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Download Your Free Novel Planning Guide Let's talk about author platforms—and before you groan, I promise this isn't scary or overwhelming! In this episode of The Write It Scared Podcast, I'm chatting with two industry experts, Nicole Meier (multi-published author and book coach) and Gretchen Schaffer (marketing and PR strategist), the brilliant team behind Bookworks.coNicole and Gretchen break down exactly what an author platform is (hint: it's simpler than you think), why it's important (but not something to stress about), and how you can confidently start building yours right now—no matter where you are in your writing journey.Here's a peek at what we cover:What exactly is an author platform, anyway? (Spoiler alert: it's just your online/offline presence that connects you authentically with readers)When's the best time to start building your platform? (Hint: you might be surprised!)Practical, realistic steps you can take immediately to grow your platform without feeling overwhelmedHow to clearly define your author brand, find your readers, and feel good about pitching your workThe resources and tools Nicole and Gretchen recommend to make your platform-building easier (and even fun)Whether you're brand-new to the idea of an author platform or looking to boost your current efforts, this episode is packed with down-to-earth advice, real strategies, and encouragement to help you succeed, minus the stress.Episode Breakdown00:00 – Let's talk platforms without the panic!01:16 – Meet Nicole Meyer & Gretchen Schaefer of Bookwork04:11 – What an author platform really is (and isn't)11:53 – Practical tips you can use right away to build your author platform confidently25:01 – How Bookwork can help you (plus final thoughts)Final ThoughtsBuilding your author platform doesn't need to feel like another full-time job. Nicole and Gretchen reminded me that the key is authenticity and simplicity. So take a deep breath—your readers want to know the real you, and building connections can actually be enjoyable.Ready to dive in? You've got this!Happy writing (and platform-building!), friends!To learn more about Bookworks, Nicole Meier and Gretchen Schaffer, please visit their website bookworks.co Have a comment or idea about the show? Send me a direct text! Love to hear from you.Support the show To become a supporter of the show, click here!To get in touch with Stacy: Email: Stacy@writeitscared.co https://www.writeitscared.co/ https://www.instagram.com/writeitscared/ Take advantage of these Free Resources From Write It Scared: Download Your Free Novel Planning and Drafting Quick Start Guide Download Your Free Guide to Remove Creative Blocks and Work Through Fears

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the idea of building your author platform? Not sure where to start or how to connect with your readers? You're not alone! In this week's episode of The Resilient Writers Radio Show, I sit down with author and certified book coach Nicole Meier to break it all down into simple, actionable steps.Nicole is the author of The House of Bradbury, The Girl Made of Clay, and The Second Chance Supper Club, and her latest book, City of Books, is out now! She's also a developmental editor and co-founder of Bookworks, where she helps writers create an engaging author platform that aligns with their goals.In our conversation, Nicole shares why so many writers feel stuck when it comes to marketing themselves—and how to move past the overwhelm. If you've ever thought, Do I have to be on every social media platform? Do I need a newsletter? What kind of content should I even be sharing?—this episode is for you!Key Takeaways:✅ Start with Your “Why” – Before diving into social media or email marketing, take a moment to reflect on what you want from your platform. Do you want to connect with readers? Build credibility? Attract an agent? Understanding your purpose will help you make smarter choices.✅ Go Where Your Readers Are – Not every platform is right for every author. Romance writers might thrive on Instagram, while nonfiction writers may find their audience on LinkedIn. Nicole shares how to identify the best place to focus your energy.✅ Less is More – The biggest mistake writers make is trying to be everywhere at once. Nicole recommends choosing one platform and showing up consistently rather than spreading yourself too thin. Quality and consistency matter more than quantity!✅ Be Authentic – You don't have to dance on TikTok or create elaborate content if it doesn't feel right for you. Share your writing journey, behind-the-scenes moments, and insights into your creative process—authenticity is what truly connects readers to authors.✅ Newsletters Are Gold – Social media is great for visibility, but email lists convert better when it comes to book sales. Nicole explains why a newsletter (via Substack or another platform) can be a game-changer for your author career.✅ Avoid Common Mistakes – Nicole highlights the top three mistakes authors make: not knowing their purpose, overcommitting to too many platforms, and feeling like they're not “worthy” of having a platform. She reassures us that small, consistent efforts are what really matter.If you want a step-by-step plan to grow your audience, this episode could be exactly what you need!

Are you an emerging author who's starting to think about your author platform? Or perhaps you're just dipping your toe into the world of publisher pitches and agent queries.

