Indie Author Answers

What do you tell your cover artist when you're ready to make your book? I've got the answers on today's show. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

Let's talk about ebooks and paperbacks, and discuss the pros and cons of adding paperbacks. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

How to talk to readers to find out what they like. Hint: it's not talking about writing craft. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

Let's talk about my mistakes, and what I wish I could do differently if I could go back in time. Let's do some learning! *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

What is a cookie, and how can you use it to snag more people to your mailing list? *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

Is it worthwhile to turn your finished ebook into an audiobook? Maybe. let's talk about all the mistakes I made with audiobooks, so you'll know what not to do. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, [...]

Should you like/follow other authors in exchange for them liking you back? Here's why it's a terrible idea. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

Perhaps controversial, here are some opinions and experience about the art (or mistake) of self-editing. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

Everyone and their cat has ten rules for writing. Here are mine, since you didn't ask for them :) *** Also, Faulker said "kill your darlings," not Hemingway. Or Stephen King quoted Faulkner as saying so. Or something like that. Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. [...]

Let's finish the rules: Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose." Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. Don't go into great detail describing places and things. Try to [...]

Today, we discuss the rules: Never open a book with weather. Avoid prologues. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said"…he admonished gravely. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! [...]

How to get the consistency you need in your author career. *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

Let's weigh the pros and cons of joining a critique group! *** Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to get bonus episodes and access the full archive of past episodes. *** The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome.

I'm about to ruin two TV shows for you. But, there are some very valuable storytelling lessons here. Don't be scared, I'll tell you when to stop listening in the episode if you don't want any spoilers. The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome. Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to support the show.

Look. You can't work all the time. Here's how to take a break without letting it become a dark period in your author career. The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome. Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to support the show.

if you want to get rich blogging, look elsewhere. In this episode, I take a hard look at blogging, youtube, etc, and discuss if it's right for a fiction author. The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome. Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to support the show.

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast to bring you this hot take, special report. There has been a ton of drama, conflict, and hoopla out there lately among authors. Let's talk about being a good citizen in the author community, and I tell a story about an important lesson I learned when I wasn't [...]

Want to be a bawss when it comes to content curation? Don't know what that is? Tune in to find out all them super-secret industry secrets, and let's make them not so secret anymore. The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome. Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to support the show.

If you're not releasing every week, you need to have a strategy about what to email your list during the off times. Let's talk through it. The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome. Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to support the show.

Don't fall victim to lost data. It's the worst feeling in the world. I have a paranoid backup strategy, and I want to share it with you. The Juggling Author Podcast! Time management, writing craft, marketing, being awesome. Check out www.patreon.com/thejugglingauthor to support the show.