by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, editing, First Draft Tips, Marketing, Outlining Your Novel, Revision, Season 3: How to Outline a Story, Self-Publishing, Writing
In the spirit of celebrating the 100th episode milestone, I’m going answer the top questions asked by my Blog Readers, YouTube Subscribers, and Podcast Listeners, and questions asked through my Ask A Question form on my website.
by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, editing, Marketing, Point of View, Season 3: How to Outline a Story, Self Publishing Services, Self-Publishing, tools, Writing
At present, I’m struggling to sell book two in my amateur sleuth mystery series, and I’m going into detail about my experiments to get this bookselling and my issues with publishing direct to Barnes and Noble upon the advice of going wide webinar. Let’s just say that I regret leaving Draft 2 Digital. And I discuss how I’ve screwed up my amateur sleuth mystery series.
by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, Marketing, Season 3: How to Outline a Story, Self-Publishing, Writing
In this episode, discuss what I’ve been doing in February. I also share my frustrations about a tech fail and newfound thoughts on this product and delve into why I’ve changed my mind. Also, I discuss a few things I did for the podcast, plus a marketing experiment I did this month. And I share my experience writing a locked room mystery
by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, business, Marketing, Season 3: How to Outline a Story, Self-Publishing, Writing
So, I decided to list Suspicion for free and promote it using various newsletter book promotion services ahead of the release of the second book in the James Lalonde series. In this episode, I will share more of my experiences with Ad stacking.
by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, business, Productivity, Season 3: How to Outline a Story, Self Publishing Services, Self-Publishing, tools, Writing
This year, I’ve decided to start my podcast by looking back at everything I achieved in 2022. After that, I will discuss the products I loved in 2022 and will continue to use in 2023. I will also not dive too deeply into metrics like hours or word count because that’s not helpful. In fact, as a coach, I hate metrics because it doesn’t contribute anything of value, especially in the writing space. Everyone writes differently. Some people need to write slowly, think and research as they write. And if that’s you, it’s okay to write that way and slowly build your backlist. But I’ll hop off my soap box now.
by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, Plot and Story Structure, Season 3: How to Outline a Story, Self Publishing Services, Self-Publishing, tools, Writing
In an upcoming episode of the authorpreneur podcast, I discuss how I stopped supplying my three-act structure Scrivener template to my email list and the reasons that led to the decision. As I was editing that episode, I had an idea.