HeyJaredSPA Girls Podcast
Each week the SPA Girls provide information, tips and honest advice on self publishing for indie authors.
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Make Your Writing Goals to Stick ft. Erin Marcus (Classic Replay EP#569) (opens the original)
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Be in charge, take action, get results. 🎯 Most of us stay stuck because we've never actually decided what we want. Business coach Erin Marcus on working out the outcome, reverse engineering the steps, and putting a date on it. 📅 A classic replay, and all of it still applies. ✨ Her starting point is that most people don't get what they want because they've never decided what it is. Others know, but don't believe they're allowed to have it. Either way there's nothing to reverse engineer from, so t
Writing and Marketing Romantasy ft. J Gabriel Gates (EP#568) (opens the original)
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J. Gabriel Gates — who writes romantasy as G.J. Gates — has a full-time job he loves and a self-funded publishing business. He opens every book launch with a Kickstarter, and that money becomes his entire advertising budget. In this episode of the SPA Girls Podcast (EP568) he walks us through going indie after traditional publishing, writing a genre he'd never touched, and the ten-second video that reached 1.6 million people. Whether you're changing genres, growing a social account from scratch,
Collaborations, Box Sets, and Beating Burnout ft. Asa Maria Bradley (Classic Replay EP#567) (opens the original)
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Burnt out and not writing? Bestselling paranormal romance and urban fantasy author Asa Maria Bradley went two years without finishing much of anything — and it was collaborating with other indie authors that got her writing again. In this episode we dig into anthologies, box sets, shared worlds and author collectives, and exactly how each one works for a self-published author. Whether you're staring down burnout, trying to grow your newsletter list, or thinking about organising your own multi-au
Superdraft - Write Better and Faster with Thomas Dean Donnelly (EP#566) (opens the original)
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Screenwriter and thriller author Thomas Dean Donnelly joins the SPA Girls Podcast to explain Superdraft, his evidence-based approach to the writing process. Learn how to separate your Creator voice from your Critic voice, beat writer's block and imposter syndrome, use flow states to write faster, and apply the 1-3-2 drafting method to fix a sagging second act. Essential listening for indie authors and self-published writers who struggle to finish a first draft. About Thomas Dean Donnelly Thomas
Sell More Books With Every Launch - Series Launch Strategy ft. Helen B. Scheuerer (Classic Replay EP#565) (opens the original)
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Is your back matter costing you sales? Bestselling fantasy author Helen B. Scheuerer joins us to break down exactly how to launch a book series — from optimising your back matter for read-through, to pre-order strategy, ARC campaigns, and building a street team that generates real buzz. In this Classic Replay episode, Helen shares the launch strategies behind her book How To Launch A Successful Series. Whether you're a new indie author planning your first book launch or a seasoned self-published
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