In the first of three ad platform-focused episodes, bestselling urban fantasy author and SPF student, Shayne Silvers, explains how mastering Facebook ads helped put his career into overdrive.
In the first of three ad platform-focused episodes, bestselling urban fantasy author and SPF student, Shayne Silvers, explains how mastering Facebook ads helped put his career into overdrive.
Author Kevin J. Anderson has written books based on films, written in the Star Wars and X Files universes, seen the ups and downs, gold rushes and bookstore bankruptcies. Through it all, his defining characteristic has been to keep writing. Tune in for some major league inspiration and advice for both newbie and established authors alike.
Ex-detective and USA Today bestselling author Holly S. Roberts explains how to avoid common mistakes writing police procedurals and the importance of getting the police mindset right.
Mailchimp announces some questionable changes (or does it?), and writers demand to self-publish in Persian.
He’s an ex-Marine, the 20 Books conference series show runner and a prolific writer to boot. It’s not surprising that Craig Martelle knows a thing or two about author productivity.
Five examples of common mistakes in writing. Don’t worry – they’re easily fixable.
Killing Eve wins some BAFTAs, trad authors don’t earn enough, and a helpful guide to setting up UK Amazon Ads.
USA Today Bestselling author Suzan Tisdale wrote her first book with highly unusual motivation. Now, she’s sold hundreds of thousands of copies of her Scottish highland historical romances and shares her tips about marketing, motivation and writing for the senses.
Bestselling author Alessandra Torre discusses the six key errors she made when she started self-publishing. Find out what they were – and get ahead of the game!
Turning to crime and making it pay. M.J. Arlidge on the switch from TV screenwriter to bestselling thriller author.
From profile pictures to Linktr.ee links to hashtags on Instagram – everything you can do to boost visibility for free.
A 94 year-old gets her poems secretly published, and a woman writes erotic novels whilst undergoing chemotherapy.
Dan Blank explains how to use relationship strategies to build your self-publishing business.
Amazon are banning alleged book-stuffers, POD makes yearbooks cheaper, and China has a crazy bookstore.
Author Barry J. Hutchison discusses his early career as a trad author of books, screenplays and comics and why the switch to planet indie has proved to be such a game changer for him.
We catch up with the creator of the 20 Books to 50K author movement at LBF ’19 who explains how he smashed his original goal as an indie author and the implications of his own personal journey for other writers looking to self-publish.
Sacha Black explains how to craft villains that readers will love to hate.
Alex Newton explains how big data can be artfully used by indie authors to profitably target genres – and sub-genres.
Indie author Steff Green explains what inspired her to write in the new romantic sub-genre of ‘reverse harem’ and how her readers have responded to the change.
Danny Boyle’s new film seems to rip off a self-published story, a much-hyped traditionally published book bombs in the UK, and you can now listen to Mark’s BBC appearance.