Becoming A Household Name

Christopher Tallon Spoke to me about how he started his Podcast Creative Ops and the associated website and blog to build an audience for his forthcoming novel, Switchers . Chris has Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , and Goodreads . If you take one thing from this episode it's to preorder Switchers . Nothing has a bigger impact on a writer's life than preordering his book, and you have th...

Wally Jones is a first time author and an avid reader. He is fully dyslexic. It wasn’t until his late twenties that he built a sight vocabulary sufficiently strong to compensate for dyslexia and was able to read and write in a “normal” fashion. However, dyslexia continues to cause problems. Sam the Chosen serves as testament that al challenges can be overcome. Find Wally on Facebook and at his web...

There are three ways to overcome setbacks: 1. Set Goals 2. Seek Motivation 3. Help Others Sounds easy right. So why do we fall victim to quitting so often when setbacks arise? As always, please join my newsletter for more insights on the marketing mindset you won't find anywhere else and jump over to Patreon where you can support my show for as little as $5.00 a month. Subscribe to my Substac...

Katharine E Wibell , author of the The Incarn Saga , the The Guardian's Speaker series, and  The Djed Chronicles joins me to discuss how she uses TikTok to explosively grow her author presence and sell thousands of of her books. She's a full-time author and artists, who has made marketing work for her. What more needs said? As always, please join my newsletter for more insights on the ma...

Danny Freeman, author of THE YOU I SEE , talked to me about his experience with hybrid publishing through Atmosphere Press. If you want a collaborative publication process that allows you to share the burden of marketing, formatting, design, and distribution, this is the episode for you. Interact with Danny on his website , twitter , and Goodreads . As always, please join my newsletter for more in...

Adam G. Fleming discusses his upbringing on a strawberry farm, his fiction , which you can find on his website , and his experience marketing. We’ll talk to him again in June to learn how his book boxset for the Satchel Pong Chronicles impacted sales. This coming week, from April 29th to May 6th, the box set will be on sale for a blazing $0.99!!! Buy a copy Friday or forever regret the loss.  I me...

Beth Barany has more going on in one day than most of us do in a week. She maintains a killer author site   where you can learn roughly everything there is to know about her work, mission, and audience. You can go directly to her coaching site to learn about how she coaches authors of all skill levels to produce the best book possible. And she's got a school for genre writers who love communi...

Hey, I want to start with a few shout outs to some new listeners. JME Bell, thank you for the support and kind words. I hope you find an ever-increasing audience for your book, Vas Solaris - Expedition Hope . To all of you listening, if you’re into speculative sci-fi, check out a link to her work here in the show notes.  I also want to thank Aimee Louise for the encouraging note last week. Came at...

Anyone can follow 10,000 profiles on Twitter and get 2,000 followbacks, but those followers aren't quality followers, and you just wasted 10,000 clicks of your thumb. This episode of THE RELUCTANT BOOK MARKETER teaches you how to get 2,000 followers on Twitter who want to read the book you wrote. Don't believe me, email jodyjsperling@gmail.com and I'll send you a screenshot of my Tw...

Click here to visit Rich Hosek 's website for special content today, Wednesday April 6th. Or if you're seeing this later, check out his website for up-to-date promotions, news and information on publications. You need to buy his books, and they can be found here . Seriously, buy his books. Listen to his podcast, Written by Rich Hosek . Follow him on Twitter and Facebook . Rich has writte...

Every writer has feared failure and futility at some point if they’ve been at it long enough. Some people are scared more often than others. I’m scared at least once a week.  It’s not uncommon for me to feel confident, in-control, and destiny-bound one day only to feel defeated, confused, and hopeless the next. And all the uncertainty can take its toll over time. So today, we’re going to cover thr...

Hey, if you’re listening to this episode but you missed part 1. I highly encourage you to scroll back on your trusty phone or computer or radio dial and check out Pt. 1 of my literary agent series,  “The Surprising Solution to A Perfect Agent Query Letter”.  Because we’re going to race through everything I talked about there, even though you’ll come back to it when it’s time to start querying. So,...

