by Erica Conroy | Mar 5, 2016 | Podcast
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Heard of Kindle Scout? It’s some mystical American Idol-type way of getting your ebook published by Kindle Press. Many people are vying for votes and have been since it was set up earlier last year. One author who braved the Kindle Idol judges and came out the other side with a contract and her book in eprint is Donna White Glaser. She joined us to discuss what exactly Kindle Scout is, what Kindle Press has done for her and her ebook and what she plans to do next.
by Erica Conroy | Feb 27, 2016 | Podcast
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Romance author and former SPRT host Trish McCallen returned to the show! Trish reported on the happenings, juicy details and innovations she learned while at the Romance Author Hawaii Conference Retreat held earlier this month. And remember romance authors are usually at the forefront of change in the publishing industry so this was quite interesting! We’ll also learned what Trish has been up to since leaving SPRT and her future plans.
by Erica Conroy | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
This is advice that all authors receive at one point or another and that is: to never read the reviews.
Sometimes we do. We can’t help it. We authors are a curious lot. I’m sure we’ve all sneaked a peak and found something that irked our authorly minds. So I’m sure you can totally relate to the below stick figure comic about being an author…
by Erica Conroy | Feb 23, 2016 | News
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Chrishaun Keller and Robert Chazz Chute joined Erica and special guest Chris Fox to discuss the below topics:
– Scribd is limiting it’s unlimited subscription
– Science Fiction authors banding together to help you discover sci-fi!
– Amazon is not hiding reviews so stop freaking out!
– Reedsy launches its new Book Editor
– Literary fiction mourns the loss of two epic authors
by Erica Conroy | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
We recently interviewed Mina Carter on the SPRT podcast (episode #119) and I asked her about about mindset and amongst the great answers, she said she writes even when she doesn’t want to, when she thinks she is out of ideas. She ended her sentence saying that she just shook her head whenever she heard people say that they could only write when they are “inspired” (she used the verbal version of the quotes I just used there).
I shuddered and may or may not have gone on a mini diatribe (ok, I totally did). I hear this very specific type of fallacy often from writers that are better than me but are not doing the work. It usually sounds like this:
I really do want to write, but I sit down and I can’t get inspired to write . I can even write a few things, but then I can’t get into it or I read what I have written and start over.
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