SPA Girls – EP441 – Discovery Writing With Kimboo York
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In this podcast we talk to KimBoo about her latest book Secrets of Discovery Writing.
We dive into how you can successfully use discovery writing when crafting your novel. It’s an awesome podcast and one the pantsers among us will really enjoy.
KimBoo York is a GenX elder-goth whose main life purpose is to provide a good life for her rescue mutt, Keely-Boo, who is perfect and beyond reproach in every way. She is also a librarian, former project manager, and a professional author who wears too many hats and crosses too many genres including romance, fantasy, and non-fiction.
She is a bit grumpy, especially in the morning.
By the Seat of Your Pants: Secrets of Discovery Writing
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP439 – Using The Enneagram For Authors with Claire Taylor
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The Enneagram is a personality typing system, where each person falls into one of nine types. Today we’re talking with author, educator and fiction strategist, Claire Taylor, about how understanding our enneagram type liberates writers from the “shoulds” and self-judgement, and helps us become more successful as authors.
About Claire
Fiction strategist and owner of FFS Media, Claire Taylor publishes her fiction through her company, under four pen names. She also helps authors through her Story Alignment and Author Alignment services, as well as her masterclasses and non-fiction for authors.
An Advanced Certified Instructor through the Enneagram Spectrum Method, as well as an Accredited Practitioner of the Integrative Enneagram (iEQ9), Claire uses the Enneagram framework to help authors create stories that stand out and careers they love.
Check out www.ffs.media.
Sign up for Claire’s FREE 5-day Indie Author Alignment course here
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SPA Girls EP – 429 – How To Create Your Author Business Plan
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Business Planning for authors isn’t too often discussed, but the minute you go from hobbyist writer to publishing-for-profit, congratulations! You’re now a business entrepreneur.
So what is a business plan? It’s the foundation of your business, a road map of your business structure, future projects, markets, earnings and expenses.
It sounds more complicated than it needs to be. With that in mind, we’ve put together a simple SPA Girls Business Plan template you can download for free from https://www.selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/businessplan/
Completing this as you’re recovering from the holiday season could be just the ticket to kicking off your new year with a clear mind and solid goals.
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP416 – Emotional Wounds with Angela Ackerman
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This week we chatted with Angela Ackerman, one of the authors of the classic writing book, The Emotion Thesaurus.
If you’ve never picked up one of the amazing thesauruses by Angela Ackerman and her co-writer, Becca Puglisi, you’re missing out! Created especially for writers, the ten different thesauruses will help you add emotion, be more creative, and make your book sing!
In this particular episode (aside from Trudi and the other SPA Girls singing the praises of Angela’s books) we talk to Angela about emotional wounds – what that means, why it’s important for our characters and how we can add emotional wounds into our writing and give our characters more depth.
Check out Angela’s website, Writers helping Writers, by clicking here for more information.
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP 413- Back Engineering a Bestseller
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Today’s topic was prompted by a commenter on youtube who asked us about reverse engineering bestsellers. What makes a book, be it your second one published or your tenth, sell more than others.
We believe there are many variables to that. Timing, tropes, the first 10% of how a book starts. The cover, blurb, and other popular tv or books that may have similar aspects.
There are many things to consider, and today we take a dive into why a book can launch a career!
SPA Girls’ bestsellers at time of recording:
Wendy Vella, Sensing Danger
Trudi Jaye, Hidden Danger
Cheryl Phipps w/a CA Phipps, Apple Pie & Arsenic
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP409 – Six Figures with Short Romance – with Sadie King
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USA Today Bestseller, Sadie King has grown her publishing business from zero to six figures in less than four years, writing short instalove romances. Knowing her reader’s journey is vital to her success.
In this episode we discuss Sadie’s:
- short romance publishing strategy
- rapid release strategy
- targeted wordcounts for Amazon Kindle’s 60m, 90m and 2 hour reads categories
- Techniques for writing short fiction
- Gaining visibility especially when you’re just starting out
- Keep readers hooked from one book to the next
- Crafting a funnel for readers.
- Must-have scenes in short romance
- Making paid advertising work for short fiction
Sadie’s “must have” scenes for short romance:
- Quick meet cute
- Thrown together
- Get to the steam fast (1 – 3 steamy scenes)
- Conflict
- Resolution
- Epilogue
She is currently writing 16k – 20k words with 1500 words (approx) per chapter; 2.99 price point
Resources mentioned:
Sadie’s new non-fiction book, Writing Short Romance for Pleasure & Profit
Writing Short Romance for Pleasure and Profit: How I Became a Six Figure Author Writing Short Romance
Tammi Labrecque’s Advanced Automations Course:
You can listen to Tammi being interviewed by the SPA Girls on Episode #378
SPA Girls Podcast – EP378 – Be A Newsletter Ninja with Tammi Labrecque
Mark Dawson’s Ads For Authors course
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