Scotty talks to author Rachel Eve Moulton about her acclaimed novels "Tinfoil Butterfly" (2019) and "The Insatiable Volt Sisters" (2023), both from MCD x FSG Books. Along the way they discuss Rachel's upbringing in Antioch, Ohio, her early influences from Flannery O'Connor to Stephen King, the importance of place in her work, the culture shock of moving from Rhode Island to New Mexico, how horror fiction can free an author from the need to write in metaphor, the beauty of and terror of exploring fictional relationships, the ickiness of teeth, and much more. They also talk about the brilliant teen werewolf movie "Ginger Snaps," and how the film's sibling dynamic informed that in "The Insatiable Volt Sisters." You can find Rachel online at https://www.rachelevemoulton.com You can get your copy of "Tinfoil Butterfly" From Bookworks here in Albuquerque!: https://www.bkwrks.com/book/9780374538309 You can get "The Insatiable Volt Sisters" from Bookworks as well: https://www.bkwrks.com/book/9780374538323 Read Rachel's story "Deluge" at New Ohio Review: https://newohioreview.org/2019/12/13/deluge/ Read Rachel's essay "On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women" at LitHub: https://lithub.com/on-the-haunted-lives-of-girls-and-women/ Be sure to check out the next episode of the YouTube show "Night Time Logic" from Daniel Braum. The series focuses on the strange, weird, and wonderful side of dark fiction through readings and discussions with diverse authors from around the world. The next episode will be LIVE on April 23 at 7 p.m. EST, and will feature authors Douglas Ford and Jeffrey Ford. You can tune in on Daniel's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@danielbraum7838 This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

No More Empty Spaces (She Writes Press, 2024) opens with Will Ross, an engineering geologist, who shares custody of his three children with his ex-wife, taking his 1953 Cessna up for a spin. It's 1973, and he's decided to take his children to a remote area of Turkey where he's been hired to analyze the site of a damn. He plans to tell the kids, once they're across the world, that they won't be going back to their alcoholic mother. The kids face the trials of learning the language, grappling with being so far away, and having a blended family. Will faces enormous problems at the building site in this lovely story centered on geology, engineering, science, landscape, and adventure. It's about how a loving family can provide balance against the emotional and physical challenges of living on this fragile earth. D. J. Green is a writer, geologist, and sailor, as well as a bookseller and partner in Bookworks, an independent bookstore in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She lives near the Sandia Mountains in Placitas, New Mexico, and cruises the Salish Sea on her sailboat during the summers. An avid outdoorswoman, she loves to hike, backpack, birdwatch, and pick up and contemplate rocks (but never ever take any home from a National Park). D. J. revels in a great conversation about books with customers and colleagues at Bookworks, and is always looking for the next great read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

No More Empty Spaces (She Writes Press, 2024) opens with Will Ross, an engineering geologist, who shares custody of his three children with his ex-wife, taking his 1953 Cessna up for a spin. It's 1973, and he's decided to take his children to a remote area of Turkey where he's been hired to analyze the site of a damn. He plans to tell the kids, once they're across the world, that they won't be going back to their alcoholic mother. The kids face the trials of learning the language, grappling with being so far away, and having a blended family. Will faces enormous problems at the building site in this lovely story centered on geology, engineering, science, landscape, and adventure. It's about how a loving family can provide balance against the emotional and physical challenges of living on this fragile earth. D. J. Green is a writer, geologist, and sailor, as well as a bookseller and partner in Bookworks, an independent bookstore in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She lives near the Sandia Mountains in Placitas, New Mexico, and cruises the Salish Sea on her sailboat during the summers. An avid outdoorswoman, she loves to hike, backpack, birdwatch, and pick up and contemplate rocks (but never ever take any home from a National Park). D. J. revels in a great conversation about books with customers and colleagues at Bookworks, and is always looking for the next great read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

