Self-Publishing Roundtable

Self-Publishing Roundtable episodes:

• 12.15.2016

  LAST EPISODE – So long and thanks for all the listens!

  Thank you to all of our listeners, viewers and guests. You have made this podcast truly memorable. We hope you learned something from SPRT and enjoyed yourself along the way. We certainly did!   Three podcasts shall rise from SPRT’s...

  
• 12.08.2016

  SPRT #172 – Writing Fiction with Bob Mayer

  Bob Mayer is a former Green Beret and traditionally published author turned indie. He has a long backlist (and frontlist) that includes military fiction, military science fiction and historical as well as a handful of collaborations with popular romantic comedy...

  
• 12.06.2016

  SPRT #171 – Pearl Harbor and More: Stories of WWII-December 1941

  On December 7th 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes carried out a devastating surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and changed the face of World War II. Last month eight authors published the anthology: Pearl...

  
• 11.29.2016

  SPRT #170 – Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 1 December 2016

  Everyone’s favourite Romance author, Zoe York joined us on the News Roundtable Roundup to discuss: - Didn't Amazon do well this Thanksgiving? - Facebook has been exaggerating the truth... - Barnes & Noble still exists and they're trying really hard! - Vulnerability to WordPress...

  
• 11.15.2016

  SPRT #169 – Writing Amidst the Apocalypse

  Unfortunately Bob Mayer was unable to make it this week but we will be rescheduling with him. In the meantime... The US election results are in, and just in time for NaNoWriMo! Join us as we talk about how we’re dealing...

  
• 11.09.2016

  SPRT #168 – How to write clean and wholesome romance with Susan C Daffron

  Earlier in the year Amazon created a new romance category called: Clean and Wholesome. This was great news for authors of fade-to-black romances as Inspirational Romance was not working for them and they were being overwhelmed in Contemporary Romance genres....

  
• 11.01.2016

  SPRT #167 – Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 3 November 2016

  Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our monthly podcast (first Thursday of the month) where we invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the previous month's news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry. This week Zoe...

  
• 10.26.2016

  SPRT #166 – You have been scammed!

  Did that headline catch your attention? Good, that was the plan. No, you haven't been scammed but a lot of authors have. This episode we talked about a devious way for how an author, such as yourself, can be scammed....

  
• 10.18.2016

  SPRT #165 – How to write good crime fiction with Rosanne Dingli

  Crime fiction is not merely about crimes and their detection, or criminals and their motives. This genre is about readers’ fascination with human wrong-doing, what causes it, and how it is solved. Readers are beguiled by criminal intent and the...

  
• 10.12.2016

  SPRT #164 – Launching a series with Lindsay Buroker

  In October 2014 Lindsay Buroker dipped her toe into science fiction romance under the pen name Ruby Lionsdrake before returning to her name to publish an eight novel science fiction series. So far she has an impressive 10 series under...

  
• 10.04.2016

  SPRT #163 – Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 6 October 2016

  Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our monthly podcast (first Thursday of the month) where we invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the previous month's news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry. We were joined...

  
• 09.28.2016

  SPRT #162 – Absurdist fiction, YouTube and teaching future writers with Jessica McHugh

  Jessica McHugh isn't just an author of speculative, absurdist and young adult fiction. She's a huge personality who gives of herself online, especially on her YouTube channel the McHughniverse as well as teaching children how to write fiction. Jessica's hair...

  
• 09.23.2016

  SPRT Mini #001 – World building, character creation and a bit of business with sci-fi webcomic creator Dave Kellett

  Bonus half-hour episode! Audio available for download or watch on youtube :D You don't have to be a fan of Dave or his comics to appreciate this special mini episode. He is a font of information that will benefit any writer.

  
• 09.20.2016

  SPRT #161 – Forming Good Habits and Banishing Negative thoughts as a Writer

  Steve Scott and Barrie Davenport from the Authority Self-Publishing podcast join us this week to help us form good habits and banish those pesky and soul-destroying negative thoughts that we sometimes–often–have as writers. We hope that they can teach us...

  
• 09.14.2016

  SPRT #160 – Let’s talk Superheroes with author Lucas Flint

  Audio available for download or watch on youtube :D Lucas Flint does not exist. Well, not really. He's the pen name of author Timothy L. Cerepaka. By day Timothy writes fantasy novels but at night his alter-ego writes and publishes Young...

  
• 09.06.2016

  SPRT #159 – Justin Sloan: video game writer, novelist and screenwriter

  Audio available for download or watch on youtube :D Justin Sloan's writing credits are a little eclectic. He's written video games including Game of Thrones and Minecraft. He also writes children's fantasy and supernatural stories as well as military fantasy. Then...

  
• 09.01.2016

  SPRT #158 – Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 1 September 2016

  Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our monthly podcast (first Thursday of the month) where we invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the previous month's news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry. Romance author Zoe...

