by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, business, Marketing, Season 2: Writing Adventure During a Pandemic, Self-Publishing, Writing
There’s light at the end of the tunnel for the second book in my James Lalonde series. I’ve made a tonne of progress this week on fixing the issues in the story arc. In book marketing news, I started dabbling in Amazon ads for the US store. I’m going to share why I turned off the Amazon Ads on the UK store. On top of all of this, I experienced a few exciting author first’s this week.
by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, Marketing, Outlining Your Novel, Revision, Season 2: Writing Adventure During a Pandemic, Self-Publishing, Writing
Coming up in this episode, I’ll share my experiences in experimenting with Amazon advertising and the results of the book promotion services that I purchased during the last week in January. And, I’ll discuss how I discovered that I’d written a pile of garbage which is the current state of book two in the James Lalonde series.
by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, Marketing, Revision, Season 2: Writing Adventure During a Pandemic, Self-Publishing
Coming up in this episode, I discuss exactly what I did during my first ever book launch. And, I’m also going to discuss a few experiments in book marketing as a new author. I’ve also changed my mind about something essential to my book marketing plan.
by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, editing, Marketing, Season 2: Writing Adventure During a Pandemic, Self-Publishing
Coming up in this episode, I’m going to discuss where I’m at in the publishing process for Missing, my thoughts and plans on how I’ll self-publish my mystery novella, and a few more marketing ideas. Before we dive into my exciting publishing news, I want to first talk about a slight change to my podcast and why I struggled with consistently publishing episodes. And, what I plan to do to overcome these issues in the future.
by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, Marketing, Season 2: Writing Adventure During a Pandemic, Self-Publishing, Writing
Over the years, there has been a big push by some well-meaning people to avoid putting all your eggs in one basket and publish your books to all of the platforms or go wide. But, is this the best advice for a new author? In this episode, I’m going to discuss the difference between going wide and enrolling in the KDP Select programme and what you need to consider before deciding. And at the end of this section of the podcast, I’m going to share three actionable steps to help you decide which option is right for you. After that, in the second part of the podcast, I’m going to share with you a short behind the scenes author diary update.
by Amelia D. Hay | Plot and Story Structure, Self-Publishing, Writing
In celebration of the start of season two, I’m taking a look back at the most popular podcast episodes from season one with help from the Blubrry Statistics dashboard. The episodes in this roundup style post are included purely based on the number of downloads, and complete or partial listens since the podcast was first submitted to iTunes and stitcher back in December 2017.
by Amelia D. Hay | editing, Outlining Your Novel, Revision, Self-Publishing, Tech for Writers, tools, Writing
Welcome to the second Ask Me Anything on Writing Episode, in this video tutorial I will discuss how to use scrivener to organise, write, revision, and edit a novel.
by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Tech for Writers, tools
Have you been thinking about starting a podcast but have no idea what podcast microphone to buy? Perhaps you’ve already purchased a microphone and realised that it picks up every single sound in your house. Or, maybe you’re on the fence about starting a podcast and are wondering about the basic set-up to get started? If any of these situations apply to you then this podcast tech unboxing is for you.
by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Authorpreneur Podcast, business, Self-Publishing, tools, Writing
In the pursuit of sharing what I know and building a sustainable career as an author, I’ve turned to use Patreon as a writer to create another stream of income for my business. The one thing I’ve learned in business through my successes and failures is not to put all your eggs in one basket and to create a business that sustainable long term.
by Amelia D. Hay | business, Productivity, Self-Publishing, Writing
For quite some time, I’ve been sitting on the fence about whether I should share my writing goals progress report with you. Part of the reason for my indecision was the first half of this year didn’t go as planned. The first six months of 2019 were filled with some distractions, getting back into writing, and the editing process not going the way I had expected. Every time I share my writing goals and progress reports, there seems to be a familiar theme; things didn’t go as planned. If this is something you can relate to, then you’ll feel right at home on this blog. But first, let’s take a quick trip down memory lane.
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