FreelancingThe April 16, 2019 hour: editor before proofreader, cover designers versus graphic designers, Bowker ISBN packs and library cataloging blocks, styles-not-manual-formatting, the $1,000-a-book origin and the $15,000 contract one day later, seven hats priced honestly, the full contract walkthrough, and…
Book CoachingThe March 19, 2019 session on developing book ideas: nonfiction from passion without term-paper style, fiction seeds gathered by the hundreds at faires, reenactments, museums, and old folks' homes, the rings-on-a-tree expansion method, research before writing, why only-3-left never applies…
Author TalksAustralian author Melissa Desveaux joins Author Talks to discuss writing My Life of Loss, compiling anthologies for grieving families, and the blog-to-book method.
Book MarketingThe February 8, 2019 Hammer 96.7 BT Radio hour: the complete Focus on LinkedIn case study, the snowflake-in-a-blizzard reality of 10,000 daily releases, hobbyists versus authors with a business, why "write what you know" is terrible advice, content mills and…
Career StoryThe January 24, 2019 W4CY interview: the four-person startup vice presidency, SCADA water systems, 20 years running Trader Joe's computers, losing his wife and refusing to keep grief as a friend, Marjani and the belly dance photography years, $4-an-hour first…
Book CoachingThe January 15, 2019 hour on ideas and market reality: thirty seeds generated fast, KDP Rocket research, the unbeatable coloring book wall, two winnable categories pulling up a tough one, short books as market tests, the space opera prequel strategy,…
Author PlatformThe full January 10, 2019 webinar for the Yeadon Public Library: why print-on-demand opened a golden age, brand-before-book, the Chicago Manual daily habit, word counts raised monthly, the woman-antagonist engagement play, Fiverr rights warnings, platform overlap traps, read-aloud proofreading, pen…
Author PlatformThe December 4, 2018 call-in the night before the Yeadon Public Library webinar: the complete agenda preview, the Book Empire courses and 500-idea prompt books, the 15,000-word novelette visibility strategy, self-paced practical training, and daily promotion that flows outward instead…
Author TalksCatherine Meyrick joins Author Talks to discuss Forsaking All Other, self-publishing historical fiction, research, and letting characters lead.
Book CoachingThe October 2018 hour on the economics of writing: vanity publisher and rights-grab warnings, the remote screen-share publishing walkthrough, why autobiographies rarely sell, series-first fiction strategy, what ghostwriting, LinkedIn profiles, copywriting, and blogging each pay, job board scams, and the…
Author TalksBrenda Haire joins Author Talks to discuss Save the Buttertubs, merging a memoir with her grandmother's story, and building a 700-person launch team.
near-future fictionScience fiction author Stephen Oram on writing near-future short fiction, collaborating with scientists, self-publishing, and his collection Eating Robots and Other Stories.
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