We had a lot of listener questions that we didn’t get to in the first Selling Hard-to-Categorize Books That Aren’t Written to Market show, so we’re back for part 2, and it’s all about answering…

Our guest this week is publishing consultant and author Jane Friedman. With twenty years of experience in the publishing industry, she has expertise in digital media strategies for authors and publishers. She’s the co-founder and…

Very few authors think of writing “to market” or “to trope” with their first book/series. They’re just writing what they love! Sometimes, that ends up being popular with readers, but sometimes you end up with…

On this week’s show, we talked about the Gartner Hype Cycle as a framework to think about where we are with ebooks, audiobooks, and the up-and-coming technologies that may become useful (or even necessary) for…

It’s a “just-us” episode today, with Jo, Andrea, and Lindsay answering listener questions. We ran out of time and didn’t get to the leftover protagonist-craft questions that we teased in the intro (whoops), but we…

Our guest this week is Honoree Corder, an executive and strategic book and publishing coach, TEDx speaker, and the author of dozens of books including You Must Write a Book and The Prosperous Writer series.…

For this week’s show, we’ve got an interview with contemporary/urban fantasy author Sarah Painter. She publishes wide (in all the stores) and has had good luck with her books, even without signing up for Amazon’s…

We return to the craft of writing for this week’s show, because good craft makes it a lot easier to sell books! The topic for the show is protagonists. How do you create the kind…

We had a guest on this week’s Six Figure Authors, USA Today bestselling romance writer Serena Miller. She’s both traditionally and indie published, and she’s had one of her books (Love Finds You in Sugar…

If you frequent the various author forums and Facebook groups, you probably see people say it again and again: book publishing (especially ebook publishing for indie authors) has gotten too competitive, it’s pay to play…