The Story of How I Got a Book Deal

29 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Peter Sorgenfrei. This content was uploaded by Peter Sorgenfrei. This is a YouTube video titled "The Story of How I Got a Book Deal" (created 2025-09-29) in which a single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) recounts receiving an unexpected outreach from an Ashley at Wiley, being offered a book deal for publication (noting a planned publication date of August 26th), signing a contract, and considering whether to get an agent. The excerpt is a first-person narrative about the process and reactions to securing a publishing agreement with Wiley.

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Today it was finally official that I will be writing a book with Wiley for publication next year on August 26th, and here's the story. So in March, I got an email from an Ashley at Wiley who basically wrote, hey, we've been reading what you write, we really think there could be a great book in your whole human approach, would you consider writing a book with Wiley? Wiley being one of the top publishers in the world, I obviously thought it was a Nigerian chain letter, But it turned out to be real. And so, over the last couple of months, we've been talking about what the book should be about and how we should structure it. And then, eventually, I got a contract from them. And for anybody who's been anywhere near this, they know that there's a lot of details in something like that. So, I had some conversations with other authors, and they said, maybe you should consider getting an agent.