The First Editing Podcast

Learn the 5 Key Step to Activating Your Book! Also, join the 5 Day Writing Challenge that will walk you through how to write a successful social media post and connect with your audience.

In this podcast, you will discover how to activate your book and learn how to:

• Know your audience
• Define your mission
• Gather your ideas 
• Create your map 
• Capture it effectively

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Deborah Ager!

Attention nonfiction authors and subject matter experts, including books on business leadership, company culture, support for entrepreneurs, project management, corporate responsibility, management, diversity, health, self-help, personal growth, Christian Books! Michael Stickler wants to help every Non fiction authors sell 30-50K books.

Discover why success happens in the planning before writing.

In this podcast, you will also learn:

• How to plan, outline, and activate your- publishing plan

• Editorial and writing stages

• Book cover testing with 10,000 sample audience readersand expert peer review

• Publication release and book launch for hard, soft, ebook, and audio versions

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Mike Stickler!

Graduate writing - PhDs and Masters theses and dissertations - are long projects that adhere to a set of conventions. Usually they include a literature review and a methodology section, sometimes a bit of history or a theoretical framing. While not all theses or dissertations across subject areas will be similar, most will have sections that are very similar. As a graduate writer, you can feel confident in your subject matter, and this episode will walk you through the how-tos of creating some of the standard sections that these genres of academic writing include.

Dr. Lindy goes through what's necessary in an introduction for a thesis or a dissertation: how do you write about methodology and provide a literature review, and what are some other sections in a typical thesis or dissertation? 

In this podcast, you will also learn:

• How to write a successful thesis/dissertation introduction

• What is a methodology section and how to write it

• What needs to be included in a literature review and how to write it

• How to paraphrase and model build without plagiarizing, but without over quoting in a thesis or dissertation

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Dr. Lindy Ledohowski!

Learn the essentials to outlining a successful book by focusing on the essentials and avoiding unnecessary pitfalls.

Get insight and guidance from bestselling author Christine Kloser to plan and create your book.

In this podcast you will learn how to:

• Blueprint your book
• Consider the most important things before writing 
• Focus on the most essential areas
• Use tools when outlining your book 
• Avoid author pitfalls 
• Overcome writing challenges

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Christine Kloser!

Discover the power of affiliate marketing to market and sell you book. Magnify your book launch with strong connections that help you promote successfully.

In this podcast you will discover how to

• Connect as an author with an affiliate partner to promote your book

• Monetize your book

• Make money launching your book

• Build a community for creating these partnerships

Plus, get your FREE Mini Course for authors and learn how to:

1. Get Affiliates Involved in Promoting Your Book

2. Promote Book Launches as an Affiliate

3. Do Affiliate Marketing Inside Your Book

Visit www.MattMcWilliams.com/FE and get your free copy!

Teresa discusses the importance of word-of-mouth epidemics when launching and developing Long Game Strategies when writing and publishing your book. Join us as she outlines the most important planning you can do for your book!

Having a system in place to write, edit, publish and launch helps you become a bestseller. Teresa shares with us why having a quality manuscript is important when launching and approaching test readers. This helps you find your target audience. She shares that it is vital to understand how to PLAN to profit with your book. She stresses the importance of Strategy and choosing what is best for you and your vision. Last, she touches on why relationships are important when launching your book. She always stresses the secret of influence as your ultimate tool to success.

In this podcast you will learn:

• How having a system helps you become a bestseller 
• Why a quality manuscript is important when launching and how it helps you find your target audience 
• Why Relationships are Important When Launching Your Book 
• What Is the Secret of Influence 
• How Authors Self-Sabotage

Due to popular demand, welcome back our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Teresa de Grosbois!

Many authors focus on writing their book and then think they should just launch. They do not take enough time to prepare and build an audience to set them up for success. Even those that do some pre-launch marketing often stop as soon as their book is published. This will result, 90% of the time, in a complete halt to sales as well. The authors who will have the most success know and understand the importance of a long-term approach to their book marketing. Alexa works with authors to build that pre, during, and post-launch marketing strategy so that they are set up for better success.

Alexa covers the importance of authors to focus on more than just their book launch, but having a specific plan for audience growth beginning very early in the writing process and continuing long after the book has launched. 

In this podcast, you will also learn:

• Why authors must start their marketing early.
• How authors need to focus on creating a plan and taking consistent action steps to follow that plan. 
• The importance of building an engaged and correct audience.

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Alexa Bigwarfe!

Stevie Award-Winning Book Coach Lisa Tener shares the steps to write a successful book proposal, how many of her clients have gotten 5- and 6-figure book deals, how to think like an agent or publisher, how to avoid top mistakes and much more!

In this podcast, you will also learn:

• What agents and publishers are looking for
• How to avoid the most common mistakes
• Platform and promotion tips
• The elements of a successful proposal
• Book proposal etiquette
• Secrets of 5- and 6-figure book deals

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Lisa Tener!

Maybe you've heard that audiobooks are experiencing a lot of growth? Get the stats on what is happening in the market and learn about options for making and distributing your audiobook.

In this podcast, you will also learn:

• The things you need to consider when making an audiobook
• How to prepare and produce your title
• And, once the production is ready, how to distribute your title. 
• Options in the market for turning your title into an audiobook. 

This episode will offer some guidance on resources for getting the help you need to create a successful audiobook.

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Michele Cobb!

Dan Blank discusses how to focus on your big vision in creating your website and developing your author base. It is all about defining who you are and what you are creating. Take this and communicate it often and in as many ways as possible while remaining true to your personality and vision. Be authentic and bold. Share your journey, passions, and struggles to connect with those around you.

In this podcast, you will also learn:

• Five Tips on What Makes a Great Author Website- Own Your Platform
• Build Your Website Before You Need It
• Use Your Website to Explain What You Create and Why
• Lead People Somewhere
• Show Up as a Real Person, Not a Faceless Author

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Dan Blank!