Podcasts by Richard Lowe, Hosted Series and Guest Appearances
Leaders and Their Stories
BusinessJoe Rockey: The Psychology of Getting People to Be Honest and to Buy
February 28, 2025
Joe Rockey joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explain the psychology of honesty and selling: why our reptilian brain makes honesty hard, how to get people to want you to succeed, why there is no universal sales…
Book MarketingRoyce Blake: Why Benefits Beat Features in Every Pitch You Make
February 28, 2025
Royce Blake joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories for a clinic in persuasion: copywriting as salesmanship in print, why benefits beat features, believing in your product, and how storytelling turns a technical pitch into an approved one.
Guest Appearances
PeopleWhere Book Ideas Come From, and Why Good Books Don’t Sell | The Exceptional Scribble Show, January 2019
January 15, 2019
The January 15, 2019 hour on ideas and market reality: thirty seeds generated fast, KDP Rocket research, the unbeatable coloring book wall, two winnable categories pulling up a tough one, short books as market tests, the space opera prequel strategy,…
PeopleMake a Living as a Professional Self-Published Author: The Complete Webinar | Yeadon Public Library
January 10, 2019
The full January 10, 2019 webinar for the Yeadon Public Library: why print-on-demand opened a golden age, brand-before-book, the Chicago Manual daily habit, word counts raised monthly, the woman-antagonist engagement play, Fiverr rights warnings, platform overlap traps, read-aloud proofreading, pen…
PeopleIs Fear Fiction or Nonfiction? Confidence, Cold Calls, and the Dancer Who Almost Quit | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 242
December 18, 2018
The December 18, 2018 hour on confidence: publish the imperfect first book, the freelancer as salesperson, approaching agents through conversation, Richard Branson's accept-and-figure-it-out, fear as fiction, the pretend-no-savings mind game, Bonnie's 80,000 words at 78, the pop-and-lock dancer nobody clapped…
PeopleThe Night Before the Yeadon Webinar: Fiction Masterclass and Making a Living as an Author | The Exceptional Scribble Show
December 4, 2018
The December 4, 2018 call-in the night before the Yeadon Public Library webinar: the complete agenda preview, the Book Empire courses and 500-idea prompt books, the 15,000-word novelette visibility strategy, self-paced practical training, and daily promotion that flows outward instead…
Book MarketingProfessionals Get Paid: Rates, Deposits, and Building Your Tribe | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 238
November 20, 2018
The November 2018 hour on the professional line: turning passion into a scheduled career with a defended writing space, why the author sells and the book follows, book signing realities, the Fiverr goldmine used safely, negotiate-down-never-up pricing, rate floor math,…
CareersVanity Publisher Warnings and What Writing Actually Pays | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 233
October 16, 2018
The October 2018 hour on the economics of writing: vanity publisher and rights-grab warnings, the remote screen-share publishing walkthrough, why autobiographies rarely sell, series-first fiction strategy, what ghostwriting, LinkedIn profiles, copywriting, and blogging each pay, job board scams, and the…
BusinessHow to Manage a Consulting Project: The Guest Lecture | Professor Makadok’s Yearly Consulting Class
October 10, 2018
The 2018 session of an annual tradition: a business school consulting class taught from Richard's book, with live answers on vetting consultants, telling a CEO he's wrong without saying so, the time-quality-money triangle, the $10 million Trader Joe's lesson, scope…
Ghostwriting
PeopleSelf-Publishing, Traditional, or Vanity: Choosing Your Path and Proving Your Market | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 230
September 11, 2018
The September 2018 hour that started the monthly residency: self-publishing versus traditional versus vanity publishing, proving your genre sells when publishers say it will not, marketing poetry to the right public, the charity-event press trick, Fiction Masterclass, and the on-air…
