SPA Girls Podcast – Ep403 – How Not To Fail at Self-publishing
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In this episode, we’re looking at failure and putting a different slant on it. By changing the way you think of failing at a certain thing and thinking of it as simply a part of learning. You are future proofing the way you react to any result.
Fail = First Attempt In Learning.
Don’t measure yourself by how others are doing. They had their own journey and would have failed at something along the way. Successful people use those moments to push through, pivot, or try a new iteration. Learning is a part of the process.
Letting go of a perception is hard, we get that. However, you shouldn’t let that outcome define you. Don’t dwell on it. Instead, find a way to deal with it and to stop the negative talk. A way that moves you forward.
Tips:
Try not to compare your achievements with other authors.
When you don’t succeed, ask yourself if you put everything into the attempt.
Can you write a different genre?
Do you need more eyes on your work?
Look at your process – did you follow it?
Take the word fail out of your vocabulary.
Find the next thing that will work for you.
Do the best you can every time you start something.
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP377 – New Year New You
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Happy New Year from the SPA Girls !
In this episode we talk about what goals and plans we have for 2023, Rom Com style using Billy Mernit’s book, Writing The Romantic Comedy. We work through his story beats.
Set Up. Catalyst. Turning Point. Midpoint. Second Turning Point. Crisis Climax. Resolution.
The SPA Girls open a vein and talk about what we want to implement and change in 2023.
(there will be no fries with this, ignore Trudi)
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Join us at the $10 tier, and you’ll be invited to our private Self-Publishing Mastermind group for authors, where we discuss all things self-publishing, marketing and writing PLUS answer all your questions. Come on in and join us, we’d love to see you there!
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP375 – Celebrations And Things We’re Grateful For
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The Spa Girls wish you a wonderful Christmas and today we’re sharing our celebrations and things we’re grateful for.
From Shar’s first taste of travel in three years and reaching 1000 subscribers on Youtube, all Wendy’s historical books hitting the top in that category and doing German translations, Cheryl achieving her goal of four books for 2022 and opening a store, Trudi finally finished a series and found a course that resonated more than she could have hoped for, there is plenty celebrate.
The grateful list was long and included our guests who keep things real, listeners old and new who make us want to continue, doing what we love, family and author friends who support and get us, and on to entrepreneurs who build products and supply services which make our lives easier—we thank you all.
Listen in to for a more comprehensive list and maybe there are some things that resonate with you too.
Take care and make sure to recharge over the season.
💗 The SPA Girls podcast is sponsored by everyone who supports us on Patreon. Thank you so much, we love our listeners and our patrons!
⭐ Join us at the $10 tier, and you’ll be invited to our private Self-Publishing Mastermind group for authors, where we discuss all things self-publishing, marketing and writing PLUS answer all your questions. Come on in and join us, we’d love to see you there!
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP372 – SciFi Romance with Honey Phillips
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This episode is another deep dive into an intriguing genre that’s been doing really well for indie authors in recent years. USA Today bestselling author Honey Phillips joins us in the SPA to talk about Science Fiction Romance – what it is, what are readers looking for, how she got started writing in it, and everything in between. Sci-Fi Romance is a distant cousin to Monster Romance (see episode 368 with Lillian Lark), and there are some similarities between the two genres, but Honey gives us a fascinating breakdown of the main expectations of SciFi Romance readers, and what she does to be so successful in the genre… and it’s not always what you’d expect! (Side note: As her name suggests, Honey was a delight to talk to!)
About Honey Phillips
USA Today bestselling author Honey Phillips writes steamy science fiction romance about hot alien warriors and the Earth women they can’t resist. From abductions to invasions, the ride might be rough, but the end always satisfies.
Honey wrote and illustrated her first book at the tender age of five. Her writing has improved since then. Her drawing skills, unfortunately, have not. She loves writing, reading, traveling, cooking, and drinking champagne – not necessarily in that order.
Find her at www.honeyphillips.com!
💖 The SPA Girls podcast is sponsored by everyone who supports us on Patreon. Thank you so much. We love our listeners and our patrons!
Join us at the $10 tier, and you’ll be invited to our private Self-Publishing Mastermind group for authors, where we discuss all things self-publishing, marketing and writing PLUS answer all your questions. Come on in and join us; we’d love to see you there!
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP369 – Make Luck Through Belief
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Today we talk about not relying on luck to build your career.
We believe you can make your own luck, but don’t wait for it to happen!
Ron Weasley (or not, we’re not really sure) says believing in yourself is 100% more powerful than luck!
Overnight success may happen for some, but if you dig deeper often, what appears to be a lucky break is actually from years of hard work to get to that point.
Wendy, Cheryl, and Trudi dig deeper into this subject in the podcast.
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP365 – Write To Riches with Renee Rose
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In this episode we talk to the amazing Renee Rose about her new release Write To Riches! We love having Renee on the show; she’s an amazing guest, and we always finish feeling so much more motivated and inspired. We hope you feel the same way. 🙂
Renee is a 15-time USA Today bestselling romance author who loves a dominant, dirty-talking alpha hero. In her career she’s sold over two million copies of steamy romance with varying levels of kink.
She’s also passionate about helping other authors find and maintain an abundance mindset to catapult their careers and create their best future. She wrote Write to Riches so she could teach more people about the power of the abundance mindset, manifesting your desires, and attracting wealth.
Find her at:
write2riches.com
reneeroseromance.com
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