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Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing Podcast

Lindsay Buroker

Interviewing and Learning from Successful Authors

business management & marketing

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SFFMP 183: Succeeding on a Book a Year with CW Lamb

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2018/05/30

This week, scifi and fantasy author CW Lamb joined us to talk about how he got his start in 2014, how KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited helped him launch his first book to great success, and why he’s sought out an agent and is also looking for a traditional deal. Here are some of the specifics we discussed: What it

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SFFMP 182: Selling Direct from Your Site and...

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2018/05/23

If you’ve been wanting to sell direct from your site, figure out how to turn your current readers into rabid fans, and learn about this new GDPR thing everyone is talking about in regard to mailing lists, you’ll want to listen to today’s show. We had return guest Damon Courtney from Bookfunnel on, and he talked about concerns of authors

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SFFMP 181: Spreading out Your Advertising Dollars for...

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2018/05/16

This week, epic fantasy/fantasy romance author Miranda Honfleur joined us on the show. She launched her first series last November and has kept book 1 selling well and sticking in the Amazon fantasy charts while releasing more books in the series. She has three out now with a fourth to follow later this summer. We asked her how she did

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SFFMP 180: Discoverability, Flagship Series, Product...

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2018/05/09

Hey, folks! I (Lindsay) got back from the Sell More Books Show Conference this weekend, where I was one of several speakers. I took notes on some of the presentations that resonated most with me, and I shared them with Jo and Jeff on the show tonight. We proceeded to discuss them a bit. Hopefully, you’ll find it useful to

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SFFMP 179: Marketing Wide vs Marketing in Kindle...

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2018/05/02

We had a great chat with David Gaughran this week. He’s a historical fiction author who dabbles in science fiction now and then, and when he’s not writing fiction, he’s keeping an eye on the publishing scene and analyzing what’s working for authors who are going wide and selling well on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc. and also what’s

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SFFMP 178: Making Good Money with Serial Novellas and...

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2018/04/25

On this week’s show, YA fantasy author Sarah K.L. Wilson joined us to talk about the successful Dragon School serial she’s publishing on Amazon (and in Kindle Unlimited). She’s put out nine installments since the beginning of the year, publishing a new one every 18 days, and she’s kept them selling with Amazon ads and sheer momentum. Here’s a little

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SFFMP 177: Paying the Bills as an LGBT Urban Fantasy...

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2018/04/18

We’re joined this week by LGBT urban fantasy author Holly Evans. She believes LGBT spec-fic is an up and coming sub-genre with a lot of potential, and even though it’s niche, she’s able to pay the bills writing it. Whether you’re interested in it or not, a lot of today’s interview should apply to any author thinking of writing in

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SFFMP 176: Launching Well as a New Author, Writing...

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2018/04/11

This week’s interview features NYT best-selling indie fantasy author Jasmine Walt. She talks about how she burst onto the scene a couple of years ago with her popular Baine Chronicles series and breaks down why she think it hit big even though she was a new author at the time. We also ask her about her various collaborations and how

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SFFMP 175: The Rapid Release Strategy, Getting...

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2018/04/04

This week, Jo, Jeff, and Lindsay answered listener questions on a variety of topics such as how to spend $1,000 on advertising to get the most out of your launch, how to get reviews as a new author, whether we use review or street teams, and how often to release books if you’re banking them to do a rapid release.

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SFFMP 174: Outlining Your Novel for More Efficient...

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2018/03/28

Today, we were joined by return guest Scott King, the author of Outline Your Novel: The How To Guide for Structuring and Outlining Your Novel and The Five Day Novel, as well as numerous fantasy and young adult adventures. He recently jumped into epic fantasy with the first book in his Elderrealm series, Wrath of Dragons. We grilled him on

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SFFMP 173: From Indie to Hybrid, Six Figure Audiobook...

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2018/03/21

On today’s show, we had the honor of chatting with Michael J. Sullivan and his wife and business partner Robin Sullivan. These folks were self-publishing right at the beginning of the movement (before the kindle even became a thing), and have seen and tried a lot over the years. After finding indie author success, they accepted a deal with Orbit,

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SFFMP 172: Making It as a Newer Author, Marketing YA...

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2018/03/07

Like many new authors, Caroline Peckham‘s first series, a YA fantasy adventure, The Rise of Isaac, didn’t sell as well as she’d hoped. For her second series, she did a lot of market research and switched to a more popular type of YA fantasy, vampires in a contemporary paranormal setting. She also adopted some more effective marketing tactics and had a

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SFFMP 171: Lindsay’s Launch Numbers (Earned vs...

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2018/02/28

Our three hosts were by themselves today and answered some listener questions that had been stacking up. They ran the gamut and included selling more audiobooks, selling more paperbacks, selling more in international markets, increasing newsletter open rates, and what you should do to start gathering a mailing list of interested readers before you launch your first novel. Lindsay also

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SFFMP 170: Keeping an Older Series Selling, Nebula...

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2018/02/21

On this week’s show, military science fiction author and retired Marine colonel Jonathan Brazee joined us. We talked about the wisdom of sticking to one genre and writing a series and spinoff series all in the same universe, and how that can help with marketing. It doesn’t hurt to be prolific, either! We also talked about SFWA, where Jonathan is

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SFFMP 169: Writing Across Genres, Getting New Books...

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2018/02/12

This week, David Estes–author of dystopian fiction, children’s fiction, and epic fantasy (with more genres on the way)–joined us to talk about jumping into epic/military fantasy last year, how he managed to launch well into a new genre, and how he’s kept his books in the category top 100s on Amazon for the last year. We also discussed how he

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No Show This Week

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2018/02/07

Sorry, all! We ran into tech issues this week, and unfortunately our interview with Damon from Bookfunnel wasn’t recorded. We are hoping we can reschedule with him. In the meantime, please check out the Bookfunnel blog for lots of tips on giving away/selling exclusive content to your readers.

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SFFMP 168: Mailing List Tips and The Three-year,...

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2018/01/31

Return guest Patty Jansen, who continues to make a great income from her fiction without being a mega seller, joined us today (live from Lindsay’s office) to talk about different types of mailing lists we can run as authors, organizing group promotions, and using a global approach to marketing that will gain you fans on all the platforms and all

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SFFMP 167: Encouraging News from the Author Earnings...

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2018/01/24

The new Kobo Writing Life director, Christine Monroe, joined us to talk about the strength of indie publishing, new features relevant to authors at Kobo (including the upcoming ability to upload audiobooks via the KWL dashboard), and some positive news from the recently released Author Earnings Report. Here are some of the specifics we covered: How Christine came to be

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SFFMP 166: Best Price Points, Does Book Length...

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2018/01/17

One of our earliest guests on the podcast, almost 150 episodes ago, was Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords. We had him back on this week to talk about some of his predictions for the coming year and marketing tips derived from the 2017 annual survey of the Smashwords sales and distribution data. Note: we had some technical issues so

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SFFMP 165: Relaunching a Series, Bookbub Ads, and...

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2018/01/10

A return guest joined us on the show this week, Bryan Cohen, non-fiction author, podcaster, and author of fairy tales and superhero fiction. We talked about the fairy-tale-writing pen name he launched in 2016 and the big relaunch (including edits, new covers, and new ASINs on Amazon) he did of his first fiction series in 2017, where he turned it

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