Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, I had an interview with Jennifer Gomes. Jennifer is a Master Food Preserver, the Perfectly Preserved podcast host, and the author of The Pressure Canning Cookbook. When Jennifer set out to write a cookbook, she thought she was going to write a book about water bath canning. But the publisher returned to her and asked if she would write a book about pressure canning instead. Listen in as we discuss pivoting our concept for our cookbook,...
Jul 04, 2024•54 min•Ep. 304
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, I had an interview with Julie Evink. Julie is the creator of the popular food blog Julie’s Eats and Treats, which reaches millions monthly. She is known for no-fuss recipes that use pantry staples yet are bursting with flavor. In our time together, you'll hear all about Julie’s new cookbook, her journey from blog to cookbook, the building of her brand and blog, and how she published a cookbook that contained not only recipes from her b...
Jun 27, 2024•44 min•Ep. 303
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I have an interview with Phoebe Lapine. Phoebe Lapine is a food and health writer, chef, speaker, and the voice behind the award-winning blog Feed Me Phoebe. She is the author of 4 books, including the recently published book Carbivore, a cookbook with 130 recipes to stop fearing carbs and embrace comfort food you love. As an advocate for autoimmune disease and finding food freedom despite chronic illness, Phoebe’s work has appeared in ...
Jun 20, 2024•47 min•Ep. 302
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, I have an interview with Food TV Executive Producer Karen Katz. Karen has worked on food television shows in various competition, lifestyle, documentary, reality, children's, and music/variety programming. She just completed her first book, GETTING SAUCED—How I Learned Everything I Know about Food from Working in TV , a memoir about her life behind the scenes in TV working with some beloved chefs: Emeril Lagasse, Julia Child, Bobby Fla...
Jun 13, 2024•57 min•Ep. 301
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today is our 300th episode! In preparation for this, I listened to Episode 263 when I celebrated the end of my 5th year of podcasting last September. I talked a lot about the ROI and the tangible benefits of having a podcast, from the people I’ve met to the books I’ve been exposed to and received in the mail to the new students who have entered my programs. These are all amazing external benefits and I fully expect these to grow over time. Fo...
Jun 06, 2024•22 min•Ep. 300
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I’m excited to have an interview with Debbie Berne. Debbie is a professional book designer and has been designing books for over 20 years for publishers of all sizes, working on projects for authors, editors, agents, poets, artists, chefs, gardeners, and musicians. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Debbie took an interest in how book design interacts with the editorial side of making books, and the result is her new book, Th...
May 30, 2024•59 min•Ep. 299
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I’m excited to have an interview with Amy Myrdal Miller. Amy is an award-winning dietitian, culinary nutrition expert, and public speaker. Amy is the president of Farmer’s Daughter Consulting and was the collaborator on the 4th edition of Cooking a la Heart with Linda Hachfeld. Cooking a la Heart was first published in the early 1990s by Apple a Day Press and has sold well over 100,000 copies during its publication, from...
May 23, 2024•48 min•Ep. 298
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I’ve talked a lot about traditional and self-publishing on the podcast. I’ve noticed recently that some beautiful cookbooks aren’t traditional or self-published but hybrid or custom-published. Today, on the podcast, I have an interview with Georgie Hockett. Georgie is the Marketing Director at Flashpoint Books. Georgie joined Girl Friday Productions (the parent company) in 2018 as a marketing professional with over 20 years of experience in m...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 297
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. When working with people who want to write a cookbook, many hold themselves back from the idea of traditional publishing. So what is traditional publishing? Traditional publishing is book publishing, where you write the book, and a publisher publishes it for you for free, and you make royalties off the book's sales. So, to help you understand more about traditional publishing, I want to share three myths about traditional publishing so that y...
May 09, 2024•17 min•Ep. 296
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. When working with people who want to write a cookbook, I hear many about cookbook writers' doubts. Doubt means you don’t believe cookbook publishing is possible for you for various reasons. Today on the podcast, I want to discuss cookbook writers' most common doubts and how to turn the doubt into a statement that you can work on believing to help you move forward with your cookbook project. Before we start, do you want to master cookbook publ...
