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In this episode, I share the journey of self-publishing my Amazon bestselling book 'Rewriting Your Story' - detailing the entire process from writing to marketing. 00:00 Introduction to Self-Publishing Success 03:09 The Writing Process: Crafting Your Book 06:02 Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing 09:13 Proofreading and Editing: Ensuring Quality 12:07 Marketing Strategies for Your Book 15:00 Achieving Amazon Bestseller Status 18:13 The Importance of Reviews and Ratings 21:03 Reflections on the Self-Publishing Journey   Free Ebook: How To Move Your Personal Training Business Online https://briankeanefitness.com/personal-fitness-business-online-ebook Details for my six month 1:1 Mentorship Program or 12 Week Business Coaching: https://briankeanefitness.com/mentorship-and-business-coaching Online Business Courses: How To Start, Build and Grow Your 1:1 PT Business https://briankeanefitness.com/product/one-to-one-pt-course/ How To Move Your Business Online https://briankeanefitness.com/product/online-business-course/ How To Scale Your Online Health Or Fitness Business (1:1 to 1 To Many) https://briankeanefitness.com/how-to-scale-your-online-fitness-or-health-business/    

In this episode ofThe Writing Corner with Authors Alcove, host Agnes Wolfe interviews J.J. Arcanian, the founder of a Michigan-based business consulting firm, who has recently made his debut in the literary world with his novelThree Illusions. J.J. shares his journey from technical writing and business consulting to writing fiction, offering insight into his protagonist Dylan Maxwell, a young man with a unique ability to see beyond the surface.They discuss the inspiration behindThree Illusions, the deeper themes and messages within the novel, and J.J.'s experience with the editing and publishing process. He also provides a sneak peek into his upcoming follow-up novel and offers valuable advice to aspiring authors.Whether you're a reader, writer, or simply interested in hearing from authors with unique journeys, this episode is packed with valuable insights and inspiration. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a rating if you enjoyed the show!------------------------------------SHOW ME LOVE OVER AT PATREON -  https://patreon.com/authorsalcovepodcast?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkBUY THE WRITING PROGRAM SCRIVENER - $60! Scrivener won't tell you how to write—it simply provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing. It is by far my personal favorite writing app! https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener-affiliate.html?fpr=angela46BECOME A PROOFREADER/EDITOR! Guaranteed work as a proofreader/editor, if you pass the exam with an 80% or higher!!: https://give.knowadays.com/6DcL9W------------------------------------Links discussed in show: If you enjoyed this episode, you might also enjoy listening to my interview with…If you are interested in being a guest on my episode, you may fill out the form on my website:http://authorsalcove.com/be-a-guestYou can also follow me on:  Facebook: http://facebook.com/authorsalcoveInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/authorsalcovepodcast/Linked In:https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnes-wolfe-20bb47288/Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2EQYPBl1LtZh08qCdIRHTy?si=aa56d7a9565a49faYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWVCbL470bDCgeg23kziYAg(Possible Affiliate Links Above)  

In this episode, Jodi chats with self-publishing expert Monique Mensah about how business owners writing books and other self-publishing authors can achieve traditional publishing quality. They discuss essential steps like hiring genre-specific professional cover designers, understanding the various editing types available in the marketplace, and leveraging platforms beyond Amazon to maximize control and profit. Monique also shares practical tips on building an author's brand, maintaining design consistency, and the significance of owning your ISBN for true publishing independence.   Time Stamps: 00:00 Self-publishing doesn't mean doing everything yourself. 05:39 ISBN gives authors publishing rights and control. 08:41 Professional editing is essential for quality books. 10:03 Professional editor essential for high-quality manuscript. 15:10 Lack of developmental editing undermines memoir structure. 17:40 Subscribe to Coffee and Commas newsletter. 20:25 Use published books as benchmark for quality. 24:01 Book cover duplicated; not a custom design. 25:58 Interior design requires expertise and understanding. 30:16 Sell books via platform with profit-sharing costs. 35:32 Drive traffic to your site, not Amazon. 37:41 Define goals for writing or marketing books. 39:36 Sign up for Monique's list for insights. 42:38 Connect via my website for self-publishing insights. Keywords: self-publishing, traditional publishing, book quality, book benchmarks, genre alignment, DIY design platforms, professional cover designers, template covers, unique book design, professional typesetting, book interiors, developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, proofreading, editing misconceptions, book cover design, professional editing, Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, ISBN ownership, print-on-demand distribution, direct book sales, strategic marketing, building author brand, self-publishing pitfalls, customer data control, professional publishing assistance, high-quality self-publishing, authorpreneurs, Monique Mensah Resources Mentioned: Ready Set Write Challenge: www.jodibrandoneditorial.com/readysetwrite Mastery of Self by Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. The Last Party by A.R. Torre About Our Guest: Monique Mensah is a Personal Self-Publishing Assistant, who helps authors in all genres--fiction to nonfiction--take their books from Manuscript to Masterpiece. Through her signature done-for-you self-publishing service, Monique guides independent authors in producing professional, premium-quality books that don't look self-published and can stand out in a crowded market. Known for her straightforward, no-nonsense approach and deep understanding of the publishing process, Monique ensures authors maintain full ownership and control of their work so they can transform into Savvy Saelf-Publishers. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, and now living in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, she brings passion and strategic insight to every project, making self-publishing both achievable and rewarding for authors who are serious about success. Website: www.moniquemensah.com Free Self-Publishing Guide: www.moniquemensah.com/free-guide Book a Free Strategy Call: www.moniquemensah.com/book-a-call Instagram: instagram.com/theminiquemensah TikTok: tiktok.com/themoniquemensah LINK TO FULL EPISODE (RAW) TRANSCRIPT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qG4utCiUNSY98O12Pc051ZeSKhBS8Ja_2DcHWSy-4cQ/edit?usp=sharing  

In this insightful episode of the Inner Edison Podcast, host Ed Parcaut sits down with Scott Allan, a renowned author, entrepreneur, and business consultant. Scott shares his compelling journey from working in business English for major corporations like Panasonic and Mitsubishi to becoming a full-time book publisher and author. Listeners will learn about the challenging but rewarding transition to entrepreneurship, the importance of proper business structure and financial management, and how Scott eventually set up an LLC to optimize his tax situation. Scott also discusses how he successfully navigated the self-publishing world, the significance of marketing and visibility for securing book deals, and the lucrative opportunities for international publications. Discover the pivotal role ongoing learning and self-improvement have played in Scott's career, inspired by influencers like Alex Hermosi and Tom Bilyeu. Scott delves into the strategies behind his bestselling books, including "Do the Hard Things First," which has been translated into 16 languages. Join us for a conversation rich with actionable insights on business, writing, and personal growth. For more information on Scott Allan and his works, visit scottallenbooks.com. Tune in and get inspired by a remarkable story of perseverance and success, only on the Inner Edison Podcast with Ed Parcaut.

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Are you ready to truly transform your career and establish yourself as a thought leader?  Host Deb Boulanger welcomes Erik Westrom, a former professional hockey player turned author and strategist from selfpublishing.com. Erik's journey from the ice rink to the world of self-publishing is a testament to the power of writing a book. He shares his self-publishing success strategies, including how to write a best-selling book and the art of monetizing your book as an author. The conversation explores Erik's transition from sports to entrepreneurship, offering a unique perspective on building credibility through book writing. As they discuss best practices for promoting a self-published book, Erik reveals how authorship can open doors to speaking engagements and lucrative business opportunities. From mind-mapping ideas to crafting compelling titles and cover designs, this episode is packed with practical advice for aspiring authors.  Whether you're considering transitioning from corporate to entrepreneurship or simply curious about the impact of becoming an author, this conversation begs the question: Could writing a book be the key to unlocking your true potential and skyrocketing your influence?     [00:03- 11:40] Book Writing Success: From Idea to Bestseller   Mind map your ideas and create an outline to structure your book Focus on writing about topics you're passionate about to overcome obstacles Consider which book idea can be monetized quickest for your brand or business Treat your book as a key to opening up speaking engagements and other opportunities     [11:41 -19:10] Mastering Amazon Best Seller Strategy for Self-Published Authors   Find relevant categories and keywords to drive people to buy your book Aim to get over 100 reviews as quickly as possible within the first 30 days Use a mastermind community of authors to help review each other's books Optimize your Amazon page keywords, similar to SEO for Google     [19:11 - 28:01] Book Publishing Timeline and Launch Preparation     The 5 rounds of editing: developmental review, developmental edit, content edit, copy edit, and proofreading From finished manuscript to publication usually takes 4 to 6 months Building a launch team is crucial for getting initial reviews and purchases A 90-day social media campaign is recommended, focusing on promoting rather than selling   [28:02 - 36:02] Self-Publishing Success: Avoiding Common Pitfalls   The 5 rounds of editing: developmental review, developmental edit, content edit, copy edit, and proofreading From finished manuscript to publication usually takes 4 to 6 months Building a launch team is crucial for getting initial reviews and purchases A 90-day social media campaign is recommended, focusing on promoting rather than selling   Connect with Erik Westrum Website:  Becoming Elite with Erik Westrum Facebook:  Facebook Insta: Erik Westrum (@ewestrumhockey) • Instagram photos and videos X:  @‌erikwestrum7 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/erikwestrum7 YouTube: Becoming Elite - YouTube   Erik's Book:  Becoming Elite  Becoming Elite: What it takes to transform your life using 4 proven pillars of performance - Kindle edition by Westrum, Erik. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Go to https://lifeaftercorporatepodcast.com/ for all episodes 169. Lisa Durante's Strategy for Mastering Your Content Marketing Plan! 153  A 3-Step Guide to Skyrocketing Your Income 137 Marketing, Management, and Metrics: The Keys to Consistent Success   Tweetable Quotes: "Anyone who would come up to me and if they said they had written a book, instantly, there's credibility, there's thought leadership, there's authority."... Erik Westrum on the Power of Authorship   So you take that mind map and then you're going to focus on looking at an outline. Because once you have the mind map to an outline, I'm not saying it's easy, but it's a lot easier because you have an outline in each day or each week or each month."... Erik Westrum on the Journey of writing a book   **TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST**   SUBSCRIBE & LEAVE A FIVE-STAR REVIEW and share this podcast to other growing entrepreneurs!  Get weekly tips on how to create more money and meaning doing work you love and be one of the many growing entrepreneurs in our community. Connect with me on LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12656341/  or on Instagram or our website at www.lifeaftercorporatepodcast.com . 

Hello Lovelies, Today, we're diving into the inspiring success stories of self-published authors from all walks of life and genres. Self-publishing is no longer just an alternative to traditional publishing—it's a thriving industry that has paved the way for countless authors to find their voices and their readers, all while maintaining creative control over their work.

Hello Lovelies, Today, we're diving into the inspiring success stories of self-published authors from all walks of life and genres. Self-publishing is no longer just an alternative to traditional publishing—it's a thriving industry that has paved the way for countless authors to find their voices and their readers, all while maintaining creative control over their work.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today, I have an interview with Gerry Romano and Katelin Maidment. Gerry and Katelin are self-published cookbook authors, and graduates of the spring 2024 session of Cookbooks on KDP. Gerry is a retired magazine editor and the author of More Means Merrier: The Romano-Altman Family Cookbook and Katelin is a Registered Dietitian and author of Recipes for Longevity: Over 70 Recipes and a 4-Week Longevity Meal Plan Designed to Slow Cognitive Decline. During our conversation Gerry, Katelin, and I talked all about their decision to publish a cookbook, what they learned about formatting and publishing their own books inside Cookbooks on KDP, and how they feel now that they have accomplished their goal of publishing a book on Amazon.  If you have recipes, photos, and stories you want to publish in a book for your family, friends, customers, or clients, the door for our fall cohort of Cookbooks on KDP are open. Cookbooks on KDP is a LIVE 12-week group program where I teach you step-by-step exactly how to publish your book - everything from formatting the interior, designing the cover, to setting up your Amazon account for your book. The doors are open now, and they close on Sunday, September 8th at 12:00 MIDNIGHT EDT.  Classes start next week.  Things We Mention In This Episode Enroll in fall cohort Cookbooks on KDP More Means Merrier by Gerry Romano Recipes for Longevity by Katelin Maidment  

Christina Kaye, a publishing expert, shares her journey in the publishing industry and her passion for helping female entrepreneurs write and publish their own books. She emphasizes the importance of writing a book with a clear concept and outline, and provides tips for creating a writing schedule. Kaye also discusses the significance of a compelling cover, title, and book blurb in attracting readers. She advises authors to start on Amazon and gradually explore other avenues, such as selling books directly and speaking at events. Kaye also offers advice on getting reviews and overcoming overwhelm in the book writing process.   Takeaways Start with a clear concept and outline for your book Create a writing schedule and stick to it Invest in a compelling cover, title, and book blurb Begin on Amazon and gradually explore other avenues Encourage reviews by offering incentives and promoting through newsletters Keep copies of your book with you for impromptu sales opportunities Break down tasks and create a plan to overcome overwhelm Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 02:55 Writing a Book: Challenges and Mistakes 05:03 The Writing Process and Marketing Challenges 09:28 Starting on Amazon and Expanding 11:14 Building an Audience and Getting Reviews 15:43 Determining Who Should Write a Book 17:32 Uniqueness and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome 20:47 Refreshing and Updating Books 22:50 Getting Reviews and Ratings 25:44 Starting on Amazon and Transitioning to Direct Sales 28:39 Selling Books at Events and Impromptu Sales 31:15 Overcoming Overwhelm and Taking Action   Learn more about Christina Kaye: https://authorcoachchristinakaye.com   Follow Fearless Sellers Podcast on Instagram! @fearlesssellers Want our PPC help? Email: Joie@AMZInsiders.com  To book a strategy session with Joie and her team: www.Callamz.com

A Note from James:Charlie Hoehn has quietly become the go-to expert on self-publishing your book. Charlie has worked with some of the best authors out there, like Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, David Goggins, Ramit Sethi, and Cody Sanchez. Charlie has touched every part of the book-making process—from coming up with the right idea to marketing the book in the most efficient and high-quality way.I've been writing books for over 20 years, and in this one-hour podcast, Charlie gave me so many new ideas I had never thought of before. This is a must-listen for anyone thinking about writing a book. Share it with your friends who are authors or aspiring authors, and be sure to check out Charlie's site, charliehoehn.com, where you can subscribe to his newsletter and all his self-publishing tips. This is important stuff to listen to.Episode Description:In this episode, James Altucher sits down with Charlie Hoehn, the self-publishing maestro who has helped best-selling authors like Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin bring their book ideas to life. Charlie shares his unique approach to self-publishing, offering insights that go beyond the traditional publishing route. He discusses the power of crafting compelling book titles, the importance of building a personal brand through your writing, and how to market your book effectively without a massive budget. Whether you're an established author or just starting, Charlie's strategies will help you rethink the entire book creation process and achieve self-publishing success.What You'll Learn:How to effectively self-publish a book and the advantages over traditional publishing.The art of crafting compelling book titles that attract readers.Strategies for marketing your book on a budget.The importance of building a personal brand through your writing.How to use personal stories and experiences to create a powerful and relatable narrative.Chapters:[00:01:30] Introduction to Charlie Hoehn: The Self-Publishing Expert[00:02:47] Catching Up: Life Updates and Personal Challenges[00:05:21] The Quest: Rediscovering Chess Mastery[00:10:12] The Power of Play: Transforming Anxiety into Joy[00:20:35] The Art of Book Marketing: Testing Titles and Strategies[00:31:00] Navigating Criticism and Resilience[00:43:06] The Benefits and Challenges of Self-Publishing[00:58:25] Starting Your Book Journey[01:10:33] Structuring and Drafting Your Book[01:18:15] Writing for Your Former Self[01:23:50] Building a Tribe Through Your Book[01:32:40] Finding Your Unique Voice[01:40:17] The Power of Personal Experience[01:50:30] Additional Resources for Aspiring AuthorsAdditional Resources:Charlie Hoehn's WebsiteJames' "How to Write and Publish a Book in 30 Days" CourseHelpThisBook.comINeedABookCover.comTim Ferriss's BooksSeth Godin's BlogDavid Goggins's Book "Can't Hurt Me"Ramit Sethi's “I Will Teach You to Be Rich” ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