This week, we head to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to visit a store that's been serving its community for 40 years. Co-owner Shannon Guinn-Collins and Store Manager Robert Flippo take us behind the shelves of Bookworks. We discuss the store's long history, the amazing authors who have passed through its doors, and a recent change to an LLC structure for ownership.Books We Talk About: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, We Don't Eat our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins, Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin, Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Ron Boots is among the most engaging Electronic Musicians ever exporting music from The Netherlands. Since the late 1980s, his work has been rooted in the Berlin School yet reaches far beyond the basic fundamentals of the genre. Combining elements of Contemporary Instrumental, Film Soundtracks and Spacemusic, Boots' music moves easily between the mainstream and the cosmic. In 1995, together with Kees Aerts, Ron founded the well-respected Groove Unlimited label. This was initially a vehicle for Ron and Kees to release their own solo albums and collaborations, such as BAH. The label has continued to this day, with an ever-growing worldwide roster of Electronic artists. Kees left Groove in 2011, leaving Ron to continue alone, but they parted as friends. Playlist 00.00Ron Boots ‘Acoustic Shadows' (album Acoustic Shadows) 2006 07.45 Ron Boots ‘Eric V/D Heijden & Friends ‘Mercalli's Scale' (album More Live, By Popular Demand) 1992 19.28 Ron Boots ‘Cries In The Mist' (album Various E-Scape 2018) 2018 27.48 Stephan Whitlan & Ron Boots ‘Eagle' (album Three Day Week) *** 2019 38.10 Ron Boots, Kees Aerts & Harold V.D. Heijden ‘Triple Rock' (album Livelines) 2002 46.58 Ron Boots ‘Cougar Land' (album Dreamscape) 1990 53.20 Ron Boots ‘Achouchemojha' (album Tainted Bare Skin) 1998 01.00.31 Ron Boots ‘Goodbye' (album Bookworks) 1989 01.06.41 Ron Boots & Gert Emmens '02.17 AM' (Night At Blackrock Station) *** 2021 01.17.35 Ron Boots ‘A Sense Of Turmoil' (album Once The Dust Settles) 2018 01.27.58 Ron Boots ‘Ghost Of A Mist: Sleepwalker' (album Ghost Of a Mist) *** 1991 01.37.27 Ron Boots & Synth.nl ‘Morgenfrisk' (album Borkhaven) 2020 01.45.05 Rudy Adrian & Ron Boots 'Night Sky Part 2' (album Across The Silver River) 2002 01.54.27 Ron Boots ‘When It Gets Dark' ( (album When It Gets Dark) 2021 02.06.48 Ron Boots & Bas Broekhuis ‘Malibou Beach' (album Hydrythmix) 1989 02.13.43 Ian Boddy, Ron Boots & Harold V.D.Heijden ‘Frozen Canal' (album Phases 3) 1997 02.22.05 John Kerr & Ron Boots ‘For Those In Peril On The Sea Part I' (album Offshore Islands) 1990 02.30.19 Ron Boots 'Amor Facit‘ (Different album Stories And Twisted Tales) 1993 02.36.16 Ron Boots ‘Serengeti (The Rain Season)' (album Area Movement) 2003 02.44.08 Ron Boots ‘Liquid Structures In A Solid Form' (album Liquid Structures In A Solid Form) *** 2002 02.53.48 Ron Boots ‘Too Many Secrets' (album Too Many Secrets)*** 1994 03.02.06 Ron Boots ‘Run' (Sequences No 20) 1998 03.09.13 Ron Boots ‘Raumzeit 3' (album Raumzeit) 2021 03.15.48 Demon Art & Ron Boots ‘Grundung' (album Die Musikalische Geschichte Von Schloss Burg) 1995 03.21.29 Ron Boots ‘The Cold Fields' (album New Dream)1987 *** 03.29.07 Ron Boots ‘The Mystery' (album Dream Weaver) 1987 *** 03.36.37 Ron Boots ‘Alignment' (album Current) 1997 03.44.30 Boots, Dorittke, Van der Heijden & Whitlan ‘A Warm Light' (album The Bochum Bonus) 2017 03.55.00 Ron Boots & Friends ‘Light Pollution' (album Joie de Vivre) 1999 Edit ***

In this episode of Nightmare on Sedgwick Avenue! Join me as I sit down with Owner Dave Pepper of the new San Diego eclectic Bookstore BookWorks N Such. We talk about his Stephen King collection, how he got into selling books and more! Hosted by: 7 Octoberz Follow: https://www.instagram.com/7octoberz/ Special Guest: Dave Pepper Follow: https://instagram.com/bookworks_n_such Nightmare on Sedgwick Avenue Blog: https://nightmareonsedgwick.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/7octoberz/support

