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Welcome to another episode of the Self-Publishing Roundtable. The weekly interview show for indie authors, by indie authors.
Just a reminder that we are making our permanent time slot switch this week. The show will be an hour earlier than you regular viewers are used too. We are sticking with this time moving forward.
We were joined this week by superstar author Russell Blake.
Russell is a prolific thriller author and has been very successful with over 20 books now available. He is extremely popular for his postings over on the Kindle Boards and on his own blog. He has been featured on page one of the Wall Street Journal and recently co-authored a novel with legendary adventure author Clive Cussler, to be released by Penguin in 2014.
Trish and Wade were unable to make the show for various reasons. Our friend Darren Wearmouth stood in as guest c0-host for the discussion with Russell.
We talked about:
- His recent cover changes
- His work with Clive Cussler
- His thoughts on indie publishing in general
- His launch strategies and marketing plans
We really enjoyed having Russell on and hope to speak to him again in the future.
We would appreciate anyone who can take the time to LIKE our videos on YouTube, subscribe to our channel, and leave us a reviews over on iTunes.
I mentioned on the show our guest for next week but I got my dates mixed up. We have content editor Harry Dewulf on next Thursday. Courtney Milan will join us the week after on the 20th March and chat to us about book translations.
We are down Trish and Wade tonight so we’ve got a special guest co-host for you to help out on our chat with Russell Blake. See you at 9 EST!
What does everyone think about the new site?
It would be cool if you could leave us a review on iTunes if you have time. Also, remember to like our videos on YouTube as that helps us out a lot too!
Thanks for watching.
Howdy peeps. Site looks great, Carl.
ColinFBarnes Howdy Colin. Thanks.
Just a couple of minutes out from going live. Start chatting already!
Someone likes Divi 😛
Website looks awesome! I’m really liking the sites built with Divi. Need to up wordpress skills before I tackle it 🙁
Hi everyone from sunny Auckland, New Zealand! 🙂
BatmanErica I am Divi. I own that shit beyond anyone’s dreams.
Howdy all. I won’t be watching live as I’m at work and it has IE8 >.<
Hope it’s an enjoyable one and I’ll play catch up later 🙂
I’m ready!
Brand new time slot, same blatant tardiness! Now with extra missing hosts!
Shay Barratt Hey Shay. More than happy to help you out.
nicholaskahler Overlord Kahler!
nicholaskahler Improved?
When we get to the questions section, I’d like to ask Russell when we can expect a new miracle dog book.
Is the live chat broken?
Carl Sinclair Been acting weird for me. Not loading comments. Logged in and out a few times. working okay now
Hello Everyone
Carl Sinclair It seems okay to me, but I’m not seeing many comments.
David Anson Hi David.
* I use Rusell’s proofreader and she’s fantastic. Turns a book around in about 5 days and does a superb job.
Carl Sinclair Shay Barratt Thank you Carl. I appreciate that. When you hear the screams of frustration across the ditch, I may well reach out for a hand 😉
David Anson Hello!
Joe Konrath, on G+ wants to know if Russell serves good booze
I still want to know if Clive serves good booze.
Very interesting show. How do plan and get the books into the 3 act phase?
Because if it’s all about booze, Russell, I’ll fly you in and we’ll drink some 50 year old Macallan.
jakonrath Booze gets mention and Joe shows up… hmmm. Welcome Mr Konrath.
jakonrath good to see you made it
Carl Sinclair jakonrath Does it work like beetlejuice? 😉
jakonrath I’ll take a glass of that…
Late to the party, damn. Oh well. Hi everyone.
How did you go about selecting a pen name deciding to use one in the first place?
Carl Sinclair jakonrath It cost slightly more than I made in 2004. 🙂
Holly Ward has a photography background. She’s a great artist.
Sorry about the chat problems today. I’m not sure what the delay is. I’ll take a look at it after the show.
Oh shit there goes Joe’s ego
PatrickStemp Howdy Patrick.
jakonrath She sure is.
Question for Russell: his advice to new author launching now ?With a series of three books, would launch individually or wait until all three finished and ready to launch at the same time (per Liliana Hart’s method – she had 5 I believe). Select?
Carl Sinclair Seems to be working fine now Carl
If people want to go over to YT and comment because it’s broken here. I will pull your questions from there.
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVPj8HA7Epk (Don’t forget to thumbs up the video! )
Thank for asking Carl – and answering Russell 🙂
hi guys! Looking like a great show!
BrennaAubrey Hey Brenna. We are an hour earlier now so just about finished!
