SPA Girls Podcast – EP01 – Introducing The SPA Girls

spa girls sqHi everyone, and welcome to the first-ever podcast by the Self publishing Authors Podcast, or the SPA girls as we like to be known.

We’re four New Zealand-based romance authors, who are trying out self publishing online through stores like Amazon, Kobo and iBooks, and we want to give you a few of the tips, tricks and tales of the things we’ve learned along the way.

Designed with the newbie in mind, we take you from the very beginning, answering those questions you were too embarrassed to ask – basically helping you to avoid the mistakes and pitfalls that we (sometimes) fell into.

It’s our first ever show, but we do know what we’re talking about, and we promise you’ll pick up some gems worth listening for. So sit back, relax, and join the SPA Girls for episode number one.

Any comments, feedback, questions, complaints, please let us know. We’re happy to converse, and will do our best to help.

Structure of the shows:

Four episodes per month, each with a different focus. 

Marketing – social media, building a platform and other relevant topics.

Craft – mental aptitude, finding time to write and all those juicy things that we love to sink our teeth into.

Interview – Guests will offer insights into their self publishing journey.

Challenge – a task that you and the SPA Girls will complete each month.

What have the SPA Girls learned about Self Publishing?

  • Allow yourself to make mistakes and learn from them.
  • Build your community.
  • Age is not a barrier.
  • Don’t rush things, take your time because you’re in this for the long haul.
  • Don’t get hung up on marketing your first book (unless you’re only writing one then get hung up all you like).

Understanding why you write and what you want out of it

  • Understanding within yourself: what gives you satisfaction? What level of investment are you willing to give?
  • Understand what your personal drive for success is.
  • Understand your weaknesses and strengths.
  • How can you set about turning your dream into reality?

 

This Month’s Challenge

We think it’s important to have people you look up to in any career, and self publishing is no different. So our first challenge is to find and research someone you admire in this industry. Find out what makes them successful, how long they’ve been published, check out their social media, and then we’d love you to post what you’ve found out on our page.

We’ve chosen people we admire, and we’ll be posting our findings soon:

Cheryl – Marie Force

Trudi – Lindsay Buroker

Shar – Joanna Penn

Wendy – Courtney Milan

If you can think of a challenges or questions that you want us to research or help you with, then please ask us. There is no question too big or small

Links 

www.marieforce.com

www.lindsayburoker.com

www.thecreativepenn.com

www.courtneymilan.com

 

www.spagirlspodcast.com

@spagirlspodcast

 www.facebook.com/SPAGirlsPodcast

Any comments, feedback, questions, complaints, please let us know and we’ll ignore you… no but seriously, we’re happy to converse, and will do our best to help.

 

 

Author: SPA Girls

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