This is How You Love Her (with Traci Saulsberry)

Liberation is Lit Podcast

Liberation is Lit Podcast
This is How You Love Her (with Traci Saulsberry)
May 29, 2026 Season 4 Episode 18
Tayler Simon

In this episode, we welcome author and publicist Traci Saulsberry to discuss her upcoming book, This Is How You Love Her. Saulsberry shares her long-held desire to write, her career in publicity including working at NBC, and how leaving corporate prompted questions of identity that led her back to writing. She describes a non-traditional publishing journey that began with a LinkedIn message to a publishing president and evolved into a book deal and a “meta” narrative that shows her finding herself while writing about self-love. The book releases in August, so pre-order today!

Traci’s Book

This is How You Love Her (out on 8/14)


Where to find Traci

Instagram

LinkedIn


Timeline

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

00:34 Traci’s Path to Authorship

02:23 Landing a Book Deal

03:31 Why the Book Is Nonlinear

04:51 Finding the Title and Theme

06:40 Identity Beyond the Work

09:49 Surrender, Control, and Vulnerability

13:15 Journaling as a Map to Self

15:51 Upcoming Projects and Promotion

17:25 Advice, Preorders, and Farewell

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