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SPA Girls Podcast

SPA Girls Podcast

Each week the SPA Girls provide information, tips and honest advice on self publishing for indie authors. Hosted by four experienced self-publishing writers, we provide a mix of interviews, craft shows, and marketing information that will help you start your self-publishing journey. Join us today!

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP426 - How To Launch A...

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2023/12/12

Wondering how to best launch your next book or series? Listen up, because we’re joined again by the bestselling fantasy author, Helen Scheuerer, who shares all the secrets of a Successful Series Launch, including: · How You Should Handle Your Book’s Backmatter · Using Pre-Orders Effectively · Getting ARC readers · Running A Successful Street Team Easily · Best Timing For Book Releases Helen is a rare “three timer” guest on the SPA Girls Podcast

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP425 - Book Launch Strategies

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2023/12/05

Congratulations! You’ve finished your first book (or series) and are ready to hit the publish button! So what can you do to get your book noticed in the sea of other new books, and how can you find the right readers for you? This episode, we’re getting down and dirty with practical suggestions for you to create your own successful launch plan, even if you have no existing fans / mailing list / backlist. Links -

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP424 - Bookfunnel Tips For Authors

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2023/11/28

Most authors know what BookFunnel is these days (just in case: it's a platform that helps you deliver reader magnets, ARC copies, audio files, and so much more to your readers) but do we all know how to use it the best we can? I'm pretty sure the answer is no! That's why we spent this episode with Damon Courtney, creator and CEO of BookFunnel, going over all the functions, from the innovative ways that successful authors are using this platform to deliver ebook files, to using features like the

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP423 - Turn Setbacks Into Success

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2023/11/22

Bumps on the publishing path are unwelcome yet inevitable. So how can we reset ourselves when the wobbles and disappointment set in? Today we’ve got a SPA Girls 6 - Step Guide to turning those setbacks into success: Embrace The Rain Reheat The Pasta Rapunzel It Be Like A Dog Jump Off The Cliff Be An Antelope, Not A Hyena (for an explanation of these, you need to listen or watch the episode!)

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP422 - Writing Side Characters -...

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2023/11/15

Side characters - how do you make them memorable, but not over-take the spotlight? And what purpose do they serve in the story? This episode, the awesome author and educator, Sacha Black, gives us the scoop on developing incredible side characters that will take your story from blah to bleepin' amazing. She takes us through three different types of side character and how to create juxtapositions that SELL BOOKS. Sacha says: “If your book is a body, then your protagonist is the heart, the theme is

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP 421 - Book Marketing With...

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2023/11/08

This week we talk to Carrie Elks about amping up your book marketing. It's a fantastic and informative interview packed with great tips and advice that you won't want to miss! Carrie writes contemporary romance with a sizzling edge. Her first book, Fix You, has been translated into eight languages and made a surprise appearance on Big Brother in Brazil. Luckily for her, it wasn’t voted out. Carrie lives with her husband, two lovely children and a larger-than-life black pug called Plato. When she

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP420 - Why Forward Planning is...

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2023/11/01

This week we talk about the forward planning we all do for our author careers. Because we're all so different here in the SPA, we all plan differently, and have different goals. But that means there will be nuggets of gold for everyone in this episode! We go through what it means to forward plan in your author business, why it's important, where we start from, what we think about when we do our planning, and how to actually get it down in a format that works for each of us. No two people plan

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP419 - The Best Mindset for...

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2023/10/24

Self-publishing since 2010, Amazon top 100 best-selling Amazon author with 1million books sold, Sarra writes magical contemporary fantasy novels with both teen and college aged characters (and lots of twists you'll never see coming). Do you feel like a hamster on a wheel? Sarra talks to us about her solution to planning without all the heartache and leading us to be more joyful. “When we sit down to plan we see the perfect scenario. Then Life gets in the way.” About Sarra Cannon: Sarra Cannon

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SPA Girls Podcasts - EP418 KU to Wide; Selling...

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2023/10/18

We’re thrilled to welcome UF/PNR author Sarah Piper to the show today. Sarah has seen great success publishing across a number of genres, and we discuss her strategy moving from Amazon-exclusive to publishing wide, selling her audiobooks direct and working with your spouse! This episode is packed with incredible information and actionable advice from Sarah, so you’ll want to listen more than once - with a pad and pen nearby! About Sarah Piper Sarah Piper is a witchy, Tarot-card-slinging paranormal

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP417 - Amazon Category Changes:...