A Note from James:Charlie Hoehn has quietly become the go-to expert on self-publishing your book. Charlie has worked with some of the best authors out there, like Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, David Goggins, Ramit Sethi, and Cody Sanchez. Charlie has touched every part of the book-making process-from coming up with the right idea to marketing the book in the most efficient and high-quality way.I've been writing books for over 20 years, and in this one-hour podcast, Charlie gave me so many new ideas I had never thought of before. This is a must-listen for anyone thinking about writing a book. Share it with your friends who are authors or aspiring authors, and be sure to check out Charlie's site, charliehoehn.com, where you can subscribe to his newsletter and all his self-publishing tips. This is important stuff to listen to.Episode Description:In this episode, James Altucher sits down with Charlie Hoehn, the self-publishing maestro who has helped best-selling authors like Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin bring their book ideas to life. Charlie shares his unique approach to self-publishing, offering insights that go beyond the traditional publishing route. He discusses the power of crafting compelling book titles, the importance of building a personal brand through your writing, and how to market your book effectively without a massive budget. Whether you're an established author or just starting, Charlie's strategies will help you rethink the entire book creation process and achieve self-publishing success.What You'll Learn:How to effectively self-publish a book and the advantages over traditional publishing.The art of crafting compelling book titles that attract readers.Strategies for marketing your book on a budget.The importance of building a personal brand through your writing.How to use personal stories and experiences to create a powerful and relatable narrative.Chapters:[00:01:30] Introduction to Charlie Hoehn: The Self-Publishing Expert[00:02:47] Catching Up: Life Updates and Personal Challenges[00:05:21] The Quest: Rediscovering Chess Mastery[00:10:12] The Power of Play: Transforming Anxiety into Joy[00:20:35] The Art of Book Marketing: Testing Titles and Strategies[00:31:00] Navigating Criticism and Resilience[00:43:06] The Benefits and Challenges of Self-Publishing[00:58:25] Starting Your Book Journey[01:10:33] Structuring and Drafting Your Book[01:18:15] Writing for Your Former Self[01:23:50] Building a Tribe Through Your Book[01:32:40] Finding Your Unique Voice[01:40:17] The Power of Personal Experience[01:50:30] Additional Resources for Aspiring AuthorsAdditional Resources:Charlie Hoehn's WebsiteJames' "How to Write and Publish a Book in 30 Days" CourseHelpThisBook.comINeedABookCover.comTim Ferriss's BooksSeth Godin's BlogDavid Goggins's Book "Can't Hurt Me"Ramit Sethi's "I Will Teach You to Be Rich" ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

How can authors navigate the complexities of self-publishing to create a successful, high-quality book that stands out in the market?Unlock the secrets to self-publishing success with industry veteran Michele DeFilippo. Gain invaluable insights into maintaining creative control and maximising your revenues as Michelle shares her 50-year journey in book publishing. Learn why hiring experts for tasks like cover design and formatting is non-negotiable if you want to produce books that truly stand out. Michele's experience and passion for empowering authors will inspire you to take control of your publishing destiny.Navigating the complex world of traditional versus self-publishing, Michele outlines the challenges authors face with traditional publishers, such as the need for a large social media following and the sacrifice of creative control. In contrast, self-publishing offers more freedom but comes with its own set of hurdles. Michele stresses the importance of using professional services such as editing and proofreading to ensure your book meets market standards, and she clarifies Amazon's role as a platform rather than a publisher. This episode is packed with insights to help you make informed decisions about your publishing journey.Finally, get invaluable marketing advice tailored to self-published authors. Learn about the importance of using platforms like Amazon and IngramSpark for broad distribution and how to make your book stand out in a crowded marketplace. Explore two different marketing strategies: self-education through the resources available on our website, and professional guidance from trusted marketing experts. Learn about common pitfalls, such as the do-it-yourself mentality and reluctance to market, and get practical advice on how to overcome these obstacles. This episode is packed with insights to help you produce a quality book that will resonate with readers and stand the test of time.˚

On this episode of "Reading with your Kids" we meet children's authors Alysson Bourque and Meredith Davis. First up is Alysson Bourque to celebrate her new children's book "Alleycat and the Sunday Scaries". She talked about how the book helps kids overcome fears by learning resilience from Alleycat and her friends. Alysson shared her journey from writing the series inspired by her own kids, to self-publishing success and being picked up by a traditional publisher. Later in the episode Meredith Davis celebrates her new middle grade novel "The Minor Miracle". The story follows a boy named Noah who discovers he can manipulate gravity. Meredith discussed why superheroes are so appealing to both children and adults, citing themes of empowerment. She emphasized finding one's own superpowers, including the power of reading. Meredith encouraged evaluating ideas and content through the lens of "true, good, and beautiful". Both authors provided advice for aspiring writers, stressing patience and perseverance. They highlighted the importance of engaging kids through personalized book recommendations and shared reading experiences between families. The interviews promoted literacy and creating understanding around the business of publishing. Click here to visit our website - www.readingwithyourkids.com 

In this episode of the Elite Online Publishing podcast, we are joined by Patrick Donahue, a bestselling author who shares insights on writing, publishing, and marketing books. Patrick discusses his journey of writing his book, "Breakout Valuation," and the impact it has had on his business and brand. He shares valuable tips on the writing process, self-publishing, and ways to optimize book sales on platforms like Amazon. Learn More: http://breakoutvaluation.com/ Learn More: https://eliteonlinepublishing.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elite-publishing/support

In this episode of the Copyblogger podcast, Tim sits down with Nicolas Cole. They discuss Cole's ability to write and publish content, even as his business expands. Cole also goes deep into self-publishing and legacy publishing and what he wishes writers knew about the differences. Show notes: Follow Cole on Twitter Follow Tim on Twitter Check out ship30for30 Your personal assistant to grow & monetize your

Today, we have a special guest who needs no introduction if you're a fan of science fiction, the talented writer of Silo – now an Apple+ TV series - Hugh Howey.Hugh Howey has an extraordinary journey that has taken him from working in bookstores to laboring as a roofer and even sailing on private yachts around the world. All the while, he was tirelessly crafting science-fiction novels and delving into various other genres. Just as James experienced with the self-publication of his book Choose Yourself, Hugh discovered the transformative power of self-publishing when he unleashed Wool onto the world. Little did he know that this gripping novel would eventually evolve into a groundbreaking TV series.On today's episode, we dive deep into the realms of writing, self-publishing, and the allure of science fiction. Hugh Howey joins James in a thought-provoking conversation about the fascinating universe of Silo and the intricacies of television production. Together, they explore the themes of optimism versus pessimism, the rise of artificial intelligence, and many other captivating subjects.-----------What to write and publish a book in 30 days? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/writing to join James' writing intensive!What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook

Today, we have a special guest who needs no introduction if you're a fan of science fiction, the talented writer of Silo - now an Apple+ TV series - Hugh Howey.Hugh Howey has an extraordinary journey that has taken him from working in bookstores to laboring as a roofer and even sailing on private yachts around the world. All the while, he was tirelessly crafting science-fiction novels and delving into various other genres. Just as James experienced with the self-publication of his book Choose Yourself, Hugh discovered the transformative power of self-publishing when he unleashed Wool onto the world. Little did he know that this gripping novel would eventually evolve into a groundbreaking TV series.On today's episode, we dive deep into the realms of writing, self-publishing, and the allure of science fiction. Hugh Howey joins James in a thought-provoking conversation about the fascinating universe of Silo and the intricacies of television production. Together, they explore the themes of optimism versus pessimism, the rise of artificial intelligence, and many other captivating subjects.-----------What to write and publish a book in 30 days? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/writing to join James' writing intensive!What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

Today, we dive further into the world of self-publishing with a true expert, Chandler Bolt. Chandler is the founder of SelfPublishing.com and a best-selling author who has cracked the code to help self-published authors create and sell 10,000 copies of their books.Chandler shares invaluable insights from his latest book, Published, which is a game-changing guide for aspiring authors who dream of seeing their books soar to new heights. He reveals his proven techniques and strategies that have helped him sell thousands of copies of his own books and helped countless authors succeed in the competitive world of publishing.Chandler discusses the fundamental principles of self-publishing success, including finding the right niche, creating compelling book covers, crafting captivating book descriptions, and mastering effective book marketing techniques. He shares actionable tips and practical advice on how to optimize your book's visibility, reach, and sales potential.But Chandler's expertise doesn't stop at just self-publishing.He shares personal anecdotes and lessons learned from his successful (and not-so-successful) prior businesses, and - of course - we get James' take on it all as someone who has published with and without the assistance of major publishing companies.Grab your pen and paper, get ready to take notes, and join us on this exciting episode with the incredible Chandler Bolt! Get a FREE, UPDATED copy of "Published" by Chandler Bolt here!Attend a FREE Workshop, Live on May 2nd, 2023: "Confessions of a New York Times Bestselling Author" with Chandler Bolt and James Altucher!------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook

Today, we dive further into the world of self-publishing with a true expert, Chandler Bolt. Chandler is the founder of SelfPublishing.com and a best-selling author who has cracked the code to help self-published authors create and sell 10,000 copies of their books.Chandler shares invaluable insights from his latest book, Published, which is a game-changing guide for aspiring authors who dream of seeing their books soar to new heights. He reveals his proven techniques and strategies that have helped him sell thousands of copies of his own books and helped countless authors succeed in the competitive world of publishing.Chandler discusses the fundamental principles of self-publishing success, including finding the right niche, creating compelling book covers, crafting captivating book descriptions, and mastering effective book marketing techniques. He shares actionable tips and practical advice on how to optimize your book's visibility, reach, and sales potential.But Chandler's expertise doesn't stop at just self-publishing.He shares personal anecdotes and lessons learned from his successful (and not-so-successful) prior businesses, and - of course - we get James' take on it all as someone who has published with and without the assistance of major publishing companies.Grab your pen and paper, get ready to take notes, and join us on this exciting episode with the incredible Chandler Bolt! Get a FREE, UPDATED copy of "Published" by Chandler Bolt here!Attend a FREE Workshop, Live on May 2nd, 2023: "Confessions of a New York Times Bestselling Author" with Chandler Bolt and James Altucher!------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

Episode #0: Self-Publishing Success Podcast Trailer

D. Arlando Fortune is a self-publishing strategist and entrepreneur with a remarkable story of addiction recovery and personal growth. After a successful career as a government accountant and real estate investor, Fortune faced emotional and mental challenges that led him to pursue a Master's and Ph.D. in Psychology, focusing on human performance. Along the way, he developed powerful strategies for overcoming addiction and achieving personal and professional success, such as the 90-90-1 strategy and the Barmas Effect. Discover how Fortune's inspiring journey from addiction to self-discovery can help you on your own path to growth and recovery. Connect with Fortune: Fortune's Website Story FormulaSupport GFB: Grace for Breakfast is listener-supported. We currently do not have any sponsors, nor do we run ads. Show your support by leaving a tip! Click here to Purchase the Envision Workshop. Click here for the best newsletter for tender hearts!Would you like to deliver your own private podcast feed to your audience? Sign up for a free trial today at Hello Audio.

Are you looking to self-publish your book and want to make sure you have the best possible editing experience? This video will give you the essential steps and questions to ask an editor for success in self-publishing. #selfpublishing #bookediting Subscribe and ring the bell to get weekly tips that will help you write your book and get published! Join the FREE Get It Done Accountability and Resource Group for authors and writers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getitdoneaccountabilityandresourcegroup/ ======================================= GOT QUESTIONS? GET ANSWERS, CONTACT ME! ======================================= ▶ EMAIL: hello@ashleymking.com ▶ SCHEDULE A TIME TO TALK WITH ME: ASHLEYMKING.AS.ME ================================================= SUBSCRIBE & JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA Interact with me Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theashleymking Instagram - http://instagram.com/theashleymking/ Pinterest- http://pinterest.com/theashleymking Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/theashleymking/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/theashleymking Fanbase- https://www.fanbase.app/theashleymking TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@theashleymking?_t=8V59WfiQUpC&_r=1 ===================================================== Affiliate Disclaimer: While we receive affiliate compensation for reviews / promotions on this page, we always offer honest opinion, relevant experiences and genuine views related to the product or service itself. Our goal is to help you make the best purchasing decisions, however, the views and opinions expressed are ours only. As always you should do your own due diligence to verify any claims, results and statistics before making any kind of purchase. Clicking links or purchasing products recommended on this page may generate income for this website from affiliate commissions and you should assume we are compensated for any purchases you make. This channel is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for website owners to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com, audible.com, and any other website that may be affiliated with Amazon Service LLC Associates Program. Earnings Disclaimer: This video is for educational and entertainment purposes only. There is no guarantee that you will earn any money using the techniques and ideas mentioned in this video. This is not financial advice. Your level of success in attaining the results claimed in this video will require hard-work, experience, and knowledge. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure that the information on this video is accurate, but we cannot represent that the website(s) mentioned in this video are free from errors. You expressly agree not to rely upon any information contained in this video. =================================================================================Subscribe to Get It Done Podcast- Books, Business, and Branding on Soundwise

Since her frank Twitter post lamenting light attendance at her Ohio book signing, debut novelist Chelsea has been interviewed by major news organizations like USA Today and NPR, and she quickly landed a crackerjack agent.But her story wasn't just a fluke. Chelsea Banning is a librarian, her book's theme grew from her passion for the genre, her writing is compelling, the cover design is spot-on, and her public messaging is authentic and engaging. Her book was primed for takeoff.Post your comments & questions on all our streaming destinations, or listen at your leisure immediately afterward on your favorite podcast app! All links on the blog post at https://piercepress.com/invisible-to-viral #chelseabanningCreators & Guests Laura Williams - Designer

Self-Publishing Success Through Goal-Setting and Planning In this video, we are talking about how and why it's important to set your personal and professional goals as a self-publisher Establishing and proper planning can be essential for self-publishing success. Setting target objectives gives you something to strive towards while having a plan of action can help ensure that you are taking the right steps in your journey. Regular tracking and measuring of your goals allow you to adjust them if necessary, providing more chances of achieving them. Clear goals and plans can make all the difference in achieving success in your self-publishing business. Show Notes// Join the Book Hackers Self-Publishing Success Through Goal-Setting and Planning Plan & Expand Challenge starting Monday, January 16th, 2023 https://cart.aududu.com/plan-and-expand-challenge/ Book Hackers Website: https://bookhackers.us Thank you for joining us today! Kindly, Cindy Minear & Tammie Chrin Book Hackers Club #KDP #KDPAmazon #SelfPublisher #Selfpublishing #LowContent EARNINGS DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational purposes only. There is no guarantee that you will earn money using the techniques and ideas in this video. Your success in obtaining the results claimed in this video will require commitment and hard work. You must agree not to rely upon any information contained in this video. Tammie Chrin, RTC Global LLC, &/or Cindy Minear, Aududu Book Creator LLC, hold no responsibility. This is at your own will and risk. DISCLAIMER: This video and description may contain affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, we will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos for you. Thank you so much for your support!

"Meet Dr. Suman Siwach: India's Most Inspiring Self-Published Author" Get ready to be inspired by the journey of Dr. Suman Siwach, a self-published author whose love for writing began with letter exchanges with her army dad. With a background in academia and a gold medal in MA, a Ph.D. in English Literature, and a Quora top-writer badge, Siwach has always excelled in the field of language. But it wasn't until she read about Kosovo that she was inspired to put pen to paper and write her own novel, Gazala. In this podcast, we'll hear about Siwach's journey as a self-published author, including the intense research and writing process that went into Gazala, and how she has garnered appreciation and glowing reviews on Amazon. Siwach is also a highly sought-after speaker, having promoted her book at IIT Bombay Moodindigo. Don't miss this opportunity to be motivated by one of India's most hardworking and inspiring self-published authors. M-Square Podcast : We are a top 10 podcast in India and consistently rank in the top 50 in France, Germany, Tunisia, and Africa. Our podcast has been recognized by Spotify, coming in at #9 in a national level podcasting competition and being inducted into the IFP Podcasting Hall of Fame. Out of 1200 podcasts, M-Square was also chosen as one of the top 33 to graduate from IFP Labs by Spotify. Some of our other achievements include: Winning #1 Podcast Workshop Series by Hindustan Times and Hubhopper Conducting workshops at prestigious institutions such as IIM Bangalore, IIM Ahmedabad, NMIMS, and MoodIndigo (IIT Bombay) Being the first Indian podcast to conduct a workshop at MoodIndigo Collaborating with Bound India for a workshop Hosting Bollywood celebrities like Shruti Seth, Kunal Bakshi, and Nidhi Bhanushali M-Square Podcast is dedicated to sharing inspiring and motivating stories from people who are making a difference in the world. We believe in the power of sharing experiences and knowledge, and strive to create a positive impact through our podcast. Thank you for joining us on this journey. If you liked our work please do follow us on instagram at  @anuragmanik7 @msquarepodcast   and as we always say until next time:   Stay Quirky! Stay Different!

