Peter Schweizer

I wish there was a methodology I could share.

I really can't because you don't really know it until you're in the middle of the book where the story is.

And I imagine that's probably similar to your experience in your books as well.

It's the information leads you to where you're going.

It's a good question.

I think it's really tradition.

That's the main thing.

They've been the longest list for a time.

The Wall Street Journal has a list.

Publishers Weekly has a list.

USA Today.

Yeah, that's always the joke, right?

People on my side hate the New York Times until the New York Times agrees with you or praises something you've done.

What's interesting about the New York Times list, of course, is they use this sort of secret formula that nobody quite understands.

So it's based on sales, but it's also based on reorders from book publishers.

It weighs independent bookstores.

So nobody knows the secret sauce of how it's done.

Yeah.

And I will say there's been a lot of criticism of the New York Times cooking the books as it were against conservative authors.

Honestly, that's never happened to me.