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Laura Russom

Laura Russom is a co-author of Before The Bestseller: Your Proven Path to Book Sales Without Wasting Time & Money, written alongside Alex Strathdee and Steve Sarner. She is based in Savannah and educated at the University of Missouri-Columbia. On LinkedIn, she is described as a "Book Whisperer" with experience in Advanced Amazon Advertising.
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Before The Bestseller: Your Proven Path to Book Sales Without Wasting Time

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Published by ShelfLife in March 2025, Before The Bestseller: Your Proven Path to Book Sales Without Wasting Time & Money is a nonfiction guide co-authored by Alex Strathdee, Laura Russom, and Steve Sarner, designed to walk authors through a structured, actionable process for building book sales and a lasting readership — with or without an existing platform. Early readers on Amazon have rated it 4.8 out of 5 stars across 56 ratings.

Reviewed Apr 28, 2026

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