Unpublished

This episode is all about getting negative feedback online. We talk about some heating discussion (and some trolling) we've had to engage with in the past week. We also discuss the stress of trying to ensure everyone in your audience feels seen, rules for dealing with negative comments, how to disagree with people well, and much more!

I guess I should link to something otherwise I'm wasting this space...

Ummm... you should still buy our lovely guest Seth's Queer Fantasy Romance novel.

Also, PRETTY PLEASE, leave us a review if you haven't already.

Join us as we chat to Seth Haddon about his debut Queer Fantasy novel, Reforged. We talk about Seth's experience landing his first publishing contract while working full time, letting go of old projects, how Seth successfully built a social media following from scratch to drive interest in his novel and massively exceed his publisher's sales expectations and much more!

I might be biased but I LOVED Reforged and highly recommend you pick up a copy yourself if you enjoy either Fantasy or Romance novels!

A bit about Reforged:

Since time immemorial the warriors of the Paladin Order have harnessed arcane powers to protect their rulers. For Balen, who has given up his chance at love and fought his way to the top of the Paladin Order, there can be no greater honor than to serve his king. But when assassins annihilate the royal family, Balen suddenly finds himself sworn to serve the very man he abandoned.

You can find Seth here:

sethhaddon.com

Twitter: @sethhaddon

Insta: @sethhaddon

Tiktok: @authorsethhaddon

And here are the link if you'd like to buy Reforged:

Australia

America

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FaeCrate exclusive special edition

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This is more of an "insight into our business" episode. We debrief about our coaching tour of Europe. What were our highlights and low lights? How did we handle the logistics? Was it financially viable? Why we chose ease over higher profits. And maybe a larger than usual amount of random chit-chat!

And yeah, this is Season 6 now because... I don't know... it is!

Join us in Denmark in the home of our friend MJ (@mjunleashed_) where we discuss showing up as sexual beings through our art. We talk about: whether putting sex in your art is just a way to "sell". How do show up online as a sexual being. What holds us back from expressing our sexy sides. And, most important, what if our mums see it!

MJ has her own podcast, The Journals of MJ Unleashed, where she shares the raw, vulnerable side of her journey as a musician. If you enjoy Unpublished, you'll love MJ's pod! And, with 134 episodes already, there's heaps for you to dive into from creative burnout, trauma, journaling, procrastination, and much more.

We're coming to you today from Stockholm! We start with a travel update, talk to you about what we've been up to in Europe, how our in-person one-on-one coaching has been. Then, we move onto a discussion of why breaking routines can be great for our creative projects and how we've found creating outside of our normal routine. At least, I think. We recorded a week ago and I have only a hazy memory of any of this...

Hope you enjoy!

Today we're playing rate it or hate it! Listeners have written in with various topics and Amie are James say whether they rate (like) or hate it as well as why. There can be no middle ground! It's either rate or hate!

Topics include: Game of Thrones, capitalism, working on multiple projects, J.K. Rowling, extroverts, and several more!

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Do you need to take a step back and let yourself be a learner again? OR, have you been stuck in the learning phase and aren't letting yourself put your art out into the world. We talk about the advantages of both and how to tell which you need.

We're talking about how to build a creative career without gatekeepers (e.g. publishers, galleries, casting agents). This is about turning your creativity into a small business with YOU as the boss. We talk about some of the practicalities of how you might do this and give examples of creatives who're making careers without gatekeepers.

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