SPA Girls Podcast

Do you have family and friends telling you not to write?

Do they tell you that you’ve got your head in the clouds, and you need to get a real job? Perhaps people ask you how your little hobby is going, like it’s not a real career? 

Don’t let them get you down! 

Based on a listener question, this week the SPA Girls talk about how to deal with negativity from the people around you (especially in the beginning when you’re starting out) and how to turn it around and stay motivated. 

In the beginning, we end up spending large amounts of time essentially working for free, on the hope and dream of making our writing into a career. It takes grit, perseverance, and determination.

The last thing you need is someone telling you to give up! 

We’ve all had those conversations; the ones where people who are important to us question our choices when it comes to writing. This episode is all about how we’ve dealt with those conversations, and how we’ve managed to turn it around and stay positive, and how you can too. 

Are your Facebook ads as successful as you want them to be?

Do you wish you could make the kind of ads you’ve heard other authors boasting about?

This is the episode for you!

This week we delve back into Facebook Ads with Amazon Bestselling Author and all around lovely lady Maria Luis… She takes what she talked about last week, and adds to it, giving us the lowdown on how to make an ad convert into sales.

Maria is super knowledgeable and informative, and gives us some amazing tips and insider advice on how to create and run successful Facebook Ads. If you’ve been wondering about Facebook ads, or trying to figure out how to make ads that convert, this is the episode for you!

Not sure about how Facebook Ads work? Need to learn the basics?

Join the SPA Girls as bestselling author Maria Luis breaks down Facebook Ads for us, from the beginning steps, to how to choose the best images; plus what to do, and what not to do, and everything in between! 

This is the first part of a two-part series on Facebook Ads from an author who has been successfully running her own ads for the last two years. It features loads of tips and advice for running ads, how to tell if it’s a good ad, and how to scale up once you’ve got an ad that’s working for you.

If you’ve been thinking about trying out Facebook ads, or have previously tried them only to be disappointed, then this is the episode for you! 

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P.S. to see what ads an author’s page (or brand’s) is running, just go to facebook, click on Page Transparency (right hand column on desktop) and click SEE MORE – then scroll down to “Ads From This Page” and you’ll be able to view the ads they’re running.

Example of Maria’s facebook ad:

If you’ve ever thought you’d like to try dictation, this is the episode for you. We talk to award-winning indie author Kilby Blades about how she amped up her hourly writing rates by learning dictation.

It’s the ultimate skill – being able to use that down-time in the car, on walks, or even as you’re doing the dishes to keep writing.

The SPA Girls were all enthralled as we pumped Kilby for information, and she didn’t disappoint! Learn about her methods, her tips and tricks and just what you need to do to become a dictation expert.

Find Kilby at www.kilbyblades.com

Ever wondered if your book description could be better?

Ever thought it should sell more books? 

Then this is the episode for you. 

Brian Meeks, description-writer extraordinaire, talks with us about how to write a kick-ass description that will sell more books, and help amp up your advertising sales.

Turns out, it’s all about copywriting. 

And writing the best hooks you possibly can. 

Lucky for us, Brian takes us through every aspect of writing hooks to help you write your next description. 

In fact, we get him to do it on the fly, by giving him a description to fix, on air, as we listen. 

Thanks to Cheryl and her newly released book, Doughnuts and Disaster, Book Four in the Maple Lane Cozy Mystery series. Cher was brave enough to give Brian her description for him to have a go at re-writing – and believe me, he didn’t pull any punches!!

This is raw, honest, and exciting copywriting at its best, and you can listen in as the master creates a new blurb in less than 30 minutes!

Here’s the original description for you to read as he re-writes it: 

Maddie’s best friend is in danger!

A killer on the loose makes hairdresser, Angel, lose her appetite and because we’re talking a batch of her favourite jelly doughnuts this means the gloves are off for Maddie and her friends.

Wanting to make amends in theory sounds like a positive thing, but when someone who is part of Angel’s past arrives in town, that’s why things begin a slippery slope into disaster.

An ugly murder has Maddie, the Sheriff, Big Red – her faithful Maine Coon cat – and the Girlz back in action as they try to protect Angel from a mystery stranger.

Or is it someone she knows?

There are clues a-plenty and maybe a few red herrings in the fourth book in the Maple Lane Mysteries.

The new version written by Brian Meeks LIVE on the show:

The threat was real.

Her best friend could die.

Can Maddie save her in time?

The call surprised her. Maddie had been baking jelly donuts

What is going on?

Angel loves her days in the salon and her clients enjoy

And this isn’t the only thing worrying her.

Why would Angel’s ex-husband be back in town?

Maddie’s boyfriend, the sheriff, hasn’t been able to crack

You’ll love the clues a plenty in this cozy mystery, because everyone enjoys figuring out the riddles.

Get it now.

Click this link to check out Brian’s book on writing descriptions.