SPA Girls Podcast

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources... This week we talked about Twitter. Love it or hate it (and there are people on both sides of that camp) this social media platform is definitely one that you should know more about.  We give an introduction to Twitter, how to get started, explain some of...

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we decided to go a little deeper into newsletters and talk about the kind of content that you could provide for your newsletter list, and how to set it up so that you don't get overwhelmed every time you go to write one.   

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we decided to do something a little bit fun. We talked about brainstorming a new novel, the ways in which we plan out the storyline, our characters, the hook, and the conflict involved in our stories.  At the end, we actually brainstorm a book o...

Thinking of self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talked about reviews. Why do you need them? Why are they so important? How on earth do you get them??? We talk about what we've done to gather the reviews on our books, the do's and don'ts of getting reviews and the etiquette of the Amazon revie...

Thinking about self publishing but don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talked about setting up a newsletter - why you should be doing it, how it will help you, and some practical advice on exactly what you need to know about getting it up and running. 

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we went through everything we know about pricing. It's a tricky topic, because there are some many people out there with different ideas and opinions on this one. The important thing to come away from this episode with is that you need to have a...

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about editing, in particular self editing. We each go through the systems that we have in place, and the kinds of things that we watch out for in our own writing, and offer a few tips on how to improve your own editing. 

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about our favourite self publishing resources, from writing tools like scrivener and writeordie.com to editing options like grammarly.com and all the way to courses on Udemy and CreativeLive.com - any a whole lot of options in between! ...

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about the ingredients we think you need to include in your recipe to write the best book possible. We went with the baking theme, and listed each ingredient you should mix into the batter, from an exciting hook and interesting characters...

Thinking about self-publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about how we find ideas for our writing. Where do we get our inspiration, our muse, our mojo? Listen in and you'll get all the secrets! :) 

Thinking of self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about a few of the trends that we've noticed in self publishing recently, and how you might take advantage of them. This includes Facebook Ads, publishing as a group, writing a linked series with other authors, and lots of other ideas to he...

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week was a challenge episode, and we challenged ourselves to find ways to put more exercise into our week. There has been a heap of research out recently that talks about how bad it is to sit for extended periods of time, as we do as authors. This al...

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we're talking about Amazon again, but it's a bit more focussed on exactly how to load your book onto the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. We go through each section, talk you through what we do when we load onto Amazon. It's a very pract...

Thinking of self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week is the first of two episodes where we focus in on Amazon, the biggest book publishing site available to indie authors. We give a history of the site, interesting facts, and then delve into some of the things you need to know before you load a book....

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, resources and tips.  This week we talk about Author Overwhelm - that place you can get to where there is so much to do, you don't know what you should be doing, and don't know where to start.  We give some tips and strategies to keep you on track in your writing career, so th...

Thinking about self publishing but don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of advice, tips and resources.  This week is the second of our two part special on what to do before you hit publish on your books. This week we talk about formatting, keywords, categories, title, covers, pricing, and book descriptions. 

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week is the first part of a two part series on everything you need to think about or have sorted before you load your book onto the various retail platforms. There's a lot of information, but don't be intimidated, we're just giving you an overview of...

Thinking of self publishing but don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week was a challenge episode - we went out and tried to meet some new people, make some new contacts and network a little.  We all managed to find some new peeps and new opportunities through the people we met...     

Thinking of self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls for 30 minutes of honest advice, resources and tips.  This week we interview another SPA Girl - paranormal author Trudi Jaye. 

Thinking of Self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about the kind of mental attitude that you need to survive as a self publisher. We talk about what we found hard, and how we overcome the difficult aspects, and the positive aspects as well!! 

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about how we set goals, how we try to make them achievable, and what you can do to make sure you end the year having completed them all!   

Thinking of self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talk about where you'll be putting up your books once they're all finished and ready to go up. We give you an introduction to the different distribution sites like Amazon, Kobo and iBooks and the aggregators like Smashwords and Draft2Digital.   

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week was our Christmas Episode, recording in a restaurant, at our annual get together. I can't even believe that the year is coming to a close! We discuss the highs of 2015, the things we achieved, and what we're proud of, and we talked about some of...

Thinking about self publishing but don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we talked about websites for authors. Why you need them, how to set one up, what content to include and a little bit about the style of writing you should use. 

Thinking about self publishing and don't know where to start? Join the SPA Girls each week for 30 minutes of honest advice, tips and resources.  This week we do another author interview, and we talk to one of our own, Cheryl Phipps. She's just published her eighth book, a fantastic new chick lit novel called Jack and Gill.  Join us to find out all about Cheryl's journey to publication, and the adv...