Todd Robinson is a tenure track professor, a poet, a neighbor, and a socialite of extreme gregariousness. If you're looking to hear a podcast host embarrass himself for an hour and enjoy the contrast of a guest who hops past landmine after landmine, you're in the right place. When you fall in love with Todd Robinson's view of life, you'll want to buy his book of poems, Mass for...

Can you find a great editor through your social media groups? How do you know what makes a good editor? Do you need one before you shop your book? What if want to publish traditionally? In this interview with Debbie Burke, you're going to get a masterclass in editing and how a editor and writer approaches improving her own work. Check out all of Debbie Burke 's writing here, and buy all...

If you’ve been writing longer than a day, you know it takes a great deal of energy to finish a story, much less a book. You probably even know the odds of completing a book. Some people say fewer than one in a thousand writers complete a full draft of a book. It takes a lot of energy to write. It takes a lot of energy to get out in front of people and share yourself, your dream, your hopes, your a...

For those of you who wanted to dig a bit deeper into the world of gender, gender identity and the way that capitalism shapes who we view ourselves as, I found this article about pink globes to be both insightful and wise. Check out Kyra's piece " Tall Grass ",  published in Spank the Carp, as Kyle Rackley. And lastly, follow Kyra @JKRackley on Twitter and Instagram @LaughKyra . Subs...

This episode is jam packed with approachable, useful, instructive tips on grammar, why diagramming sentences makes you a better writer, and how learning a second language can pave your path to publication. Jeremiah Cobra has a website . Buy his books . Subscribe to my Substack for unparalleled partner content, and follow me on Twitter . Get full access to Becoming A Household Name at jodyjsperling...

If you want to see THE VANISHING OF JEN SIVLEY in print really fast, listen, share, love, share, subscribe, share, and tell everyone about Makynna Black. She's got a podcast that helped inspire this podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5LvDVrtO77Qyig0P6gy3jo?si=7635716931424868 It's a masterpiece. Listen to it. Enjoy this show with Makynna Black. As she says during the interview, if yo...

You hear it all the time, but for some reason think it doesn’t apply to you: define your audience. Today, we’re going to talk about something you do all the time in your in your work, with your family, your friends. It’s something you even do with your diet and your wardrobe, but for some reason you refuse to do with your writing,  It’s pretty easy to know who your family is, right? I mean, they s...

Drew Bagley's novella echoes the greatness of George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury and many others. Listen in to hear his take on where our society is headed and how his sci-fi fantasy novella tackles hope and fear. Subscribe to my Substack for unparalleled partner content, and follow me on Twitter . Get full access to Becoming A Household Name at jodyjsperling.substack.com/subscribe

One of the most famous voices in the online how-to market for aspiring authors says every query letter should follow this format  ·      Basics: your book’s genre/category, word count, title/subtitle ·      The hook: the description of your story and the most critical query element; 150-300 words is sufficient for most narrative works ·      Bio note: something about yourself, usually 50-100 words...

Jim Plath asks questions. Fate answers. Hope debates. Jose Saramago wrote BLINDNESS. This is the Wednesday story podcast. Vote by listening, sharing, and sharing some more. If you want to see this one in print, spread the word. Subscribe to my Substack for unparalleled partner content, and follow me on Twitter . Get full access to Becoming A Household Name at jodyjsperling.substack.com/subscribe

Shout-out to Ryan S. of Minnesota, and Joe R. of Arkansas. Amazing support and encouragement. Thanks to Brian5 on apple podcasts who’s review said the following: “The episode with Tom Buckner is amazing. It had me thinking about it all day. There are so many levels to that conversation. It’s hilarious to listen to Jody respond to the curveballs that Tom is throwing him through the whole episode.”...

This week’s guest, Tom Buckner, frequently left me speechless. At the end of recording, I was compelled to call the nonemergency, City of Casper Police Department because the details Tom chose to share seemed to suggest a safety risk.  My gratitude to Craig Dorethy for getting me Tom’s contact information. No small feat there. And thanks to Al, over at the Loaf ‘N Jug, for putting in a good word....

Daniel Iacob moved to the United States from Romania at the age of nine. He never lost his mother tongue, and has spent his life contemplating how his home has shaped his world. From logging and deforestation to poetry and revolution, Daniel's story is the proudest episode of cre8 collabor8. If you want to learn more about Daniel, contact him through facebook . He'd love a publisher for...