This is part 2 of Oriana's interview with Hamja Ahsan, author of Shy Radicals. Hamja admits that if he dies tomorrow, he wants to be remembered for his interview on The O Show  episode "You're only as sick as your secrets". But he's still not convinced that Oriana's series does anything other than promote extrovert supremacist, normative ways of living. Will Oriana dissuade Hamja from his assumption that practicing unconditional self-acceptance (USA) is in fact yet another example of extrovert supremacist dogma? Listen and find out!Dr Oriana Fox is an artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show . Be sure to check out the "Killer Conversations" episode, which is discussed on this podcast. Hamja Ahsan is an artist, activist and the author of Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert (2017) published by Bookworks. Among his many accolades, Ahsan won the Grand Prize at the 2019 Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. The film Shy Radicals produced by Black Dog Films, about Ahsan's life and work, was released in 2020. For information about Ahsan's past political campaigning for his brother Talha visit: freetalha.org.This podcast contains short quotations from Susie Scott's book Shyness and Society: The Illusion of Competence (2007), Palgrave Macmillan.Credits:Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana FoxRecorded with the assistance of Chris Halliwell at City & Guilds of London Art School, KenningtonPost-production mixing by Stacey HarveyThemesong written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpecial thanks to Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Joshua Sofaer, Anna Colwill, Althea Greenan, Ceren Özpınar, Felicity Allen, Hilary Robinson, Helena Reckitt and others I'm forgetting and or not sure they need/want thanking, who patiently listened to and commented on my first edit!Would you like to see your name in the above credits list? In a couple of short steps, you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/orianafox

Oriana interviews Hamja Ahsan, leader of the introvert revolution. They discuss their mutual affliction, shyness. Or is it in fact their superpower? Oriana admits to feeling very guilty for having tried to convert shy people ever since Hamja made her painfully aware of how much of a sell-out she's been to the extrovert supremacy.  Will he convince her to wholly embrace her shyness or, better yet, to take pride in it? Listen and find out! Dr Oriana Fox is an artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show . Be sure to check out the "Killer Conversations" episode, which is discussed on this podcast.  Hamja Ahsan is an artist, activist and the author of Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert (2017) published by Bookworks. Among his many accolades, Ahsan won the Grand Prize at the 2019 Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. The film Shy Radicals, produced by Black Dog Films, about Ahsan's life and work, was released in 2020. For information about Ahsan's past political campaigning for his brother Talha visit: freetalha.org.This podcast contains short quotations from Susie Scott's book Shyness and Society: The Illusion of Competence (2007), Palgrave Macmilan.Credits:Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana FoxRecorded with the assistance of Chris Halliwell at City & Guilds of London Art School, KenningtonPost-production mixing by Stacey HarveyThemesong written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpecial thanks to Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Joshua Sofaer, Anna Colwill, Althea Greenan, Ceren Özpınar, Felicity Allen, Hilary Robinson, Helena Reckitt and others I'm forgetting and or not sure they need/want thanking, who patiently listened to and commented on my first edit!Would you like to see your name in the above credits list? In a couple of short steps you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/orianafox

***Listeners, this week we have our last replay episode before we start back with Season 4 next week with an all new group of fascinating bookish guests. We've been recording over the hiatus, and we are excited to introduce you to more book lovers in just a few more days. Our rebroadcast this week is from Season 3, episode 58 with Clare Wallace, the executive director of South Louisville Community Ministries which also runs The Rosewater bookstore in coordination with The BookWorks. The community bookstore opened just as COVID was hitting the city in the spring of 2020, and it took several months for them (and everyone) to figure out the new normal. but they are up and running with regular hours, a really great selection of books, and gift items made by artisans in the neighborhood. Located on South 3rd Street, The Rosewater's regular hours are: Wednesday & Thursday, 10:00 - 4:00 Friday & Saturday, 10:00 - 6:00 Sunday, 10:00 - 3:00 It also offers mystery bags. Book lovers can complete a Google Form and request books from a certain genre. If you're like me and spend way too much time in the house, something as simple as a mystery bag of books you can pick up curbside is the kind of excitement I'm down for in 2021. _____________ This past weekend many people recognized Independent Bookstore Day, a day to be extra appreciative of their local bookstores and booksellers that give booklovers all the feels. Everyone loves a bookstore, don't they? Our guest today certainly does. When Clare Wallace visits a new place, she always looks for the closest used bookstore. This gave her the idea to open The Rosewater, aptly named after her favorite Kurt Vonnegut book, which she envisions as a comforting living room for everybody. Clare is the executive director of South Louisville Community Ministries, a nonprofit that provides emergency assistance for residents of South Louisville facing crisis, and she was looking for a visible way to do outreach in the neighborhood. The bookstore serves several purposes; to create a warm community space, to bring life to parts of the neighborhood that have seen hard times, to provide transitional employment for residents in crisis, and to offer a service that the neighbors want! Clare grew up in a house filled with hundreds of books with a mother who worked for a publisher but her favorites were those that explored other worlds. After Clare left college, she literally went around the world working in international development and as a Peace Corps volunteer. When she settled in Louisville, she chose to land in the most diverse part of the city which is filled with a wide variety of different ethnicities and income levels; Clare works to bring people together in her adopted hometown. Clare tells us how The Rosewater is pivoting from traditional retail sales to creative services like mystery book boxes delivered to your door due to Covid, why creating a comforting community space for the neighborhood is important to her, and how learning to deal with failure is a skill she learned abroad that helps her create new projects today. Books Discussed in this Episode: 1- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle 2- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 3- East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 5- Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 6- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut 7- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 8- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 9- The Lost Queen by Signe Pike 10- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck 11- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown 12- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki 13- My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris 14- New Kid by Jerry Craft 15- The Watchman by Alan Moore 16- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan 17- American Gods by Neil Gaiman        

