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, 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.
by Amelia D. Hay | Authorpreneur Podcast, Outlining Your Novel, Productivity, Season 3: How to Outline a Story, Self-Publishing, Tech for Writers, tools, Writing
As you can guess from the title of this show, I chat with Dave Chesson from Kindlepreneur about his new all-in-one writing software, Atticus. For those who don’t know, Atticus is a brand new all-in-one writing software for writers launched at the end of 2021. That’s when the reviews of the software first launched.
by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, Marketing, Season 2: Writing Adventure During a Pandemic, Self Publishing Services, Self-Publishing, tools
In this episode, I share a momentous writing update, a surprising update on my Fussy Librarian book promotion. And, I discovered a great tool for self-published authors at a great price.
by Amelia D. Hay | Author Platform, Authorpreneur Podcast, BTS Podcast Diary, business, Season 2: Writing Adventure During a Pandemic, Self-Publishing, Tech for Writers, tools, Writing
In this episode, I share how after months of frustration with the slow speed of my website, I took the plunge and moved web hosts. And, I discuss along with the results of another free promotion on Kobo, and my experiments with pre-orders on Amazon.