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Miss you all start off 2025 with us with a new episode!! ❤

Always come back to these episodes 😊. Crazy how time flies.

It is a shame that this video is not very out-of-date. I would like to know that as a new Children's book author if I would be best off working and listing on Draft to Digital. Is Smashwords still in existence on line.

Any self-published authors make 7 figures?

Wow, these insights from top authors are truly invaluable for anyone looking to boost their book marketing strategies! For those interested in diving deeper into specialized book marketing services, I found this page particularly helpful: Book Marketing Specialist. Thanks for sharing such enriching content!

It's fascinating how close Jenny's voice was to the real Addison's voice.

Joe hang in there and Andrea salute for managing to keep it all together. Prayers going to both of ya’ll and hope things gotten better since this episode. Miss the show 😇.

What’s happening to this podcast? No more episodes?

More please 😂 but seriously, I miss you all. ❤

Does anyone on this thread understand Plagiarism, and the laws surrounding it? Her issue was not the omega-verse concept, there were parts of L.E’s book that was almost word for word! As a writer who works really hard, why should she tolerate it? It baffles me how ignorant people can be, that would p*ss any one off. The rules around plagiarism are in place for this reason! People are too quick to shoot her down. Her publishing house also wanted to pursue the case, you can find the comparable passages that caused the problem.. it was obvious that parts of the story had been copied!

I literally just read The Other Eight a few weeks ago! I loved that book! I wish you would make it a squeal as it was one of my favorite books I've read so far this year! But seeing as how it's 10 years old and this podcast is 5 years old, I won't hold my breath. But it was so funny! Gracias cracked me up! Johnny on the Spot was perfect for the cover, once you understand!

Can you just do and write the contract that if they don’t deliver the product within a year it nulls the contract and the author can pursue other artists?

Incredible episode!

So true, and excellent advice from experienced authors here! those in KU in my genre are dominating money and earnings wise those who get dogmatic about wide for the win. It’s more like wide for a small fraction of the money you could be making due to being dogmatic. If that is what people want that is up to them but they will make no where near the money that those who are in KU are making in our fantasy sub genre. I get it because I wanted to go wide too but realized my sub-genre is in KU. So I like Lindsay will start KU for new stuff and take wide over time. Because I am not headstrong over what the market wants for good income.

How long should an editing pass take as the first time for a 100k word novel single POV?

Thank you following this advice joe and others Do exactly this now going to do what joe suggested writing my first 3 fantasy books and will rapid release them with this strategy suggested by you all and Jo and see how it goes as a debut first series! My author landing page for beta readers is already at 204 subscribers and I am still writing my first chapters of book 1! You can totally build a list before you have written anything! Marketing is my background online so that part is working out well before I even have anything written so I have a solid email list day one to launch to!

So great thanks and just setup Habitica Joe thank you! 7000 words in now to my first novel!

Awesome. Just write, and what you want to write. You are your own god in your little universe. Good reminders.

Is it possible James wasn't aware that Ace Trucking Co is already one of the best loved sci fi comedy series of the 1980s. After all the pages of links to that you get the famous Ace Trucking comedy skit show of the 60s. Really unfortunate to have started so close to an already popular name and similar IP

Not my coding teacher

I also listened to this at 1.75x the speed. I shortened the amount of time it took me to listen to this LOL.

I played the same segment several times... (Edited) thinking I was going crazy, becaus I thought she said she wrote mystery as R.L. Stine. 😂😂😂 Good thing she clarified at the end.

Loved this! I hope you all do more!

This was a great episode. You guys are gold and provide lots of useful viewpoints for aspiring writers 😊

Loved Jo's comment about longhand and OCR and transcribing... Reminds me of me...

There are some of your shows I've now watched more than once over the past few years, they're really helpful! Thank you

Yay!! Another episode. I did start it when it came out but relished it over several watching sessions, haha. Thanks for another great episode :D

We've missed you 3! The BEST podcast ever!

More episodes please! :)

This aged poorly. Really embarrassing how indies hung on this anonymous guy’s every word.

Wahoo 🎉

please more of these!

What a great surprise! This was so helpful, and very inspirational! All the exclamation points!!!!

Love the show. Checked for this randomly probably a week ago hoping for one, and hey presto, like a gift, today the feed sends me your new one. Yay! Listening now and already loving it.

Aaaaw, I missed you three =] Did you see me rewatching old episodes this week while editing? I'd just caught up again when this released, so it was perfect timing.

If you guys don’t have time to do the show regularly you could have guest hosts for whenever you don’t have time to do it. That would also give the viewers new perspectives.

Thrilled to see you! I clicked so fast. Yours is the only podcast I can listen to over and over and still learn something.

What a thing to ask an author🤪No, it sucks LoL

I GASPED! It's so good to hear from you guys ♥️

A fun and informative episode. Well done and thank you.

this was a fun episode, thank you!

You're back! I love seeing you guys so much!

I'm so pleased you're a fountain pen user and collector, Jo! I'm very interested in hearing more about your collection :D

Yay! I love your podcasts! I really derived value from this one. The point about uneven edits hit home. Not because of revisiting the same chapter over and over again, but sometimes when I try to push through one more chapter when revising, and I've passed the point where I've depleted my allotted amount of focus, it's like I may as well have been editing drunk. ;) Putting editing notes in while writing is something that I feel has helped me since I started doing it (three-ish books ago). I use in line comments to make notes as I draft. Often it's things I want to double check previous chapters to fact check, or if I name a new character (or worse, don't name a character; that gets a note every time I should be using the nameless character's name). The other trick is to give each chapter a brief description in the heading so If I need to review what was said in a conversation twenty chapters ago, it's easier to find. I also found your updates inspiring. I'm glad that Andrea's back to wring after the challenges you had to overcome this last year. That Joe's turned to putting down words as solace from external stress and is being creative to find those little pockets of time to write. And for Lindsay to decide she has too much going on, and take a couple months off? Yes! Take that breather. Then to get on the podcast and matter-of-factly, give us updates, revealing you've decided to tackle the issues? That takes bravery. Having struggled with health issues, balancing work and writing and reaching that point of overwhelm where creativity gets zapped, I find it comforting to know that these are the type of problems we face as writers, and that there are ways to overcome them. Thank you so much for sharing.

OMG,you guys, it’s SO nice to hear your voices and see your faces again.

I was so glad to see this video pop up in notification. Can't wait to listen to this new instalment!

I'm so glad you're back! Your podcast is always so informative and helpful. You didn't mention AI. Do you ever use it to brainstorm? I like to use it like a critique partner.

I’m a prolific author, but I don’t write every day. I usually write 4 days a week when I’m writing. I rarely write on weekends. I’m not making insane money like some other authors, but I’m making more money every month than the month before. I wrote longhand when I first started writing. I wrote a ton of books by hand that I still haven’t typed out. I tried dictating, but I didn’t like it.

Yay!!! ❤❤❤

Did she say she published 8 books in a year?