Join the SPA Girls for a weekly show with information, tips and advice on how to get started with self publishing your books. If you're new to self publishing, we'll help you dip your toes in the water, answer the questions you were too afraid to ask, and generally show you that it's a great place to be!
This week we have a very special guest – Glenna Mageau, book blurb coach and writer extraordinaire who takes us through how to write a blurb that sells more books. Glenna has a proven system she uses to improve her own book blurbs and she’s been tea…
This week we tackle the topic of formatting your ebooks. We talk about the difference between outsourcing the formatting and doing it yourself, and the pros and cons of each option. Then we talk about what we’ve done in the past and how we do it now,
Publishing your book to Amazon KDP is the first step … then the second VERY important step is setting up your Amazon Author Central account and optimizing your Amazon Author Page. Too many new self-publishers miss the second step and it’s costing the…
This week we talk about a subject dear to our hearts – author overwhelm. – It’s so easy to become overwhelmed in this digital age, with everything that we are bombarded with and told we “have to” do to succeed as a self published author. –
This week we talk through the basic marketing principles that you need to make sure you’ve got in place for promoting your books. Think of it as a 101 class in marketing, just for you. 🙂 – We talk through tips like ensuring consistency of brand,
This week we give some of our best writer productivity hacks – ie a big ole list of tips to increase your productivity, based on things that we do each week to help us write more! – From exercise tips and the best writing apps to use,
In honour of Valentine’s Day, the SPA Girls fought it out to come up with our list of the Best Romance Novels of All Time. Listen to this episode to see if you agree with our choices… 🙂
This week we decided to talk about etiquette for authors; or how to talk to other authors, your fans and your service providers, especially online. – It’s really easy to get carried away, to start acting badly in the online space,
Wendy, Cheryl and Trudi talk through some common writing mistakes and give suggestions for how to avoid making them yourself. – Based around Jack Bickham’s book, The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes, we talk on topics from not making excuses,
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