakable After a Head-On Collision with Cesar Perez

  Sep 24, 202630 min

  In 2018, Cesar Perez was on the rise. He had acted opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Beast of Burden , filmed with Clint Eastwood, and landed an audition for Venom . He never made it to that audition. On the drive to Savannah, a drunk driver hit him head-on, followed by a semi truck. What came next was five years in and out of hospitals, more than 30 procedures, a traumatic brain injury, and relearning how to breathe, eat, walk, and talk. At his mom's suggestion, Cesar started journaling, typing with only his left hand. Those pages became Chase the Light: The Gruesome Art of Becoming Unbreakable , an Amazon bestseller in its first week. In this episode, Cesar joins Travis Stoliker to talk about how writing helped him heal, why he chose to own the rights to his story, how his book grew into a documentary and a feature film in development, and why he now spends his time being the light for others going through their own life-altering moments. For more information on Cesar Perez, visit https://scribemedia.com/authors/cesar-perez For more information on Chase the Light , visit https://scribemedia.com/published-books/chase-the-light

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  Books to the Big Screen: Alec Roth on Adapting an Author’s Story Into Film

  Sep 11, 202653 min

  Alec Roth grew up in Hollywood — the son of screenwriter Eric Roth, watching his father adapt books into films from a home office — and he’s now doing the same thing from his own side of the table. In this Author Hour conversation with Lex Statzer, Alec talks about what it actually takes to turn a book into a movie, why he believes “great intellectual property, your stories, they win the day, no matter what,” and how a Scribe author’s book landed on his desk and is now becoming a feature film. That book is Candler Cook’s From Underdog to Bulldog , the true story of a walk-on’s improbable journey through big-time college football. Alec explains what made it “the modern Rudy ,” why he was drawn to the passion baked into the material, and how he and Candler navigated the delicate work of adapting one person’s real story into a film — “I wanted to make sure that he felt he was telling the story he wants to tell.” Along the way, Alec is candid about the parts of the creative life that every author will recognize: the doubt, the rejection, and the “soft yes” that never materializes. His advice is to believe in the material and keep going — “there’s no one you can’t reach out to.” He’s especially bullish on books as the best raw material for film (“hundreds of pages… you get this world that you get to play off of”), and he closes with an open invitation: if you’re an author with a story, reach out — he’d love to read it and see if it belongs on the silver screen.

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