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“What’s a virtual assistant?” I hear you ask. Well that’s what we’re going to find out this Thursday at the usual time. Join us as we interview Meredith, who is more specifically a virtual author’s assistant. We’ll be asking her to remove the mystery that shrouds these enigmatic service providers—because they provide many services to authors/writers—and how you can find one. Feel free to post questions in the comments before and/or during the live recording and we’ll pose them to Meredith and get her take on it. Don’t think you need a virtual—author’s or otherwise—assistant? You’d be surprised at what they can do for you. Think they are only a service you need once you’ve become “successful”? WRONG! Tune in, same bat-time, same bat-channel and find out why.
Meredith is a small-town girl who fell into the publishing world by accident. She now works full time as an assistant for authors in various genres, and enjoys the exciting, fast-paced job. She lives in Nashville, but doesn’t listen to country music.
Can she tell us:
— the things we should look for/ ask when looking for a VA?
— at what point we should consider a VA?
— what noobs can do to keep our VA’s from hating our guts?
Hello all!
Hey Guys!!!! I’mmmmm backkkkkkk! Miss me
*dons fez*
*does the ritual Starting The Podcast dance*
ReneeKelley Hey (waves)
CateMorgan WOO!
I’m awake…maybe…
writerwade Hey you!
ReneeKelley who are you?
Hello All!
ReneeKelley Um…YES?!
ChrishaunKellerHanna Hiya!
ChrishaunKellerHanna Yo, CK!
BatmanErica ReneeKelley A Fan of the show.
xgranville ReneeKelley What have you been up to X?
writerwade ReneeKelley Hello Wade
ReneeKelley xgranville Been working on a few film and video gigs. The short film I composed the music for a few weeks back won some local awards so that’s pretty neat I guess haha
xgranville ReneeKelley Yeah, that’s awesome X. I’m proud of you. You’re so smart and talented.
We they need one, Wade….lol
ReneeKelley xgranville Well thank you! You’re awesome too! 🙂
ReneeKelley Mmyes…
What makes Meredith so good? What’s her specific quality?
ReneeKelley and her specialty? or is she a generalist?
CateMorgan ChrishaunKellerHanna how you doing, girl?
ReneeKelley ohhh… she can talk to people…! I MIGHT HIRE HER!
ChrishaunKellerHanna well I don’t want to talk to people, which is odd seeing as I’m on a podcast 😛
BatmanErica ChrishaunKellerHanna same here! And I teach too!
Word of mouth
BatmanErica Mouff
Dinosaur dick!
BatmanErica The Dinosaur Dick and his dino dick!
How and where do you find authors?
write2 She tends to work for authors she knows from self publishing groups and other social platforms.
write2 kind of already been answered on where authors can find virtual assistants and that’s in forums / groups / blogs you already hang out in and seeing who others are using
ChrishaunKellerHanna BatmanErica Glad I swallowed my drink already, cuz that shit would have been all over my screen. Too funny!
Any more questions from our lovely audience?
Tasteful pictures?
You’re welcome.
Without asking what she makes, how much would writers have to budget for a quality VA?
RChazzChute Danke!
RChazzChute What, you mean like ‘art’? o_O
CateMorgan that just means it’s a black and white pic, right? 😛
CateMorgan RChazzChute They text back saying “Btter lighting nxt time”
SPREADSHEETS!! *drinks*
DON;T ASK HER WHAT SHE MAKES!!
ChrishaunKellerHanna that’s like asking her how old she is…
BatmanErica ChrishaunKellerHanna Poke the bear. He’s just a big teddy, right?
I got the work done so I could get home early and for the money. Not to appease the boss 😛
yes… yes it is, X. Please sit down.
ChrishaunKellerHanna Yeah I know right. When I saw the count even I was like… hey now…
no one talk to xgranville during January. He’ll be busy writing / finishing his WIPs 😛
Xavier, you were so right…
BatmanErica xgranville I’ll just be sitting around wondering where all my friends went haha.
bakwudzbutcher I forgot what I said.
Any last questions? We got 8 minutes left!
7 minutes!
xgranville bakwudzbutcher You were telling me not to miss the show tonight! It really was exciting!
bakwudzbutcher xgranville I forgot we’re all entertaining people.
bakwudzbutcher what has been your fave part?
Cat! Meredith, where’s your husband?
She’s another Jessica Fletcher… is that the reason why she isn’t giving us her name… has she murdered the entire town so she can solve the crimes?
Shall we after party?
BatmanErica I have to go to bed… I’m watching Star Wars before work! (8am show!)
Good night guys
BLACK SPICE BRING IT!
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