May 02, 2024•17 min•Ep. 295
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, I’m excited to talk to you about how to persevere in cookbook publishing. The journey of writing a cookbook and getting it published is a long haul, especially when you add in the journey of marketing, promotion, and sales of your book after it’s published. So why do we want to do this when we know the abysmal stats about book writing success? On today’s episode I’ll share the stats and offer five strategies to help you cross the finis...
Apr 25, 2024•30 min•Ep. 294
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, I’m excited to talk to you about how to persevere in cookbook publishing. The journey of writing a cookbook and getting it published is a long haul, especially when you add in the journey of marketing, promotion, and sales of your book after it’s published. So why do we want to do this? Over my many years of working with writing my own cookbooks and working with cookbook writers, I have learned a ton, but there’s one thing that we have...
Apr 18, 2024•18 min•Ep. 293
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, on the podcast, I’m excited to talk to you about my experience with writing. I am a writer and love writing and reading about writers' routines. In my life, I employ ten writing practices that ensure I put my pen to paper daily and every week in many ways. In this episode, I will share behind-the-scenes strategies and tools that have helped me write every day for over 20 years and write and publish four cookbooks in seven years. Things...
Apr 11, 2024•33 min•Ep. 292
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Very excited to bring you a behind-the-scenes interview today about cookbook public relations and publicity. Before we dive into the show, Traditional publishers get a bad rap in a lot of writing circles. I hear them described as profit-seeking enemies who are out to steal our ideas or, worse yet, our souls. I have loved all of my publishers. They were partners in helping me create beautiful books so that I could share my recipes and stories ...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 291
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I’m excited to have an interview with Tara Lanich-LaBrie. Growing up near Chicago and later studying in Santa Fe, Tara’s culinary style is deeply influenced by her appreciation for nature and art. Inside her company, “The Medicine Circle,” Tara combines her passion for plant-inspired cooking and natural remedies. Today on the podcast, we take a magical culinary adventure inside Tara’s new book Foraged and Grown and talk ...
Mar 28, 2024•55 min•Ep. 290
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I’m excited to have an interview with Rowena Scherer. Rowena grew up in Malaysia and some of her fondest memories were cooking with her family. But it wasn’t until she was on vacation with her children that she saw the joy on their faces while they took a cooking class, but at the same time, struggled to cut an onion. That was when she knew something had to change. As a result, Rowena left her job on Wall Street to creat...
Mar 21, 2024•48 min•Ep. 289
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I’m excited to have an interview with Chantal Secours. Chantal is a Culinary Nutrition Expert, recipe developer, and YouTuber who enjoys creating and sharing healthy plant-based and allergen-friendly treats and recipes. Her gluten-free journey started in 2015. Learning to cook and bake without top allergens was important when her son experienced multiple food allergies. Chantal is the author of the Gluten-Free, No Eggs o...
Mar 14, 2024•56 min•Ep. 288
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I’m excited to have an interview with Lorraine Carlstrom. Lorraine has been interested in food and cooking for most of her life, including roles as a cook where she cooked at a backcountry cabin in the Canadian Rockies, volunteered at an organic farm, served as a leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation, and taught cooking classes. Lorraine is the author of Roo’s Kitchen: Bone Broth Soups and Sourdough Sides: Nourishing...
Mar 07, 2024•56 min•Ep. 287
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I share the pros and cons of the 3 most popular paths to publish your cookbook. So, let’s dive in! Before we start, I want to talk to those of you listening who have collected family recipes that you want to turn into a book to share with your family or friends. I am offering a self-publishing course called Cookbooks on KDP. Cookbooks on KDP is a 12-week group program to help you learn step-by-step how to publish a book ...
Feb 29, 2024•14 min•Ep. 286
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today we embark on a culinary journey with passionate food blogger, home cook, recipe developer, and health advocate Chay Wike, author of Kitchen Commune. In her new book, Chay draws on her years of expertise to create a cookbook that transcends traditional recipes. For Chay, it’s not just about cooking; it’s about creating a sense of community, health, and well-being around the dinner table. Today on the podcast, we talk about Chay’s health ...
