COMING SOON! Episode 208: Book Marketing - What We'd Tell Our Debut Selves
Join us live this Thursday Feb 26th, 6pm ET on YouTube!
We pour everything into our debut books. But what actually gets meaningful results, and what's just noise? In this episode, two authors who've done it more than once give us the honest debrief.
Christine Gunderson is an award-winning, Amazon bestselling author. Gabi Coatsworth is an award-winning British-born author
They'll share what worked, what they'd cut without hesitation, and what they'd tell their debut selves.
About Christine Gunderson
Christine Gunderson is an award-winning, Amazon bestselling author. She grew up on a fourth-generation family farm in rural North Dakota where she read Laura Ingalls Wilder books in her very own little house on the prairie.
She’s a former television anchor and reporter and former Capitol Hill press secretary. She currently lives in the Washington D.C. suburbs with her husband and three children.
Her debut novel, Friends with Secrets is an Amazon Bestseller, an Amazon Editors First Reads Pick and winner of the Women’s Fiction Writer’s Association Star Award for Best Debut Novel.
Her next novel, Behind White Picket Fences, releases in June of 2026 with Lake Union.
About Gabi Coatsworth
Gabi Coatsworth is an award-winning British-born author who lives in Connecticut in a cottage that’s American outside, and English inside.
Her first novel, A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Over (2023), features a lovable ghost, and so does her second, A Field Guide to Library Ghosts (2025). Her award-winning memoir, Love’s Journey Home, came out in 2022. When not writing or traveling, she runs groups for writers in Connecticut.
Books Mentioned
Behind White Picket Fences by Christine Gunderson
A Field Guide to Library Ghosts by Gabi Coatsworth
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