Hi everyone! I’m starting from the beginning of the show, so I’m way behind but wanted to say hello to all you lovely writers.
melissadonovan Hey Melissa.
Carl Sinclair melissadonovanHowdy Carl.
Who is Manana Publishing?
Carl Sinclair BrennaAubrey yikes! is that permanent?
Why does Russell fear clowns?
BrennaAubrey Carl Sinclair Yes. We are going to shift it up to book more guests.
Carl Sinclair BrennaAubreyI’m bummed about the new time. I won’t be able to catch it live very often anymore 🙁
melissadonovan Hi Melissa.
melissadonovan Carl Sinclair BrennaAubrey Well we have itunes and audio download now too. It just worked better for everyone. Do you like the new site?
jlward melissadonovan Hello there Spider-Man.
What dioes everyone think of the new site?
Carl Sinclair melissadonovan BrennaAubrey New site looks awesome
jlward melissadonovanOoh that reminds me. I saw that Spider-Man at Target the other day. It was tempting but I resisted.
Comments aren’t working?
Trish McCallan They seem to be now finally.
Carl Sinclair melissadonovanBrennaAubrey Yes I like it but I haven’t been able to check it all out yet. Is it Divi?
melissadonovan Carl Sinclair BrennaAubrey Yes.
If there’s going to be an after party, go ahead and invite me. Power if back on.
Trish McCallan Hmmm…. Trish comes back. Comments return. Coincidence??
Trish McCallan Yes,
Shay Barratt Trish McCallan Conspiracy
Does anyone want to be in the after party? Let me know in the comments.
jlward boom. right here kevinmichael3@gmail.com
Russell Blake, I miss your shipwreck beard avatar.
jlward Where did Kevin’s comment go?
Carl Sinclair jlwardno idea.
After party please
JohnJayLillie What’s your e-mail address so I can invite you?
Thank you for awesome show gentlemen!
I’d like in on the after party too, please. 🙂
Shay Barratt Thanks for watching, Shay.
ColinFBarnes ok
jlward Shay Barratt It’s the highlight of my Friday John 🙂 I’ll try and drum up the courage to join the after party next week 🙂
Carl mentioned that we have Courtney Milan booked for March 20th, what he didn’t mention is we’ll be talking about translations. She’s in the middle of translating her books into German, Spanish, French and Italian.
Shay Barratt jlward I hope you do. We need kiwi power.
Trish McCallan This is why we need you on Trish!
jlward ColinFBarnes colinbarnes79@gmail.com – his email John.
I only got about 15 minutes of this one cuz you changed the time on me but Russell was awesome! Thanks for the great show !
And i don’t mind if you guys think I had something to do with the comments going down. 🙂 See the power I wield? You should be afraid of me now. Very afraid.
BrennaAubrey Well you can watch back : ) or download the mp3/itunes later on!
Trish McCallan We are, always.
Carl Sinclair BrennaAubrey Yes, definitely! thanks 🙂
jlward JohnJayLillie Need your email addy John.
If anyone else wants in we have a couple of spots.
I would like to hear the afterparty comments but can’t figure out how to because I’m technoplegic. 🙁
kcano123 You’ll have to join the hangout. I’ll need your e-mail address to invite you.
I’m LATE!
JayChastain Chastain…..
Holy crap! Courtney Milan next week. Wowza. This was an excellent show. Your guests are stellar. Left an Apple review. Cheers.
kcano123 jlwardWhere did you submit your e-mail? Can you post it here in the comments?
TarynMarkele Thanks Taryn.
In related news of how awesome I am. This show is already available for mp3 streaming/download and should be on it’s way to iTunes.
kcano123 Carl Sinclair Hey. Sorry the after-party is just an offline Google Hangout where we chat. We don’t record the audio as it’s mostly just random conversation. The invite was sent out but sometimes they just don’t work. Thanks for watching!
kcano123 Yes it should send you an email to let you join the Google Hangout.
Carl Sinclair kcano123Okay. Maybe if there is someone else on I will try again. Russell is my favorite author so I was bummed I never received an invite. I posted my email and waited for an hour. 🙁
If you can do a seance with Somerset Maugham that would be cool too.
kcano123 Carl Sinclair It usually works better with a Gmail account because it’s linked to a google account where the invites come. With Hotmail and other emails sometimes it just doesn’t work. We did send out the invites to everyone who asked. Sadly, we can’t control Google’s workings.
Carl Sinclair Shay Barratt give me a few weeks and we can outnumber them 😛