Boo! 👻 Welcome back to the TOO MUCH SOCIAL podcast! 👻 In this Halloween mini-series - 😱 SCREAM-SHOT (yes, I went there) - we’re exorcising the biggest fears that haunt writers and authors when it comes to book marketing and audience growth 🎃

In this three-part mini-series I’m talking to experts who’ll help you face down your biggest book marketing fears and slay those audience-growing nightmares 🎃

Episode 1 - this one! - will address the fear of never having enough time to do an effective job of your book marketing alongside everything else you do, with Productivity Expert - the parent and neurodivergent-friendly kind - Amanda Appiagyei.

BEFORE WE GET INTO IT THOUGH, I MUST tell you about a ✨new✨ gentle productivity tool Amanda has created that I recommend trying if you find prioritising tasks, demand avoidance, decision-making, or transitioning between tasks a challenge when you’re trying to tackle your to do list.

Amanda let me have a play with STOP THE SPIRAL before she released it into the world last week and I was genuinely blown away by how effectively it disrupted my demand avoidance and eased me through the transitions I usually find so sticky. Sign up with your email to get the tool for free!

Today’s guest is Amanda Appiagyei, a Productivity Coach for parents.

Now, before you all run screaming for the hills at the first sniff of the word ‘productivity’, I promise you Amanda’s approach is something different.

She want to show parents - and other busy people - how we can manage our time better, without 5am alarms, hustle culture or toxic productivity.

One of the main fears writers and authors hold about book marketing and audience building is how much time is it going to take up? And how am I going to fit it into my already bursting day?

So, in this episode, Amanda talks us through how we might do the things we have to do, faster, so there’s more time to do the things we want to do, with the very important caveat that it’s not about doing more, it’s about doing what matters. I hope you find this episode as enlightening and encouraging as I did.

HUGE thanks to Amanda for her time and expertise. If you’d like to find out more about Amanda’s work, you can find her Time Buckets method here, her Instagram here, and her website here.

And don’t forget to sign up to try her new, transformational, to-do tool - STOP THE SPIRAL - for FREE!

This podcast is my way of supporting writers and authors during some of the busiest times of the year for many of us: the school holidays! You can find the summer holidays series here for more episodes.

But, if you’re fed up of shouting into the void, and would like to make more effective use of Instagram for your book marketing and audience building outside the school holidays, TOO MUCH INSTAGRAM is my membership where I offer writers and authors simple, easy to implement, but effective, Instagram tools, tips and ideas.

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More 😱SCREAM-SHOT😱 episodes coming this week

Episode 2 - Wednesday - is all about preparing you for pitching to and guesting on podcasts so you can worry less about rejection, or making a fool of yourself, and really reap the rewards of this route to your readers, with Producer, Presenter and Writer, Hannah Loy

And, in episode 3, released on Friday, I’ll be joined by confidence maven, Lauren Currie who has embraced vulnerability and made a feature of it in the launch and promotion of her new children’s book, Taylor Meets The Trick.

I am SO proud of these episodes - mostly because these guests are epic and offer so much of their wisdom for you to take away with you. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and, if you like what you hear, I’d love you to share it with your network, or leave a review so other people can find me 🙏🏻

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