Self Publishing Journeys

Adam Nicholls is an indie crime writer with a writing tally of 15 books written over and 18 month period. He has created the Evie Black and Mason Black series as well as the Salinger trilogy. He’s just in the process of moving over to a new genre, writing under the name A.C. Nicholls. Adam shares many of his writing challenges in the excellent Kindling Facebook group. It is the writing model recommended in the Kindling community that he has followed to get his own career underway. Find Out More: Adam’s brand new website! http://adamnicholls.net [I built this for Adam using the free Hemingway WordPress theme at https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/hemingway/ and using my favourite hosting service, Siteground, which you can access via my affiliate link at http://paulteague.com/siteground] Adam Nicholls on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8201611.Adam_Nicholls Adam’s Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adam-Nicholls/e/B00KHUQOEY Follow Adam on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authoradamn

This Week's Talking Points 1) This is how week 1 of my writing went https://youtu.be/VFP_Yrjnab0?t=8s :-) 2) I used SpeechPad for my transcriptions: https://www.speechpad.com/ 3) Crime and Publishment event: http://www.crimeandpublishment.co.uk/ 4) InstaFreebie for free e-book giveaways: http://www.paulteague.com/IF [Affiliate link] Also look at BookFunnel: https://bookfunnel.com/ 5) My 'work in progress' Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/PaulTeague it's probably still a bit early in my podcasting career to be pushing this for the time being! 6) Excellent ALLi guide to the best indie author competitions: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/allis-self-publishing-service-directory/award-and-contest-ratings-reviews/ 7) Brian Tracy's 'Flight Plan': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flight-Plan-BRIAN-TRACY/dp/1626563225/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

Clare Lydon is a writer of contemporary lesbian romance and host of the Lesbian Bookclub Podcast. She’s a No.1 best-seller on lesbian fiction charts around the globe. Clare has five full-length novels to her name, as well as writing the All I Want series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Chris Longmuir is an award winning crime writer. She is best known for her Dundee Crime Series, featuring DS Bill Murphy. Night Watcher, the first book in the series, won the SAW (Scottish Association of Writers) Pitlochry Award, and the sequel, Dead Wood, won the Dundee International Book Prize, as well as the Pitlochry Award. Chris recently launched new historical crime thriller, Devil's Porridge and has also published a non-fiction book entitled Crime Fiction and the Indie Contribution. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Dina Santorelli is a writer editor, author and blogger. She is the author of the award-winning debut novel, Baby Grand, a top-rated mystery/thriller and best-selling organised crime thriller on Amazon Kindle. Having edited more than a thousand articles over the years, Dina has developed a keen and confident eye when it comes to polishing writers’ text, whether for articles or books. Dina has been a freelance writer for over 15 years and has written for many publications and websites. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

Melissa Addey writes historical novels and non-fiction books. The first novel, which was set in China, The Fragrant Concubine, was longlisted for both the Mslexia Novel Competition and the Historical Novel Society Indie Award. It landed Melissa an agent at Coombs Moylett & Maclean Literary Agency. She also writes non-fiction books, the first being 100 Things to do while Breastfeeding and the second titled The Happy Commuter and has recently released The Storytelling Entrepreneur and Merchandise For Authors. Melissa just finished a year as a Writer in Residence at the British Library in London and has spent three months this year being a blogger for Mslexia, the UK's bestselling magazine for women who write. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

Harry Bingham is the author of the Fiona Griffiths series of crime novels. The series is set in Cardiff and features a heroine described by the Sunday Times as ‘The most startling protagonist in modern crime fiction … brutal, freakish and totally original.’ Harry also created the Writers’ Workshop in 2005 by spending an initial £800 on a website offering editorial services. The Writers’ Workshop is now the largest editorial consultancy in the UK. The Festival of Writing is the biggest and best writers’ conference in the UK, and Agent Hunter is the UK’s premier online literary agent search tool. Harry's books on Getting Published and How to Write are among the leading titles in their field and the first Fiona Griffiths novel was televised by Bonafide and broadcast on Sky Living. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors Author Platform Bootcamp Feature with Ian Sutherland I am currently testing Ian's http://authorplatformsidekick.com/ service and this is an update on how it's going. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

