Six Figure Authors

On this week’s show, the hosts talk to Damon Courtney from Bookfunnel about making more money while giving readers a better deal. How? By selling ebooks and audiobooks direct from your site/newsletter. We also asked…

If you’ve ever wanted to see your book translated into a foreign language and to make a little extra money by selling the foreign language rights to overseas publishers, you’ll appreciate this week’s guest. Judith…

For this week’s show, we talked about going exclusive with Amazon to be in Kindle Unlimited and get their other promotional perks versus choosing to make your work available in all the bookstores. We talked…

For this week’s show, we answered some of the questions you’ve given us in the Six Figure Authors Facebook group. These ranged from how to handle forced breaks, things we can offer newsletter subscribers other…

This week, we talked about several things that are important for long-term success as an author/publisher. As indie authors, having a marathon mindset is vital if we plan to be successful at this in five,…

For this week’s show, the three of us picked some of the book marketing tactics we’ve tried over the years and that ended up being duds for us. We thought this might be useful for…

For this week’s show, we delved into how to write (and ideally edit) a novel in a month. We talked about the first time we did it, at what point in your writing career it…

Our guest for this week’s show is Joe Solari, an author, entrepreneur, and business consultant for authors. He’s written the books Should I Incorporate? Author Edition: How and when to set up your publishing company,…

For this week’s show, we started out discussing some of the predications that Mark Coker of Smashwords made in his beginning-of-the-year post: 2021 Publishing Predictions – Pandemic Reshapes Publishing, Accelerates Consolidation. After that, we moved…

For this week’s show, which we recorded right before the end of the year, we took a look at what worked and what didn’t for authors and publishers in 2020. We also discussed some of…

We had a lot of listener questions that we didn’t get to in the first Selling Hard-to-Categorize Books That Aren’t Written to Market show, so we’re back for part 2, and it’s all about answering…

Our guest this week is publishing consultant and author Jane Friedman. With twenty years of experience in the publishing industry, she has expertise in digital media strategies for authors and publishers. She’s the co-founder and…

Very few authors think of writing “to market” or “to trope” with their first book/series. They’re just writing what they love! Sometimes, that ends up being popular with readers, but sometimes you end up with…

On this week’s show, we talked about the Gartner Hype Cycle as a framework to think about where we are with ebooks, audiobooks, and the up-and-coming technologies that may become useful (or even necessary) for…

It’s a “just-us” episode today, with Jo, Andrea, and Lindsay answering listener questions. We ran out of time and didn’t get to the leftover protagonist-craft questions that we teased in the intro (whoops), but we…

Our guest this week is Honoree Corder, an executive and strategic book and publishing coach, TEDx speaker, and the author of dozens of books including You Must Write a Book and The Prosperous Writer series.…

For this week’s show, we’ve got an interview with contemporary/urban fantasy author Sarah Painter. She publishes wide (in all the stores) and has had good luck with her books, even without signing up for Amazon’s…

We return to the craft of writing for this week’s show, because good craft makes it a lot easier to sell books! The topic for the show is protagonists. How do you create the kind…

We had a guest on this week’s Six Figure Authors, USA Today bestselling romance writer Serena Miller. She’s both traditionally and indie published, and she’s had one of her books (Love Finds You in Sugar…

If you frequent the various author forums and Facebook groups, you probably see people say it again and again: book publishing (especially ebook publishing for indie authors) has gotten too competitive, it’s pay to play…

For this week’s show, we discuss some of our big-picture writing, publishing, and marketing tips, things we’ve learned over our ten years of publishing. Hopefully, you’ll find some of this advice helpful. We finished up…

Welcome to Six Figure Authors, the show that helps you take your writing career to the next level. Our guest this week is Sara Rosett, USA Today Bestselling author of light-hearted mysteries, co-host of the…

It’s a lot easier to sell books that grab the readers, don’t let them go, and leave a lasting impression on them. We talk marketing a lot on this podcast, but solid writing and good…

On this week’s show, Jo, Andrea, and Lindsay share some of their favorite productivity tips for getting more books written and published, and only spending time on marketing that actually works. They’ve all had challenges…

This week, Andrea, Jo, and Lindsay continue their discussion on newsletters. We open up talking about what types of bonuses we offer to readers who sign up and also share which ones have worked best…