Traditional publishers were once the gatekeepers - deciding exclusively which stories were worthy of publishing, and often only because they fit the mold of what they “thought” would sell. The beauty of self-publishing is that it transferred that power back where it belonged - to the readers themselves,  who now had a chance to decide for themselves what they wanted to read. By allowing anyone to publish their stories, the marketplace gained a diversity of voices and flourished as previously unserved markets were finally offered content that interested them.  Just as the types of books that may interest people are varied, so are the paths to finding your audience and attaining success as an independent author. That's why we like to talk to different authors at various levels of success and points in their careers to hear how they did it. What are the steps they took? What are the lessons they learned along the way? What can we learn from them?   Today, fantasy author Rosalind Tate sits down to tell us her story. With 3 books under her belt, she admits to making some mistakes on her journey to self-publishing success, but also learned that the key to success is the time she took to figure out where she went wrong and come up with a plan to correct those mistakes. What worked for Rosalind may or may not work for everyone, but by learning about the variety of routes that others have followed toward their goals, more authors might find the confidence to try new things and discover their own paths to success.   Rosalind Tate https://www.rosalindtate.com/ Hidden Gems Need our help publishing or marketing your book?  https://www.hiddengemsbooks.com/author-services/   All episode details and links:  https://www.hiddengemsbooks.com/podcast

This episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is a park cast! It's just too hot and stuffy in the lush (as in swampy) and lavish studios of MWS Media, so I recorded this one strolling around a big local park. Enjoy the ambience as I talk about how and why new fiction writers (heck, all fiction writers) must avoid the pit of mediocrity that is tropes and genre expectations. Do you want your fiction to be known for what it's similar to? Or do you want people to hold up your work as the new standard? Just say nope to tropes, and write from your heart and soul. "If you make cookies with cookie cutters, your cookies will look just like the cookies from everyone else who bought those cookie cutters." What do you think? Leave a comment; let's talk about it! Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My new non-fiction book for writers, Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure, comes out on August 30, 2022 everywhere you buy e-books. Click that link and buy direct from me! Mentioned around the nine minute, thirty second mark: Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 043: "Writing is Hard." I cite a quote attributed to Orson Welles: "The absence of limitation is the enemy of art." Want to go waaaaay down the rabbit hole of tropes? Check out TVTropes.org. My (far as I know) trope-less fantasy novel is Light of the Outsider. You should read it. My very trope-y first novel is Brave Men Run. Lots of people have read it. You should, too! My second novel, a follow-up to my first, is far less trope-y and reflects my growing maturity and ability as a writer. It's called Pilgrimage, and you should read it, too! Authors I mention off the top of my head whose work defines a genre rather than being defined by a genre: Leo Tolstoy.  Anton Chekhov. O Henry. Raymond Chandler. Ursula K. Le Guin. Ray Bradbury. My patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they're privy to almost fifteen minutes of extra content! Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time). This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including J. C.  Hutchins and Ted Leonhardt. In my park-wandering state of mind, I didn't mention them in the original recording and so inserted my grateful thanks "in post." Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron -- and join at the Paramount tier before August 31, 2022 to get $100 worth of digital books, audiobooks, and music! Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks. Also! Don't forget: For a Limited-Time: All My Books and Music at a HUGE Discount! Big news! You can get up to 80% off my entire digital catalog of e-books, audiobooks, and music -- worth over $100 -- when you pledge to become a Paramount Patron for just $20.00 per month! Become a Paramount-tier patron before August 31, 2022 and get 14 fiction and non-fiction titles (including 14 e-books and six audiobooks) and six music titles (two full-length albums, one EP, and three singles -- 49 songs plus printable lyrics) when you pledge -- plus all the benefits of Paramount patronage: Every new creative work I create for the duration of your active patronage, including digital and print editions Real world goodies every three months for the first year of your active patronage A one-on-one call with me every three months Over-the-shoulder access to my works in progress -- often while I'm working Monthly group video chats with me and your fellow patrons Access to my notes and other materials supporting my creative works in progress22.09 The uncut, unedited edition of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, including exclusive content Shout-outs and acknowledgements in the podcast, in books, and on the patron roster on this site Access to an exclusive Discord chat room for community members You must become a Paramount patron before noon on August 31st, 2002 (Pacific Time / UTC -7) to receive my entire digital catalog. 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It took me over half an hour to arrive at the truth that finally became Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 047: when we're burned out, there's just not enough energy to be anything but our authentic selves... and that's exactly who our reader community of friends and fans most wants us to be, so why fake it? Why fight it? I had planned to use this episode to talk about my upcoming non-fiction book, Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure. In what turned out to be an extension of last week's episode on the pressures of everyday life, I'm instead reminded of a fundamental of leading a creative life that speaks to the core message of the book after all! Are you burned out? Try relaxing and letting the current take you downstream a little. You might see things you've forgotten to notice. Let me know how it goes. Leave a comment; let's talk about it! Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Be sure to pre-order my next work, the non-fiction book for writers, Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure so you can start reading it the moment it's released on August 30, 2022. My day job is helping authors, podcasters, and other creative people bring their creative works to fruition, to market, and to an audience. I can help you, too! My patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they're privy to forty four minutes of extra content! Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time). This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including J. C.  Hutchins and Ted Leonhardt, both of whom, in my brain-addled exhaustion, I neglected to mention in the episode. Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron -- and join at the Paramount tier before August 31, 2022 to get $100 worth of digital books, audiobooks, and music! Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks. Also! Don't forget: For a Limited-Time: All My Books and Music at a HUGE Discount! Big news! You can get up to 80% off my entire digital catalog of e-books, audiobooks, and music -- worth over $100 -- when you pledge to become a Paramount Patron for just $20.00 per month! Become a Paramount-tier patron in the month of August, 2022 and get 14 fiction and non-fiction titles (including 14 e-books and six audiobooks) and six music titles (two full-length albums, one EP, and three singles -- 49 songs plus printable lyrics) when you pledge -- plus all the benefits of Paramount patronage: Every new creative work I create for the duration of your active patronage, including digital and print editions Real world goodies every three months for the first year of your active patronage A one-on-one call with me every three months Over-the-shoulder access to my works in progress -- often while I'm working Monthly group video chats with me and your fellow patrons Access to my notes and other materials supporting my creative works in progress The uncut, unedited edition of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, including exclusive content Shout-outs and acknowledgements in the podcast, in books, and on the patron roster on this site Access to an exclusive Discord chat room for community members You must become a Paramount patron before noon on August 31st, 2002 (Pacific Time / UTC -7) to receive my entire digital catalog. Don't wait! Click to Become a Paramount Patron and Get Twenty Digital Products Worth $100 Plus Patron Community Benefits Get My Complete Digital Catalog to Date: Books! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Literary, Horror, and Non-Fiction: Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era (e-book editions) "The World Revolves Around You -- A Sovereign Era Tale" (e-book and audiobook editions) The Sovereign Era: Year One -- A Sovereign Era Anthology (e-book editions) "Canary in a Coal Mine -- A Sovereign Era Tale" by P.G. 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Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 046 tackles a tough one: how do we manage to create under the pressures of everyday life? The personal, professional, and existential conflicts, crises, and challenges of day-to-day life can be exhausting... how can we have anything left for the intensive, deep-focus work of writing and other creative endeavors? For better or worse, I've got some experience with this (as, I'm sure, you do, too). I've found some helpful practices and techniques that I hope offer you some guidance to find the strength to remain productive and creative despite the pressures and difficulties of being a human being day in and day out. We must not allow the problems of today to defer achieving tomorrow's creative triumphs. What are you going through that's making it difficult to stick to your creative practice? Have you developed any helpful practices that might be different from what I mention in this episode? Leave a comment; let's talk about it! Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Be sure to pre-order my next work, the non-fiction book for writers, Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure so you can start reading it the moment it's released on August 30, 2022. My day job is helping authors, podcasters, and other creative people bring their creative works to fruition, to market, and to an audience. I can help you, too! September will be dedicated to writing a whole bunch of installments of my free weekly serial, Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: "How It All Got Started." You can subscribe for free and start getting over seventy five installments, starting from the beginning, while I'm working on the next batch! Yep, I'm on TikTok. Check out my First Lines Friday series, and other nonsense. Last week's Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick came up, especially with regard to the importance of endurance in our creative lives. Give it a listen! When I'm done with Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure and writing a bunch of Hazy Days installments in September, I'll return to my next novel, Shadow of the Outsider, the follow-up to Light of the Outsider and "The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay," in October. One of the "secrets" to creating in times of pressure and crisis is to have gratitude. I've written about how gratitude helps writers. This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including J. C.  Hutchins and Ted Leonhardt. Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron -- and join at the Paramount tier before August 31, 2022 to get $100 worth of digital books, audiobooks, and music! Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks. Also! 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In Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 045, the topic is the unfortunate and all too common tendency for writers to compare themselves to other writers. I confess my own shortcomings in this regard, and offer suggestions for a different, healthier way to view how we think about the success and quality of other authors' careers and work in relation to our own. Do you compare yourself to other writers, or other creators in your field? I want to hear about it. Leave a comment! Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Be sure to pre-order my next work, the non-fiction book for writers, Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure. When I'm done with Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure, I'll return to my next novel, Shadow of the Outsider, the follow-up to Light of the Outsider and "The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay." Get free weekly serial fiction delivered via email when you subscribe to Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: "How It All Got Started." 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In Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 044, the question is posed: What is your creative worth? Why -- and how -- is your creative work worthy? What do you think when it comes to your own creative worth? Is your definition of creative worth actually creating anxiety, or lifting you up? How does the importance of community figure into it? Also..! For a Limited-Time: All My Books and Music at a HUGE Discount! Big news! You can get up to 80% off my entire digital catalog of e-books, audiobooks, and music -- worth over $100 -- when you pledge to become a Paramount Patron for just $20.00 per month! 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In this episode, I talk about the belief that there are certain fiction genres where so many authors are writing that it's extra tough to be seen, and how you can carve your own place in the genre fiction landscape.

