Contemporary romance author Barbara Freethy is an Amazon KDP Bestselling Author of All Time with a total now of 12 million books sold in multiple languages. She’s a master of thrilling mysteries, romantic suspense and heart-warming romance.

Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today in The Joys of Binge Reading Barbara talks about the enjoyment she gets from being able to switch between the more chilling thrillers she writes to her charming love stories, and she also talks about the advantage of having a good head for business in today’s publishing environment – perhaps more important today than it ever has been in the past for an author to be able to understand the business of publishing.

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Links from this episode:

http://www.barbarafreethy.com/books/#whisperlake

http://www.barbarafreethy.com/books/#Offthegrid

http://www.barbarafreethy.com/risky-bargain/ 

http://www.barbarafreethy.com/if-we-never-met/

Where to find Barbara Freethy: 

Website: www.barbarafreethy.com

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraFreethyBooks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/barbarafreethy

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/136075.Barbara_Freethy

You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPS4MXqFNGqddWdJfWUUJpg

Introducing Barbara Freethy, best-selling romance author

What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to the show notes in The Joys of Binge Reading.com for important mentions.And now, here’s Barbara.

Barbara Freethy - Top selling romance author

Jenny Wheeler: Hello there Barbara and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.

Barbara Freethy: Thanks so much for having me.

Jenny Wheeler: You started out with a very sound career in trad publishing, but in the early days of the indie revolution you were one of the ones who jumped ship, and your success has been remarkable. Within a few years you had sold 5 million eBooks and become an Amazon KDP bestselling author of all time. That was a few years ago. Have you got any idea how many books you've sold now?

Barbara Freethy: I think adding them all up, because I was traditionally published before I went indie, I probably have about 12 million books sold worldwide, and in many different languages now too, so that's very exciting for me.

Jenny Wheeler: That is fantastic. It goes without saying that you write highly entertaining and addictive books, but even so, how do you account for that brilliant success?

Barbara Freethy: It's really hard to account for the success. There are a lot of factors that have gone into it. Publishing on a regular basis, being consistent with what I write, and meeting the reader's expectations has been helpful for me. There are a lot of different factors.

I put a lot of time in, but then a lot of authors put a lot of time in, so I don't do anything that much differently. I've got a good head for business, the business of publishing as well as for the writing, and that's been helpful in my pursuit of an indie career.