Podcast Episodes

🧚‍♂️ Writing Middle Grade Books with Jessica Renwick

Episode 222

Episode 222 / Jessica Renwich, who writes fantasy and horror for kids ages 9-12, joined us to share her experience as an indie middle grade author.

Sh…

2 years, 3 months ago

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🔗 Amy Pine on Creating a Community

Episode 221

Episode 221 / Looking to grow a community around your books? Romance author Amy Pine shares how she and her co-hosts created a podcast and built a vi…

2 years, 4 months ago

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💡KimBoo York on Discovery Writing

Episode 220

Episode 220 /  KimBoo York joins us to share how to embrace flexibility and spontaneity in your writing process through discovery writing. Whether yo…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Martha Carr on Embracing Change and Starting Over

Episode 219

Episode 219 / Martha Carr is a journalist who now writes escapist fiction in the urban fantasy genre with a lot of magic, some action and adventure, …

2 years, 4 months ago

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Julie Duffy on Writing Short Stories and Flash Fiction

Episode 218

Episode 218 / Julie Duffy has long been involved in the publishing industry, but she found herself not actually writing fiction due to the demands of…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Celeste Barclay: Binge Writing and the Power of Universal Themes in Pulling Readers to New Genres

Episode 217

Episode 217 /  Writing under two pen names, Celeste Barclay has penned over 50 books in historical and mafia romance. She shares insights on the writ…

2 years, 5 months ago

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Abigail Keam: Writing Historical Mystery, Payhip Direct Sales, and Merchandise for Readers

Episode 216

Episode 216 / Mystery author Abigail Keam shares how she embraced the digital landscape and incorporated direct sales into her business model. From h…

2 years, 5 months ago

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💸 How to Save and When to Splurge in your Author Business

Episode 215

Episode 215 / When it comes to your author business, a bargain sometimes costs money in the long run, but other times it pays to splurge instead of s…

2 years, 5 months ago

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How to Find Your Author Brand

Episode 214

Episode 214 / How do you pull in readers who will love your books and push away those readers who won’t enjoy your book? Branding.

Branding is more th…

2 years, 5 months ago

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🔒 Character Archetypes

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The sage. The rebel. The everyman. These are a few character archetypes that resonate with readers.

We discuss fifteen charact…

2 years, 6 months ago

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