Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 19 June 2016

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Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our fortnightly podcast where we invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.

Author Zoe York returned! She joined Robert Chazz Chute, Xavier Granville and Erica Conroy to discuss the below topics:

– Amazon is cracking down on advertising sites
– KDP Accounts being shut down without warning!
– Author Earnings May Report

SPRT #148 – Demelza Carlton’s Rock Star Mailing List Strategy

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Audio available!

Australian author Demelza Carlton joined us to talk about building her mailing list from very low to over 15,000 in just six months! We asked her to share with us exactly how she did it, how much it cost and how one would maintain a list that size once you’ve attracted oodles of subscribers. We also talked about her writing, publishing but not her fear of swimming with fish 😛

SPRT #147 – JuNoWriMo with Becca J. Campbell

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We interviewed the founder of JuNoWriMo, Becca J. Campbell and learned how the challenge started, the effort that goes into running an event of this scale, about her own writing and a lot of other interesting things along the way.

JuNoWriMo is a challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That’s 1667 words a day! It’s also a community of writers and aspiring writers to get together and offer support, motivation and friendship. It’s almost like NaNoWriMo except it’s in June instead.

Interview is available on both audio download and youtube.

SPRT #146 – Sci-fi author TS Paul talks about his success selling short fiction

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TS Paul published his first eBook mid-February of this year. It was the first in his Athena Lee Chronicles, a short form sci-fi serial, which he followed up with a second book just two weeks later. Since then he has released one eBook every two weeks. The length of each instalment varies wildly from 34 – 148 pages and he’s charging $2.99 a pop! What’s even more interesting is that they sell!

So of course we invited him over to the podcast to tell us how he does it, why he does it and what he plans to do next.

Fortnightly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 29 May 2016

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Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our fortnightly podcast where we invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.

Author Zoe York returned! She joined Chrishuan Keller Hanna and Erica Conroy to discuss the below topics:

– Ellora’s Cave are at it again…
– Trad published authors are afraid we’re devaluing their beautiful books!
– Bookbub Ads coming soon
– Another trad pub acquires self-pub company
– Then this from Zoe…