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If one of your books, or series, aren't selling much, will it help to change the book cover, the book description (also known as the blurb), or will it be a lot of effort for nothing? In episode 103, Autumn share the results after she re-released one of her book series. Tune in to learn all the do's and don'ts. As promised here's the link to the free Self-Publishing Success course: https://ultimatefantasywritersguide.com/self-publishing-success/  Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.  SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.  Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (2s): You're listening to the Am Writing fantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape. You can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt, and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (30s): Hello, I'm Jesper, and I'm, Autumn. This is episode 103 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. Well, today, Autumn, you recently went through some renaming and rebranding of your books. So that's something we wanted to talk a bit about today. Autumn (48s): Yeah. I definitely have some reasons why you might want to do it some stats because you know, we like to provide that kind of information and things to watch out for that. I didn't think about the first part, but that we'll get to that. Right. You're in the middle of some big events going on. So how are you doing over there? Jesper (1m 11s): Oh, I'm good. I was, well, today has been one of these organization days. I was setting up some emails this morning to announce the VIP launch of the world building course that we talked about last week and I've just also just trying to get organized in general before I actually, tomorrow I take the rest of the week off because I'm going to move out of our house and into the apartment, as I've mentioned a few times. So if everything goes well by Friday, this week, we should be living in our new place by then. That's amazing. That'll be really exciting. And I hope it does go well because it'll be a lot of work, but it's so exciting. Jesper (1m 53s): Cause you've been working on this for like two years. So it's really, really cool. It's finally here. You're doing it. Yeah, it was actually in November two years ago that we first put the house up for sale. So it is just, just past two years since, since this whole journey started. So that's quite amazing. Amazing. Yeah. So we were actually thinking that if all goes well and we do move into the apartment and start living there by Friday, we did think about going because the apartment is much more centrally located than our house. So it's like I've said before, it's in the main city in this area. Jesper (2m 33s): So there are, that also means that there are restaurants around. So we actually thought about a Saturday going to this very nice sushi place that is, and we don't have to drive there. Now we can just walk, walk. Autumn (2m 46s): So that's pretty nice. That's going to be kind of cool. I might be a little envious because I lived in town when I first moved to where we are in Vermont and I didn't enjoy the noise. Cause it was only a second floor apartment and we're right at an inter big intersection. But you know, we could, especially, this was before COVID. So there was like Tuesday nights, if we walked down to one pub, there was always a group of fiddlers playing and doing a jam session together. And then there was a yeah, the bookstore. And if we decided we needed something else for dinner, there was a grocery store, a small one, a co-op that was within walking distance. So I do kind of miss that. So that is super cool. You're going to be living that close to everything. Jesper (3m 29s): Yeah. That's nice. And we are, yeah. As I said before, we are right next to the beach, so there's no like big, there's no big road right next to the buildings or anything like that. So that's quite nice. And we are on the fifth floor and there is because we have a corner apartment up there. It also means that there is only one wall against, you know, to watch a neighbor. There's nobody above us. And there there's only somebody below, so it should at least the person who rented it before us, that it was very, very quiet. And that's exactly what I like. So I hope that's true. Autumn (4m 8s): I hope so too. That's really awesome. Jesper (4m 13s): Yeah, but you've been extremely busy as well on UN Autumn (4m 16s): Yeah. Well we had some big plans to, you know, do some website rebuilding at am, writing fantasy. And I was going to rebuild the course website in January, except we've been building all these courses and it finally dawned on me. I needed to have the new website done before we made those live. So I've been, I'm doing an emergency website build over the weekend, but I promised myself that once I, I got that done, I would take two days off whenever it was because, Hey, when you're a full-time writer, what's Saturday, Saturday, it can be Thursday if you happen to get it done then. So I'll, I'll have my, my weekends. I usually try to do more Photoshopping and more fun things for me with other store on the computer. Autumn (5m 1s): I mean, it is almost December in Vermont. So that's kind of the Northern tier of the United States. And it's even today is cold. It is dark. I have all the lights on it is raining. So it's not like I'm going to go for a hike. I just want to go and do something else. But I did. I said after our last episode, even though this is now December when it's going to be released, but today is the last day of November. So it's the last day of nano right. Mo and you want to know my word count. Jesper (5m 37s): I did see your Facebook post about it. And I'm trying to remember now what it was, but I felt like it was something like 51,000 or something. If I remember correctly, I'm not sure. Autumn (5m 49s): Yeah. That's on the November 25th. I updated my word count to just over 52,000 words. So yeah, I finished it and I started on the 17th. It actually took me 19 days to get the 50,000 words. So I feel it considering it was my 23rd book. That's going to be published. I, I was hoping I could manage to get to it. So I was it's success and I've kept adding to it since then. So I'm almost at 60,000 words now for the month, today was busy and I haven't added in anything, but it'll be hovering just around 60,000 for my first nano. So I feel really good and I'm thinking it was fun. Autumn (6m 30s): And I do see there's been some emails and stuff from them about, you know, writing the end and I'm like, well, 50,000 words is not a fantasy. No, that's like halfway through a fantasy novel. So I'm thinking, Oh, you know what, maybe we need to think about doing like an am writing fantasy NaNoWriMo writing group. Cause you can have writing groups there that share tips and support. So I'm my, you know, that's a good question for listeners. I mean, is anyone else out there interested in having us or me lead a little nano right. Mo group writing group of maybe even at camp nano right. Autumn (7m 11s): Mow this summer. So, you know, comment, let us know if it's something that you think would be pretty cool and I can try to help you get your 50,000 words too. Jesper (7m 21s): Hmm. That's actually a pretty good idea. Yeah. Teaming up is always a good idea. And it has some accountability partners. Autumn (7m 29s): It has, especially when you get to some of the sticky parts that can really slow you down and you get frustrated and you sometimes just need someone to like really you out of it and get you on and keep going. Jesper (7m 41s): Yeah. Oh, we got the internet with the yam writing fantasy podcast. So I saw a post in the am writing fantasy Facebook group this morning. That quite made me smile Autumn (7m 54s): LA what's that? Oh, it's just a, Jesper (7m 58s): It's a small one, but it was quite nice. I thought it was like John was pointing out how once in a while a particular well-written turn of phrase is just sort of happens and pour it onto the page. And then he shared what he had just written here and it went like this quote. He looked at me then he's expression dripping with so much contempt. It likely stained the floor. That was quite good. Autumn (8m 27s): Good. I love it. When people share and have quotes and stuff on there, that is fantastic. I have to admit though, I've been smiling at Zane's comment from when we released the hundredth episode and he left a comment on a Patriot Patriot and for us. So I don't know if you remember that one, Jesper (8m 47s): Remind me, Autumn (8m 48s): Hey, he said that he was so excited that he had to go have a beer. And that one made me smile because I have had men grown men tell me that my writing made them cry, but I had yet to ever have someone telling me that something we had done ni paid them money to eat alcohol. So I thought that wasn't very successful way of toasting our hundredth episode that we released. And it was so much fun to do as well. Absolutely. Jesper (9m 19s): Yeah. There, there are all kinds of shenanigans going on in the Facebook group, but also some cool tips and tricks and advice that is shared every day. So if you're not a member yet just search for am writing fantasy in the group section of Facebook and then apply to become a member and we will let you in, there's not even a password. So it's true. You're very welcome. Autumn (9m 43s): Yeah. I don't think we even ask any like entry questions. So we're, we're really easy. We just just make you ask nicely and you get to come in and have a ton of fun in the Facebook group. And, and of course, and if you want to have even more fun, you can come over and join us on Patrion and, and there you get even more, more personal seizing, I guess, and tips and lots of fun as well. We do sometimes have some fun, some back and forth on there and some jokes. Jesper (10m 13s): So a lot of good places where you could join. So yeah. Get going. If you haven't done so already Narrator (10m 20s): And onto today's topic Jesper (10m 24s): Last week, I sort of took the reins on the podcast, but I think this week is probably your turn Autumn (10m 32s): This time, you get to pretend to be the interviewer and ask me how it went. Yeah. Jesper (10m 38s): And I can, I can try to chime in here and there with reflections and thoughts, but of course in full transparency, I have not gone through any rebranding of my own books, although I really should, but I haven't. So I don't have any personal experience to share, but I can try to pitch in where I feel that I have something to contribute with them. Autumn (10m 59s): That's fair enough. Well, I think it's a good thing to say that, you know, it's not, it's, it's not random who decides they want to rebrand a book. I remember Joanna Penn was the first one who introduced me to even the concept of it. Cause she rebranded, recovered and retitled a lot of her thriller sale series. And I was like, wow, that is when you see someone, you know, Joanna Penn's level, it's one thing to change your cover. But the change changer titles and you know, she was talking about, you know, making sure her readers knew this is a book you've already gotten. Don't worry about it. This is something, you know, this is, you've already read it. It's just a different title. It looks different. It's a different cover. So that is, is something that authors do, no matter what lever was, if you're a newbie or you've been doing this for 10 years or more, you might suddenly decide that something's not working in your marketing and what's not marketing, what's not working is, you know, the title, the actual physical title of your book or the series. Autumn (11m 59s): And not just the cover because yes, rebranding is is can just be the cover. And I have to admit, I think born of water, I have gone through four different covers. Changing a cover is honestly super easy, but of course I'm a graphic designer. So if I want to change my cover, I, I know what to do. I'm responsible for that. Cause I'm the one who messed it up the first place or decided that it changed. I mean the marketing market really has changed since like 2012 when I first released that book. Jesper (12m 31s): Yeah. And of course, as we've said before, do not design your own book cover unless you are experienced in book cover design and you know what you're doing to not design your own book cover. And I think I've said it multiple times in different podcast episodes, but I cannot say it enough because for whatever reason it keeps popping up. I see it on Facebook all the time people asking, is it, would it be okay if I designed my own cover? And sometimes I almost feel like jumping on this. I know, but then I think, okay, whatever, I can't keep saying the same thing all over and over again, but do not design your own book covers. Autumn (13m 9s): No, even if you have an art background book covers are more than an artistic expression, it is a marketing image. It is, you really need an advertising background and advertising courses and to then know how to look through the market and see what are the trends that you need to do, what need to match, what do you need to be different for? So I agree. Don't do it. I know when I look back at, when I first started doing book covers, I was like, Oh my goodness, they were horrible. And even now I think I could still do better, but I think that's just my issues as a, Oh gosh, I've been, I don't want to even mid hell. My, one of my first memories is literally when I was like three or four and I was drawing. So I've been doing this for a little while now. Autumn (13m 50s): I think, I think for decades I still have a lot to learn. Jesper (13m 56s): Yeah. But I think maybe a good place to start as well would be like asking the question. Why would you want to rebrand a book or series in the first place? Absolutely. I think that's, that's a good starting question. Autumn (14m 11s): It is. And I, again, because I just did this, I have the perfect case example. So I had a book and it is the next, it's the first book and the next series I planning on releasing in 20 early 20, 21. And when I came up with the cover, I don't know if we've read or the title. I don't think I listed, I don't think we recorded episode 37, which is how to title a book that we released. And it's full of really useful tips that you should do before you actually choose a name for your book. But I didn't do that because I don't think we had recorded it yet. And I do tend to go a lot with my gut instinct on things. And sometimes don't run marketing. It was so 20 early, I released this book in 2019 and I came up with the title, the light and the darkness, because it is a definitely a novel where the main character goes is living in a dark world. Autumn (15m 6s): And he finds something that inspires him. It's a little bit of light in the darkness of basically a fake post-apocalyptic novel is what I like to call it. So it's based on Fay and I chose a series name called the Calla Bray, which in Gaelic, it means dark time or dark epoch, which is great. But you don't have many people on this planet speak Gaelic. Not that many. No. I think it's less than half a percentage. So if I was trying to market to someone who speaks Gaelic, even though there's no other Gaelic in the book, well, no, there's some names, there are names and things that are, are a little bit Gaelic it's yeah, it was not a good marketing choice. Autumn (15m 47s): And I kind of knew that when I released it, but 2019 was a very, we we've had a podcast of episode. I'd get that one. But 2019 was a very hard year. For me. It was worse than 2020 in many ways, 2020, in some ways I've gotten my crap together and I feel much better as a person, despite the global pandemic, which is just crazy. But it goes to show what's going on outside. Doesn't mean what's going on in the inside. So 2019 was a bad year. I was just happy to get this book released. And I chose these things that if you have, when I finally sat down and looked at the marketing and wondering like, okay, I'm writing this book, I'm getting serious about marketing it. Autumn (16m 28s): And I'm doing some research and seeing, you know, getting some idea of how it's going to sell and how it's going to hit the marketplace. And so I do a Google or an Amazon search and a Google search for the light and the darkness. And I get a ton of self help books. I don't even get my own book. I mean, my own book is like back there and like the dose bleeds section that you're like, okay, it doesn't even exist. And you do a search for Callan, right. You know, there's no one who's going to know how to spell that. Nobody's going to search that. No, no, exactly. And I thought, you know what? This is a problem. This is a problem. It doesn't help the book. I want this book to do as well as I can make it possible. Autumn (17m 9s): And so I had to step back and I'd already recovered the book. I did a very basic symbol cover that I didn't like. And so I've already put in a much more dynamic cover that a lot of people have commented on. They really like it, but the title just doesn't do anything. And I finally sat down and said, you know what? I have to listen to podcast 37 and do some research and retitle it and do this seriously. And then figure out, you know, will this help. And I have some before and after stats on what choosing a new name meant for how this book is doing. And again, this is the only book in the series that is out yet. I, the rest of them, I haven't even put them on pre-order. Autumn (17m 51s): I'm hoping by the middle of December, I'll have my act together and have the pre-orders up for the rest of the series for next year. But right now it's just a standalone novella. It's sitting up there without the rest of it's the rest of its family that is coming. But so you're gonna have a question or Jesper (18m 11s): No. Well, I don't know question, but I was just thinking, because one thing is the title and the cover reflecting market trends, I guess, or reflecting the and market expectations, read expectations, that's sort of one thing. And, and usually that then translates into lack of sales. So that's sort of your, that's sort of the main driver behind rebranding, a book and a series. But at the same time, I was just thinking as well, that unless not necessarily thinking about your example here, but more in general, like, unless you completely missed the Mark. Jesper (18m 60s): I think one of the nice things with fantasy compared to many others, young writers is that the market trend, if we can call it that or read the expectations, they don't change that rapidly when it comes to fantasy, you know, we'll see, we continue to love dragons, right. Autumn (19m 19s): Brackets on the cover. It's a winner. So that doesn't yeah, Jesper (19m 26s): Yeah, yeah. But that I agree, but my poem was more like, it doesn't change that much where I think others, young writers are much more prone to stuff changing much more frequently in terms of what the trends are. So, so in those Sean Morris, the authors might need to keep much more finger on the pulse to say, Oh, go, okay. I need to change my covers now because they are one and a half year old and market trends have moved. Whereas I think for us, maybe you need to have a look at your covers every three, four years, but that's, that's probably more to do with that. The artwork can be made much more beautiful at a less cost. Jesper (20m 8s): So it might be worth updating your cover to just more beautiful pictures without really changing the cover, but more like just make them look a bit better. And so that they don't look outdated, whereas the actual imagery and stuff like that might be absolutely fine to keep as long as you refresh it, where some others young wrists, they might have to change all the imagery. So I think in that sense, we are a bit more lucky. Autumn (20m 37s): I think so too. And I think even our titles can stand usually the test of time. If you choose a proper title, it doesn't even matter. You know, sometimes someone's going to up something very similar, but the market can usually handle it. There's a lot of fantasy books and it helps to, I would say the biggest thing is to be clear, but clear in your titles and clear on what your story is about, but when it does come to the covers and the imagery, I mean, I still think of some of the covers that are, I mean, Mercedes Lackey. I literally the books that I remember reading those cover is the same as when I was reading it as a teenager, it's it doesn't need to be changed. It is an illustrated cover and it is still gorgeous, which I think is fantastic. Autumn (21m 20s): And so there's a lot, even though there's some trends that are current changing, like the colors and the magic right now are just absolutely amazing right now on eBooks. But if you could, if you still have a top end, more of a hand drawn image, that's still going to do amazingly well, because I think we're all still in love with, you know, picking up those books in the 1980s that remind us of those paperbacks that we loved as, as teenagers. You know, maybe the younger kids might not remember that, but I still think they see the trends and the what was there at the time, but it really, it isn't something you need to do every year. Autumn (22m 3s): It is probably if your book's not selling, it's not the first place I would start. But if you have an instinct that you titled your book, something very strange and hard to understand, like the light and the darkness. And it brings up a whole bunch of self-help books, which are not even the right and Shannara, that's not a good sign, but if you choose like you have an interesting world name, like Chronicles or something like that, you know, it's probably not the best title. That would be a better series title maybe than a single book title, but it's not horrible for the fantasy genre, but Jesper (22m 43s): Did you just make that up? I did pretty good. Quick copyright it, spell it. No, but it was more like coming up with that on top of your head that it was pretty good. Thank you. Lots of writing recently, 50,000, Autumn (23m 3s): Whereas apparently in November, but so I, I knew I had to retitle it and I did a lot of research and I ended up coming up with a dark Faye outcast because it fits, it's a face story. It's about a dark Fe he's kicked out. I mean, it's pretty much, you know, calling what is it? The pot calling the kettle black is the phrase. It fits the book. It's very blunt titling. It works on the keywords. And I went from Cal Ray for a serious name to the tainted Fe because at his perfect, I kind of wanted broken magic, but that's already been used. And I didn't feel like tangoing with the person who's already using that one, but no one has the tainted Fe already took it. Don't even try grabbed it already. Autumn (23m 46s): But so I did that and what I had been doing, I don't have a ton of marketing into it yet. Not till I get up my pre-order. So this is just looking at the stats of running book, funnel giveaways. And I have three books, all with signup pages that were created about the same day at the end of may. And that's two novellas and one that's a lead in for my current eight book series. And what I thought was interesting is to show you, if you are struggling with marketing and you really do think it is your title, the difference is at the time I changed the title for dark Faye out cast on October 14th. Autumn (24m 30s): And that day I had what would be considered a usual up rate for born to darkness, which is my one Novell. I had six people pick that up. I had three pickup people pick up born of water, which is the lead into my big series. Guess how many people? And usually I would have the same for the light and the darkness. I know the title of the light in the darkness I'd have maybe two or three as well. So on that first day, when I changed the title, a guest, how many downloads I had of that as a free book in just a random book funnel, you know, joint author promo. Hmm. Jesper (25m 4s): Well, it has to be positive because otherwise the point of changing it. So let me say 10, Autumn (25m 10s): No 55th. Okay. Jesper (25m 14s): That's that's a massive paints. It was. But, but the thing is also with your new title and your new series named it, is it speaks directly to the attended audience by saying exactly what it is. There is no doubt, you know, it is people, if you like reading face stories, this is your book, right? It is. So it's right there in your face. And, and that's, that's the whole point of it, right? It needs to be crystal clear so that there's no doubt. What is this about? Yes. That's the kind of book that you like, you will click, you'll pick it up if you don't like it, when you skim through, you'll just skip it and that's, and that's a good thing, right? So you can get the right readers and not random readers. Autumn (25m 53s): And that was what I think I, I saw at that point is, I mean, it had, it's a very strong cover with someone you can't quite see his face and he's holding some ruins or falling from his hand. So it's, it's, it's Fe it looks Fe has some ruins and things on it. It's kind of dark and brooding. And then with this title, it's just, I knew it was right. I knew it was right in the market. What's neat is that was not a one day thing. It went from maybe two to maybe four or five downloads a day to staying above 30 to 40 for over a month. And it just, it has stayed up there. So at this point, as of I checked on just yesterday on the 29th of November, you know, board of water, which is to me is it was my debut novel, but it's the one with the full two full series. Autumn (26m 41s): I mean, this is a ton of work in time. That's going into this book. So it's usually what I market and promote the most that's only sitting at just under 600, 600 downloads were born into darkness is almost the exact same, just a little bit less. So those two are pretty similar, almost a thousand downloads. So over, almost double for dark Fey outcast. And they were all created at the same time. And all of that, that extra 500 has come since October 14th. So in a month and a half, I've gotten almost 500 downloads and that's pretty good. That's really, I mean, one, it makes me excited because I'm about ready to release the rest of the series. So I'm like, Ooh, this is a good thing to discover. Autumn (27m 24s): So this is when you know, this is, I knew it was a bad title. This to me proves it. This is the proof positive of the power of a title that you need to really consider what you're taught early or not. You need to have a strong cover, but you need to have a strong title that is very clear. So that readers see it. There's no doubt it is. You have, what is it? Three seconds to convince a reader, to read your blurb and look at it. And I have to admit, I did update my blurb as well. Not much, just a little tweaking. I added another sentence or two to bring up a romance subplot that's in there. So that's all it took to double again to download, right? Cause I haven't put out advertising to it at all yet. Jesper (28m 6s): Yeah. The eye tracking analysis that was made on having people look at Amazon showed that it was six seconds before they clicked away in total. Right? So, so you have those six seconds where their eyes will always seek up to the top left corner first. And guess what's there, that's the cover on, if you think of the, a book page on Amazon, you'll have the CAPA, the cover at the top left-hand corner, that's where the eye goes first. Then they go to the title. Then they go to the blurb. And that movement of the eye that was tracked in this analysis, take six seconds. And within this D six seconds, they have decided either to buy it or to leave it. Jesper (28m 48s): So that means that you really have to deliver on all the notes, meaning that the cover has to be a hundred percent professional. For one, it has to be a hundred percent on brand speak a hundred percent to the intended audience that this is a book for me, the title needs to do the same thing. And then of course the, the blurb needs to close the deal. And only when all the three things are in place, will it convert as best as it can? I mean, I guess you could say, okay, if you have one of them slightly weaker than it could be, you can still have something that converts quite well, but it could be better. Autumn (29m 25s): Right? And that I think is the important thing. I mean, to me, the title, the old title was so weak that, I mean, I wasn't even seeing much in sales and I have seen sales since then my reader list goes and buys it every single time I send out a newsletter, which is kind of, I always like to do exactly. Like I had an increase in sales. Oh, that's why it's very exciting. But I will say something. We talked about all the positives, this is the thing, you know, the good things. This is why it's worth it because it's, if you don't see that kind of change. Oh my goodness. It was quite a lot of work because you don't realize all the places you have your book, unless you're maybe on Kindle unlimited, if you're wide, like I am and you are, and you are in book funnel and a distributor and Kobo and Google books and all of these places, book, funnel, story origin. Autumn (30m 23s): It seemed like every time I turned around, I'm like, Oh, I have to have that, that place too. I forgot about that file. It was a little bit of a nightmare. I have to say it took me some time Jesper (30m 34s): In tweet on Twitter and all kinds of, I mean, but, but this is exactly why, I mean, I know that I'm actually in the self puppets success course in one of the modules, I'm actually using my own cover as an example of what not to do, because it, it is. I mean, I explain all the details in the course about it. And I also say in the course that I really should change them. Right. But because of what you just mentioned is the reason why I have not done it because I just know it's a lot of work. I mean, yes, I could, you know, I could ask you very nicely to do a new cover for me. So it probably wouldn't even cost me any money, but just the amount of work that goes into one thing is uploading them to all those different places. Jesper (31m 20s): But then I have to hunt down, where is all the reoccurring social media posts I have going with this covered? And I didn't have to change if I change the title. I mentioned it in a million places in different, and then I have to go and change it. All those it's just like, nah, it's a lot of work. Right. I mean, and then of course you could say, well, it doesn't matter because what I would say, if somebody said what I just said to us in a Q and a session, like we run on, on patron once a month. Yeah. Slide wise to them would be, well, you have a very long career in front of you. So if it takes you one week now and you can benefit it from it, the next 20 years, it is well worth the effort. Jesper (32m 4s): That would be my response and advice. And I don't even do it myself. So yeah, it's double standards here. I know, but it's just like on the to-do list of things that I feel like it's gonna move the needle the most, for example, releasing our new courses and stuff like that. It is an important part of our business between you and me. Just as much as writing books. So from a revenue perspective, going back and updating that book series, there there's only three books in it. So the read-through, it's not massive amounts of money versus releasing new courses that is going to earn quite a lot more money. Jesper (32m 46s): It's just like, it's so far down the to-do list that it's not that it's not important, but it's just not as important, more important than others. And some of the other things. So, and I guess now I have it in this public success cost to explain as a bad example. So now it even serves a purpose. Autumn (33m 2s): So there you go. Well, I've always said we, we tend to live our life as an experiment so that other people don't have to, this is definitely the other side. I mean, again, it, it helped that the impetus for me was definitely that this is the next series I'm going to release. And for me, you know, till I take a weekend, which is usually my time and I decided to rename and rebrand my book because I can hire myself on the fly on the weekend to redo a new cover, which I already had to cover. That was positive. So it was literally just doing the research and coming up with the new name and then realizing that that meant a whole new website or web page on my site to go with a new series name. Autumn (33m 44s): Cause I read with my series on their own pages and updating marketing images, but you're right. I mean, there are a ton of marketing images. Like I have to made with the new title where I had probably 20 made before, because that's see, that's what I do for a hobby is marketing images. I'm really strange that way. It makes me happy, but I have tons of them with the old title, but now I only have a few that I go to because I just haven't made the time. I haven't made the time to make the new, the rest of this series covers yet. So I have not worried about Jesper (34m 18s): No, but yeah. Yeah. But you caught it early as well. Of course. I mean that, that was good. That made the amount of work less hours. But do you have any idea, you know, in terms of creating new covers, uploading everywhere, redoing slightly on the blurb and stuff too, do you know how much time do you think you spend in total on it? Autumn (34m 40s): I would say, okay. Ignoring the fact that I have a horrible internet. So anyone in the rural United States or rural Africa or Australia probably can relate to the internet speeds I suffer through off of cell phone, dial up. So ignoring that if it's just upload time, Amazon is the worst. If it's just a single book, it really it's maybe four hours. It really isn't bad because you've got to figure out where you're going and your own website, assuming you don't have to send it to someone else. If you can do it yourself and just upload it, maybe four hours max, once you have the new title and everything, and you redo your ebook files, you usually have to compress your new cover into it as well, as well as upload the new cover. Autumn (35m 25s): So it's uploading the new file and the new cover. But I had, I have to admit, I had a slight snafu with the amount of work that this caused me that I didn't think about when I first started doing it and really made me kick myself. And I will never probably change a book name or a series title again, unless I'm really no, I did a bad, bad job, which I trust you will make sure that I don't do that again. Testing you run all my covers, my, my titles by you after this. Well, I have even taken away that we have three, so maybe five fiction books. I have all of my books listed in all my other books. Autumn (36m 8s): So I have 15 books. I had 15 books or so I had to up date all the titles, but I also took the advantage of it. I updated my author photo, which I just had a new author photo taken because my husband's a photographer. So that was kind of, you know, I, I made him sit down, told him I wouldn't feed him again until he got it and took a photo of me look decent. And I updated my blur because where I, what I'm doing has changed. So I took some time to do a few, you know, make sure all of my links and stuff were going, but that, that literally between that, and really managing to get everything uploaded and that Amazon takes is a multi-step approach. And plus I updated all my paperbacks. Autumn (36m 50s): So we went from 15 to 30 book formats. I had to update, Oh yeah. Oh, that was, it literally took me a month, but I wasn't working on it continuously. I'd kind of come back to it. And the last one I did was Google play. And I have to admit that one was the fastest one to update. Oh yeah. So Amazon was the most painful, especially having to do the e-book and the paperback and with the upload speed. And then when you do the paperback, you have to go back into the paperback previewer. It doesn't let you go past that state. And it literally takes 10 to 15 minutes for the paperback previewer to open for me per book. Autumn (37m 29s): It was, yeah, that was the worst, the most painful part. So that was one of those things where it's like I said, I was never doing it again. Unless I had a virtual assistant where I could be like, here you go have fun. Here's my passwords. Jesper (37m 44s): No, that's true. And I've also seen sometimes people saying, well, once you do the cover, redo the covers and the titles won't that confuse your readers. But actually, I mean, unless you change the identification number on the store's like ACIN number on Amazon, for example, it doesn't matter because readers will not doubt they will. They can't download this the same ASEN number twice. So it is just easy like that. And then, well, maybe you could say that few people get confused, but, but then I would revert back to my advice to myself from a moment ago and say, well, who cares if a few people get confused during one week, if the book is up for the next 20 years. Jesper (38m 26s): So, Autumn (38m 28s): But it was, I mean, I changed the title on good reads. Again, you don't delete the old book, even on Amazon, you don't delete the old, you literally go in and change the title, except for the paperback. The paperback is assigned the ESPN that you get an Amazon is assigned to that title. So you, that you have to unpublish and then publish a new Virgin and ask Amazon to sync them. And they do it. And it was not a problem, but everything else do, you know, with eBooks and everything else do not delete the old one, you literally can go into Amazon, changed the title, change the name, and then, you know, it upload the new cover and everything's fine. Autumn (39m 9s): It sinks up good reads was the exact same way. I was worried on good reads that it wouldn't let me change the title, that it would see it as a whole new book. But no, it let me change the title. So now, if anyone goes in, they will see that it is the same book. It'll tell them they already purchased it or they already downloaded it. Unless of course they got it in somewhere else, like as a free promo. And now they went in and paid for it and they have the same book and then they might be a little annoyed, hopefully not. And it was definitely, yeah, it was worth it. I mean, it was, it was a good thing to do. And it was a definitely a lesson now that I can step other people through this. If they really feel like it's something they have to do. Jesper (39m 50s): Yeah. And it used to be so as well, that, that you could not update the title without on publishing it and publishing a new book on a, under a new AC number on Amazon. But, but as you say there, I think that's not the case. Autumn (40m 4s): No, it's not. You can change the title as much as you want. As long as it's under the EISA number, the ASI number, it is fine. You can change the title as much as you want and they don't complain and you can upload the book cover or the files, all that. It's just the paper. It's just, if you have an ESPN, if you have an ESPN, then you can not change the title. At that point, you will have to delete the old book or unpublish it and upload a whole new version. So that's, that is one of the drawbacks. Hey, we had a whole podcast episode, if you should be using free ISBNs so knowing that it was free from Amazon, I didn't even blink. I'm like, Oh, well that's a bummer. And I just, you know, recreated a new paperback version. Autumn (40m 45s): And then I had asked them to sync the two and it was not a problem. Jesper (40m 50s): No, indeed. So I think overall here, I mean the rather obvious lesson is that, well, get the branding right from the beginning Autumn (41m 2s): Book cover. That's a good cover image is not that big of a deal. You don't have to change the formats. It's not that hard. The title, especially if you have multiple books out to Hertz a little, get it right. The first time, listen to episode 37, it steps you through it brilliantly. Jesper (41m 22s): Yeah. And then you don't have to worry about the stuff if you just do it right. At least until not until some years later where you might want to update the cover design as we talked about, if it gets slightly dated or something, but also remember Autumn (41m 34s): That the self-publishing success course actually covers everything you need to know about covers titles and blurps. So all that is explained in last week's episode. So yeah, that's pretty easy. Absolutely. Go check it out, check out our past episodes. And yeah, my best advice is try to get it right the first time, but it's not the end of the world. It is entirely fixable. If you realize your series name is completely wrong or your yearbook title is completely wrong, you can, you can salvage that and maybe double, you know, your downloads or your sales just that easily. Yeah. And don't forget that the self-publishing success course is free. Autumn (42m 17s): I will add a link in the show notes from where you can grab this, this free course. So it's available for you. And then you might be able to avoid some of all this rebranding stuff that we've been discussing separately. So we hadn't come out with the course yet. So I hadn't watched it. It's definitely, it will get you straight and be all the help you need. So go check it out. Okay. Next Monday we are approaching the end of the year. So we will look forward and share some thoughts on this podcast for 2021. 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Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.   Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.  Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (2s): You're listening to The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast in today's Publishing landscape. You can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now onto the show with your hosts. Autumn Bert and Jasper Schmidt. Jesper (30s): Hello, I'm Jesper Autumn (31s): and I'm Autumn. Jesper (33s): This is episode 102 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. And today we are going to talk about having success in self publishing and how to go about it. So this is something that many have been looking forward to, because it also means that when you are listening to this are brand new and a a hundred percent free self publishing Success course is available to you. People just do it. Autumn (1m 0s): We just talked about needing to celebrate, you know, we need to learn to celebrate Maura. So I'm celebrating those. I'm so excited that this course is ready and we can send it off to author's so that they can hopefully learn these things a lot straighter, faster than we ever did in FREE. And it's a fricking awesome. So I hopefully you got to check it out. Jesper (1m 21s): Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's, it's been a lot of work and is finally here. So we are going to go through some of that stuff today. And so you can get a feel for what's what's there and what, what it is that we are offering there. But, but before we get that far, how has life been Autumn? Oh, its been busy. Well, it doesn't help that I decided to work. You know, we are building these, of course I'm putting up the finishing touch. It touches on our self publishing course on the website. But I also, as I mentioned, I had joined a nano Ramo for the first time, but of course I joined at seven days late. So that was kind of a bit of a stumbling block. Autumn (1m 57s): But I, so we're recording this the week of the U S Thanksgiving. So guests I've got like what, four or five or six days that finish this up. But I guess what my current Writing I word count is a So I think right now, correct me if I'm wrong. But last time when you ask me what it was the 25. So I guess let's say you do it again because it was right at the middle of the month and you get 25 and it was at 20 like three. Okay. So six days left out of seven days left, approximately. So your probably at, let's say 35. Wow. I am so far ahead of that. Autumn (2m 37s): I am a 40k, 40,000. Jesper (2m 41s): Wow. You almost have it. Autumn (2m 43s): Yeah. I absolutely love my stats graph because you know, it shows like this is what you're supposed to be doing and mine starts off flat and then it like goes exponential. Like it hit the go button there, but I will, this week is a little busy, even though I'm going anywhere because of COVID in the us, it is an American Thanksgiving. So my husband and I were, well, it's supposed to rain, but we we're going to go to the top. We weren't going to cook her entire dinner over the campfire because we were just weird like that. But we think it sounds like fun, but we are going to have a day of eating and cooking. Some of my word count will be a little less, but nano tells me if I, as long as I keep writing a thousand words a day, I will hit my 50,000 so I can not wait to succeed. Autumn (3m 25s): Yeah, Jesper (3m 26s): Yeah. This should be no problems. Then you have almost a week left. So yeah, that should not be a problem. All right. Autumn (3m 30s): I have faith that it would, it would be, I think I can do it. So I'm, I'm excited to finish my first nano and get my badge. Yes. Congratulations to you early. Congrats. I know the next Monday is officially when we record, the next episode will be the last day so we can check in and you can see if I actually did it. I think I'm good at sabotaging myself. Occasionally just one. I think I'm going to do, you know, I've got an easy snow trip, but anyway, your, in the middle of moving and everything else, how are things over there? Yeah, Jesper (4m 6s): Yeah. At the moment we just keeping it really busy, trying to get the entire house packed up. We, we were making progress, but we're not quite there, but you know, as, as we are recording this episode, there is a little more than a week. Well, actually a week, it is the next Monday that we are going to get the keys to the new apartment. Oh. So it's getting really close now. Autumn (4m 29s): It's a yeah. Jesper (4m 31s): Well, yeah, it is. But at the same time, it also means that I feel pretty damn busy. We did play it smart. So we have, we have about three weeks on until we have to hand the house over to the new owners. So we do have some overlap, which is quite nice. If it goes completely crazy, then I guess we can manage this a bit. But yeah. But I think apart from that, all of the packing stuff, I've just been trying to put the outline together for a short story that we are going to use as a reader magnet. And I think we are on the, like the third version. Autumn (5m 5s): Yeah. Well, you know where we want this one to be special. So, you know, we're, we're working on it. Jesper (5m 14s): Yeah. It's, it's been a difficult one. You know what? I'm not going to spoil anything of course, for anybody here, but we aren't going to, or are we aiming to tell a story in a slightly different way than you would normally expect it, but you know, by having a main character who is actually trapped in one place from the beginning of the story to the end of the story, and I quite liked that, but it also poses some challenges and how we are making it interesting and engaging. So yeah. Yeah. But I think I finally figured it out. Yeah. Autumn (5m 42s): Yeah. I think So the little snippets who you are sharing with me. I can not wait to read the next versions. So, and of course its just the outline. I should say just the outline that's that's been enough, but eventually pretty soon I think we're going to get to the writing and I can not wait. Yeah. As Jesper (5m 58s): Soon as my moving activity's will allow it, then I will start dictating the first draft. Yeah. Autumn (6m 3s): Yeah. That'll be excellent. Narrator (6m 7s): Oh, a week on the internet with The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast Well Jesper (6m 13s): Fact we have not one but two courses to mention. Yeah. Autumn (6m 18s): Yeah. That's true. We have been busy bees having to weigh. Jesper (6m 23s): Yeah, I think so too. Yes. So apart from the self publish Success course, which we will come back to you shortly, it also happens that they're worldbuilding course, which we have been working for. Like, I don't know, two weeks, Autumn (6m 36s): Two years old, I think it has 22 years and it is it's the it's it's all that we have actually had one lucky winner student who is actually gone through the entire course. I think he's absolutely insane to have gone through everything that's in this course already, but he did and I give us feedback. That's kind of exciting. We already had our first student in there. Yeah, that is absolutely. Jesper (7m 2s): Okay, great. And we have everything set up, as you can imagine. Since the, our SUPPORT patron SUPPORT already went through it, all of the modules are available. Everything is ready. We did. However, the site that we want it to open the course up as a limited VIP launched only to start with. Yes. So that means that if you are listening to this episode, the day that this episode releases on the 7th of December, you will have one week, if you want in, on the heavily discounted VIP launch price. That's right. 'cause it's only going to be open until the 14th of December. And we mean that only until the 14th of December, then we are going to close it. Jesper (7m 45s): So if you wanted, you will need to be quick about it. Autumn (7m 48s): Yeah. So it's not even, it's not even that were going to just have it open for seven days. This is like a brand new course in a special price that we it's like doubling his. Once we go through this little additional stage where we're kind of still testing everything and working really closely with the students and getting feedback and tweaking things. So this is if you want this really special, awesome deal, it's only going to happen once. And it's only happening from the day. This is releasing to the 14th of December, 2020, right? Jesper (8m 22s): Yep. So we've added on the link in the show notes from where you can read about all the awesome content that is included in this course. So we can go and check that out, see if you are interested. And if you are, I would advise you to step in now because we are probably gonna launch it again in may be something like six, seven, eight months from now. But when we do, it's going to be at a much higher price point then now. So yeah, if you are listening to her, then price yourself, lucky that you know, you're listening to this podcast because it you're going to be able to save quite some money on this because if you want, Autumn (9m 1s): And it is definitely I I I did I tell you this? Because I have that little writing gig I'm doing for some of my little ghost fit in to see ghost writing gig with that sounds a little weird. I actually used the script from the worldbuilding course to develop the world and it is just perfect. It is amazing. It is so concise. Gets the job done. It makes it perfect. Developed as a story. So yeah, we did a good job. Can I get a good pet, a sinner head for this one? It is fantastic. So yes. Check it out if you like worldbuilding but you don't want to get lost or you don't know where to start with worldbuilding this is going to help you out, right? Jesper (9m 44s): Yeah. And I think it doesn't really matter if you are brand new to worldbuilding and you need to learn something or if you actually a seasoned writer who has built several Worlds that there will be some content in here that that will make you think about stuff you hadn't thought about before, because there is a lot of content. There was a reason why we worked on this for several years. Autumn (10m 6s): Yes, yes. And I can vouch for that. How many Worlds have I built buy now? And I still find this course is much more put together. It's so much more organized and it gets, it gets right to the core of what you need to do without getting lost in the details and developing stuff. You don't need to use So yeah. I am, you know, six or seven were a little Worlds under my belt and it was like, this course just changed my writing life. It's fantastic. So I guess on the first student, Jesper (10m 39s): Yeah. So Autumn, we might be crazy offering the self-publishing Success costs for free, but then they go, Autumn (10m 46s): Yeah. Yeah. You know, I, I can actually pretty much, I know I've often said from the last decade or two or three that I am definitely crazy. So no one who knows me is going to be surprised on this one. But this course is it is we could, I mean the other places that offer or something like this, its easily over a $500. This is a lot of information. It's not just like, Oh, here's a little tidbits that a lead you on is not a breadcrumb trail. This is the stuff you need to know if you want to have success. So Publishing, and I can't believe we put it together that we're going to give it, just give it away, but we're going to help out our fellow authors in this crazy. And we won't even think about this when we first started planning it, that we'd be in the middle of a pandemic in the world would be in chaos. Autumn (11m 32s): But Hey, that was a big city. Even better to get back to our Writing community and our fellow authors and say, Hey, this is what you need to know. Go do it. Jesper (11m 42s): Yeah. And I feel as well that it was only fair to be honest, to put it out for free because at the end of the day, the stuff that is in this course is stuff that it, you know, if you spend a lot of time, let's say you read a ton of blog posts, all kinds of different ones you listen to, I don't know what a million different Author podcasts like I do crazy in that way. Yes and you, you write a lot of books and you do your trial and error stuff. I mean that there is nothing in here that you can't figure out. All this stuff that is Here is best practice stuff. Jesper (12m 25s): And it is of course in tended to make sure that you don't walk in to the common pitfalls and, and you can see for yourself some time there, as I said up at the top of the episode, but at the end of the day, I felt like Y charts, I didn't quite feel that was fair to chat's money for it. Because honestly, the stuff that is in here is stuff that you can figure out that the problem that you would have then is one. You will need to wait through a ton of information and you need to figure out what of this stuff is actually something that is helpful versus what is just an old tactic that doesn't work anymore. That's one thing. And then the other thing is that you need to figure out how to structure everything so that it make sense. Jesper (13m 10s): And basically what we've done here is that we've done a whole of that for you. Right we read it out, all the stuff that you don't worry about that go on with that. Some of the stuff that is in this module, it's only the stuff that we feel like, this is what you need to know, and this is what you need to concern yourself with everything else you can ignore. And we've also Removed all the stuff that is more like a, yeah, this, this is what's, wasn't a tactic that you used to work. For example, we, we have a quite some time or in one of the models, we spent quite some time talking about a Permafree because that's also one of the things that has been very much up in the past, but like it used to work on this. Jesper (13m 50s): It's not that it doesn't work anymore, but it it's not as effective any more. So we also touch upon that and so on and so on. So I feel like this is a good thing to, to give people for FREE and of course it's well, we are also showing you can do it for free. Then we're doing it. We are taking our own medicine because we always talk about the importance of building email lists and for it to be able to build an email list, you need some reader magnets, and this is how reader magnet, all right. That's what it is at the end of the day. We are the only thing that you have to pay, quote unquote, is that it does require you to sign up a, with your e-mail to get access to the course. Jesper (14m 31s): And that is also not only because we use it as a read the magnet, but it is actually also because there is a lot of information in this course and we are going to drip, feed it to you. So you're not going to get a ton of a video course modules thrown in your face, the students as sign up, because I think it is more common or it's, that's not something that I think that's something that I know, but it it's more common than not that people sign up for courses, especially just like with the Permafree books, if we don't have to pay for it, most people won't go through it. That's true. And even people who pay for courses, don't go through the courses that they pay for. So the chances would be that if we just gave you, okay, here it is, eh, have access to it. Jesper (15m 14s): Here's the, here's your access to have fun with it. Chances are you would never go through it. So that's why we decided to drip feed it one session at a time and it's going to run approximately over months actually before you're going through. But then you can go through it slowly. Just one, one, one session every second day at your own pace there. And of course you could just save the emails if you don't have time now, and you can watch them later, that's up to you. But that's how we felt it would be best, but we have 10 modules ready for you. And there's also a bonus module, but I was thinking we could go through the 10 modules or some sort of explain what it is, but yeah. Now I've been talking. Autumn (15m 55s): Yeah, that's all right. I mean, you have to just have it and that's what that is, but yeah, that's, that's exactly what we wanted. Yeah. It goes out actually 30 to two days with two days between everything because, and I know that because I just set up all the rules, like we said, I was still building some of the back end stuff because that's part of my role in this and this thing we got going on. But yeah. So lets go through it. I think it will be exciting to let people get an idea of what we have jam-packed in this. And if it is it's free, the cost is your e-mail because we want you to have access to it and we are going to guide you through it so that you're not overwhelmed and that you actually do it is so easy to fall off the wagon and get frustrated. Autumn (16m 39s): So these are good reminders that, Hey, this next video is ready. Go ahead and give it a try and we'll make sure that we're there to help you out. And yeah, hopefully we get to know each other a little bit too. Yeah, yeah, Jesper (16m 50s): Yeah. And in truth, and this is the same thing that we preach. We've said it multiple times in the past episode, on this podcast as well. You know, if, if your readers and not willing to sign up for you, an email address to get a free story from you then, well, they probably wouldn't be interested in anything else you're going to say anyway. So I think the same thing applies to you or do you know if you're not willing to give you an e-mail address to get access to the course, fine. That's completely up to you, but that is the only requirement there is. And I promise you that it's going to be a ton of good stuff in there, but it's a completely up to you if you want to do it or not. Yes. Autumn (17m 25s): Yeah. And we do, once you sign up, you get the first module right away. So you don't have to wait two days to start. Yeah. So Jesper (17m 33s): Yeah, but what your one, lets just talk about that first. So as I said, it was 10 modules. So let's do them one by one here in module one. It is really about the, Well the lies that you are telling yourself. And so we are going to dispel some of the myths around publishing and we try to share our reflections on what it takes to be a professional writer. And a, I just thought that when we put this together, that was a good starting point from what your one. Yeah. Autumn (18m 3s): Yes. I agree. I I because the title of it even is why 2% of authors succeed in 98% don't so, you know, we talk about the myths of what people think writing is what the mindset is that's going to help you. And what, what is the reality of writing and self publishing? Because I know talking especially self publishing, you mean so many people that are determined to go to the traditional route or are you still think there's a stigma around self publishing and you know, we talk about what is really going on with all of that in today's world. Well, not COVID world, but you know what I mean? The reality is a famous author. It's a, it's a good foundation. You need to know kinda sets the tone for the rest of the course. Jesper (18m 44s): Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And module two basically built on module one a because it's a mindset module. Yeah. And then you might ask why, why don't we put in a mindset module? Yeah. Autumn (18m 59s): Oh, I see you. That makes total sense to me. But yes, I will ask that. Why would we do a mindset module Yesper? Right. Jesper (19m 6s): Well, because it is actively so that nothing, absolutely nothing of the stuff that we teach in this course makes any difference whatsoever. Unless you approach your author career with the right mindset, that's probably the best answer I can do it. Yeah. Autumn (19m 24s): Yeah. I, I totally agree. I mean, I think I just saw something today, even about, Oh, something about making it into a best seller. It's like the one Oh one mindset that's different between successful authors and non-successful and if it was a mindset that was the key phrase, it was in believing at it and understanding the ropes, understanding what was required of you and not putting effort where you really don't need it or thinking that it's so impossible, you'll never achieve it. So we break that down and give you two sessions in module two, you know, we looked at what a professional writer is and what you're doing. And we talk about how to be built that into a career. Autumn (20m 6s): So whether or not you want a career, but at least the information is there because you know, I know most people that are kind of secretly it gets under your skin and you get a little addicted. I did just on Instagram admit when I listed my nano right. Mo word count that I might be addicted, but please don't send an intervention to me because it's going to interrupt my writing time. So Jesper (20m 30s): Is it the one mindset to write it? Autumn (20m 33s): Oh, it might be Well I at least rural. All your books are on the Hill. The strategies on the bookstore is that it would work. I couldn't help myself, but Jesper (20m 44s): We also introduced the concept of 1000 true fans and in this module and I absolutely love this concept. I came across in quite some years ago, but I really loved it ever since because it makes, you know, if you are thinking about, okay, I need to, I want to build a career and then I need to find a custodian readers out there to read my books. And, but this concept of 1000 true fans, once you start breaking it down, then everything doesn't feel as overwhelming anymore. It feels achievable. That's not to say that this is easy. It's not going to be in the short term a quick fix, a get rich scheme thing because it's not, it takes time to build through a true fans, but it's not about getting it 1000 people onto your email is to us about developing true fans. Jesper (21m 33s): That's not an easy, it takes time. Yeah. But still it's a lot more achievable than thinking. I need to get a a hundred thousand people onto my email list. Right. That does not feel achievable. Yeah. Autumn (21m 43s): No. And I you introduced me to this a thousand true fans and I know it was just spewed it to my husband, whatever he gets frustrated. Cause he's a crafter and building things with his hand. And so I've passed it on to him and saying you don't need a million people that are selling to you just need to build up these people that are going to be with you through thick and thin. And I think that's the important thing is that again, it teaches you that you can go and join some of these group organized where you're going to all, everyone's going to get 3000 or 5,000 or 10,000 emails out of this thing. Is that really the right method? You know, that's something to consider and you can weigh in or you're trying to build a relationship or are you going to get that? Autumn (22m 24s): If you split 5,000 readers between 20 different authors, I have to admit if I was one of those readers and I was suddenly getting 20 emails a day from different authors, it be hitting him and subscribe. Jesper (22m 35s): Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we will dive deep into all of that stuff and module two. Yes. Then model three is where we sort of get your set up, meaning that we share information on building your author platform. We've actually touched upon that in a fairly recent episode on the podcast as well. We did, but we also talk about the reader magnet in module three, what it is and how to leverage it a reader magnet for your benefit. And I just a set in a short while ago here or a moment ago, rather than the courses are really active. So you get to see how that works. Autumn (23m 16s): Yes. Nothing like learning by doing or doing by learning. And one of the two. Jesper (23m 23s): Yeah, I know. So that's good. Yeah. Autumn (23m 25s): Session three, module three is a good, it has two different sessions. So we talk about the Author platform. We explain it in how to leverage it, to help build your Success. But also then the second one dives into the reader magnet. So you can turn on some of those browsers and to hopefully your first few true fans, hopefully. Jesper (23m 46s): And th there is a bit about social media in here as well on sort of where to focus in and where not to focus in and stuff like that. So a lot of good stuff in module three, a module four is all about understanding the market in which you operate as an author. So this means that if you're trying to sell books online, you also have to understand how the on-road online retailers actually work. So that, that sounds pretty important. Yeah, Autumn (24m 16s): It doesn't, it, it does. I was going to say, this is the one that when I was first published in 2012, I wish I had had this because there was a, well, there was so much, I mean, what Amazon eBooks had been out for a year or two when I first published. So it was still pretty much, no one had any instructions at all ever, but now there's instructions out there that are so confusing, but this is like, this is my go-to now about how it all works and how it affects sales, what you need to look like, what is the deal is selling books online and how does that work? Takes the mystery out of it. And it's very factual and easily understood. Autumn (24m 56s): So you get an idea of what is out there on what you're up against and what you need to know before you start doing all this. Jesper (25m 3s): And there was also some information about how to drive traffic to your books and also the factors that will affect your sales demote. So that also sounds pretty important. Autumn (25m 14s): Yes, absolutely. This is it. Like I said, this was the one module that if I could have had, if I can send this back in time, give it to one of my characters in my face story. I'm writing now who can travel in time. I want him to take this back to me, please. Jesper (25m 30s): I tell you. And I think if it, if it was me, I would more take module five back, you know? Autumn (25m 35s): Oh yeah. Modern five is fine. Jesper (25m 38s): Not that different, but from what you will for, because it is also about understanding the online retailers, but with module five, we actually went beyond what we are talking about in module four. And we dive deep into Amazon and you might have even asked why is that important? Autumn (25m 59s): Alright. So why is it important to understand Amazon? Well I simple to do with it. Yeah. Jesper (26m 7s): Well, 90% of sale, populists authors, all kidding aside Here but 90% of all authors, they make them a majority of the income from Amazon when it comes to book sales, most of it comes from Amazon. So we felt that it was important to cover this particular site in much more detail. So we give you information on the Amazon, a nine algorithm and how that worked. It actually is not one algorithm. It's like thousands of them that works together. But when we talk about that and how that algorithm works, we talk about keywords. We'll talk about categories, how to an Amazon bestseller and all of that. Good. Autumn (26m 46s): Yeah. And even if you should go exclusive with Amazon, there are some pluses and there are some medicines minuses. So we look into those two, but yeah, that's true. This is this one when I was, especially when I was building it, I thought of this one as sort of like the guts of the course. Not because it's a five out of 10, but just because of the information that's in, it, it, it just felt to me like, this is, this is the meat of the entire course. And when you get here, you're like, Oh, okay, I'm paying attention to this. Hopefully Jesper (27m 19s): It still requires people to actually go through the modules, but a Yes module six. That's one of your favorite so far. Autumn (27m 29s): That is, I love it because it's a book covers. I love book covers there. They make me happy. So this is all the advice you need on where to get book covers. What makes a good book cover. And the most important thing is how you can tell whether or not it's a good book cover or not, or you're being ripped off. So I think that is just, I don't know, to me, to me that it doesn't have to, it's not because I'm a graphic artist are that I've wanted it to be an artist since like my first earliest memory I think is of drawling. So it has nothing to do with those things. But as an author of a book cover is your number one marketing image. Autumn (28m 9s): This is going to represent your book your months and months of work to readers in like six seconds, two seconds. So as soon as they see it and it represents all of that work and love, and it should be the most amazing, powerful and marketing savvy image that you can get. So yeah, module six is, is definitely one of my favorites. Jesper (28m 34s): Yeah. Yeah. And then there was actually as well as a very, very nice short cut in module six for how you can almost add a glance, get to see the commonalities between covers in your Shaundra so that there is some nice, a quick cheat tricks in there that makes it just a ton more easy than going through an Amazon top a hundred list than clicking all the different book. So yeah, there's some nice stuff. And what you were six that you'll find very useful. Yeah, Autumn (29m 7s): Definitely. I highly recommend that one. Jesper (29m 11s): Yeah. So if we say that module six on book covers is probably the number one success factor when it comes to selling a book, it's probably its cover. Then module seven is the second most important success factor because here we discussed the book description. Yeah. Autumn (29m 28s): Yeah. So this is so important to get Right I I've even recently learned another trick en book descriptions. I, I think this is one thing that as the market changes, as you grow as an author, you, you still learn more about this, but this module really breaks down and only, you know, the important things that are out there that you can learn, but some of our own techniques and tactics, I mean, you've only written an entire book on how to write a fantasy book description. So you put a lot of that into this much. Like I know you did. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Jesper (30m 7s): Yeah. It's a, it's a good module. And I think it's, it's actually much harder to write a good book description. And then you think, well, everybody listening to this who have tried we'll know that is, that is true. I mean, one thing is writing a a hundred thousand word story where all of a sudden, when you have to put everything down into 200 words and it has to be really engaging well, then it becomes really difficult. Autumn (30m 30s): So even just your tagline can be agonizing for a days. As I know, because I'm trying to write three books descriptions in the next week or two. And I had been working on them for a week or two, and that's a hell of a nice thing. So this leaves breaks it down and it gives you tips and it helps you out so that, you know, like I do, when you haven't quite gotten to the level, you'd need your book description to be at, because it's got to be up there and it's got to be powerful and it's not easy to get to where you need to be. No I indeed. But yeah. Jesper (31m 5s): Yeah. I'm thinking module eight. Autumn I'm thinking that's probably not one of your favorite modules. Yeah. Autumn (31m 12s): I love spreadsheets or are you kidding? I don't think you do. You know, it's not that well, it's so important though. So advertising, but yeah, this is my wish list that as soon as I have enough spare money and I'm hiring a virtual assistant, this is what I'm hiring them for. Of course I have you. But yeah, even you shouldn't have to be doing a spreadsheets all day every day. So module eight is on advertising, which is so important. Jesper (31m 43s): Yeah. Well basically at the end of the day, we cannot have a course on self publishing without talking about advertising. That's just not possible. Autumn (31m 53s): No, not at all anymore. I mean, I do remember I still, I need to stop selling the, like the old, old widow in the room and say, Oh, I have ever done to her back in 2012 when I was young, when I was joking. And I knew that he published author, Oh my God, it was so easy to sell books on Amazon, your run, like a, KTP like five free days. And you get 10,000 downloads. I mean, it was like you could sneeze and a cell, a book because there was like less than a million on Amazon back then. It was fantastic. Now you need to advertise. Yeah. You just need to advertise whether it's paid ads or doing something through some of the major advertisers that sent it out to their reading list, you needed to run ads. Autumn (32m 36s): And so you need module eight because if you don't know where to start advertising, I won't say, I don't know where to start. I just know spreadsheets and it will help you get yourself organized and your head on straight in, you will not waste tons of money and tons of time, because time is your writing time. It's your fun time. It's your family time. You don't want to waste your time. And it it's, it's just a Jesper (33m 3s): Pay to play market nowadays. And that, that Autumn (33m 6s): Is just whether we like it or not. That's what it is. Jesper (33m 9s): Yeah. So obviously, Nope, no, maybe a few of us, or maybe none of it is maybe it's not true to say none of us, but right now, Autumn (33m 18s): Fewer of us has endless funds 2.2 ads. Right? So now what do we need? Some sort of a cost-effective Jesper (33m 24s): It's a good way of going about things and that's what we try to share with you. Autumn (33m 28s): Yes. It's a very good module. So I would say the module nine is one of the funnest ones in the entire course, right. Because who doesn't love launching a new book. So we actually tackled that as well in the self publishing course, because it's a lot more than just uploading your files to Amazon. I wish it was not easy, but it's not. Oh, when I was young that each year, really? I don't remember that. Was it that what you're saying? Jesper (33m 60s): So in 2012, if you just upload a book and then it sells, right. Do you don't want to worry about that? Yeah. Autumn (34m 4s): Oh, it did it, you know, you didn't have to worry about lunch. This is probably why I still sometimes go, Oh right. I am supposed to be putting time into this. I still eat struggle. I saw some places to do like a seven month, a month launch sequence. And we have consolidated. Ours is down a little bit less than that, but there are still times when I get, you know, I start booking out my calendar and my schedule and see when the next book comes out going, Oh shoot, I should've started this two weeks ago or so I would probably need to watch module nine. Again, myself. Jesper (34m 36s): It is. But at the end of the good thing is with, with this cost that it's going to be there forever. So once you have signed up for at least, at least as long as an internet exists. So if the internet internet is gone, then I can promise you you're access to the course of any more. But as long as there is an intimate, then you can always come back to these modules and what's them later on. If you need to revisit something, it it's just going to be there forever. Autumn (34m 58s): Yes. So it will be painful part is the fact that you have to wait two days between each session, the first time. But once you get through them all, there will always be there and we won't make you wait. EVERY I again, indeed. Yes. So yeah, Jesper (35m 14s): Once you've gone through much aligned and you have a right. Yeah. Autumn (35m 18s): Final module, 10 that's right. And this one, I like the title of it. The cornerstone you cannot succeed without, so yeah. What do you want to elaborate on this special, last module in our group? Yeah. Jesper (35m 33s): Yeah. I can. And I always feel like a, having like a, a two second pause here, allowing the listener too. Guess what it is, because if you have listened to this podcast for a longer while I think that you can guess, what is it, what can it be? What could be the cornerstone of your author career that you cannot live without? What could it be? Autumn (35m 54s): I can do the jeopardy dude, because I think I should have had something planned. I mean, 4 (36m 0s): Do you guessed it? Yes. The email list. Yeah. Autumn (36m 4s): Yeah. Congratulations yes. This is the important one where, you know, just to get the course, you'd join our email list. This is what it takes. Jesper (36m 16s): Yeah. And module 10, we'll go over the basics of a setting up e-mail list. And what do you need to be mindful about? And once you're done with that, you're basically good to go. But in addition, if you want a lot more help on email list building and know all the details of it, then we have to actively S will build an entire additional cost that covers everything you need to know about running an email list, how to set it up, what to do, how often to send emails, what to write about what you should be thinking about for your shop, that subject lines, AB testing, everything is in there that will be explained on the back. Jesper (36m 58s): End of module two, if you want to. But that one is one that you have, you we'll have to pay for that if you want that. Autumn (37m 5s): Yeah. But at the top of this record, this podcast, this episode, you said there was two courses we were talking about. So this was like a third, this, this number three. Yes, we are crazy. Jesper (37m 18s): Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And you wonder why we've said so many times that we are a bit busy. Yeah, Autumn (37m 23s): Yeah, yeah. Oh my goodness. And that's all happening in November, December in 2020. When's the asteroid coming. I mean really? Oh Well but yeah. So we go into, we talk about a special extra module, but we also link to a very amazing chorus called master mailing lists. And so that really, if you need help developing your mailing list, if you don't know where to start, if your stumbling, if your pause or having trouble with interaction's and turning those people who were downloading downloading, you're a reader magnet into true fans. If that's where really where your struggling, you want to take a look at this course, this is going to help you out, get everything organized, to give you some emails, to even start with and get you going to be building your fans and, you know, building your career. Jesper (38m 14s): Yeah. And it's going to have swipe, swipe copy as well. So you can basically take our stuff and copy and pasted all most and make it a tween, get a bit too, make it your own But. But it's going to have everything you need in here. So a that, that, but yeah, there is no reason to go on and on about that. You'll you will see that once you get to module seven and it's going to be explained there, so you should just enjoy the other nine modules. And then what else? Module tendency, if it's something for you or not afterwards. Autumn (38m 42s): Yeah, absolutely. Well, I think that's it, that's the 10 modules of the self publishing Success course that we're offering For did we mention FREE a Yeah even though it costs an e-mail list Jesper (38m 57s): Or e-mail address and I should just say Autumn (38m 59s): Yes. And if you want to actually, you know, get the link to the course, you have to provide a real email. You can say you can't do a fake one. Its kind of important to make sure that you actually get to the right website after your sign up. Yeah. Jesper (39m 12s): Yeah. Well otherwise the links to the individual modules will be sent to a fake one. So yeah. It's going to hurt yourself. Autumn (39m 20s): And that will be silly. Yeah. Jesper (39m 22s): But I think whether you are a beginner or you, if you are an author with a handful of books or a series, a puppet already, but do you find yourself struggling or you will get the advice that you need to get your own author career on the right track and, and keep it growing. It is not to say that this course in any way is a shortcut is not a short-term. I am going to figure it all out now and then everything will be wonderful. There is work involved in these modules and you need to do the work. And the only one who can do the work is you. If you don't do it, you won't see any results and it's not going to happen tomorrow, either. It is. It's a long term. Jesper (40m 4s): Let's say it's a long term activities that you need to take care of. It will pay off in the long run, but not tomorrow. And, and you need to understand that. Autumn (40m 13s): Yes, absolutely. And I think to me, even, you know, looking at this chorus as a published author, with 20 bucks out of our own, there's just so much with it. You have life and two things going on in your you're constantly juggling so many things. Whether you are a full time author or your working to become one and you start a job, its easy to not be up to speed on something or to let something fall by the wayside. So in this course, in this platform is a good layout to remind you of all of the things. If you feel like you've let something go on advertising, I'm me and or any other aspect that you need to work on, you can just go back and look at the module and look at it and say, all right, this is where I needed to get, you know, keep yourself reinvigorated and get it going and keep yourself focused. Autumn (40m 60s): And that's, to me, that's almost, that's a secondary benefit. Once you go through all at once, you were probably going to come back to it and remind yourself like annually going all right. That's where I need to work on this year. That's my goal. Jesper (41m 13s): Yeah. So the sign up link is in the show notes. So you can go ahead and sign up right now and get started right now. So the cost is available to them. Autumn (41m 24s): Yes. We got to die and I'm going to go, I'm going to jump ahead to the future where it's done and I don't have any more building to do now. It's all it's so close. Just a few more tweaks and we'll be set. I Jesper (41m 34s): Know we'll make it absolutely next Monday. It is all about renaming and rebranding it a series of what do we need to be mindful about and what can you expect in terms of results? So see you there. Yes Narrator (41m 50s): Like what you just heard. There's a few things you can do to SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST please tell a fellow Author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. You can also join Autumn in Jasper on patrion.com/am Writing Fantasy for as little as a dollar a month. You'll get awesome rewards and keep The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast going to stay safe out there and see you next Monday.

