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The 5 Kinds of Kickstarter Campaigns for Authors

Oct 14, 2026

Zeitgeist: Will Public Executions Change the Books Readers Buy?

Oct 13, 2026

Audible Audiobook Ads Are Finally Here

Oct 13, 2026

AI is Lying to You About Your Book

Oct 7, 2026

Zeitgeist: Your Gun Can’t Save You From the Pentagon’s SI Drones

Oct 6, 2026

Zeitgeist: The Death of Aslan: How Copyright Became Literary Colonialism

Oct 5, 2026

Is Amazon Ending Permafree Ebooks?

Oct 5, 2026

How to Relaunch Your Book

Sep 30, 2026

Zeitgeist: How to Sell to Adults Who Will Never Grow Up

Sep 28, 2026

Amazon Cracks Down on AI Authors

Sep 28, 2026

How to Write Short Stories with Joanna Penn

Sep 23, 2026

Zeitgeist Report: The Best Economy in American History Is Killing Us

Sep 21, 2026

KU Payouts Fall While Economy Surges

Sep 21, 2026

Should You Leave Kindle Unlimited in 2026?

Sep 16, 2026

Zeitgeist Report: A Year After Charlie Kirk and What Has Changed

Sep 15, 2026

Zeitgeist Report: Anti-AI Panic Now Has a Payroll

Sep 15, 2026

The US Copyright Office Is Flagging Human-Written Books as AI

Sep 15, 2026

Zeitgeist: How SSRIs Change What Women Want to Read

Sep 8, 2026

Amazon Caught Stealing Authors’ Ad Dollars

Sep 8, 2026

Zeitgeist: Dolly Parton, Female Sleuths, and Clean Comedy

Sep 3, 2026

Get More Time to Write by Using a Grok Bot

Sep 3, 2026

Facebook Advertising Changes Forever… Again

Sep 2, 2026

Will Your Back Matter Get Your Book Banned on Amazon?

Aug 26, 2026

Zeitgeist: Why AI Writes Better than You: It Reads Aristotle and You Don’t

Aug 25, 2026

AI Read Aristotle That’s Why It Writes Better Than You

Aug 25, 2026

Zeitgeist: Clinical Pluralism: The Writing Technique That Trains Women to Excuse Evil

Aug 18, 2026

Barnes & Noble Just Banned the Front-Table Author Signing Nationwide

Aug 18, 2026

Zeitgeist: Why Gen Z Is Abandoning Hip-Hop Radio for Country Music

Aug 10, 2026

AI Fiction Seizes 27.5% of KDP’s Genre Catalog

Aug 10, 2026

SEO for Author Websites: The Only Guide You Need in 2026

Aug 5, 2026

Zeitgeist: How Science Skepticism Is Reshaping Popular Fiction

Aug 3, 2026

Fauci’s Diary, Joe Rogan, and the Magic Boom in Fiction

Aug 3, 2026

Zeitgeist: How to Navigate Leftist Violence as an Influencer

Jul 29, 2026

The Comprehensive Guide to BookFunnel

Jul 29, 2026

Zeitgeist: Saving People Through Stories

Jul 28, 2026

The Digital vs. Physical War: AI Companies Are Pulping Books by the Pallet

Jul 28, 2026

Why Your Cover, Blurb, and Hook Are All Just Guesses

Jul 22, 2026

The Atlantic Just Declared the Age of Reading Is Over

Jul 21, 2026

Zeitgeist: Trad Publishers Sell Fewer Books Than Indie Authors

Jul 21, 2026

The 5 Tiers of Audiobooks: Which One Should You Publish?

Jul 15, 2026

Zeitgeist: How Shifting Public Attitudes on the U.S. Military Are Reshaping Storytelling

Jul 13, 2026

Zeitgeist: Cozy Fantasy and LitRPG SURGE as Hottest Niches in 2026

Jul 13, 2026

The Week That Changed Indie Publishing: KDP Royalties, Book Pirates, and AI Audio Theft

Jul 13, 2026

Zeitgeist: Why Vigilante Stories Are Seeing Chart Topping Popularity

Jul 8, 2026

Estate Planning for Authors: How to Protect Your Books (and Your Family) After You Die

