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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 - EP267 - How To Start A Series

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/11/25

Want to make sure you give your first book the best possible chance of success? And then have readers auto-buying the next in your series? Then this is the podcast for you! This week we give you a checklist of elements for a successful first book in a series, before you even start writing a single word! We talk about everything - including the tropes that sell, what backmatter to use, what kind of characters readers love and much more in this overview of how to make sure the first book in your

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP266 - Nail Your Keywords with...

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2020/11/18

Why does Amazon choose someone else's book over yours to show in a search? And how can we make sure to use the best keywords for sales? Well wonder no more! We've got the answers for you in this info-packed episode! We're joined again by the awesome and knowledgeable, Dave Chesson, Founder and CEO of Publisher Rocket and Kindlepreneur. Dave breaks down all the best practices for getting the right keywords to deliver your book to the right readers, every time. About Dave Chesson A former Navy

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51:44

SPA Girls Podcast - EP 265 - Reader Groups

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/11/10

Today’s podcast is all about reader groups. Are they worthwhile? How they work and why you would want one? Wendy has recently started one, and we discuss how that is working for her, and also talk about some more established reader groups the SPA Girls belong to like, Lucy Score, C N Crawford, and Marie Force. Once again an episode chock full of information! You’ll find all the show notes and SPA Girls podcast episodes at: www.spagirlspodcast.com Make sure you’re signed up to our weekly

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP 264 - Insider Writing Secrets

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2020/11/04

A good old fashioned craft episode from the SPA Girls this week. Shar, Wendy and Cheryl discuss insider writing secrets from James Scott Bell's book Fiction Attack! They pull out five important secrets that have most impacted them, and discuss what they mean and how they've used them in their writing. From using conflict and suspense, to description, fuzzy POV, cliches and info dumps, they go deep on some of those writing secrets that will take you from average to amazing!

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP263 - SPA Girls Listener Q&A

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/10/27

In this episode we’re answering listener questions - a couple around the change of life many are experiencing right now. We have a few suggestions that helped us through switching to full time writing and the fickle motivation issue. Then we discuss how to tackle being visible in your local market. If you’ve had to deal with these things or are going through them now, please tell us about it on our Facebook page or comment on this post. Keen to join the SPA Girls in a live workshop? Join our

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SPA Girls Podcast - The Four Tendencies

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2020/10/21

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP261 - Imposter Syndrome with...

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/10/13

BONUS - enter before Friday 16 October to win one of three FREE tickets to the Unstoppable Woman virtual summit in November 2020 Here's how to enter: Post on facebook before end of day Friday 16 October (make it public - you may need to change settings for the post) and tell us ONE reason why you'd like to attend the summit, then hashtag #unstoppablesummit #spagirlspodcast SIMPLE! Today we're delighted to welcome back mindset coach, Amira Alvarez. We had such a wonderful response to our previous

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP260 - Interview with Danielle...

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/10/07

This week we have an intriguing chat with author Danielle Annett (aka Daniela Romero) , who has recently switched genres from Urban Fantasy to Contemporary Romance, with some amazing results. She talks us through the decision to change genres, and what she did to make it a success, including some of the big decisions she had to make, such as whether to create a new pen name, how to market it, and what kind of social media/website and newsletter presence she wanted to have with the new genre/name

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SPA Girls - EP259 - Email Advertising Lists

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/09/29

What email promotion sites are working for us - plus, how to prepare your holiday season advertising! Christmas is coming whether we like it or not and starting now, as far as advertising is concerned, you need to get your ducks in a row. Spaces will already be dwindling as authors lock in their ads and if you want to have any decent ones, take our advice and get to it today. This week we look at the major sites we use, as well as some of the smaller, and talk about our success, or lack of it, with

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP258 - Nail Your Newsletter with...

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/09/22

This episode is a DOOZY! We're thrilled to interview author and marketing expert, Holly Mortimer. Holly is the owner of the consulting firm, The Socialvert, and runs a successful membership base and mastermind for romance writers, The Socialvert Society. Her mission is to teach romance writers how to use digital marketing and email list building to increase their sales and cultivate a loyal fan base. We talk all things email marketing with Holly, and get you some 'next level' tips that'll have your

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP257 - Connie Dowell

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/09/16

Today we're going to talk with author Connie Dowell about juggling family responsibilities, pandemic postponements, and upheaval, with the responsibilities of being a working writer. Connie B. Dowell is an author of historical and cozy mysteries and nonfiction for writers. She is the host of the Book Echoes podcast for authors. After having two kids in less than two years, Connie developed a passion for time management and loves to chat author productivity and work-life balance. A former university

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP256 - Self Publishing Versus...