***Listeners, this week we have our last replay episode before we start back with Season 4 next week with an all new group of fascinating bookish guests. We’ve been recording over the hiatus, and we are excited to introduce you to more book lovers in just a few more days. Our rebroadcast this week is from Season 3, episode 58 with Clare Wallace, the executive director of South Louisville Community Ministries which also runs The Rosewater bookstore in coordination with The BookWorks. The community bookstore opened just as COVID was hitting the city in the spring of 2020, and it took several months for them (and everyone) to figure out the new normal. but they are up and running with regular hours, a really great selection of books, and gift items made by artisans in the neighborhood. Located on South 3rd Street, The Rosewater’s regular hours are: Wednesday & Thursday, 10:00 - 4:00 Friday & Saturday, 10:00 - 6:00 Sunday, 10:00 - 3:00 It also offers mystery bags. Book lovers can complete a Google Form and request books from a certain genre. If you’re like me and spend way too much time in the house, something as simple as a mystery bag of books you can pick up curbside is the kind of excitement I’m down for in 2021. _____________ This past weekend many people recognized Independent Bookstore Day, a day to be extra appreciative of their local bookstores and booksellers that give booklovers all the feels. Everyone loves a bookstore, don’t they? Our guest today certainly does. When Clare Wallace visits a new place, she always looks for the closest used bookstore. This gave her the idea to open The Rosewater, aptly named after her favorite Kurt Vonnegut book, which she envisions as a comforting living room for everybody. Clare is the executive director of South Louisville Community Ministries, a nonprofit that provides emergency assistance for residents of South Louisville facing crisis, and she was looking for a visible way to do outreach in the neighborhood. The bookstore serves several purposes; to create a warm community space, to bring life to parts of the neighborhood that have seen hard times, to provide transitional employment for residents in crisis, and to offer a service that the neighbors want! Clare grew up in a house filled with hundreds of books with a mother who worked for a publisher but her favorites were those that explored other worlds. After Clare left college, she literally went around the world working in international development and as a Peace Corps volunteer. When she settled in Louisville, she chose to land in the most diverse part of the city which is filled with a wide variety of different ethnicities and income levels; Clare works to bring people together in her adopted hometown. Clare tells us how The Rosewater is pivoting from traditional retail sales to creative services like mystery book boxes delivered to your door due to Covid, why creating a comforting community space for the neighborhood is important to her, and how learning to deal with failure is a skill she learned abroad that helps her create new projects today. Books Discussed in this Episode: 1- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle 2- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 3- East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 5- Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 6- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut 7- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 8- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 9- The Lost Queen by Signe Pike 10- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck 11- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown 12- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki 13- My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris 14- New Kid by Jerry Craft 15- The Watchman by Alan Moore 16- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan 17- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

“Not only does a book gather ideas together, but also it develops a community of shared readers.”

Ryan Gorman talks to Goodwill Suncoast about their JET and Bookworks programs and their upcoming Hippie Dash event. www.goodwill-suncoast.org

For the last three years Cathy has performed slam poetry in New Mexico. She tied for second at the 2018 Southwest Shootout in the individual category and was the 2018 Lobo Slam Champion. Her work is published in Raven Chronicles and 3Elements Literary Review and is forthcoming in Roanoke Review, and Toe Good. Her poetry is inspired by the body of the land and by the landscape of her body. Find more work at rewritereread.wordpress.com. Find her zines at Bookworks or Astrozombies. If you are a poet and want to be on the show find me on Facebook, Twitter, or email me at rene.mullen@gmail.com. 