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If you’ve ever thought about writing a book, this week’s episode is for you!    Our special guest interview this week is with Chandler Bolt, the CEO of Self-Publishing School, SelfPublishing.com, and the author of 6 bestselling books including his most recent book titled “Published. The Proven Path from Blank Page to Published Author.”  Self Publishing School made the INC 5000 list the last 2 years in a row as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the US.    Chandler is also the host of the 7 Figure Principles Podcast and the Self Publishing School Podcast. Through his books, podcasts, YouTube channels, and Self-Publishing School, he’s helped thousands of people write their first book.    Fun fact: Chandler’s brother Seth Bolt plays in the Grammy-Nominated Band NEEDTOBREATHE. See them on Rolling Stone here. Chandler and Anna talk about the parallels between book publishing and music publishing, as well as Seth’s beautiful Bolt Farms Treehouse.    Chandler and Anna talk discuss his journey from dropping out of college to growing a multi-million-dollar, successful business helping thousands of purposeful humans share their stories.    Grab Chandler’s new book for FREE (you are only responsible for shipping) right here: Published. The Proven Path From Blank Page To Published Author.   And check out Chandler’s free guide to getting started with your own book --- including teamplates to organize your brilliant thoughts --- right here.    Thank you for being a valued listener! You still have the opportunity to get a copy of Anna’s morning energy and prayer practice for free when you leave an honest rating and review for the podcast! Just write your honest review, take a screenshot before you submit it, and send the screenshot to success@saraannapowers.com with the subject line “Podcast Review!” We’ll send your free audio guide within 2 business days.    Connect with Anna on instagram here and share your top takeaways from this episode in your stories. 

