Meet Grace Sammon
Recipient of the 2025 Indies United Publishing House’s Award for Inspirational Women in Literature, Media, and Journalism
Welcome to LAUNCH PAD
Celebrating new book releases and the authors that created them
Award-Winning Radio Show
Best in the Arts, Best in Fiction, Best in Publishing, Best Host
Listen to episodes! Find your next favorite author, book club choice, and great bookish adventure.
Sharpen your author writing, publishing and marketing skills by working through the LAUNCH PAD book series with the wisdom of renowned writers, publishers, and marketers. Take advantage of the downloadable countdown to success tips.
Be Grace’s guest as part of a fast-paced thirty-minute interview that goes live on Facebook. then, through a collaboration with Authors on The Air Global Radio Network, the show airs in 153 countries.
The LAUNCH PAD Book Trilogy
After Grace was invited to be interviewed over 100 times after the release of The Eves, she realized that the world of successfully launching a novel was a decidedly different experience than her other three releases. Novelists and memoirists need help to be successful.
Grace, always the creative collaborator and reinventor, decided to create LAUNCH PAD, the radio show to help authors promote their book releases. LAUNCH PAD quickly took off and led to the creation of three anthologies involving over 40 authors, publishers, and influencers.
LAUNCH PAD the Countdown to Writing Your Book, LAUNCH PAD the Countdown to Publishing Your Book, and LAUNCH PAD the Countdown to Marketing Your Book all released in the first half of 2023.
To learn more about the books, meet the contributors, and order go to: www.LAUNCHPADCountdown.com
About the Show
The LAUNCH PAD experience couples the award-winning radio show with marketing, networking, and skill-building. LAUNCH PAD was awarded first prize for Best in the Arts, Best Host, Best in Fiction, and Best in Publishing by Speak Up Talk Radio.
Authors, readers, bookstagrammers, book promoters, book clubs, publishing houses, and writing organizations are all raving about the success of LAUNCH PAD’s unique format in providing authors and readers alike with an opportunity to celebrate and share bookish news.
The use of both Facebook and radio platforms provides guests with broad exposure and an interactive format. Guests can invite their followers to listen, comment, and ask questions. The show then airs on Authors on the Air Global Radio Network in both audio and video platforms in 153 countries. Authors on the Air has over 2 million social media friends, listeners, and readers.
The on-air format features up to four guest authors in a 30-minute episode. Each episode is audio and video.
During the interactive, fast-paced format, Grace guides her guests through questions about their new releases and each author’s journey to this moment.
Each guest receives graphic art appropriate for social media posting highlighting their appearance on the show. They also receive the appropriate links to repost to their platforms.
Each episode is promoted prior to air dates across the platforms noted above.
Each guest is expected to cross-promote each author, multiplying the “reach” for each author.
Become a Guest
Currently on hiatus, check back in Spring of 2026.
Testimonials
Grace, I wanted to thank you for last LAUNCH PAD session. I think your questions were interesting and insightful, and not the typical run of the mill questions. You made me feel comfortable, which always helps. I was also impressed with how easily and gracefully you moved from one author to the other.
–Noel Caraccio, Esq
This was the best author interview I've seen. Every moment was wisely used, and every question elicited meaningful responses. Thank you for presenting a program well-worth the time I spent listening.
What a terrific job you did of finding common threads among our diversified panel. Thanks for all you're doing to help authors share their voices in the literary world.
-Marleen Pasch
I so appreciate your interview which was the most well executed I have experienced.
-Lauren Martin
Authors all know the truth: we never know what podcast appearance, what professional review, or what book group recommendation is going to turn the book sales tide. But when a promotional effort clicks, the results are quick and substantial. After an initial surge in sales, my most recent novel, Stars in Their Infancy began to level. But two weeks ago, after an appearance on Grace Sammon's fabulous Launch Pad podcast (and a simultaneous gold medal win in the 2022 Global Book Awards) sales are popping once again. Thanks Grace, thanks readers, thanks, fellow authors!
Grace is a wonderful moderator—one of the best I’ve experienced on a podcast. She makes conversing with several people at once look easy.