Self Publishing Journeys

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Author Platform Bootcamp - occasional episodes featuring practical tips and techniques to help indie authors to grow their online platforms. This episode finds out how Ian Sutherland's Author Platform Sidekick can help to grow a huge Twitter audience. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

Edward Trayer writes fiction books for children under the pen-name Billy Bob Buttons. He is the author of sixteen books to date and is published by The Wishing Shelf Press. In 2011, his book Felicity Brady and the Wizard’s Bookshop was long-listed for the International Rubery Book Award, and Tor Assassin Hunter was a runner up in the 2012 UK People’s Book Prize. In 2014, I Think I Murdered Miss won the UK People’s Book Prize. He visits over to 200 UK primary schools every year delivering literacy workshops; it is estimated he has met with over 150,000 children over the last three years. He is also the founder and organiser of The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Ali Luke writes blog posts, non-fiction e-books, and fiction. Ali works with authors too and her website - Aliventures - covers the art, craft, and business of writing (both fiction and non-fiction). She has written for several popular blogs like Copyblogger, The Write Life, Write to Done, The Creative Penn, ProBlogger and Daily Blog Tips as well as Writers’ Forum magazine. As a self-published author, it's very likely that one of Ali's books has already passed through your hands. She is the author of Publishing E-Books For Dummies, which was published by Wiley in 2012. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Ian Sutherland is the crime fiction author of the Deep Web Thriller Series, novels that expose the darker side of the online world to dramatic and suspenseful effect. Exploiting knowledge gained from his career in the IT industry, Ian’s thrillers caution readers on how dangerous the internet can be for the unwary. Ian also takes advantage of his experience in technology in the way he uses social media to help drive awareness of his books. With over 100,000 followers on one of his Twitter accounts, and still growing, Ian has figured out how to make Twitter power his book marketing strategies. Ian shares many of his techniques in Advanced Twitter Strategies for Authors, his first non-fiction book. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Jennifer is a bestselling author, professional novelist, and a story coach who turns struggling novelists into writers of books that keep readers hooked from page one. It took her 18 years to publish her debut novel because - Jennifer says - she fell victim to the belief that because she had read lots of stories it meant that she could also write one. Jennifer has written fiction and non-fiction and has been featured on numerous high-profile online websites such as Huffington Post, CopyBlogger & ProBlogger. In her most recent article - in Huffington Post - she explained why she had decided to write nine books by the end of the year in order to ramp up her author earnings. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Griselda Heppel was born in Vienna and grew up in England and Germany. After reading English at Cambridge, Griselda worked in publishing before a move to Oxford with her husband to bring up their 4 children put her career on hold. She took up writing seriously 10 years ago. Her first book, Ante's Inferno, won the Children's People's Book Prize, a Silver Wishing Shelf Award and was runner-up in Writing Magazine's Self-Publishing competition. Griselda's latest book, The Tragickall History of Henry Fowst, is a dark tale of magic, mystery, demons and Faustian pacts as an Elizabethan diary comes to life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Maggie James is a British author who lives in Bristol and writes psychological suspense novels. Before turning her hand to writing, Maggie worked mainly as an accountant, with a diversion into practising as a nutritional therapist. She's best known for her thrillers, but also writes about non-fiction topics, in particular nutrition, but she has also written a book about writing, called Write Your Novel! From Getting Started to First Draft. Recently she accepted a publishing deal with Amazon's Lake Union imprint, which will involve the republication of her first novel, His Kidnapper's Shoes. In addition, Lake Union will publish Maggie's sixth fiction title, Burning Obsession, which is currently undergoing editing and revision. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Peter O'Connor is the book cover designer who created all three covers for my Secret Bunker Trilogy. Peter runs his business via the website bespokebookcovers.com alongside his wife, Caroline. If you go to look at the website I don't think that I've ever seen such a compelling collection of audio testimonials praising Peter's work and support through the design process. I've experienced it first hand, and indeed left Peter a testimonial myself, so I was very happy to get the opportunity to see what goes on behind the scenes when a new cover is created. In this interview, Peter discusses the factors which help to create a fabulous book cover and advises on the things to do if you want to avoid some common mistakes with book covers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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A quick pre-podcast warning about the content in this week's show. We are going to be discussing the writing of erotic fiction, so we will be using several words of a sexual nature. We'll also be making references to pornography and the depiction of sexual scenes. There's nothing rude or offensive in there, it's a sensible discussion about the topic from an author's point of view. However, if you are easily offended, please skip this episode and join us again next week if you think that this one might offend you. Coming up then - a discussion about writing sex scenes in fiction and erotic fiction. If you're happy to proceed, enjoy the show! ---------------------------- Ashley Lister is a prolific writer of erotic fiction, having written more than two dozen full length erotic novels and over a hundred short stories. Aside from regularly blogging about writing erotica, Ashley also teaches creative writing. He has hosted a creative writing workshop at Eroticon, the annual conference for sex bloggers and erotica

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Molly Looby is the author of ZA and many other unpublished works that haven’t yet seen the light of day. She self-published the Immorality of Immortality trilogy between 2011-2015 and that series is made up of Playing with Reality, Gambling a Fairytale, and Chancing the Truth. Molly lives in Essex in the UK and spends almost all of her time hunkered down at the desk under her stairs which is currently sufficing as her study. Her writing achievements include a stunning 315,000+ total NaNoWriMo word count, achieved over five years of taking part in the annual event. She has also launched her own company, Molten Publishing, which is hybrid publisher – somewhere between indie and self-publishing- sand they specialise in YA fiction. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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