My guest this week is Canadian author Sandy Day, who took everybody's advice and tried to go the traditional publishing route with her novels. But she discovered the hard way that it just doesn't pay to listen to conventional wisdom. As soon as she self-published her books, she proved everybody wrong by selling thousands of copies. But it's been a long road for Sandy Day to get to self-publishing success. This is her story.  Every week I interview a member of ALLi to talk about their writing and what inspires them, and why they are inspiring to other authors. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our Self-publishing Author Advice Center: https://selfpublishingadvice.org, with a huge archive of nearly 2,000 blog posts, and a handy search box to find key info on the topic you need. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at http://allianceindependentauthors.org. About the Host Howard Lovy has been a journalist for more than 30 years, and has spent the last six years amplifying the voices of independent publishers and authors. He works with authors as a book editor to prepare their work to be published. Howard is also a freelance writer specializing in Jewish issues whose work appears regularly in Publishers Weekly, the Jewish Daily Forward, and Longreads. Find Howard at howardlovy.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Welcome to the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. We're two bestselling fantasy authors, Autumn and Jesper. Every Monday we explore the writing craft, provides tips on publishing, and insights on how to market your books. With this episode 1, we're just popping in to introduce ourselves and to let you know what you can expect from this podcast.   YOUTUBE If you want to see what we look like, you can find us on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/1WIwIVC    PATREON We offer so many perks for those who become patrons. https://www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy    CLOSED FACEBOOK GROUP We've created an amazing Facebook group where thousands of fantasy authors are helping each other out. You're welcome to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmWritingFantasy/    WE EVEN HAVE A FREE COURSE CALLED, SELF-PUBLISHING SUCCESS. FIND IT HERE: https://www.amwritingfantasy.com/    IF YOU'RE ON TWITTER, FIND US HERE: Jesper on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SchmidtJesper  Autumn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/weifarer

