This week, I talk to Amy Bayne. Amy is the editor-in-chief of Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review. The publication is an anthology of written work and visual art. Amy talks about how she got started with anthologies, what goes in to making them, the submission process, and how you can create anthologies.

Marc Mawhinney of Natural Born Coaches (www.naturalborncoaches.com) talks about how he became the coach who coaches coaches and how you can win more clients through using one of his favorite strategies: daily email.

Zack Miller is an entrepreneur, author and television/internet personality who has over two decades of business experience in starting, investing, advising, mentoring and growing over six hundred companies or projects. These companies have made millions of dollars, been publicly traded, hustled to six figures of annual revenues or failed and realized business isn’t for them....

Writing a book doesn’t have to be hard. We can get really intimidated when we think about word counts, especially when that word count is 50,000, the best practices length for a book. In this episode, we deconstruct word count to show how you can write a 50,000 word book in 30 or 60 days,...

In this episode, children's book author Tasha Fuller joins me again to talk about tactical grassroots approaches to marketing and promoting your book. She delves into:

• Thinking unconventionally about promoting your book based on its genre and topic

• How to network and sell your book like a guerilla

• How to set up for book festivals and other expos to attract an audience to your booth

• How to engage customers

• Why expo pricing matters over retail pricing and how to create the right pricing point

• How to create distribution partnerships with trusted friends

On this episode, I talk about 3 ways that you can figure out what to write and who you're writing to. We look at the Point A to Point B Method, the Avatar Method, and the Scrum Method. Each way helps you target your message to your audience.

Ready to take your writing more seriously? In this episode, I share tips, strategies, and tools that writers can use to create lasting writing habits. We examine how to gradually grow your daily word count, how to use writing prompts, what Twitter sprints are, and how to write using the Pomodoro technique.

When I committed to writing again, journaling was an instrumental part of that process. If your decision to write is the seed, journaling is the water to nurture and grow that seed. Every day you write in your journal, you’re deepening your roots. In the days before indoor plumbing, water needed to be pumped in...

In this episode, Chris explores why you need to write and recite affirmations, and ways to make them stick so that you become more focused and more effective in pursuing your writing goals.

Chris Jones talks about the exciting new series that will walk listeners through his new book, The Art & Business of Writing. This series will help writers build off their creative foundation and expand to branding and marketing.