SPRT #144 – 20 Books to 50k: an interview with author Michael Anderle

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Michael Anderle is the author of the Kurtherian Gambit series. His first book, Death Becomes Her, was released in November 2015 and the series has so far sold a little under 20,000 books and has 9.5 Million KENPC read in the last six months. His first five books earned him 10,000 in just 90 days!

With the help of others, he has formed a group called 20booksto50k to find what story ideas authors have that will sell better and allow writing to become our main occupation. And that is why we invited him on the show.

SPRT #143 – Interview with prolific author Amanda M. Lee

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Amanda M. Lee recently bought and moved into a four bedroom house, which she paid for with her writing. This prolific Amazon bestselling author currently has five series—with a sixth on the way—30 novels, 7 novellas, 8 bundles, 33 paperbacks, 21 audiobooks and 4 pre-orders out. Her release schedule is insane, alternating between four ongoing series and publishing at least one or two books a month. She’s both daunting and an inspiration to many authors and we got to interview her!

SPRT #142 – What is Draft2Digital and what can it do for you?

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There are more places to publish than just at Amazon. Draft2Digital is one of the ways you can get your ebook out into the world. What is Draft2Digital? Well, think Smashwords but with a pretty website and no meatgrinder. They’re an ebook distributor which is handy for writers/publishers who can’t or choose not to go direct. Want to hear more? Good, that’s why we invited Dan Wood, Draft2Digital’s Director of Operations and Author Relations to the podcast.

SPRT #141 – 21 day challenge and marketing the result with Chris Fox

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Author Chris Fox returned again, this time to talk about his 21 Day Book Challenge. He decided to write to market in Science Fiction, nutted out the plot, wrote the book, had it edited and published all within 21 days. Not only that but he took it one step further and decided to launch to market as well (marketing book coming soon) with the lofty goal of having the book stay under 10,000 in the paid rankings for 30 days. As of writing this post it is currently sitting at #677! Not only that but he decided to document the whole challenge via vlog, explaining what he did and his reasons for doing so.

SPRT #140 – Erotica, erotic romance fiction and sexy business with Selena Kitt

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We thought we’d add a little spice to the podcast this week by inviting bestselling and award-winning author of erotica and erotic romance, Selena Kitt. Not only does this lovely lady have a successful career writing about the pleasures of the flesh, she’s been very savvy at carving a place for herself in the wider industry. Selena owns and runs a publishing company, an online erotic romance bookstore and two advertising sites. Other notable achievements include: surviving a couple of Amazon pornocalypses and cheekily marketed the affected books elsewhere as being Banned by Amazon, selling the movie rights to a book Babysitting the Baumgartners (it’s being made into an adult movie) as well as receiving many awards for her writing (see her site).

SPRT #139 – State of Self-Publishing Roundtable address

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Because no one wanted to be on the show this week we thought we’d go crazy drunk on air! But none of us wanted to do that so we got together and decided we’d discuss the state of SPRT, the recent changes and additions we’ve made, as well as the multi-author cross promo giveaway. We also decided to torture you further by talking about our individual writing and publishing. Maybe you’ll get to find out what happened to FLOOD–or not 😛