How to Publish Your Novel by Kenneth Atchity

I have had many moments of self-reflection. Next month will be when I had my very first broadcast on LA Talk live 7 years ago. I am celebrating my 4 year anniversary as the host of this podcast on Blog Talk Radio. “I’ve always lived my life following the observation of the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset: “I think the only immoral thing is for a being not to live every second of his life with the utmost intensity.” That means exploring your every potential, pushing every envelope, jumping into every opportunity. If you keep track of things that happen, store the evidence and hang around long enough to figure out the pattern the pieces form: the pattern of your life.”Ĭheck out this easy link to purchase his book. If you can’t do it now, you will do it someday.

I like his quote from the book: “Only you should fashion meaning from the things that happen to you. He, like me, is a control freak and didn’t want to wait around for someone else to summarize his life. He mentions in his book, that it bothered him to think that another author would write his obituary. Surprisingly it started at a very early age, as a child. In his book, it becomes clear that he has a purpose. With forty-five years’ experience in the publishing world and thirty-five years in entertainment, Ken is a self-defined “Story Merchant” – author, professor, producer, career coach, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching dozens of books and films. Ken’s life passion is finding great storytellers and shaping them into commercial authors and screenwriters. But that was just the beginning of his second career as a literary manager and producer. Followed by a Fulbright Professor of American Studies to the University of Bologna. Then he became a professor of literature at Occidental College. To start with, Ken attended Georgetown (BA) and Yale (Ph.d). Thank you Ken Atchity for joining me today on the Born To Talk Radio Show Podcast.

How to Publish Your Novel by Kenneth Atchity