Get My Book Out There Podcast

When you're thinking about your books, think outside of just publishing them. How can you make your books work for you? How can your books become part of wider universe? In this podcast, we look at what is possible when we step outside of the 'rules' of publishing - like who made those rules to start with? - and ways you can expand your stories beyond just books so you can expand and grow your aut...

Are your romance scenes feeling a bit deflated? Are your sexy scenes more rote than a project of passion?   USA Today Bestselling Author, Cara Bristol, has the answers to give your romantic activities and love scenes the pep they need.   Cara has written a thesaurus and sex scene writing guide for romance authors to help make your sexy scenes sizzle and snap. You will never be stuck for clean or s...

In today's podcast, we show how authors can lose their fear to tap into their wealth of first-person experience. When authors embrace their emotions instead of seeing them as a negative, better world happens and book sales increase.

In our podcast, Narelle and Susan reveal all on how to get and stay organized. This is a much watch episode because we tell the truth about being organized. Screw the clear desk policy and being "tidy"! None of things ever help you be organized so you can get on with writing your book... unless of course that is your Organizing style. But what are the other organizing styles that we rarely hear ab...

Dealing with life's unexpected requests for attention is hard enough. Dealing with it while being an author can be overwhelming. Today, we are going to share three tips on Coping with Life that can help you.

This week we're talking about how to cope with the business, running a business and being a business owner so that you can free yourself to be able to write more and actually grow that business. We have three useful tips for you.  

This week we're talking about the importance of newsletters and what content to use in them. We have three great tips for you.

This week we provide you with 3 fantastic tips to help you keep going and not give up: Have a negative partner Step away from the keyboard Keep going

This week we are discussing Team Creation and Building, and have 3 helpful tips for you to build your support team: when you should start building the team who you need where to find the members of the team

This week we're talking about the value of holiday marketing and promotions, and we have 3 tips to help you in the creation of your own promotions, using Halloween, Black Friday, and Thanksgiving/Christmas as examples: Definitely do some marketing around these holidays Let your readers know how grateful and thankful you are for them supporting you, by way of a special gift Offer discounts to your...

Getting reviews for your book is tough enough when you're an established author. What about if you are relatively new author without a huge following, or no following at all? How do you get the 10-20 reviews needed to run promotional campaigns, not to mention just simply getting reviews? With readers' attention span stretched, this podcast looks at ways you can help readers leave you reviews as we...

This week we discuss places for people to find, discuss and listen to your audiobooks.  We have 3 great tips to help you get your audiobooks noticed: libraries Facebook groups promotional places

This week we're talking about audiobooks and how to market them. We have 3 easy steps about how you can get word out about your audiobooks: your webpage social media and newsletters giveaways

This week we are talking about audiobooks, and sharing 3 things that you need to keep in mind in relation to them. Given their popularity, you should be going to them NOW, and our tips will help in that regard. when to go to them what type of audiobooks there are  where to distribute them once you have decided to do them

This week we are looking at 3 marketing must haves when you are doing a new release, sending a book out, or republishing: building your email list working/collaborating with other authors, such as doing a newsletter swap where you promote them and they you. Connecting with people, finding out who is in your niche connecting with reviewers in your niche. 

Something that you should always be aiming for, as an author, is to grow your business. One of the best ways is to collaborate with others, and this week we are giving you three great tips on how to achieve that.

Does marketing overwhelm you? This week we talk about 3 things to remember when it comes to mastering marketing: knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are master in one tactic first - do what you are good at, and then add another learning different tactics, so you are across multiple platforms.   Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Build in time in your schedule to learn new techniques, ne...

This week we're talking about the value of relationships with your readers. By engaging in fundamental things every day you're able to establish and retain your reader relationships. Three useful methods are: Responding to website comments Facebook Live, and Facebook Messenger and email

Description: Think branding is only for big companies? Think again! This week, we talk about why your brand matters to readers and opens marketing doors and how you can create an authentic author brand that helps you sell more books.

Negative reviews are a rite of passage for writers and we discuss five strategies we use to maintain our perspective when the dreaded 1* arrives. .

Staying creative when life and the world appear to be changing rapidly can be challenging. We talk about strategies that have helped us to remain creative when in turbulent times.