Ryan Gorman spoke with Goodwill Suncoast about their Bookworks program, their Junior Ambassadors of Goodwill program and their upcoming Hippie Dash Event. Donna Lopez, Scott Coursen and Jennifer Fleming joined the show. www.goodwill-suncoast.org

Ep#72: This week we're showcasing the session "Author Tools to Reach Readers with Carla King" Carla King is the author of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Guide for Authors. She has collated the best tools you can use to reach more readers and build your fan base, whatever your genre. These tools are easily integrated into your website and let you listen and respond to readers, attract and reward fans, and sell direct. Topics Discussed in this Session: Getting reviews with Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs). Giveaways tools for Authors. Selling your book direct. Selling your book as a subscription. E-Commerce Options for Authors. How authors can use Gumroad. Become a Content Curator using Aer.io. Beta publishing with Leanpub. Integrating HTML Widgets into Your Website. Our weekly Self-Publishing Advicebroadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Indie Author Fringe Highlight  is one of four regular shows, which include an ALLi Member Q&A, a beginners' salon and an advanced self-publishing salon. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, www.selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at www.allianceindependentauthors.org.   If you're not familiar with our Fringe event, it's three-times a year, online conference for self-publishing authors, brought to you by the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and fringe to the major global publishing fairs; London Book Fair, BookExp, and Frankfurt Book Fair. ALLi brings together the most up-to-date self-publishing education and information available and broadcasts it to authors everywhere. Running 24 sessions over 24 continuous hours allows our members, and other authors round the globe, to attend sessions, no matter where they’re located. For more information, visit our Conference Home Page   Now, go write and publish.   Host Bio:   This session was hosted by Carla King who is the creator of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp books and workshops and founder of Author Friendly, a resource, education, and service center for self-publishers and small presses. Her comprehensive Self-Publishing Boot Camp Guide for Authors is now in its fourth edition. She has written for Bowker’s Self-Published Author, Bookworks, PBS MediaShift, and hosts a popular blog at AuthorFriendly.com. Carla also penned the Book Formatting, Book Distribution, and Book Discovery guides for IngramSpark, where she is on the advisory board. 

Frances Caballo is an author and social media strategist and manager for writers. She’s a contributing writer at TheBookDesigner.com, and blogger and Social Media Expert for BookWorks. She’s written several social media books including Social Media Just for Writers. Her focus is on helping authors surmount the barriers that keep them from flourishing online, building their platform, finding new readers, and selling more books.  CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): http://www.SocialMediaJustforWriters.com   Twitter handle(s): @CaballoFrances  Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FrancesCaballoAuthor   Amazon Author page (if applicable): https://www.amazon.com/Frances-Caballo/e/B009R5XZU6/ ___ GOT A QUESTION FOR KEVIN AND HIS GUESTS? CALL 281-809-WORD (9673)

On Win's Women of Wisdom today, Best-Selling Author, Win Kelly Charles welcomes Marianne Sciucco. Marianne is not a nurse who writes but a writer who happens to be a nurse. A lover of words and books, she dreamed of becoming an author when she grew up but became a nurse to avoid poverty. She later brought her two passions together and writes about the intricate lives of people struggling with health and family issues. Her debut novel "Blue Hydrangeas," an Alzheimer’s love story, is a Kindle bestseller, IndieReader Approved, a BookWorks featured book, a Library Journal Self-e Selection, a 5-star Readers Favorite, and winner of IndieReCon’s Best Indie Novel Award, 2014.  She also has two short stories available on Kindle, "Ino's Love" and "Collection."  Marianne is currently working on a YA novel, "Swim Season," about the new girl on the team who challenges a longstanding school record, to be released in 2015.  A dedicated Swim Mom for ten years, you can find her during swim season at one of many Skyline Conference swim meets cheering for her daughter and her team. A native Bostonian, Marianne lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, and when not writing works as a campus nurse at a community college. She loves books, the beach, and craft beer, and especially enjoys the three of them together. To learn more about Marianne visit http://mariannesciucco.blogspot.com/. To learn more about your host and the show visit http://winswomenofwisdom.weebly.com. Be sure to FOLLOW this program https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wins-women-of-wisdom/id1060801905

UNM History Professor Virginia Scharff talks about her new book, “The Women Jefferson Loved,” at Bookworks.

Handselling Books