Jul 8, 2026

Zeitgeist: Happy Birthday, America. History Says You Should Be Dead

Jul 7, 2026

250 Years Ago, Indie Publishing Made America

Jul 7, 2026

Why Amazon is Terminating Innocent Authors

Jul 1, 2026

New BookFunnel Features CRUSH Amazon

Jun 29, 2026

Zeitgeist: The UK Rape Gang Inquiry Report Is Out

Jun 24, 2026

Author’s PR Playbook: How to Get Media Coverage Without a Publicist

Jun 24, 2026

Kindle Unlimited Pays Indie Authors Record-Breaking Royalties

Jun 22, 2026

Zeitgeist: In a News Scene Dominated By The Heavy, Let’s Take a Look At the Fun Around the World

Jun 17, 2026

How to Level Up Your Writing With Chris Fox

Jun 17, 2026

Men Buy Books and Women Borrow Books

Jun 16, 2026

How to Revive a Dead Book With Promo Stacking

Jun 11, 2026

Zeitgeist: Gen Z Men See the System Rigged Against Them

Jun 10, 2026

Will “Free” Libby Ebooks Bankrupt Libraries?

Jun 9, 2026

Why I’m Giving Away a $249 Course This Month

Jun 3, 2026

Zeitgeist: Pope Leo XIV Gives Catholic Novelists Green Light to Use AI

May 30, 2026

No ISBN Means No Copyright Protection for Indie Authors

May 30, 2026

Announcing the 2027 Novel Marketing Conference

May 27, 2026

Zeitgeist: Light, Fire, and Clarity: What the Latest Baby Name Data Tells Us About the Shifting Culture

May 26, 2026

The Publishing Echo Chamber Nobody Will Admit Exists

May 26, 2026

Zeitgeist: Stories Made by People Who Hate Them

May 20, 2026

Amazon Review Purge: The Author Survival Guide

May 20, 2026

The Four Loves That Drive Fiction

May 14, 2026

Zeitgeist: Globalists vs. Nationalists: What the UK and Japanese Elections Tell Us About the Changing Culture

May 13, 2026

Draft2Digital Confirms: Amazon Sales Reports Are Off by 50%

May 13, 2026

15 Rules for Book Advertising with David Gaughran

May 6, 2026

Zeitgeist: First Turning Noblebright vs. Second Turning Grimbright

May 5, 2026

Audible Forces Every Title Into New Royalty Model

May 5, 2026

Zeitgeist: Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment Exposes Alleged Fraud, Accelerates Vibe Shift on Racism Accusations

Apr 30, 2026

My Worst Takes & Mistakes Over 500 Episodes

Apr 29, 2026

Price Fixing at Amazon

Apr 27, 2026

Zeitgeist: What Do Americans Consider Immoral?

Apr 24, 2026

Amazon Kills Store Access for 2 Million Kindles

Apr 24, 2026

Stop Guessing: How to Know If Your Book Marketing Is Working

Apr 15, 2026

Huge Legal Wins for Authors

Apr 14, 2026

Zeitgeist: Project Hail Mary Rockets Past $226 Million at Domestic Box Office

Apr 14, 2026

The Cultural Zeitgeist Shift That’s Making Indie Authors Rich

Apr 8, 2026

The Week Romance Died? Harlequin AI Deal + NY Times Bestseller Shake-Up

Apr 4, 2026

Zeitgeist: Capturing a Shifting Zeitgeist of Paranoia, Betrayal, and Disrupted Domestic Normalcy 

Apr 4, 2026

Apple’s Cheapest Laptop Ever: Should Authors Buy the MacBook Neo?

Apr 1, 2026

Scientists Prove AI Is Rewriting Your Book When You’re Not Looking

Mar 30, 2026

Zeitgeist: One Piece Passes Superman as Best-Selling Comic with 600 Million Copies 

Mar 30, 2026

Your Friends Lied About Your Book Cover

Mar 25, 2026

The Anti AI Jihad Has Begun: Major Publisher Yanks Novel Over Proven AI Use

Mar 23, 2026

Zeitgeist: Mystery Thriller Suspense K-Lytics Report

Mar 23, 2026

17 Days Left: How to Claim Your $3,000+ From Anthropic’s $1.5B AI Copyright Settlement

Mar 14, 2026

Zeitgeist: Hormonal Birth Control May Quietly Change What Romance Readers Crave in Male Heroes

