Melissa Burch

Melissa Burch is a bestselling, award-winning author and the publisher behind the first Smart AI Book.

Her next book, "Build Without Code," is about the four months she spent building a publishing and marketing platform without ever opening the code that runs it. She is publishing it one chapter a week, free, while the thing it describes is still being built, including the chapters where she got it wrong. Forty years in media. Zero in code. Building anyway.

She has spent forty years in media, twenty of them in publishing, and has worked with more than 400 authors. In March 2026 her book "The Four Methods of Journal Writing" became the first Smart AI Book ever built. Published as "Burn What You Wrote," it pairs the original text with an AI Companion that asks the questions a book cannot.

She is the author of two memoirs and a five-volume homeopathy series: "My Journey Through War and Peace" (Amazon #1 Bestseller in several categories, 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver, 2016 Foreword INDIES Silver), "Yearning for Magic," "The Four Methods of Journal Writing," and "The Vital Sensation Manual" (translated into German and Portuguese).

Former BBC and CBS war correspondent. Producer of "Women in Limbo Presents," a national Public Television Series. Her work has been featured on NPR and in The New York Times. Homeopath and alchemist. Co-founder of A&A Publishing and Marketing.