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/09/09

In response to a listener question, this week we attempt to answer the question: Knowing what you know now, if you were starting out in publishing today, would you go straight to self publishing, or would you try out traditional publishing first? It's a hard question, because we're not starting out now, we do know an awful lot more than we did when we first started and when we started (7-8 years ago) everything was different. And also, we all clearly believe in self publishing over traditional...!

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP 255 - Newsletter Strategies

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2020/09/02

This episode we discuss our (very!) different newsletter strategies: what provider we use and why, how we build our lists, our content, how frequently we email subscribers and what tips have worked for us. We also cover where to start for newbies - ie, keep it simple and doable! You’ll find all the show notes and SPA Girls podcast episodes at: www.spagirlspodcast.com

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP254 - Interview with Tamsin Ley

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2020/08/25

Today we're talking with Alaskan author, Tamsin Ley, who is seeing great success writing SciFi Romance! We talk about Tamsin's writing journey, marketing strategies, paranormal romance quirks and her fantastic advice for all self-publishers. You can find Tamsin at: http://tamsinley.com/ About Tamsin Tamsin Ley builds worlds full of sexy heroes who don't know they need a mate - that is, until they meet the woman they can't resist. The romance is sizzling hot, a surprise twist waits around every

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SPA Girls - EP253- Amira Alvarez

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/08/18

Amira Alvarez is the founder and CEO of The Unstoppable Woman, a global coaching company helping entrepreneurs, empire builders, athletes, creatives, and rising stars in all fields achieve their dreams and goals in record time. As someone who has made a quantum leap (going from barely making 6-figures to making $700k in one year, then onto 7-figures) and has lived to tell about it, she knows exactly what tactical strategies and mindset shifts are required to get out of your own way, live life on

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SPA Girls Podcast - Uncomplicate Your Publishing

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/08/12

There's so much noise on the internet, and so many different things that we're told that we "have" to do to be successful as self publishers, it can get confusing and overwhelming. So this week we decided to talk about ways to keep things simple in your publishing career. How to un-complicate your publishing career, if you will. :) One thing we really believe in here at the SPA is that simple is better. With this in mind, we talk about our own experiences of attempting to keep things simple, and how

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SPA Girls Podcast - Ep 251 - Alana Terry, Facebook...

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/08/04

Alana Terry is a 6-figure, USA Today bestseller with more than forty published Christian suspense novels. She hosts the Successful Writer Podcast which is a fabulous marketing-focused podcast for indie authors of any genre. Alana has also created several highly regarded courses to help authors reach their dreams of achieving creative and commercial success. Today we're going to talk with Alana about how she uses advertising to grow her readership and how authors can navigate the sometimes confusing

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SPA Girls podcast - EP250 - Celebrating 250 Episodes!

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/07/29

It's Our 250th Episode! No, we can't quite believe we've been around this long either! Five years of publishing a new episode every week, countless amazing guests, industry experts and inspiring authors, lots of banter and (hopefully!) actionable self-publishing advice for our listeners. We go right back to our first episode (don't worry, we won't replay it), discuss the ONE piece of advice we'd give to new self-publishers and what we've learned / what's changed, over the years. Thank you to

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SPA Girls - EP249 - Interview with story coach Lisa Cron

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/07/21

Having trouble getting to 'the end' of your work in progress? then this podcast is for you. It's packed with so much information you'll have to replay it several times! Lisa Cron is a story coach and the author of Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers From the Very First Sentence and Story Genius: How To Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages that Go Nowhere) both published by Ten Speed

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP248 - Dealing With Your...

SPA Girls Podcast ·

2020/07/15

We're on the couch again this week! We're talking about our limiting beliefs and how we're tackling them. If you're not sure if you've got a limiting belief... we're pretty sure you do. Probably more than one. It's a belief that's holding you back, and it's the kind of thought pattern that you definitely want to bring out into the open, so you know it's there, and can work on ways to change or amend it. Limiting beliefs are something you probably think is just a fact, or just true, about yourself

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