Mar 14, 2026

How I Fight Off Copyright Trolls Targeting My Blogs

Mar 14, 2026

Zeitgeist: AI Could Trigger an English Language Reset Like the Norman Conquest

Mar 11, 2026

Zeitgeist: White House Uses Video Game Hype to Market War to Young Men

Mar 11, 2026

Iranian Drones Destroy Amazon Data Centers, Amazon.com Goes Down

Mar 11, 2026

Reader Magnets Are Dead? Why Most Reader Magnets Fail

Mar 11, 2026

Your Author Toolbox: Part 2

Mar 4, 2026

Zeitgeist: Romance Dominates Kindle But Shows Signs of Maturing

Mar 3, 2026

The Indie Whale Reader: How to Reach Readers Who Devour 100 Books a Year

Mar 3, 2026

Zeitgeist: AI as Metaphor: Corporations, Pagan Gods & the Managerial State

Mar 3, 2026

How to Become a Professional Writer With Joanna Penn

Feb 25, 2026

Zeitgeist: Conservative Art

Feb 23, 2026

Indies Win! Harlequin to Close Historical Romance Line

Feb 23, 2026

Why Your Book Isn’t Selling: Metadata with Dave Chesson

Feb 18, 2026

Substack Breach: Author Information Compromised

Feb 17, 2026

Zeitgeist: Two Halftime Shows, One Nation: What the Super Bowl Split Says About American Readers

Feb 17, 2026

How to Get a Professional Email Address

Feb 16, 2026

Zeitgeist: K-lytics Cozy Fantasy

Feb 13, 2026

How to Format a Book With Vellum

Feb 11, 2026

Will OpenAI Claim Ownership of Your Royalties?

Feb 9, 2026

Ingram Goes to War With AI

Jan 27, 2026

Zeitgeist: Vibe Shift in Hockey

Jan 27, 2026

Author Taxes – A 2026 Guide to Avoiding Jail & Overpaying

Jan 21, 2026

Zeitgeist: Fonts Get Political

Jan 20, 2026

Zeitgeist: Record Breaking Bible Sales

Jan 20, 2026

Copyright Termination and the Feds: What Just Happened to Authors

Jan 20, 2026

Zeitgeist: Radical Islam Moves to Europe

Jan 16, 2026

AI Threats, Platform Changes & Cultural Shifts Authors Can’t Ignore

Jan 14, 2026

Zeitgeist: Steak & Shake

Jan 14, 2026

Productivity Secrets from Bestselling Author Jerry B. Jenkins

Jan 14, 2026

What Authors Can Expect in 2026

Jan 12, 2026

Networking for Authors with Dale L. Roberts

Jan 7, 2026

Why Most Authors Don’t Need Social Media in 2026

Jan 1, 2026

The Five-Year Plan to Become a Professional Author 

Dec 31, 2025

Reports Say 62% of New Paranormal Romance Titles Are AI Junk Books

Dec 20, 2025

Zeitgeist: Christmas Romance vs. Paranormal Romance

Dec 20, 2025

Amazon Quietly Changed Kindle Forever

Dec 18, 2025

Zeitgeist: Female Readers & The Hero’s Journey

Dec 18, 2025

The Savvy Author’s Guide to Picking an LLM

Dec 18, 2025

A Nonfiction Author’s Guide to Substack

Dec 10, 2025

Should You Create a Premium Hardcover Edition of Your Book?

Dec 3, 2025

Amazon Algorithm Secrets That Separate Bestsellers from the Slush Pile

Nov 25, 2025

Christmas Book Marketing Guide

Nov 8, 2025

The Shopify Trap: Why Authors Keep Losing Money

Nov 5, 2025

Traditional Publishing in Crisis: Sales Down 9.4%

Oct 31, 2025

2025 Desktop Printer Guide for Authors

Oct 29, 2025

Zeitgeist: Davy Crockett King of the First Turning 

Oct 24, 2025

How to Publish Your Audiobook Through ACX

Oct 22, 2025

Massive Amazon Algorithm Changes

Oct 17, 2025

How to Build an Email List Before You Publish Your Novel 

Oct 8, 2025

US Copyright Office Closes | Book Piracy Drama | Anthropic Settlement Website Goes Live

Oct 3, 2025

Triple Your Writing Speed with Dictation

Oct 1, 2025

Author Update: Judge Approves Anthropic $3K Author Payments, NaNoWriMo Replacement, & Scam Warning