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2023/10/10

Amazon has moved the furniture again! This episode, Alex Newton, founder of K-Lytics, explains Amazon’s category changes, what they mean for authors, and how best to categorize your books now. We also discuss other recent Amazon changes dating back to September '22, the impact on authors' rankings and specific romance category changes and general trends. Alex Newton is the creator of K-lytics (www.k-lytics.com) a website where you can get in-depth reports on various genres and sub-genres on

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SPA Girls Podcast - Angela Ackerman

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2023/10/05

This week we chatted with Angela Ackerman, one of the authors of the writing classic, The Emotion Thesaurus. If you've never picked up one of the amazing thesauruses by Angela Ackerman and her co-writer, Becca Puglisi, you're missing out! Created especially for writers, the ten different thesauruses will help you add emotion, be more creative, and make your book sing! In this particular episode (aside from Trudi and the other SPA Girls singing the praises of Angela's books) we talk to Angela about

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP415 - How to get Unstuck

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2023/09/26

There are many ways we get stuck as authors. Some ways you can get stuck is in the writing, editing, time management and making decisions areas. Getting unstuck is much harder and yet easier than we think. Letting go of perceptions of our writing or our characters helped Trudi a great deal when she put off writing the last book in a series - for years! Cheryl had to get past the fear of getting edits back and find a way to embrace the process to get them done. For Shar, it’s being done with the book

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP414 - Interview with Publishing...

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2023/09/19

We’re thrilled to welcome back Kathryn Le Veque to the SPA! Kathryn is a Publishing Powerhouse, with years of experience as a bestselling author, and CEO of Dragonblade Publishing. After first interviewing her back in 2018, we wanted to discuss what industry changes she’s seen in those five plus years, and what she predicts for the future in the wider publishing landscape. Kathryn shares her unique publishing insights and forecast, historical romance trends, why she doesn’t have an author

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SPA Girls Podcast EP 413- Back Engineering a Bestseller

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2023/09/12

Today’s topic was prompted by a commenter on youtube asked us about reverse engineering bestsellers. What makes a book, be it your second one published or your tenth, take off. We believe there are many variables to that. Timing, tropes, the first 10% of how a book starts. The cover, blurb, and other popular tv or books that may have similar aspects. There are many things to consider, and today we take a dive into why a book can launch a career! The SPA Girls podcast is sponsored by everyone

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP412 - The Successful Hybrid...

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2023/09/06

This week we talk to fiction and non-fiction author Katlyn Duncan, who wrote the non-fiction books The Successful Hybrid Author (all about being a hybrid author) and Take Back Your Book (all about how to get your rights back after being traditionally published). She shares her path to becoming a hybrid author, but also what you need to know about being hybrid, how it works, the pros and cons of traditional publishing versus indie publishing versus hybrid publishing, and how to get your rights back

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP411 - YouTube for Authors with...

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2023/08/29

Author Jenna Moreci is a YouTube sensation! With almost 300k subscribers on her YouTube channel "Writing with Jenna Moreci", ten years of making videos, and over 28MILLION views, she's produced an incredible body of work. So how has this impacted her writing and publishing, especially as her audience is both writers AND readers? We cover Jenna's YouTube and writing journey, her best practices and tips for authors starting out (and whether it's right for them) and how her YouTube channel has

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP410 - When Your Marketing Isn't...

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2023/08/23

Marketing, but not achieving results? Maybe you need to do a bit of a deep dive into why. -Steady is good and not doing things at warp speed, but I think consistency is the real key. We tend to think if we try something and don’t get instant results, they don’t work. But that’s not always the case. Often what didn’t work first up may the second time around. We in the SPA have tried soooo many things, and what works for one of us doesn’t necessarily for another. So why is your marketing not working

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP409 - Six Figures with Short...

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2023/08/16

USA Today Bestseller Sadie King has grown her publishing business from zero to six figures in less than four years, writing short instalove romances. Knowing her reader’s journey is vital to her success. In this episode talks about short romance publishing strategy rapid release strategy targeted wordcounts for Amazon Kindle’s 60m, 90m and 2 hour reads categories Techniques for writing short fiction Gaining visibility especially when you’re just starting out Keep readers hooked from one book to the

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP408 - Branding for Authors

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2023/08/09

This week we take an in-depth look at author brands - starting with what branding actually means, what your branding should look like as an author, and then how you can make sure your author brand is the best it can be. We talk about how newbie authors can set up a brand for the first time, and how more experienced authors can reassess your current brand and make any necessary changes. As always, we talk about decisions we've made with our own books, what we've done to create the branding for each

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP407 - Making Your Writing...

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2023/08/01

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Alessandra Torre has written twenty-three novels, including multiple New York Times bestsellers. She is also the creator of Alessandra Torre Ink - an authors community and online school with over 20,000 members. She is also the founder of INKERS CON, an annual authors conference. A self-publishing advocate, Alessandra speaks frequently to universities, conventions and author groups and we’re delighted to welcome her back to

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