Blondie and the Brit

This week Susan Spann shares her writing journey that began with a love of Japanese culture and through the advice of agents she created the award-winning Shinobi Mystery series. Susan is the Rocky Mountain Fiction Author of the Year and an accomplished publishing attorney who takes to social media with her weekly twitter #PUBLAW advice and blog. Susan's enthusiastic retelling of the journey from wanna be writer to the launch of her fourth book is as heartwarming as it is funny. Don't miss this engaging interview chock full of great inspiration and advice for writers.   

You will not want to miss this great chat with Gisela Hausman who is a Amazon ecommerce expert, PR and communications coach, and a multi-award winning author. A native of Austria, Gisela is the author of The Naked Truth series and a top Amazon reviewer. We talk about the unadorned truth of the review process and how to win the heart of a reviewer. As a self-professed email evangelist she shares her best tips on crafting emails and newsletters to get the best out of out of all your communications. 

Amazon best-selling author Melody Robinette joins us on the program where she shares what she's learned as a multi-genre author including her social media and Amazon strategies. Along her journey she has picked up several unique tools that helped her double the productivity of her writing time before she spends the day as an English teacher.

USA Today and Amazon bestselling author Luke Romyn joins us this week for a lighthearted and informative chat where he covers everything from his unusual writing process to how he faced tigers in Asia. A bouncer by night and a writing thunder from down under by day, Luke has an impressive 430,000 following on twitter with over a half million books sold worldwide. While Luke has us laughing the whole interview he also offers up great information for the book marketer with his easygoing affable charm. 

This week on Blondie and the Brit we bring you Terry Persun and the second half of his podcast we aired in January. Terry is an award-winning Amazon bestselling author who writes multiple genres and teaches, among other things, an entire day course on Amazon at his writing conferences.

In this interview he shares with us his tips on becoming an Amazon best seller and how to best organize your book launch for success. He also introduces us to Kindle Worlds with his fantasy novel Doublesight. You definitely do not want to miss this episode. 

Nicole Wagoner is our guest this week on Blondie and the Brit. Nicole is a teacher turned Indie writer and she shares with us her journey to writing her book called Center Ring, the first in the Circus of Woman Trilogy. It has been compared to Sex and the City with real-world problems. Nicole took on the difficult task of creating 5 view point characters and shares with us her process. She also talks about her social media presence, book launch, and how she organizes her blog tours.

Join us this week on Blondie and the Brit as we present the second part of Joey Pinkney's interview. Joey continues to share with us all of his extraordinary gifts and talents including his award-winning author interview service and the story plotting method that he uses to write his short stories. Joey's charm and wit are on point for this interview.

Join on Blondie and Brit as we introduce you to award-winning filmmaker and author Amy Quick Parrish. Amy takes us on a fascinating journey behind the scenes of how she created, wrote, and filmed her own web series Into Dust. Inspired by her desire to create a Latino Superhero she has since gone on to creating her brand new book series based on the same character, The Thunderbird Chronicles. The first book in the series, Into Dust, has just been released. If you have ever wondered about adapting a book for the screen you don't want to miss this interview.

Award-winning author Kim Hunt Harris is our guest this week talking about her comedic Trailer Park Princess mysteries. In this very entertaining interview, she covers everything from her experience pitching agents, meeting Diana Gabaldon in an elevator, to how she successfully works with Scrivener. Kim shares with us her unusual writing process of piecing her stories together and how she keeps her readership satisfied by bridging the gap between longer novels with short stories. Her latest novel releases on June 30, 2016. Be sure to check it out on Amazon.

Join us this week on Blondie and the Brit as we delve into a comedic mystery adventure with a culinary flair. Author Ellie Alexander leads us through her unique process of creating The Bakeshop Mysteries series that includes not only writing the story but creating the menu as a layer of the plot, Learn how she cultivates a unique book launch with elements of the story while bringing the community into the mix. Ellie shares some really clever book promoting ideas and a great antidote of how she once stood in for famed writer Lee Childs.