Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Lindy Schneider is a contributing author to ten books in the NY Times best-selling book series, Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has been a featured guest on ABC, CBS, NBS, FOX and the CW. She has been quoted in U.S. News & World Report, INC., Atlanta Business Journal, Huffington Post and many more.
Tom L. Schneider is the creator of an innovative public-school model that the U.S. Department of Education called, “the future of education in America.” As a successful businessperson, Tom has won national awards for client retention and generated multi-millions of dollars in sales. Tom L. Schneider has been featured on ABC, NBC, and many radio shows.
Together Tom L. and Lindy Schneider have coauthored four books, two of which are Amazon bestsellers.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
College Secrets of Highly Successful People: Keys to Launching a Great Life.
After successfully working in the business world, Tom L. Schneider and Lindy Schneider stepped into the world of higher education. They became college advisors to save college students from graduating with a huge loan debt but no career to pay it back. After having worked for various colleges for nearly 25 years they launched AmericasCollegeAdvisors.com where they could tell the students the very things the colleges would not let them tell. Their book College Secrets of Highly Successful People and their program College Superhero Secrets were the result. They teach college students how to leap tall buildings, walk through walls and become fireproof.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Lindy Schneider: I write wrongs! People say things that are just wrong, especially when taken out of context. I keep a file of these funny or odd statements and use them as inspiration. I won an international playwrighting award for which I used an especially odd statement as the motivation for the main character. Other times things happen that are just wrong. I like to write about those situations too and how they became right.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tom L. Schneider: My favorite author is Ray Bradbury. His body of work is a portal to other worlds. Reading his work is my best escape.
Lindy Schneider: I read mostly non-fiction. I love biographies because I believe we can learn from the paths that others have walked. Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker and Atomic Habits by James Clear have been especially influential to my thinking and writing.
What are you working on now?
Our next book will be Career Secrets of Highly Successful People. Many young adults have not found their career path in college. We plan to feature people who have become highly successful in the trades or other professions that did not need a degree and how they did it.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
We have been doing many radio, TV and podcast interviews and live speaking to get the word out about our book.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
“You are a marketer first and an author second.” – Tom L. Schneider
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Lindy Schneider: “Live your life so you have no regrets.”
What are you reading now?
Get Your Book in the News, by Sandra Beckwith
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A journal for my writing, a sketchbook for my sanity, the Bible for encouragement and a survival manual for, of course, being able to survive.- Lindy Schneider
A collection of fiction novels, both historical and futuristic so that I could find my escape in the past and my hope for the future. – Tom Schneider
Author Websites and Profiles
Lindy and Tom L. Schneider Website