The First Editing Podcast

Learn what it takes to get booked to speak about your book to create exposure and sales to a targeted audience. This is the perfect and easiest way to create real momentum.

Discover how to utilize speaking to get exposure and more sales and know that Speaking is a Marketing Platform.

In this podcast, you will also learn:

• How to Get Booked
• Who can become a Speaker
• How do You sell Your Book without being Salesy
• What other ways can You Use Speaking to get the Word Out

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Tonya Hofmann!

How do you get things that you really enjoy turn into a marketing strategy? Marketing is creative and you can find something that maybe you didn’t even think is marketing.

In this webinar, you will also learn:

• Networking as a relationship building
• Difference of ‘first-draft brain’ and ‘editor brain’
• Importance of expressing your conflict of your book as part of marketing copies
• People connect with your characters and marketing with real connection to the emotion of your character is helpful
• Importance of conveying the story in book description or ads through your character’s lens

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Bryan Cohen!

Do you struggle with book marketing? Does it seem like writing your book was easier than promoting it? Do you try to market your book, but don't seem to get results? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this session is for you!

During our conversation with book marketing expert Sandra Beckwith about The Secret to Book Marketing Success: Focus, you'll learn:

• The one thing you need to do before anything else
• How this single activity will save you time, yet yield better results
• Why you haven't done this yet & and why you can't avoid it any longer
• The marketing tasks you can and can't skip

You'll discover how to get the focus you need for your book, and how much easier the process is when you have that.

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Sandra Beckwith!

Selling your book to others begins with authoritative personal branding. We're going to show you how to connect with potential buyers and fans who can't wait to read your book and follow your journey along the way using the most effective strategies on Facebook, Instagram, and your personal website.

Her goal is to teach you the simplest way to use social media as a "front end funnel" to garner fans who you can leverage for future book sales, speaking engagement attendance, and email list subscribers.

These strategies are meant to be easily accomplished by anyone- no crazy tech jargon or expensive budgets here!

You'll discover how Selling your book to others begins with authoritative personal branding. We're going to show you how to connect with potential buyers and fans who can't wait to read your book and follow your journey along the way using the most effective strategies on Facebook, Instagram, and your personal website.

Her goal is to teach you the simplest way to use social media as a "front end funnel" to garner fans who you can leverage for future book sales, speaking engagement attendance, and email list subscribers.

These strategies are meant to be easily accomplished by anyone- no crazy tech jargon or expensive budgets here!

Plus, she'll tell you where you could download a free book marketing plan template with instructions for creating your own book marketing plan!

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Chelse Hensley!

There's a point in our lives where we're lost and we don't know what we're doing with our lives anymore! All you want to do is quit your job and do your passion! 

This podcast talks about how Sacha became an independent full-time writer, publisher and producing her own creative works!

Here are some steps she took to get there:

• Get out of debt.
• Build your own platform.
• Prepare your mental transition.
• The importance of multiple steams of income

You will learn how Sacha left her job to pursue her passion and living her dreams!

Is your Amazon book page helping to sell your book or discouraging potential readers from buying? Your Amazon book page can make or break a sale. Yet so few authors pay attention to it - beyond uploading their book, most Amazon book pages are ignored completely.

This podcast talks about the importance of having a great book page, a checklist guide, and what you can do to make it appealing.

Learn quick, simple and free ways to maximize their Amazon Book Page to sell more books!

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Penny Sansevieri!

Writing a memoir can seem overwhelming. The key is knowing how to outline your memoir to give it the structure of a best-selling novel and the heart only you can provide.

Many bestselling memoirs are written by the already-famous: Actors, business titans, government officials. However, the majority of the memoirs published every year are written by people who are not famous, perhaps not even well-known in their community. So why do these memoirs sell? In a word... structure.

In this webinar, you'll learn:

• What elements to include in your memoir and what to exclude.
• How to order your chapters and sections for maximum reader immersion
• How to attract the right readers to your book, guaranteeing positive reviews

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Kristin McTiernan!

Wondering why your book isn't on the shelves of the major bookstore chains? Always dream to get into airport stores or a major chain? Amy Collins tells you how it all works. Get a real life look at the honest truth of what it takes to get into major chains and know what it takes to get into the stores you have been dreaming of.

Learn:

• The inns and outs of books sales
• Whether or not your book has a chance
• Some of the most highly trafficked and successful stores out there.

Get to know our Publishing Power Guest Speaker, Amy Collins!

Learn how editing is advancing and evolving with the use of artificial intelligence and online tools, apps, and browser extensions. Also, discover how you can use this technology and successfully publish your book with the expert help of professional editors. From Story Editing to Copy Editing to Professional Editing, you have many options to ensure that your words shine while engaging your readers in your manuscript.

Get an insight into the entire editing process to edit your book from start to finish with the help of Fictionary, ProWritingAid and FirstEditing at the London Book Fair 2020. These three experts are teaming up to provide you with the comprehensive knowledge and step-by-step instructions needed for editing along with their new ebook “Your Editing Journey.”

Plus, get the unique opportunity to TRY ALL THREE EDITING SERVICES at an incredible price of only $199. The Editing Bundle is only available until March 13, 2020.

The Editing Bundle includes:

• 1 year of Fictionary ($200)
• 2 years of ProWritingAid ($100)
• Editing Voucher FirstEditing ($200*)

You can purchase yours at: www.prowritingaid.com/editingbundle for only $199 until March 13, 2020.

*with $350+ purchase

Learn: 

• How Fictionary’s amazing new editing software helps you create the perfect story arc 
• Why over a million writers use ProWritingAid to copy edit 
• What professional editors from FirstEditing provide that technology can’t 
• When to use each of these three services during your editing journey 

Get step-by-step insight into how the small details can create a best-selling book. Launch your success with proven tips.

In this podcast you will learn from book marketing expert Dave Chesson the importance of planning and implementing a solid plan before, during, and after you write your book.

Learn: 

Phase 1: Before Writing Your Book you will want to research your market, competition, effective writing tools, and finally, plan, outline and write your book.

In Phase 2: Putting Your Book Together helps you select a title, subtitle, book cover, description, editor, keywords, categories, author page details, bio description, and how to sell on Amazon and beyond.

The final Phase 3: Launching Your Book explains how to track books sales, email followers, use book promo sites, create ads, get reviews, create a press release and network with other authors.