  
• 08.24.2016

  SPRT #157 – Jasmine Walt did it! Her Multi-Author Boxed set made the USAT and NYT Lists and here’s how…

  Audio available for download or watch on youtube ? It was 30th June when we last talked with New Adult and Fantasy author Jasmine Walt. She told us she was gunning for both the New York Times and the USA Today's...

  
• 08.15.2016

  SPRT #156 – From trucker to bestselling novelist in two years – Wayne Stinnett

  Audio available for download or watch on youtube :) Once upon a time a hard-working trucker picked up a pen and started his writing journey. That trucker was Wayne Stinnett and now two years later, he's become a bestselling author of...

  
• 08.09.2016

  SPRT #155 – Let’s talk about writing gay romance with Rosa Swann

  Audio available for download or watch on youtube ? Everyone knows that romance is the most popular genre. What some might not realise is that gay romance has quite a fanatical audience as well. How fanatical? Well, we decided to find...

  
• 08.04.2016

  SPRT #154 – Impromptu roundtable of indie publishing stuff

  Unfortunately due to technical difficulties and link confusion our guest was unable to join us this week. Instead the SPRT gang covered beautifully by having a discussion about indie publishing stuff. Our apologies for not having the expected guest but huge...

  
• 07.28.2016

  SPRT #153 – Romance Writers of America Conference 2016 with Zoe York

  Audio available for download or watch on youtube ? Every year the Romance Writers of America hold a big national conference. Romance writers of all flavours flock to the conference to mingle with their peers, participate in workshops, listen to speakers...

  
• 07.21.2016

  SPRT #152 – Tough Guy Urban Fantasy with Domino Finn

  Probably the most well-known male Urban Fantasy hero is Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden–an unwilling hero in a contemporary urban setting with a lot of supernatural elements. Think John McClane (from Die Hard) but wielding magical powers instead of a conventional...

  
• 07.18.2016

  Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 17 July 2016

  Robert Chazz Chute, Chrishaun Keller-Hanna and Erica Conroy to discuss the below topics: - Data Guy presents insane Romance data at the RWA conference - Canadian author committed to the traditional route makes Robert sad :( - Harlequin's reading app could be a...

  
• 07.12.2016

  SPRT #151 – The Miracle Morning for Writers with Hal Elrod, Steve Scott and Honorée Corder

  Remember when we interviewed Honorée Corder? Well she's coming back and this time she's bringing Hal Elrod and Steve Scott with her. Together they'll be talking to us about their recently released non fiction book, The Miracle Morning for Writers:...

  
• 06.30.2016

  SPRT #150 – New Adult Fantasy with Jasmine Walt

  Audio available for download or watch on youtube :) New Adult is a genre that only emerged within the last few years. It's a genre where the protagonists and targeted audience are college-aged and, like Young Adult, is being crossed with...

  
• 06.23.2016

  SPRT #149 – Super popular romance author Chance Carter reveals all!

  Audio available as well as Youtube recording. We were surprised at how much of an introvert our guest was. He's very down to earth, with a practical and motivated mind when it comes to making money in publishing. There's no doubt that...

  
• 06.20.2016

  Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 19 June 2016

  Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our fortnightly podcast where we invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry. Author Zoe York returned! She joined Robert Chazz Chute,...

  
• 06.17.2016

  SPRT #148 – Demelza Carlton’s Rock Star Mailing List Strategy

  Audio available! Australian author Demelza Carlton joined us to talk about building her mailing list from very low to over 15,000 in just six months! We asked her to share with us exactly how she did it, how much it cost...

  
• 06.09.2016

  SPRT #147 – JuNoWriMo with Becca J. Campbell

  We interviewed the founder of JuNoWriMo, Becca J. Campbell and learned how the challenge started, the effort that goes into running an event of this scale, about her own writing and a lot of other interesting things along the way. JuNoWriMo...

  
• 06.03.2016

  SPRT #146 – Sci-fi author TS Paul talks about his success selling short fiction

  TS Paul published his first eBook mid-February of this year. It was the first in his Athena Lee Chronicles, a short form sci-fi serial, which he followed up with a second book just two weeks later. Since then he has...

  
• 05.30.2016

  Fortnightly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 29 May 2016

  Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our fortnightly podcast where we invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry. Author Zoe York returned! She joined Chrishuan Keller Hanna...

  
• 05.27.2016

  SPRT #145 – Prepping for the apocalypse with author Boyd Craven

  Boyd Craven has penned over 20 books over the last two years, only recently deciding to take the plunge into publishing. His "The World Burns" Series has hit the top 10 in the Dystopian Genre in the USA, the UK,...

  
• 05.20.2016

  SPRT #144 – 20 Books to 50k: an interview with author Michael Anderle

  Michael Anderle is the author of the Kurtherian Gambit series. His first book, Death Becomes Her, was released in November 2015 and the series has so far sold a little under 20,000 books and has 9.5 Million KENPC read in...

