So long and thanks for all the likes and listens. SPRT closed on 15 December 2016
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The Self-Publishing Roundtable (SPRT) was a podcast and blog

run by indie writers for indie writers.

 

Every Thursday Night we used to stream an interview or discussion live on YouTube, and this website.
For those who like to read words, we (or a guest) sometimes blogged on Wednesdays.


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Most Recent Podcasts and Blog Posts

SPRT #130 – The Authors of the Podcast-alypse with Hank Garner, Stephen Campbell and Patrick Stemp

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Ever wondered why your favourite podcasters (who also happen to be authors) decided to start a podcast? Want to know how they spend their time and if they regularly rub virtual shoulders with the writing elite? Then watch this special uber-podcast and find out!

This week’s special guests:
– Hank Garner (Author Stories Podcast)
– Stephen Campbell (The Author Biz, CrimeFiction.FM and The Taylor Stevens Show)
– Patrick Stemp (To Be Read Podcast)

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Marketing is Farming, Not Hunting – by Chris Fox

Marketing is Farming, Not Hunting – by Chris Fox

Writing a novel is an immense undertaking, and before you finish it you think it’s the most daunting thing you’ll ever do. Then you DO finish it, and suddenly you need to figure out how to get people to read it.

Before long you realize you need to learn this strange sorcery called marketing, so you start asking around, reading blog posts, and digesting anything else you think will help. Then you start posting ‘look I wrote a book’ to Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else you think people might see it.

People throw rotten tomatoes, and you quickly retreat back into your introvert shell. You realize that all the Facebook groups you joined are full of other people like you who are also yelling BUY MY BOOK as loudly as possible.

The method described above is the hunting approach. Your prey are readers, and you are stalking them through the internet wilds. The sad reality is that isn’t very effective. Readers are canny prey. You must get them to come to you. How? You’ll have to

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Weekly Round up of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 7 February 2016

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Patrick Stemp from the To Be Read podcast and Chrishaun Keller joined Erica for this week’s Roundtable Round Up. They discussed the below news items:

– Amazon announces KENPC 2.0
– New York Times Best-Seller List ignores authors 20k+ book sales
– Young Adult finally recognised
– Google’s new “Digital Book” may be digital, but is it a book?
– Steam has an interactive story called Emily is Away

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