In this Episode: Have you ever wanted to write a book?  Perhaps you've dreamt of creating a cookbook, a book of poetry, children's book, a work of fiction or non-fiction?  Today's guest is going to take us through the basics of self-publishing.  Bruce Jones is an International Best-Selling Author, graphic designer, and product developer. Bruce writes, speaks and consults on publishing, social media, blogging, video and general marketing.  He is the author/creator of over 40 books on the topics of: geography, music, business, publishing, children's and coloring books. If you ever wondered what it takes to self-publish a book, then tune into today's episode. Key Takeaways: The difference between traditional publishing and self-publishing The main companies where you can self-publish your book Which types of books are best suited for self-publishing vs a traditional route Bruce explains how and why he got started with his writing at 53 years old How to build your authority using a book you created The people who tend to choose self-publishing or traditional and why Where you can find an illustrator if you need one The first step you need to take to begin How to begin writing and outline your book to make the process simpler The cost range to self-publish a book Where to find editors, designers, etc, to help you with all of the pieces of the puzzle Show Notes & Resources: Free Chapter of My Book when you Join our Newsletter & Community Michele's New Book, Design A Life You Love: A Woman's Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life Find Michele on Instagram for More Inspiration Apply to Michele's Private Practice Under "Coaching"     You can Learn More about Bruce at his Blog: http://brucethebookguy.blogspot.com/   Bruce's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowToPublishYourBook/     Publishingmastery101.co   Joanna Penn - thecreativepenn.com   Steven Pressfield's website: stevepressfield.com Bruce's Book: I Want to Publish My Book But I Don't Know How by Bruce Jones Other Books referenced: Successful Self-Publishing: How to Self-publish and Market Your Book in E-Book and Print By Joanna Penn Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The War of Art by Steven Pressfield Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Self-Publishing Guide to Self-Publishing Success) by Sean Platt and Johnny Truant Thank you for listening to the show. Please be sure to share it with your friends who would benefit from this information.  Also be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Show Notes: The Good Life Podcast Rate & Review: If you enjoyed this episode, would you please take a minute to review it on iTunes?  Your review helps me better understand what topics you most enjoyed.  It also helps others find this podcast so that they too can learn this actionable information. 1. Click link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-life-coach/id1441612098?mt=2 2. Click “View in iTunes” button 3. Click “Subscribe” button 4. Click “Ratings and Reviews” text 5. Click to rate and leave short review and you're done!

An Inspiring Self-Publishing Success Story Not everyone is born into equal circumstances but as long as you have passion, faith and dedication, you can do anything you want in this life. On today’s podcast, we are joined by Otakara Klettke, author of the book Hear Your Body Whisper. Otakara shares her transformative story as a young girl from what was then Czechoslovakia, coming to a foreign country, and fulfilling her dream of becoming an author. Here are more awesome takeaways on today’s episode: The inspiring story of Otakara’s father as a musician in World War II How she self-published her first book Her advice to aspiring authors And why you have to take action one day at a time and stop worrying about things you don’t have control over. So put on your headphones and be inspired by Otakara’s amazing story of survival and success. 01:17 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Otakara Klettke author of the book Hear Your Body Whisper.) 05:29 (Otakara shares how she came up with her first book.) 14:28 (Otakara talks about her origin story.) 26:14 (The defining moment in Otakara’s life that put her in the path she is in today.) 35:09 (The production lessons Otakara had to learn working on her first book.) Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope that you will join me on this Awesomer journey. SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit SymoGlobal.com to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. 01:17 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Otakara Klettke, author of the book Hear Your Body Whisper.) Steve: You are listening to episode number 61 of the Awesomers.com podcast series. Now what does that mean? That means you can go to Awesomers.com/61 to find any of the show notes and details related to today's episode. Now today my special guest is Otakara Klettke. And she as a young child was very sickly so much so that she couldn't even carry her own books to school. Now she wrote a book called Hear Your Body Whisper where she shares how she basically said no to the limitations of her own health problems, left doctors in the dust and started to live her own life to the fullest. Currently, she lives on a ranch with her husband and daughter, a beautiful cascade mountain range in Oregon raising lots and lots of pets. We're going to talk about that for sure. And taking every chance possible to go on road trips with her homeschooled daughter. Now how'd she do it? She basically you know said no and she escaped that special diet, constant visits to the doctors, surgeries, hospital stays and she went on to become a fitness trainer, adventurer and even a TV reporter all while keeping her body in top shape since growing up. So this is a really transformative story and I'm glad that you guys are here to join us. And I know that you're going to take something away

This week we talk about the top ten traits we believe you need to have to be a successful self-published author.  These include, among other things, having a thick skin, being willing to take risks and staying focused. They're not always easy, and some involve practice and mindfulness, but if you manage to get everything on this list right, we believe you'll be on the road to success.   It might seen weird to talk about stuff like this being super important over things like knowing how to put a book up on Amazon or how to market your book, but in fact a lot of what's involved with being successful in self publishing - in fact in any business - is to do with getting your head straight and your priorities focused.  With this in mind, we give you some tips on how to develop and attain some of these skills and traits, what to do when you fall off the wagon, and how to get around it if you really just can't manage to develop that thick skin... 

Volvemos a hablar de storytelling. Oh yeah. Con libro delicatessen relacionado y todo... No me enrollo más que tengo que ir a buscar a los niños al cole... :-) Libro: The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage de Ryan Holiday. Libro: Ego is the enemy de Ryan Holiday. Libro: Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts de Ryan Holiday. Episodio: ZT 93 Storytelling (II) o cómo hemos castrado nuestras mentes al decir que las historias son un simple recurso Libro: Cómo orquestar una comedia de John Vorhouse (versión original: The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You're Not). Episodio: 67 Comentando el libro “Cómo orquestar una comedia” de John Vorhaus - Humor en público. Libro: El héroe de las mil caras: Psicoanálisis del mito de Joseph Campbell (versión original: The Hero with a Thousand Faces). Web: YoTrail - Del asfalto a la montaña. Episodio: ZT 87 Enfoque rítmico y locus de control interno Episodio: EB 11 Confesiones sobre superación personal de una corredora de maratones (extra ball) Podcast: Vamos hablando con Alicia y Leticia. Libro: El guión de Robert McKee (versión original: Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting). Libro: Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success) de Sean Platt y Johnny B. Truant. Web: The Smart Passive Income by Pat Flynn Episodio: EB 36 “Depredador contra la escritura” con Jackberry (extra ball) Episodio: EB 30 Autónomos felices: Pat Educadora Canina (extra ball) Podcast: This American Life Podcast: Serial Delicatessen: "Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio" de Jessica Abel Libro Delicatessen: "Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio" de Jessica Abel Episodio: EP 26 Dinamizar cursos online con Patricia Guerrero - Presentástico Episodio: Episodio 5 – Vivir de la formación online con Abel Aubone - Learning Legendario. Os recordamos nuestros grupos de Telegram:

Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 134, originally published in February 2014. Matthew Mather is the best-selling author of "CyberStorm" and a leading member of the world's cybersecurity community. He joins the show to discuss a "Third Path" to publishing that winds between the traditional publishing and self-publishing models. Mather was rejected by more than 100 agents and publishers. He never believed that self-publishing would make you so much money, but he's now sold nearly 200,000 books in the past 18 months and sold the film rights of his latest novel, "CyberStorm," to 20th Century Fox Walk. Mather explains the process he used to make a lot of money and market his books. Matthew is the best-selling author of CyberStorm and the six-part hit series Atopia Chronicles. He is also a leading member of the world's cybersecurity community who started out his career working at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines. He went on to found one of the first tactile interface companies, which became the world leader in its field, as well as creating a major award-winning brain training video game. In between he's worked in a variety of start-ups,everything from computational nanotechnology to electronic health records, weather prediction systems to genomics, and even social intelligence research. His writing credits include #1 best-selling Atopia Chronicles and CyberStorm novels. He spends his time between Charlotte, NC, and Montreal, QC, hanging out with his bright and beautiful girlfriend Julie and their three dogs and a cat. Website: www.MatthewMather.com

Episodio: #09 "Do it yourself"con Marc Alier - BeSuricata. Artículo: Dinámicas participativas (II): Indefensión aprendida - Presentástico. YouTube: Indefensión aprendida (subtitulado)  Web: Sam Harris Libro: Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong de Erik Barker. Libro: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life de Mark Manson.   Libro: The Beam: Season One de Sean Platt y Johnny B. Truant. [Libro] “Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success)” de Johnny B. Truant y Sean Platt. [Libro] “Fiction Unboxed: Publishing and Writing a Novel in 30 Days, From Scratch, In Front of the World” de Johnny B. Truant, Sean Platt y David Wright. [Podcast] The Self Publishing Podcast Libro: Iterate And Optimize: Optimize Your Creative Business for Profit de Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant y David Wright. Libro: La conjura de los necios de John Kennedy Toole.

Wayne Stinnett's inspirational path to self-publishing success is a lesson in persistence and discernment. In this episode, we discuss both, including the trends he's chosen to ignore while building a thriving author business for himself over the past four years. The post TAB111: Staying Persistent on the Path to Self-Publishing Success – with Wayne Stinnett appeared first on .

