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The Write Podcast helps aspiring and published fiction authors master creative writing, novel planning, book marketing, and self-publishing.
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Fixing Your Shopify Ads with Melissa Storm (opens the original)
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You built the store. Maybe it's beautiful. Maybe it cost more than you want to admit. Now it's just sitting there, waiting for someone to find it. I sat down with Melissa Storm, a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who's spent over a decade running one of publishing's most trusted ads agencies. She's the person authors turn to when their Facebook ads stop working and nobody can tell them why. In this episode, you'll learn: - Why interest-based targeting doesn't work like it used to
The PR Strategy Behind Jade May's Bestselling Romance Career (opens the original)
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This week I'm talking with Australian bestselling author Jade May. Jade writes the Eden Series, high heat, angst filled romance that's sold over 10,000 copies worldwide. And she's landed press most authors only dream about. SMH. Mamamia. News.com.au. Herald Sun. We get into the real story behind that coverage. Jade worked with a PR agency, and she walks us through what that actually looked like. What a publicist does day to day. What changed once she had one in her corner. And whether it's worth
Is your book actually done, or are you just tired of editing it? (opens the original)
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You finished the manuscript. So why does it still feel unfinished? In this episode, Sarah unpacks the real reason "I'm still polishing it" keeps so many writers stuck after the last page, why so many manuscripts end up waiting on someone else's opinion instead of moving forward, and shares her own story of sending an early manuscript to an agent and what it actually taught her about waiting for outside permission. In this episode:- Why "still polishing" is often a stand-in for "I'm scared to fin
How Willow Winters Built a Multi-Million Dollar Self-Publishing Empire (opens the original)
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Romance author Willow Winters started as a stay-at-home mum writing at night for coffee money. Today she's a USA Today and Wall Street Journal number-one bestseller with more than sixty books and a team running the business behind her. In this episode of The Write Podcast, she shares how she built a real self-publishing career, not by luck, but by decision. We get into the business most authors never see. How she made the leap from hobby writer to CEO. Why she hired a team when most indie author
Why Author Conferences Still Matter: Building a Sustainable Writing Business (opens the original)
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Fresh off presenting a workshop at the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference in Auckland, and still thinking about TL Swan's keynote on rebuilding her covers and blurbs nine times before Amazon finally took notice, this episode looks back at ten years of conferences, from Romance Writers of Australia to the biggest one yet in New York, and what showing up, year after year, has actually built. Plus, an invitation to the Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival's writer's day on October 30. In this epi
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