  
• 05.16.2016

  Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 15 May 2016

  Author Zoe York returned! She joined Chrishuan Keller Hanna and Erica Conroy to discuss the below topics: - Amazon Marketing Services for all! - Computer algorithms picking books for publishing - Booktrope closes its doors - Goodreads introduces Kindle giveaway program

  
• 05.13.2016

  SPRT #143 – Interview with prolific author Amanda M. Lee

  Amanda M. Lee recently bought and moved into a four bedroom house, which she paid for with her writing. This prolific Amazon bestselling author currently has five series—with a sixth on the way—30 novels, 7 novellas, 8 bundles, 33 paperbacks,...

  
• 05.06.2016

  SPRT #142 – What is Draft2Digital and what can it do for you?

  There are more places to publish than just at Amazon. Draft2Digital is one of the ways you can get your ebook out into the world. What is Draft2Digital? Well, think Smashwords but with a pretty website and no meatgrinder. They're...

  
• 04.29.2016

  SPRT #141 – 21 day challenge and marketing the result with Chris Fox

  Author Chris Fox returned again, this time to talk about his 21 Day Book Challenge. He decided to write to market in Science Fiction, nutted out the plot, wrote the book, had it edited and published all within 21 days....

  
• 04.27.2016

  Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 24 April 2016

  Author Cate Morgan joined Chrishuan Keller Hanna and Robert Chazz Chute to discuss the below topics: - Do Presales work for New Authors? - The Ripped Bodice - Amazon recruiting publishing companies for Kindle Unlimited - Smashword’s Annual Survey

  
• 04.22.2016

  SPRT #140 – Erotica, erotic romance fiction and sexy business with Selena Kitt

  We thought we'd add a little spice to the podcast this week by inviting bestselling and award-winning author of erotica and erotic romance, Selena Kitt. Not only does this lovely lady have a successful career writing about the pleasures of...

  
• 04.19.2016

  Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 17 April 2016

  Author Michael Anderle joined Chrishuan Keller Hanna to discuss the below topics: - Gaming the ebook?! - Follow up on one the Amazon plagiarism story from last week - New KOBO Author Services

  
• 04.15.2016

  SPRT #139 – State of Self-Publishing Roundtable address

  Because no one wanted to be on the show this week we thought we'd go crazy drunk on air! But none of us wanted to do that so we got together and decided we'd discuss the state of SPRT, the...

  
• 04.11.2016

  Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 10 April 2016

  Author Jim Johnson joined Chrishuan Keller, X and Erica to discuss the below topics: - Oh B&N; you've done it again... - New paying platform for internet content publishers - Is the Facebook ads 20% text rule on the way out? - Audible is...

  
• 04.08.2016

  SPRT #138 – Reviving a book series after ten years with Libby Hellmann

  Some of us take awhile to write the next book in the series but for crime novelist Libby Hellmann it was ten year between book four and five in her Ellie Foreman Mystery series. It's not as simple as just...

  
• 04.04.2016

  Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 3 April 2016

  Science Fiction author Jamie Dodge joined Erica today to discuss the below topics: - Author should tear this plagiarist to shreds - When original content creators feel sorry for the plagiarist - James Patterson presents... - Today an AI writes a novel, tomorrow... the...

  
• 04.01.2016

  SPRT #137 – Pulp Speed: How to write it, maintain it and achieve warp 10 with Jim Johnson and Ivy Sinclair

  Pulp Speed isn't a new concept but the name might well be. It was coined by Dean Wesley Smith and essentially means: sitting down and writing lots of words and stories. Also known as putting your arse in the chair...

  
• 03.25.2016

  SPRT #136 – Downsizing your life to write and travel and providing writer services with Kevin Tumlinson

  Kevin Tumlinson is at a point in his life where he doesn't need a house. Instead he and his wife are downsizing everything to live the life of gypsies--travelling around in an RV while Kevin writes his books. Not only...

  
• 03.22.2016

  Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 20 March 2016

  Romance author Trish McCallan joined Erica and Robert Chute Chazz to discuss the below topics: - Revisiting Kindle Reselling Ebooks - Audible hopes to go viral - B&N; makes an attempt... - CNET is publishing short fiction - Dollar Photo to close

  
• 03.14.2016

  Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 13 March 2016

  Chrishaun Keller played host today because Blab hated Erica for some strange reason! She was joined by Cate Morgan and D. R. Yurkas to discuss the below topics: - Amazon aims for scammers but smacks innocent authors too! - Apple is denied! -...

  
• 03.11.2016

  SPRT #134 – Earn a living with a long term plan + running multi-author cross promos with Patty Jansen

  In a perfect world every author would have at least one best-seller... This week we talked with Patty Jansen, a sci fi and fantasy author who knows this isn't a perfect world and has planned accordingly. We discussed the three...