Hoy nos ha visitado Javier Belmar, un oyente del podcast que nos ha traído chocolate de Ecuador de mucha calidad. Javier descubrió nuestro podcast y en dos meses ha escuchado los 55 episodios que teníamos publicados. De nuevo hemos repetido el formato de comentar las ideas de un libro, en este caso "So Good They Can't Ignore You". Libros que ha leído Tomàs esta semana: Puerto escondido de María Oruña. Libros que ha leído Marc Alier esta semana: Yesterday's Gone: Season Three de Sean Platt y David Wright Libros que ha leído Carles esta semana: So good they can't ignore you de Cal Newport. [Libro] “Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success)” de Johnny B. Truant y Sean Platt. [Podcast] The Self Publishing Podcast [Libro] El Marciano – Andy Weir [Web] EscritoresFantasma.es [Libro] “Fiction Unboxed: Publishing and Writing a Novel in 30 Days, From Scratch, In Front of the World” de Johnny B. Truant, Sean Platt y David Wright. [Web] Lynda.com [Libro] ¿De qué color es tu paracaídas? Un manual práctico para personas que buscan empleo o un cambio de profesión de Richard N. Bolles. [Vídeo] Benjamin Zander 2008 Música y Pasión. Con los ojos brillantes - TED Talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71w-oasL6iQ [Episodio] ZT 01: Actitud tester, Life Hacking y “La semana laboral de 4 horas” de Tim Ferriss [Episodio] ZT 03: Small wins y “El poder de los hábitos” de Charles Duhigg ¡El podcast de Presentástico ya está en iTunes! [Libro] “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” de Cal New Port. [Artículo] Errores de lógica (III): el Efecto encuadre y la Prueba social [Web] Museu de la xocolata. [Libro] Exprime tus neuronas: 12 reglas básicas para ejercitar la mente de John Medina. [Web] Jamie Oliver [Vídeo] Canal Viajar Jamie Oliver le quita las ganas de nuggets a los niños https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgL3qOGyXI [Artículo] ¿Qué es el ad

Joseph Hogue was an economist and an investment analyst until he realized the only way to financial independence was to own his life and his work. He now runs six websites on everything from personal finance to dating and is about to publish his 10th book. He’s been featured on Morningstar and Bloomberg TV and … Continued

In this Book Marketing Success podcast episode, John Kremer outlines the five key things every self-publisher must do to publish and promote his or her books. Self-publishing a book is a serious endeavor. It shouldn’t be done lightly. Create a great book first. Then market your self-published book like it really matters. Because it does. Here are […]

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Michael Anderle joins us after his first full year as a published author. We discuss his original goals, the remarkable success he achieved in his first year, and his advice for achieving the publishing goals you've set for your author business. The post TAB096: Hacking Your Way to Self-Publishing Success, with Michael Anderle appeared first on .

Mark Levine can see a good opportunity when it happens. After helping a client self publish a book he realized there were not very many good resources or "how to manuals" so he created one and it propelled him to be the self publishing expert! Hear his story hereSupport the showFollow the Makers of Minnesota on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @MakersofMN. Send story ideas to Stephanie@stephaniesdish.com If you appreciate the work we do here, please subscribe on Patreon Please subscribe to My newsletter at https://stephaniehansen.substack.com/ so you don't miss an epiosde of the Makers of Minnesota This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stephaniehansen.substack.com/subscribe

Mark Levine can see a good opportunity when it happens. After helping a client self publish a book he realized there were not very many good resources or "how to manuals" so he created one and it propelled him to be the self publishing expert! Hear his story hereSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/StephanieHansen)

Mark Levine can see a good opportunity when it happens. After helping a client self publish a book he realized there were not very many good resources or "how to manuals" so he created one and it propelled him to be the self publishing expert! Hear his story hereSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/StephanieHansen)

Joanne Phillips is the author of the romantic comedies Can't Live Without, The Family Trap, and Cupid's Way. She also created the Flora Lively series of contemporary mysteries. Can't Live Without was an Amazon top 20 bestseller in 2012 and her books regularly appear in category bestseller lists. Before becoming a writer, Joanne had jobs as diverse as hairdresser, air hostess and librarian. She has a Masters degree in creative writing and is a high-profile indie author, and a champion of quality in self-publishing. Joanne is also teaching the Self-Publishing Success course via the Writers' Workshop.

Joanne Phillips is the author of the romantic comedies Can’t Live Without, The Family Trap, and Cupid’s Way. She also created the Flora Lively series of contemporary mysteries. Can’t Live Without was an Amazon top 20 bestseller in 2012 and her books regularly appear in category bestseller lists. Before becoming a writer, Joanne had jobs as diverse as hairdresser, air hostess and librarian. She has a Masters degree in creative writing and is a high-profile indie author, and a champion of quality in self-publishing. Joanne is also teaching the Self-Publishing Success course via the Writers' Workshop. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

Self publishing success stories are becoming more and more common. The opportunity to write and benefit from your books is now very real. During their recent trip to the United States for the NINC conference, Mark and James were able to meet a number of SPF students, one of whom was Elicia Hyder. She is […]

Are you writing a hybrid book? Discover the people writing poetry as a service and the predictive text generator writing fan fiction. We dive into the huge self-publishing success of romance writers and share the meaning of ineluctable. Our writer in residence is author John Birmingham. Find out how a literary agency discovered a writer on social media, and much more. Read the show notes.  Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com

The book promotion piece is one of the most vital but neglected aspects of being a self published author. Today’s guest, Ricci Wolman, is not an author herself but IS a marketing specialist who has made a career (and a business) out of helping authors successfully promote their books. She is founder and CEO of […]

Graphic designer, author, product developer and workshop presenter   Interview starts at 14:57 and ends at 44:47 So whatever you do, you build products that relate to the knowledge that you have, and the two can feed each other, and you can do them in the same space.   News “Take your tablet to bed: Amazon rolls out ‘blue shade' tool for Fire” by Ellie Zolfagharifard at The Daily Mail - December 2, 2015 “Slice: Amazon grabs one-third of Black Friday online sales” by Ian P. Murphy at RetailDive - December 3, 2015 Amazon press release on holiday sales - December 1, 2015 “Amazon Puts out Hollow Holiday Metrics” by Natasha Lomos at TechCrunch - December 1, 2015 “Barnes & Noble Shares Clobbered As It Tells a Dreary Financial Story” by David Lieberman at Deadline.com - December 4, 2015. “Barnes & Noble's Problems are Self-Inflicted” by Lutz Muller at Seeking Alpha - December 1, 2015   Tech Tip  ComiXology and Amazon accounts can now be merged - via Tom Semple and Nate Hoffelder   Interview with Bruce Jones Books published by Bruce Jones on Amazon.com Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele & Banjo by Bruce Jones “Marketing Your Videos” workshop in Ghana - November 26, 2015 CreateSpace Johann Bashford coloring books Mandala Happiness coloring books by Bruce Jones Bruce's How to Publish your Book Facebook group and map site Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income website Bill Gentile's Backpack Journalism website and online video workshops Periscope Blab Katch Books recommended by Bruce Jones: Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success), by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant  Kindle Publishing Package: How to Discover Best-Selling eBook Ideas + How to Write a Nonfiction eBook in 21 Days + 61 Ways to Sell More Nonfiction Kindle Books by Steve Scott How to Market a Book by Joanna Penn Publish and Profit by Mike Koenigs Bruce Jones's extensive resource page - highly recommended! Content Click here to receive a free eBook from the University of Chicago Press: Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle Interview with the authors by Scott Monty Click here for a video on how to install BlueFire Reader on your Fire tablet   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

The self-publishing world has changed quite a bit in the last couple years. Amazon is constantly changing the rules and rewards for authors, and more and more writers are entering the fold. In today's show, I'm joined by Jyotsna Ramachandran, a "stay at home mom entrepreneur" and best-selling author. She shares candidly how she built her Kindle empire to more than 50 titles in less than 2 years, primarily with ghost-written content. As the game has changed, she's shifted her focus to produce more quality products and less quantity.

Aired Monday, 19 October 2015, 4:00 PM ETJoin Simone Milasas, author of Joy of Business, business mentor international speaker, as she speaks with Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant, the professionals in the Self Publishing Industry, leading a movement of Traditional-Publishing-Worthy Self Publishers.Do you have a book inside of you waiting to be created and actualized? Have you ever wondered how to enter the magical realm of published authors? Or maybe you have self-published but now it just doesn’t seem credible? Meet Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant, the professionals in the Self Publishing Industry, leading a movement of Traditional-Publishing-Worthy Self-Publishers. Listen in to find out everything you ever need to know about self-publishing (and how to have fun while doing it too)!About the Guests Sean Platt and Johnny B. TruantJohnny B. Truant is a co-host of the top-rated Self Publishing Podcast, co-author of the #1 Marketing bestseller Write. Publish. Repeat: The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success, and the author of well over 3 million words of popular fiction.Sean Platt is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker, founder of the Sterling Stone Story Studio, and co-author (with Johnny B. Truant and David Wright) of Write. Publish. Repeat., the well-loved self-publishing industry guide.Johnny and Sean along with David Wright (#1 horror author of the Yesterday’s Gone series) also launched Fiction Unboxed in 2014 — a record-setting Kickstarter project in which Johnny and Sean wrote a full-length novel in 30 days, starting without any ideas or genre, in front of a live audience, sharing every detail of the process including story meetings, emails, and raw story drafts.The novel birthed through Fiction Unboxed (The Dream Engine, first in the Blunderbuss/Alterra series) went on to spawn what the Sterling Stone team calls “open-source fiction”: an open story world in which any author may write and publish without requiring permission and without paying royalties to the world’s creators.Johnny’s fiction works (mostly co-authored with Sean Platt) include the Invasion series, the political sci-fi serial The Beam, the fantasy/western mash-up Unicorn Western books, the satirical Fat Vampire series, the literary mindbender Axis of Aaron, and too many others to count.Johnny, Sean, and David host their trendsetting, boundary-pushing podcasts every week on YouTube, iTunes, and their independent author website at: http://sterlingandstone.net/

We have another great guest on the show today. His name is Patrick King, and I think you guys are going to be blown away by this interview. Patrick has self-published more than 25 books and counting in just over one year. He's at the top of numerous categories on Amazon as a best-selling author. He's […]

Johnny is a full-time Author-Entrepreneur and is one of the writers of the Best-selling Write. Publish. Repeat: The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self Publishing Success (on the nonfiction side), and The Beam, Fat Vampire, Unicorn Western, and dozens of others on the fiction side. He is also one of three Hosts of the popular Self Publishing Podcast.

Andrea Waltz is a professional speaker, business author, and fiction writer. As co-author of the best-selling book, Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There, she is wildly passionate about teaching audiences how they can overcome fear of failure and rejection and reprogram how they think about the word NO! She's currently working with […] The post 66: Go for No! A Huge Self Publishing Success Story with Andrea Waltz appeared first on TCK Publishing.

Tim Lewis talks about how he self-published his books, the self-publishing tools he recommends, and the self-publishing podcast he has just started. The post NMEU 14 – Tim Lewis – Self-Publishing Success appeared first on New Media Europe.

Johnny is one of the hosts of the top-rated Self Publishing Podcast and co-author of the bestseller Write. Publish. Repeat: The No-Luck Required Guide to Self Publishing Success. Johnny is a full-time fiction author whose extensive credits include The Beam, Fat Vampire, and Unicorn Western.

Since discovering how to “hack” the publishing industry, Jonny Andrews has been known as the go to guy for author entrepreneurs when it comes to launching a successful business or books by leveraging the power of audience & Amazon. Here is the official version of who Jonny is: Multi-Time Best Selling Author, Publishing Expert, Entrepreneur, International Speaker & Business Strategies Consultant. The simple version of that is: He's a really cool guy, who always says what he thinks and tells it with passion (as you can hear in the episode).         Mentioned in this episode Audience Hacker website I Love Vampire Novels Food for thought and takeaways You really have to ask yourself - what is user's perspective on this? "Stop publishing garbage!" Don't ask yourself "how do I make money with ebooks", ask "how do I provide value?" instead. Always publish in series You have to understand that data represents the actions of living breathing human beings. They are not just statistics - they are people! You have to produce the book people want to read. Writers aren't marketers. You can have ugly website just don't have ugly book covers! Don't forget to get your free ebooks!  

Johnny is a full-time Author-Entrepreneur and is one of the writers of the Best-selling Write. Publish. Repeat: The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self Publishing Success (on the nonfiction side), and The Beam, Fat Vampire, Unicorn Western, and dozens of others on the fiction side. He is also one of three Hosts of the popular Self Publishing Podcast.

  The Mutt and the Mustang is a children's book, inspired by a true friendship between a dog and a horse. The story-behind-the-story is brimming with inspiration as well. Listen in as Dean Rotbart and David Biondo ask Judy Archibald - a widowed senior citizen on a limited income - how she cracked the self-publishing code and turned her illustrated children's book into a critical and financial success. The story of Judy's Pet Pals Publishing is completely true; it only feels like a fairytale. Rotbart and Biondo are co-hosts of the weekly Business Unconventional radio news magazine broadcast on 710 KNUS AM in Denver. Be sure to follow B. Unconventional on Twitter: @BUnRadio and subscribe to Roy H. Williams's Monday Morning Memo.  The best things in life really are free! Posted:  June 16, 2014 Monday Morning Run Time:  30 mins  05 secs     Want to learn how to generate free publicity and social media "buzz" for your business?  Schedule a one-hour phone consultation with Monday Morning Radio co-host Dean Rotbart: 1-303-296-1200.  Limited slots still available this month.      

Matthew Mather is the best-selling author of "CyberStorm" and a leading member of the world's cybersecurity community. He joins the show to discuss a "Third Path" to publishing that winds between the traditional publishing and self-publishing models.   Mather was rejected by more than 100 agents and publishers. He never believed that self-publishing would make you so much money, but he's now sold nearly 200,000 books in the past 18 months and sold the film rights of his latest novel, "CyberStorm," to 20th Century Fox Walk. Mather explains the process he used to make a lot of money and market his books.   Find out more about Matthew Mather at www.matthewmather.com.   Matthew is the best-selling author of CyberStorm and the six-part hit series Atopia Chronicles. He is also a leading member of the world's cybersecurity community who started out his career working at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines. He went on to found one of the first tactile interface companies, which became the world leader in its field, as well as creating a major award-winning brain training video game. In between he's worked in a variety of start-ups,everything from computational nanotechnology to electronic health records, weather prediction systems to genomics, and even social intelligence research. His writing credits include #1 best-selling Atopia Chronicles and CyberStorm novels. He spends his time between Charlotte, NC, and Montreal, QC, hanging out with his bright and beautiful girlfriend Julie and their three dogs and a cat.

Check out the books we're discussing here! Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews author Steve Vernon, a writer and storyteller of both written and spoken words and they discuss the following: ·         Aspects of writing a serialized story (Steve's Flash Virus Series), elements of humour in a thriller/horror story and the perspective of being able to laugh at life.  ·         Steve's first published story in the mid 1980's in a magazine that featured “Busoms, beards and big bellied bikers.” ·         Embracing both traditional publishing and self-publishing as a hybrid author and how that syncs beautifully with how Steve really “isn't a writer, just a windbag who likes to spin yarns” ·         The importance of being able to adapt and continue to learn as a writer ·         A few of Steve's titles:  Sinking Deeper, Maritime Murder, Tatterdemon Omnibus ·         Steve's favourite advice for writers ·         Some book recommendations from Steve (The Scorpion Races & The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater) Also included in this episode are Mark's “Three P's of Self-Publishing Success” as well as a listener question regarding ensuring your Goodreads reviews appear on Kobo.   Steve's Blog “Yours in Storytelling” http://stevevernonstoryteller.wordpress.com/   Download Episode One of Steve's Flash Virus series (FREE) www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=9780988097223   Steve's Flash Virus Series http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=Flash+Virus&t=none&f=series&p=1&s=none&g=both   Steve Vernon's Books on Kobo http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=%22Steve+Vernon%22&t=all&f=author&p=1&s=numpurchases&g=both&l=    

Part 2 of 3: Originally Aired July 15, 2012 Dianne Linderman continues talking about the new grant from Bill Gates and the article titled ?$1.1 million-plus Gates grants: ‘Galvanic' bracelets that measure student engagement.? Dianne talks about how we don't really get a good education from schools anymore—but we can get a better education with hands-on experience and learning. Dianne also discusses a new machine called the Espresso Book Machine (nicknamed Opus) that lets you publish your own manuscripts, and how easy it is today to publish your own books.

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Dianne Linderman talks about self-publishing and the publishing industry as a whole. What does it really mean to be a ?published author?" Dianne discusses a news article titled Online retailer Amazon accused of trying to ‘wreck the publishing trade' and shares her views and personal, first-hand experience as a successful self-published author. Learn more about Dianne on her website: http://www.everythingthatmattersradio.com/

This week the Robots talk with self-publishing success story Michael Sullivan and his wife Robin, who founded and runs Ridan Publishing. Michael has signed with Orbit, but his success with self-publishing is astonishing. We hope you enjoy it.

Jason Hartman talks with self-publishing guru Dan Poynter who spent eight years researching a labor of love. Realizing no publisher would be interested in a technical treatise on the parachute, he went directly to a printer and self-published. The orders poured in and he suddenly found he was a publisher himself. In 1973, Dan became interested in a new aviation sport, couldn't find a book on the subject so he sat down and wrote one. After four months of writing and intense research that took him from coast to coast, he delivered the manuscript to the printer. So far, Hang Gliding has sold over 130,000 copies-a best seller! Continuing to write, Dan has produced more than 76 books and revisions so far, of which some have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Russian, British-English and German. Over the years, Dan has developed a system of writing that makes it all so easy and fun. His books are loaded with facts and figures and contain detailed inside information. They are always up-to-date because he revises them before going back to press. Dan has sold millions of his books, including several best sellers, for ten of millions of dollars in sales. Many of his books sell at the rate of 10-20,000 copies per year, every year. For many years, Dan ran Para Publishing all by himself. In fact, he was often billed as the world's largest one-person publishing company. As a one-man show, an author/publisher who handled all the writing, publishing and promotion, office management and shipping himself, Dan is in the best position to advise a first time self-publishing author who is on a limited budget. Today, Dan has staff, a number of products and services (books, reports, tapes, disks, seminars, etc.) and a large suite of offices with a 360 view of the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

In the series reboot of the FFCA Podcast Series, Jon Reed welcomes Morris Rosenthal of FonerBooks.com and the author of Print On Demand Book Publishing for a totally unscripted conversation on web business and self-publishing. Listen in as Jon and … Continue reading →