If you want to get your books ordered by traditional bookshops and libraries, then you need an alternative solution to publishing via Amazon's Createspace. It's all to do with the ISBN numbers and the distribution channels, and it's a topic that confuses and trips up new indie authors time after time. Put simply, you need to use a service like IngramSpark - in conjunction with Nielson for your ISBNs - to access the traditional distribution channels. As the Marketing Manager at Ingram Content Group, Andrew Bromley is familiar with every question that indie authors could possibly ask about printing on-demand with the company. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Kerry Fisher spent half her life talking about writing a novel, then several years at Candis magazine reviewing other people’s. It wasn’t until she took some online courses with the University of California that the dream started to morph into reality, culminating in the self-publishing of The Class Ceiling. The Avon imprint of HarperCollins picked it up and retitled it The School Gate Survival Guide, publishing in summer 2014. Kerry’s second book, The Island Escape, came out in May 2015. It won first prize at the York Festival of Writing for the opening line: ‘I was wearing the wrong bra for sitting in a police cell’. Her latest novel, After the Lie, was published by Bookouture in April 2016. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

David Gaughran is an Irish writer who spends most of his time travelling the world, collecting stories. He is the author of the Latin American historical adventures Mercenary and A Storm Hits Valparaiso, the short stories If You Go Into The Woods and Transfection, and the popular writers’ guides Let’s Get Digital and Let’s Get Visible. He runs the publishing blog Let’s Get Digital and the Latin American history site South Americana, and his work has been featured in the Huffington Post, The Sunday Times, and the Irish Times. I caught up with David at this year's Festival of Writing in York where he was giving several presentations about self-publishing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

Ginny Carter is a business book ghostwriter and book writing coach - she's known as The Author Maker®. She is on a mission to turn established coaches, speakers and consultants from ‘experts’ into ‘experts-with-a-book’, so they can set themselves apart from the competition. Prior to becoming a writer, Ginny worked in marketing for 22 years, including 3-4 years as a freelance social media manager. She either ghostwrites clients' books in their own voice or coaches them through the process of writing and launching. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

Rachel Amphlett is the bestselling author of the Dan Taylor thriller series, as well as a number of standalone crime thrillers. Originally from the UK and currently based in Brisbane, Australia, her novels appeal to a worldwide audience, and have been compared to Robert Ludlum, Lee Child, and Michael Crichton. With plotlines ripped straight out of the news, the international settings and colourful characters bring the world of modern espionage to life, exploring complex technology while providing an adrenalin-fuelled reading experience. Rachel is releasing the first book in her new Kay Hunter series on 6th December 2016. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Celina Grace a full time indie author, Top 100 UK Amazon bestseller & host of the Indie Author School. Celina is UK-based and wrote her first book - The Blue Ruby - at age 7. She experimented with screenplays, scripts and short stories and then had a very long and frustrating journey trying to get traditionally published. This was in spite of achieving 3rd place in the 2004 Lit Idol competition, being shortlisted for the 2006 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award and longlisted in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. So Celina decided to go it alone with indie publishing and - despite making £10 in her first week - everything changed for her in an incredible way when she made that decision ... she's a full time indie author and a Top 100 UK Amazon bestseller. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Joanne Phillips is the author of the romantic comedies Can’t Live Without, The Family Trap, and Cupid’s Way. She also created the Flora Lively series of contemporary mysteries. Can’t Live Without was an Amazon top 20 bestseller in 2012 and her books regularly appear in category bestseller lists. Before becoming a writer, Joanne had jobs as diverse as hairdresser, air hostess and librarian. She has a Masters degree in creative writing and is a high-profile indie author, and a champion of quality in self-publishing. Joanne is also teaching the Self-Publishing Success course via the Writers' Workshop. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message