Feb 22, 2024•54 min•Ep. 285
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Since we’re now in the season of Lent, I’m excited to replay this interview with Georgina Hayden. Georgina is a cook, food writer and stylist, and the author of Nistisima: The Secret to Delicious Vegan Cooking from the Mediterranean. Nistisima, filled with stories, tips, trips, and photography, explores plant-based eating and fasting from animal products during Lent in the Orthodox religion. Listen in as Georgie, and I discuss her third book,...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 284
Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, on the podcast, I have an interview with Althea Brown. Born and raised in Georgetown, Guyana, Althea Brown is the creator and voice behind metemgee.com, a blog about Guyanese (Caribbean) recipes and traditions. After struggling with acid reflux for years, Althea started exploring the possibility that the way she was eating was making her sick so she shifted her focus to recreate Guyanese and Caribbean recipes to be gluten-, dairy-, and refined-su...
Feb 08, 2024•59 min•Ep. 283
Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I have an interview with Kat Ashmore. Kat is the digital creator behind Kat Can Cook. Before becoming a TikTok food sensation, Kat graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education in NYC. She then worked for Martha Stewart, developing recipes and producing cooking segments on the Martha Steward Show. She is known for her skillful ability to incorporate clever food hacks and tips into fun, simple, and delicious recipes that just h...
Feb 01, 2024•46 min•Ep. 282
For many of you, the cost of writing your cookbook is on your mind. Some of you have asked me, “Will I go into debt writing this book”? That’s what we’re here to talk about today as I reveal seven truths about the cost of writing a cookbook as well as seven benefits I developed/received from writing cookbooks. Things We Mention In This Episode: How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook Without Spending Your Own Money to Edit, Design, or Print the Book....
Jan 25, 2024•20 min•Ep. 281
Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, I have an interview with Kristyn Merkley, author of So Easy & So Yummy: The Ultimate Resource for Feeding Your Friends and Family. After 14 years as one of the original recipe bloggers, Kristyn Merkley, founder of Lil’ Luna, has become one of the internet’s most beloved food content creators. Kristyn lives in Gilbert, AZ with her husband and six children (ages 6-16). Her down-to-earth, upbeat, and robust “slice of life” content, mixed with he...
Jan 18, 2024•40 min•Ep. 280
Welcome to another episode of the podcast. 2024 is shaping up to be an exciting year. I have a lot planned inside the Get Paid to Get Published program, with nutrition coaching/counseling for cookbook writers, and some exciting news about the podcast so stay tuned! Today I have an interview with Gerry Romano. Gerry is a retired publishing and communications consultant who lives in Virginia. Gerry enjoyed an extensive career as a magazine editor and writer for not-for-profit associations. After s...
Jan 11, 2024•57 min•Ep. 279
Welcome to our first episode of 2024! What better way to kick off the new year than with a cookbook all about eating more veggies with an interview with Toby Amidor? Toby is a best-selling cookbook author and award-winning dietitian who believes that healthy and wholesome can also be appetizing and delicious. Toby is the author of 9 cookbooks, founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition, and is the nutrition expert for the Food Network. Today on the podcast we talk about the health benefits of vegetables, ...
Jan 04, 2024•35 min•Ep. 278
Welcome to the final episode of the podcast for 2023! Today I want to wrap up 2023 on a positive note and with a few words of encouragement for you all. 2023 was a year of transition for me, maybe it was for you too? So I asked myself if in 2024 I want to keep telling the same stories to myself and others. If I plan to continue writing, cooking, podcasting, consulting, teaching, and coaching what new stories can I tell? There are always new possibilities to explore so what will 2024 intentionall...
Dec 28, 2023•11 min•Ep. 277
Welcome to the latest episode of the podcast. Today at the offical beginning of winter here in the northern hemisphere and while making final preparations for Christmas, I share three stories with you from two seasonal cookery books and one story from a book of poems, songs, and parables. Things We Mention In This Episode: The Year of Miracles by Ella Reisberger The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater Barrington Bunny in The Way of the Wolf by Martin Bell...
Dec 21, 2023•27 min•Ep. 276
Welcome to the latest episode of the podcast. I’m excited to be here today with Katie Jacobs. Katie is a fourth-generation Nashville native author, stylist, and photographer. She is the creator and art director at Styling My Everyday a food and lifestyle blog. Today on the podcast we talk about Katie’s new book The Chocolate Chip Cookie Book, her journey to write a cookbook with a narrow concept, tips for how she balances her work with being a mom of 3, her advice for aspiring cookbook writers a...
Dec 14, 2023•47 min•Ep. 275