Sep 26, 2025

How to Boost Sales With Permafree Books

Sep 24, 2025

Amazon KU Books Allowed in Public Libraries, TikTok Deal, and Cancel Culture

Sep 19, 2025

Thomas’s Office Tour & 4th Wall Breach

Sep 17, 2025

Christian Author Assassinated, MailerLite Limits Free Plan, & Kit Raise Prices

Sep 12, 2025

How to Get More Book Reviews With Joe Walters 

Sep 10, 2025

Anthropic to Pay Authors $3000 Per Book, Zeitgeist, and Author Arrested for Tweets

Sep 8, 2025

Zeitgeist: Mary Poppins: From Grimbright to Nobledark

Sep 5, 2025

The Author’s Guide to AI with Joanna Penn

Sep 3, 2025

New International Shipping Rules Hit Authors and Libraries Acquire KU Books?

Aug 29, 2025

When to Ignore Your Editor

Aug 27, 2025

Spotify Revolutionizes Audiobooks & George R.R. Martin Told To Step Down

Aug 22, 2025

The End of Rapid Release?

Aug 15, 2025

Announcing the 2026 Novel Marketing Conference

Aug 13, 2025

How to Get Started with Author School Visits and Make Your Book Playground Famous

Aug 6, 2025

Audible Reduces Author Royalties, Trad Sales Plummet While Indie Sales Soar

Aug 2, 2025

Zeitgeist, Dystopian Fatigue, and the Rise of Ruthless & Noble Heroes  

Jul 30, 2025

How to Sell 1,000 Books a Month

Jul 23, 2025

How to Work With a PR Firm to Promote Your Book

Jul 16, 2025

What does ChatGPT Actually Know About Your Book?

Jul 9, 2025

How to Create Sales Optimized Book Pages for Your Author Website

Jun 25, 2025

TikTok, Iran, and AI: What Authors Need to Know Now

Jun 23, 2025

Amazon, AI, and Author Strategy Shifts: What You Need to Know Now

Jun 23, 2025

Are We in an AI Bubble? Plus Audiobook Strategy, Vellum Upgrades & Loving Your Readers

Jun 23, 2025

Is Your Traditional Publisher Going Bankrupt? 8 Warning Signs to Look Out For

Jun 18, 2025

Adapting a Podcast to YouTube

Jun 11, 2025

How to Publish a Novel in 2025

Jun 4, 2025

Author Update: Is This the END of Google (for Authors)???

May 31, 2025

An Introduction to Author Ecosystems with Russell Nohelty

May 28, 2025

Do 45% of Authors *Already* Use AI?! | Author Update

May 23, 2025

AI Optimization for Authors

May 21, 2025

KDP Royalty Changes & Invasion of the AI Audiobooks

May 16, 2025

Your Author Toolbox: Time-Saving Tools for Busy Authors

May 14, 2025

Author Update: Skype Dies, Romantasy Surges, and Mr. Beast Writes a Book

May 9, 2025

Genius Link: A Guide for Authors

May 7, 2025

Book Bans, Copyright Trolls Target Authors, and is Social Media Mostly Bots? | Author Update

May 3, 2025

How to PROFITABLY Advertise a Solo Book on Amazon

Apr 30, 2025

Does Facebook Think Your Book is Worthless, Author Certification & AI Gets Religion

Apr 25, 2025

Introducing Author Update

Apr 16, 2025

2025 Laptop Buying Guide for Authors

Apr 9, 2025

Tariffs Up & NaNoWiMo Closing Down | Author Update

Apr 4, 2025

How to Grow Your Email List Fast With Giveaways

Apr 2, 2025

Invasion of the AI Images | Author Update

Mar 28, 2025

Escaping the Procrastination Prison: A Guide for Tired Authors

Mar 26, 2025

Did Meta Steal Your Book? | Author Update

Mar 21, 2025

How to Craft a Cancel Proof Marketing Strategy 

Mar 19, 2025

Author Website Review: Christian Historical Romance

Mar 12, 2025

Book Promotion in 2025: How AI Gives Authors More Time to Write

Mar 5, 2025

The Sci-Fi Zeitgeist Has Shifted: What Authors Need to Know

Feb 26, 2025

Indie Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing

Feb 19, 2025

Stop Writing Book Series!

Feb 12, 2025

How to Sell Books From a Table

Feb 5, 2025

Read This Before Your Next Podcast Guest Interview

Jan 29, 2025

Zeitgeist: Karens Have a New Acronym A. W. F. U. L.

