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Episode 109B – David Kelly – Book Covers and Trailers
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6TjGlFPpLmLlX6PPchE0F-nOySGlQUI
Overview
David is unique among authors in that he not only has book trailers, but he creates them himself. We discuss how to do this and problems you need to be aware of.
YouTube
https://youtu.be/GPx9ENlBaq8
Transcript
[00:00:49] Stephen: authors. This episode is usually meant for you. It's not about the book. It's about writing an author stuff. So. I don't usually say too much before these episodes, [00:01:00] but I wanted to let everybody listening. Know if you haven't heard about the career author life summit. I apologize. The name has changed several times and I think things are changing.
Um, but it's run by J thorn and Zach Bohannan. There's a lot of great guests coming, uh, including mark Leslie Lefebvre, who, if you're an author, you probably recognize the name, uh, along with several other great. Uh, people doing talks and some great sessions. Uh, I went to their summit last year and it was absolutely the best one I've been to.
And the minute they tickets were available, I snatched one up and I just went. People who listen to this podcast, know if you're interested, go get tickets because there aren't a lot it's being kept small. It's not one of those conferences where there's a thousand people. This is going to be like 40 or 50 people.
You can talk to everybody, get to know everyone. It's much more [00:02:00] intimate and still big name, uh, speakers with lots of good things to say. So I will put links in the show notes. Uh, so please. Yeah, stop the, the pause, the podcast, go check it out and definitely, uh, sign up. It's going to be well worth it. Trust me.
All right, so let's talk some author stuff and, uh, we've got a great topic for people today. Um, uh, before we get to that, uh, let me ask you a couple of other questions. Uh, so you've written. Uh, like five books you're working on a six one. What are you doing different now than you did clear at the beginning when you started writing?
[00:02:43] David: Oh, everything. Um, my, my process of writing a book is actually constantly evolving. It's it's changed that we do every book I've written so far. [00:03:00] One of the things that took me a long time during the stands and the very early days was that, um, editing is actually critical to the process. I kind of like always had this bizarre idea that people just were books.
And once they finished writing them, that was, it was done, you know, and I couldn't do it. I, you know, I did, when I tried to do that, I wrote books, but they, but terrible at the end. And it like took me kind of like a while to understand that the reason why, you know, books are as good as they are, is because there's a lot of work after the initial waiting.
Um, and so I kind of got to a point where I now have a kind of love, hate relationship with. Yeah. It's like, I understand it's vital. I don't like doing it particularly, but I know that I need to. [00:04:00] Um, other than that, um, I'm constantly examining the process of how I go about writing the books, the stages that I go through from beginning with manuscript, to them working through and refining it until I've got the finished article.
[00:04:22] : And, uh, each
[00:04:25] David: time I do want, it gets kind of more streamlined, but each time I do want to also get more details because, you know, you kind of constantly looking to improve, right.
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6TjGlFPpLmLlX6PPchE0F-nOySGlQUI
Overview
David is unique among authors in that he not only has book trailers, but he creates them himself. We discuss how to do this and problems you need to be aware of.
YouTube
https://youtu.be/GPx9ENlBaq8
Transcript
[00:00:49] Stephen: authors. This episode is usually meant for you. It's not about the book. It's about writing an author stuff. So. I don't usually say too much before these episodes, [00:01:00] but I wanted to let everybody listening. Know if you haven't heard about the career author life summit. I apologize. The name has changed several times and I think things are changing.
Um, but it's run by J thorn and Zach Bohannan. There's a lot of great guests coming, uh, including mark Leslie Lefebvre, who, if you're an author, you probably recognize the name, uh, along with several other great. Uh, people doing talks and some great sessions. Uh, I went to their summit last year and it was absolutely the best one I've been to.
And the minute they tickets were available, I snatched one up and I just went. People who listen to this podcast, know if you're interested, go get tickets because there aren't a lot it's being kept small. It's not one of those conferences where there's a thousand people. This is going to be like 40 or 50 people.
You can talk to everybody, get to know everyone. It's much more [00:02:00] intimate and still big name, uh, speakers with lots of good things to say. So I will put links in the show notes. Uh, so please. Yeah, stop the, the pause, the podcast, go check it out and definitely, uh, sign up. It's going to be well worth it. Trust me.
All right, so let's talk some author stuff and, uh, we've got a great topic for people today. Um, uh, before we get to that, uh, let me ask you a couple of other questions. Uh, so you've written. Uh, like five books you're working on a six one. What are you doing different now than you did clear at the beginning when you started writing?
[00:02:43] David: Oh, everything. Um, my, my process of writing a book is actually constantly evolving. It's it's changed that we do every book I've written so far. [00:03:00] One of the things that took me a long time during the stands and the very early days was that, um, editing is actually critical to the process. I kind of like always had this bizarre idea that people just were books.
And once they finished writing them, that was, it was done, you know, and I couldn't do it. I, you know, I did, when I tried to do that, I wrote books, but they, but terrible at the end. And it like took me kind of like a while to understand that the reason why, you know, books are as good as they are, is because there's a lot of work after the initial waiting.
Um, and so I kind of got to a point where I now have a kind of love, hate relationship with. Yeah. It's like, I understand it's vital. I don't like doing it particularly, but I know that I need to. [00:04:00] Um, other than that, um, I'm constantly examining the process of how I go about writing the books, the stages that I go through from beginning with manuscript, to them working through and refining it until I've got the finished article.
[00:04:22] : And, uh, each
[00:04:25] David: time I do want, it gets kind of more streamlined, but each time I do want to also get more details because, you know, you kind of constantly looking to improve, right.