Self Publishing Journeys

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors Paul's Podcast Diary Feature

1) My planning board for Quarter 2 (April – June):

2) The Facebook page for this podcast: https://www.facebook.com/SelfPublishingJourneys/

3) My Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/PaulTeague

4) Self-Publishing Academy on Teachable: http://self-publishing-academy.teachable.com/p/self-publishing-academy/

5) How To Use Vellum On A PC on Teachable: http://self-publishing-academy.teachable.com/p/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc/

Jackson Dean Chase is a Pacific Northwest author and poet who specializes in “Bold Visions of Dark Places.”

Jackson loves science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but it wasn’t until he combined them with pulp thrillers and noir that he felt that he'd really found his voice as an author.

He aims to leave his fiction readers breathless but ALSO writes non-fiction 'how-to' books for authors giving useful advice on specific elements of writing technique.

As an author with over 30 books to his name, Jackson has tried a lot of different strategies on the path to his indie author breakthrough.

Episode 64, release date Monday 22nd May, 2017

1) Jackson's author website: http://www.jacksondeanchase.com/

2) Jackson's Goodreads profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13450002.Jackson_Dean_Chase

3) Jackson's Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Jackson-Dean-Chase/e/B00T4BOAGQ

5) Follow Jackson on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jacksondeanchaseauthor/

6) Follow Jackson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackson_d_chase

Talking Points

1) The YAAA Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/YAauthoralliance/

2) Jackson's Tumblr account: http://jacksondeanchase.tumblr.com/

3) Jackson's Wattpad account: https://www.wattpad.com/story/17951564-forever-dark-book-1-of-the-forever-dark-series

4) Book Report for viewing your Amazon sales: https://www.getbookreport.com/

5) InstaFreebie for growing your author mailing list: https://self-publishing-journeys.com/IF [My affiliate link]

6) Mailchimp, email marketing software: https://mailchimp.com/

7) ConvertKit, email marketing software: https://convertkit.com/

8) 20BooksTo50k Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/781495321956934/

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors Paul's Podcast Diary Feature

1) ManyBooks promo site ... over 350 downloads for $29: http://manybooks.net/promote

2) Self-Publishing Academy on Teachable: http://self-publishing-academy.teachable.com/p/self-publishing-academy

How To Use Vellum On A PC on Teachable: http://self-publishing-academy.teachable.com/p/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc

3) Leave a podcast review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/self-publishing-journeys/id1086207483

4) The Society of Authors: http://www.societyofauthors.org/

Ruth Sutton's first novel ‘A Good Liar’ was published in 2012 and two further books that formed the Jessie Whelan trilogy followed in successive years – Forgiven (2013) and ‘Fallout’ (2014)

In 2015 Ruth turned her hand to crime fiction in ‘Cruel Tide’, which was shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year.

The sequel ‘Fatal Reckoning’ came out in 2016.

As a self-published author, Ruth is constantly trying new things – she's just launched a crowd-funding campaign, recently recorded her own audiobook and has signed two books with Fahrenheit Press which is marketing her writing to a much broader audience.

Find Out More:

Website: https://www.ruthsutton.co.uk/

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ruth-Sutton/e/B001JS1A60

Blog: https://ruthwords.wordpress.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruthsutton

Interview Talking Points:

1) Fahrenheit Press books: http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/

2) Unbound Publishing: https://unbound.com/

Ruth's crowd-funding page: https://unbound.com/books/burning-secret

Ruth's blog post on her crowd-funding experiences: https://ruthwords.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/almost-there/

3) The Music Farm studio at Egremont: http://www.themusicfarm.co.uk/index.htm

Ruth's blog post on her audiobook recording: https://ruthwords.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/recording-an-audio-book-lessons-learned/

4) Ruth's blog post on writing explicit sex scenes in her books: https://ruthwords.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/explicit-sex-in-the-novel-too-much-information/

5) Ruth's blog post on using an agent: https://ruthwords.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/im-asking-again-do-i-need-an-agent/

1) Last week's writing progress - this is Saturday and Sunday's writing:

2) Mailchimp 1st automated email 'how-to' video: https://youtu.be/4NXjlTfiYuI

3) My meagre Google Play sales:

4) What Makes a $100k Author: 8 Findings Every Author Should Know

Blog post: https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/2017/06/07/100k-author/

ALLi video presentation: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/indie-author-fringe-june-2017-agenda/

5) My Instafreebie Leads Explosion presentation: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/instafreebie-explosion-how-to-add-thousands-of-targeted-readers-to-your-email-list-paul-teague/

Before writing books, Sarah Painter worked as a freelance magazine journalist, blogger and editor.

Sarah writes contemporary fiction with a touch of magic and her debut novel, The Language of Spells, became a Kindle bestseller.

She presents the Worried Writer podcast, has just self-published her first non-fiction book – Stop Worrying; Start Writing – and recently signed a new book deal with Lake Union.

In spite of all of those achievements, Sarah is a self-proclaimed worrier and procrastinator.

Find out more:

1) Sarah's Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sarah-Painter/e/B00CWYQ25E/

2) Sarah's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sarahpainterbooks/

3) Sarah's blog site: http://www.sarah-painter.com/

4) Sarah's podcast – HIGHLY recommended! http://www.worriedwriter.com/podcasts/

5) My Journey to Publication by Sarah Pianter http://www.carinauk.com/my-journey-to-publication-by-sarah-painter

6) Sarah's Goodreads author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7093560.Sarah_Painter

Talking Points:

1) Sarah's InstaFreebie page: https://www.instafreebie.com/author/SarahPainter

2) Sarah referred to a TED talk by Brené Brown called The power of vulnerability.

