Angela first came on the podcast 3 months ago (rspcast.com/angela), and in this interview we follow up with her to see how her journey has been going. We talk about what progress she has made in the last three months on the two series that she is writing. We also touch on what she’s been working on for NaNoWriMo.

“Finished college. Abandoned lifelong plan to be a lawyer.” That is how Taylor Pearson, author of The End of Jobs, introduces himself on his website. This week I talk to Taylor about his journey from aspiring attorney to author of a bestselling business book, and the future of The Job as we know it.

Author Nick Thacker writes fast-paced, high-concept action thrillers, but his business philosophy is more slow and steady with his focus on building a longlasting career instead of generating immediate returns. This week, I talk to Nick about the strategies he employs and why he thinks you should treat your writing career like a retail business.

G. Michael Hopf experienced the enviable thrill of seeing his first book The End race up the Amazon sales charts two weeks after its release and realized he had a rare opportunity he couldn’t afford to miss out on. So he quit his job to write the sequel full-time with incredible results. This week, I sit down with Geoff to find out how he went from commercial diving to bestselling end-of-days fiction, and why a super-EMP would be a really bad thing.

Science fiction author and spiritualist Timothy Ellis published the first five books of his The Hunter Legacy series in a rapid-fire launch over a five-month period in 2015, and went from a virtual unknown to a Top 20 Author in Science Fiction on Amazon with very little promotion. This week I talk to Timothy about his successful debut into fiction writing, karma, and cats in the 27th century.

YA scifi/fantasy writer Andrea Pearson is the author of The Kilenya series and the Katon University series. In this week’s episode, we talk about her early marketing mistakes and how her promotional strategies have changed since then.

Three years since she published her first short story, romance writer Kathryn O’Halloran has gone digital nomad, opting out of her expensive home base in Australia to travel the world. This week I caught up with Kathryn in Toyko, Japan, via Skype, to talk about the value of writing series, travel, and shooting AK47s in Prague.

It was a real pleasure to be able to talk to Russell Blake this week. We talk about treating Kindle publishing as a business and how much this helped him when he was just starting out, and how it helps him shape the future decisions he makes about his writing career. We also touch on his production process and how he writes so much so quickly.

What do you get when you put two Top 30 in Horror authors together? A bestselling dystopian post-apocalyptic series, of course! This week we talk to Bobby Adair and T.W. Piperbrook about how they got together for their first collaboration, The Last Survivors, how they made it work, and how they made it successful.

Scifi Thriller and Fantasy author PT Hylton launched his career as an indie author a year and a half ago with the publication of his first book Regulation 19. Now he has five titles under his belt and more on the way. In this week’s interview, we talk about his journey so far, and how he’s using BookTube, a YouTube community of enthusiastic and hardcore readers, to connect with readers.