This is Episode 14 of Write with Love.

Today we head back to New Zealand and chat to Cheryl Phipps, USA Today Bestselling author. From wealthy Alpha heros to boy next door romance Cheryl writes contemporary stories to fit everyone’s taste. She has even put her hand to a non-fiction collaboration with her fellow SPA Girls podcast co-hosts and has recently released a womens fiction novel.

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Transcript:

Sarah Williams:            Welcome to Write with Love. I’m Sarah Williams, best-selling author, speaker, and creative entrepreneur. Each week I chat to passionate and inspiring authors about their journey in creative writing. Some are traditionally published. Some do it themselves. Everyone’s journey is different and everyone has something interesting to say. We all love love and love what we do. Today’s show is brought to you by our amazing fans and supporters on Patreon. If you’d like to help support the show and get some awesome bonus episodes, go to Patreon.com/sarahwilliamsauthor to learn more. Now, here’s today’s show.

Sarah Williams:            G’day. I’m Sarah Williams, romance author and independent publisher and Serenade Publishing. Today, I’m talking to another very successful New Zealand ND author. Welcome to the show, Cheryl Phipps.

Cheryl Phipps:              Thank you, Sarah. Thank you so much for having me.

Sarah Williams:            I’m so glad you could join us today. Could you start off and just tell us a little about your author journey so far?

Cheryl Phipps:              I actually self-published my very first book in 2014. Oddly enough, it was a romantic suspense, which I don’t write. The rest of my … I’ve published 18 romances and one non-fiction book so far with my fellow SPA Girls, which we might talk about a bit later. I’d actually been doing more Billionaire, Millionaire stories and a bit of chick lit. I have diversified and I don’t really know whether that’s a good thing for me to promote newbie authors. It’s certainly a harder road to try and generate marketing for different genres.

Cheryl Phipps:              Prior to that, I was working in a very well paid job. The idea of giving up the money that I was getting to venture into the author’s world in 2014, it just wasn’t doable. I actually only became a full time writer last May. I had a lot on last year. It was very nerveracking to do it, but the sense of relief that I got was just so amazing. It was what I wanted to do. It was where I wanted to be. Thank goodness, I have a wonderfully supportive husband and family. It became not so much doable. It just became a necessity. I wanted to publish more last year, but, like I said, I didn’t start the being fully self-published until May.

Cheryl Phipps:              I did get out about five novellas. The first one was entered into a box set with a group of women mainly in America. It became a New York Times best seller. Sorry. Sorry, that’s wrong. It wasn’t that. It was … What am I thinking of? USA Today.

Sarah Williams:            Yeah, USA Today.

Cheryl Phipps:              USA Today best seller. There was 22 of us. We worked our butt off for the marketing and we were rewarded. We had pre-orders up for quite some time. That was just … It was rarely special. You get to put that on your other books. It certainly helps with getting your name out there. It sort of felt like, not that I could sit back, but now I could just relax.