You can see the video at: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

Sarah also referred to Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Big Magic: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/

3) Digital book publisher Carina: http://www.carinauk.com/

4) Sarah now published with Lake Union, an Amazon Imprint: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003018741

5) This is the link for the laptop stand that Sarah was describing – it's not the exact model, but this is very similar:
https://uk.backpainhelp.com/posture-stand.html

6) Fancy a garden office? This is where Sarah writes: http://www.boothsgardenstudios.co.uk/

7) Amazon ACX for audiobooks: http://www.acx.com/

8) Rocking Self-Publishing podcast: 

1) This week's writing progress – 5161 words on Friday, another 5k to come on Saturday:

2) I forgot to mention that Don't Tell Meg had been longlisted for the Retreat West First Chapter Competition – more info at http://www.retreatwest.co.uk/

3) The ALLi Author Fringe event running all day on June 3rd: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/indie-author-fringe-newcomers-read-this-first/

4) My How To Use Vellum On A PC …

My original blog post: https://paulteague.com/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc/

My Teachable course: http://self-publishing-academy.teachable.com/p/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc/

View the course as it's sold on Clickbank: https://use-vellum-on-a-pc.com/ [At the time of publishing, still needs work!]

5) My WordPress Unboxed book on Amazon: https://books2read.com/WP

6) I've just moved over to MailerLite for email marketing: https://self-publishing-journeys.com/ML

7) Here's my affiliate link for InstaFreebie – this is a great way to build a mailing list! https://self-publishing-journeys.com/IF

8) My book numbers from the past month – firstly income from my new crime books:

My overall sales and numbers:

This Week’s Self-Publishing News

The Alliance of Independent Authors news update: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-indie-breaktrough/

Robert Scott-Norton writes high-octane sci-fi thrillers and is the creator of The Tombs Legacy, a universe of fiction.

A lifelong fan of Stephen King and Doctor Who, it was perhaps inevitable that his work would sit somewhere between horror and sci-fi.

Robert’s books all take place in this same story universe – The Tombs Legacy.

His debut sci-fi novel, The Face Stealer, is the first book in a series and sets up this fictional universe.

A second series, set in the future, looks at Southport one hundred years from now as repercussions from The Face Stealer start to be felt.

Find out more:

Robert's books on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Scott-Norton/e/B00GGH0GUU

Follow Robert on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7210319.Robert_Scott_Norton

Follow Robert on Twitter https://twitter.com/robscottnorton

Robert's LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertscottnorton/

Robert's InstaFreebie author page https://www.instafreebie.com/discover/author/3813/robert_scottnorton

Talking points:

1) Terrance Dicks, Dr Who writer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks

2) NaNoWriMo (highly recommended!) http://nanowrimo.org/

3) Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing by Dean Wesley Smith http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-sacred-cows-of-publishing/

4) The Creative Penn podcast (highly recommended!) http://www.thecreativepenn.com/

5) Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/

The Smashwords style guide https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52

6) Draft2Digital https://www.draft2digital.com/

Books2Read booking linking service https://books2read.com/

7) Scrivener https://paulteague.com/scrivener [My affiliate link]

8) Chris Fox's 5000 Words Per Hour here [Affiliate link]

9) A Week in The Life of an Indie Author http://robertscottnorton.net/writing/a-week-in-the-life-of-an-indie-author/

10) Time management techniques:

David Allen's Getting Things Done http://gettingthingsdone.com/

Zen Habits https://zenhabits.net/

11) Nick Stephenson's Reader Magnets http://

1) This week's writing progress:

2) Appearing at Amazon Academy in Edinburgh, representing The Alliance of Independent Authors:

3) I did a bit of author research this week! One of the characters in my Don't Tell Meg trilogy is a clairvoyant, Steven Terry.

He's only a minor character, but I like writing him, so I wanted to dig a little deeper!

4) I'm hoping to hit two targets by May 31st.

My first target was to achieve 100k page reads this month - this target has been hit:

I am also hoping to break $1000 in book earnings this month - and become a 4-figure author at long last.

Finally, I'm hoping to hit my highest number of podcast downloads in one month by the end of May - I'd like to hit the 3000 downloads mark if I can.

5) My guest blog post for Ingram Spark: http://www.ingramspark.com/blog/email-marketing-for-authors

6) My first author booking for March 2018 is for the Crime & Publishment event: https://www.facebook.com/CrimePublishment/

7) New Writing North: http://newwritingnorth.com/

1) This week's writing progress - this was Saturday's effort:

This was Friday's tally:

2) Having spent the previous weekend pulling out all the stops to get Don't Tell Meg to number 1 in the UK, Dead of Night just got there of its own accord with zero promos from me - I was just using up my remaining promo days :-)

3) I recorded my Instafreebie Leads Explosion video for the next ALLi Author Fringe event which is taking place on Saturday 3rd June: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/will-you-help-us-spread-the-word-about-indieauthorfringe/

4) My Facebook non-fiction book, newly republished! https://books2read.com/FB

5) The membership criteria for the Society of Authors: http://www.societyofauthors.org/Join/Eligibility

6) Mark Dawson's interview in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/15/self-published-authors-hollywood-andy-weir-the-martian-el-james (Read the comments!)

7) This was the Instafreebie blog promo that they ran this week: http://blog.instafreebie.com/see-it-first-paul-teague-kellie-mcallen-nj-lindquist/

These were the leads that I'd added when I took my Friday afternoon screenshot:

9) Reminder! Amazon Academy event in Edinburgh on 23rd May http://selfpublishingadvice.org/amazon-academy/

10) Reminder! ALLi Indie Author Fringe event on June 3rd http://selfpublishingadvice.org/6-weeks-until-bookexpo-indie-author-fringe-2017-are-you-ready-to-sell-more-books/