10 People Who Owe Their Success to a Book

“You’re no one. You don’t know anyone. You don’t have any money, I’m not representing you.”

Amy Lyle let the lawyer’s sentence hang in the air for a few seconds. She had spent months on this screenplay. She had connected with this lawyer through a friend. That friend warmed up the call. She had done EVERYTHING right.

Or so she thought.

“I’m not going to lie,” Amy replied after a while. “That makes me really f**king sad.”

The lawyer laughed.

What was it Amy had done so wrong? After the devastating conversation, she was bold enough to ask.

“I’ll give you some free advice,” the lawyer said. “You need to get on the map. When I search your name on Google, something better come up related to comedy. Right now there is nothing.”

So what did Amy do? She wrote a book.

The Book of Failures, her first effort, immediately became an Amazon Best Seller. Calls asking her to speak flooded in. She accepted everything from comedy clubs to black-tie galas. Over the past years…