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Weekly Write-Up: 22nd April 2020
The Kindle Storyteller award returns, BookBrush are presenting an SPFU webinar tonight, and we launch our new course: How to Write a Bestseller.
Why You Should Consider a Publishing Internship
Indie author undercover.
Staying Well at Conferences & Events
It’s not just the virus you’ve got to watch out for!
6 Things You Should Do After Networking
The writers event is over. What next?
How to Format a Book with Draft2Digital
The free and simple way to format a book using Draft2Digital.
Weekly Write-Up: 4th March 2020
Mashable runs an article about successful self-published authors, Quentin Blake self-publishes his illustrations, and the 101 course opens tonight.
How to Prepare for a Writer’s Conference
Perfect your pitch, make friends, know where the toilets are.
Weekly Write-Up: 26th February 2020
Bookouture signs indie duo Vargas and McBain, and a BBC article goes into the history of Amazon and how they harvest customer data (for our benefit).
Literary vs Genre Fiction: What’s the Difference?
Different categories, or literary prejudice?
Weekly Write-Up: 29th January 2020
How to revive your backlist, the SPF merch store opens, and a Netflix show mentions self-publishing.
Weekly Write-Up: 8th January 2020
How reading has changed in the last decade, getting the science right in writing crime fiction, and how you can make the most of SPF this year.
Weekly Write-Up: 18th December 2019
Amazon reviews go crazy, Ads for Authors closes today, and 2020 is just around the corner.
Weekly Write-Up: 4th December 2019
Wonderbly joins “self-publishing” (or what it thinks is self-publishing), and Lithub lists the “best” covers of 2019.
Weekly Write-Up: 16th October 2019
Kobo Writing Life now accepts self-published audiobooks, and how to make the most of your Kindle keywords.
Weekly Write-Up: 11th September 2019
The Metro has an interesting interview with LJ Ross, and Amazon India announce the third year of their Pen to Publish contest.
Weekly Write-Up: 3rd July 2019
Book sales aren’t falling (they’re just changing), and sales of audiobooks are on the rise (see?).
Weekly Write-Up: 17th April 2019
A 94 year-old gets her poems secretly published, and a woman writes erotic novels whilst undergoing chemotherapy.
SPF-137: Why You Need to be Publishing Audiobooks – with Tina Dietz
The popularity of devices like Alexa have created a rise in the demand for audio to educate and entertain commuters and laundry-folders alike. James talks to Tina Dietz about creating audiobooks from both our fiction and non-fiction work.
This week’s highlights include:
- The importance of creativity in every type of business
- How creativity makes us more productive
- The different approaches to audiobooks by fiction and non-fiction authors
- Thoughts on narrating your book yourself
- The range of cost for producing an audiobook, including what you can expect to pay a narrator
- Auditioning narrators to find the right voice for your book
- Providing character information to narrators to find a good fit
- Reading your book outloud yourself to get a sense of your characters’ voices
- The three reasons for starting a podcast
Resources mentioned in this episode:
PATREON: Self Publishing Formula Podcast’s Patreon page
TINA’S WEBSITE: StartSomethingPositive.com Creative Business Solutions
Word Counts. Who Needs Them?
It’s not how many words you have that counts, it’s how you use them.