122I – Finding Your Voice in Audiobooks: An Interview with Will Dages
Will Dages joins us today from Findaway Voices, part of the larger company, Findaway. Will is Head of Product there, which is perfect for him since he’s an avid audiobook listener and the kind of guy you can tell really wants to help you, the author, succeed. After a quick background into how they started…
121T – Goals From the Top Down
The beginning of a new season – be it a week or month or year or whatever – is quite often a good time to stop and think about what you’ve accomplished recently, what worked, what didn’t, and what you want to accomplish in the next season. In this episode, I suggest several ways to…
120E – The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer. Amanda is a popular musician, and her indie approach to her music and her fans reminds me a lot of the indie approach to self-publishing books. The thing is…Amanda isn’t afraid to ask her fans for what she needs.…
119T – Knowing Your WHY Will Change Your Writing
Today’s episode is taken from a live writing workshop I taught at my church in Malmö, Sweden, in November 2018. In this first portion of the talk, I discuss the “why” of your writing and how that “why” will help you choose topics and stories that will impact your audience to a greater degree. (See…
118I – Writing For a Brand: An Interview with Nancy Naigle
Today’s author, Nancy Naigle, is a delight to talk to! She’s got such great stories about how she started writing, how she got involved with Hallmark Publishing, the excitement of seeing Hallmark movies adapted from two of her books (Christmas Joy and Hope at Christmas, published by St. Martin’s Griffin), and how fun it is…