This week Kevin and I have the pleasure to chat with Sarah Juckes of CompletelyNovel.com, specifically about self-publishing as an indie author, how to do it, what it means, and a "completely novel" way to do it (see what I did there?).

Generating book ideas... how we do it (not that YOU should do it this way too)...

Very important episode today, based on this question:

What are you doing to secure your author future in international markets?

Outsourcing.

What is it? Basically, getting someone else to do work for you. What kind of work?

That's the question. In this episode, Kevin and I chat about outsourcing as an author, what we outsource, what we want to outsource, and, of course, tangents.

Merry Christmas episode! Today Kevin and I talk about these "Must-Haves" for writers. For you or the writer in your life, these tools and toys are just what you want to see under the tree!

Voicemails! Two today.

This week, Kevin and I chat about goals: how to set them, how "granular" they need to be, and why they're important to us as writers/entrepreneurs. Also, we chat about the difference between "dreams" and "goals," and why I think they're crucial to my long-term success plan.

Kevin and Jonny steal the airwaves from me (Nick) today, since I was held up with frozen pipes. Kevin and Jonny do an interview-style episode.

We're talking today about the second type of "systems" in an author business: the business side of things, including marketing and growing a mailing list. We started to get into a few things and quickly realized that this topic is WAY bigger than we initially thought. For that reason, we decided to end it by inviting you to call our voicemail line and ask a more specific question: 978-48-ASK-ME. Scrivener - Mac Scrivener - Windows The Lucid - Episode One (now live!) The Wake-Up Call: What It Means to Be A Self-Published Writer How to use Twitter Ask us a question: 978-48-ASK-ME. We'll air it on the show! Also, leave a review on iTunes!

In this episode on systems, Kevin and I discuss "systems" we use for writing fiction. We'll get into systems for the business side of things in a later episode, but in today's, here's what we discuss: NaNoWriMo Scrivener Learn Scrivener Fast Writing 10k Words A Day Nick's 3 Hacks for Writing A Whole Bunch-A-Lot: Plan! Leave on a cliffhanger Set a writing schedule Don't forget to rate the show on iTunes!