Jan 27, 2025

A Storytelling Revolution: Inside the World of Serialized Fiction

Jan 22, 2025

Is Traditional Publishing Dying? Surprising Trends Authors Can’t Ignore

Jan 8, 2025

Networking for Authors: How to Build Relationships Without Being Awkward

Dec 18, 2024

Project Management for Authors

Dec 11, 2024

Cyber Monday Deals for Authors

Nov 25, 2024

How to Build a Rejection-Proof Platform in 2025

Nov 25, 2024

Contact Page Dos & Don’ts for Authors

Nov 20, 2024

How to Worldbuild Your Book into a Bestseller

Nov 13, 2024

How to Run a Local Book Festival

Nov 6, 2024

How to Write Stories Readers Will Love by Knowing the Zeitgeist 

Oct 30, 2024

How to Use Reverse Coupons 

Oct 23, 2024

How to Write Enduring Bestsellers with the Two-Act Chiastic Structure

Oct 16, 2024

101 Book Marketing Ideas That Will Change Your Life

Oct 9, 2024

The Strategy Behind Reader Super Magnets

Oct 9, 2024

What to do When Book Sales Start Slipping

Oct 2, 2024

Marketing a Book Series with Kristina Stanley

Sep 25, 2024

Announcing the 2025 Novel Marketing Conference

Sep 11, 2024

How to Write Novels Men Want to Read

Sep 4, 2024

How to Deliver Your Book Baby

Aug 28, 2024

How to Use Research to Market Your Novel

Aug 21, 2024

How to Create an Online Course

Aug 14, 2024

How to Write Better Short Stories With Steve Diamond

Aug 7, 2024

Web Hosting for Frugal Authors

Jul 31, 2024

How to Avoid Book-Marketing Overwhelm

Jul 17, 2024

The Savvy Author’s Guide to Passwords

Jul 10, 2024

How Connor Boyack Sold Millions of Books Directly to Readers Without Using Amazon

Jul 3, 2024

Are Pen Names Going Away?

Jun 26, 2024

Why Your Book is Still Unfinished (Hint: It’s Your Phone’s Fault)

Jun 19, 2024

Printing the Future: Print-on-Demand with Offset-Quality by Bookvault

Jun 12, 2024

The Powerful Nonfiction Pitching Recipe That Works for Both Fiction and Nonfiction 

Jun 5, 2024

From Tech Timid to Tech Savvy: How to Master Any Technology 

May 29, 2024

The Thriving Author: How to Market Books When You Have Money to Invest

May 22, 2024

Speak, Engage, and Inspire: Secrets of Entertaining & Educational Webinars that Sell

May 1, 2024

2024 Laptop Buying Guide for Authors  

Apr 24, 2024

How to Sell More Books With Amazon Ads

Apr 10, 2024

AI for Authors – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Apr 3, 2024

Pros and Cons of Pre-Orders

Mar 27, 2024

Marketing 101: Place 

Mar 20, 2024

How to use Reedsy to Independently Publish Your Book

Mar 13, 2024

Book Launch Secrets 

Mar 6, 2024

How to Publish on a Budget: Your First Five Years as an Author

Feb 28, 2024

How to Write Emails That Readers Want to Read

Feb 21, 2024

How to Build a Tribe Online And Form a Community of Readers

Feb 14, 2024

The Starving Author: How to Market Books When You Have No Money

Feb 7, 2024

When to Quit Writing

Jan 24, 2024

From Page to Screen: How to Adapt Your Novel Into a Screenplay

Jan 16, 2024

Chrome Extensions Every Author Needs in 2024

Jan 10, 2024

Publishing Industry Secrets Revealed at the Penguin Random House Trial

Jan 3, 2024

How to Write for American Readers – An Author’s Guide to America’s Regional Cultures

Dec 13, 2023

Seven Plugins Every Author Website Needs in 2024

Dec 6, 2023

How to Publish Your Book as an Audiobook With Scott Sigler 

Nov 29, 2023

Time-Saving Tools for Authors

Nov 22, 2023

How to Successfully Self Publish Your Book with James Blatch

Nov 15, 2023

Black Friday Book Promotion Tips for Authors

Nov 8, 2023

How to Protect Your Writing From Reputation Theft

Nov 1, 2023

Book Marketing 101: Price  

Oct 25, 2023

How Larry Correia Became a Mega-Bestseller by Writing for Overlooked Readers

Oct 18, 2023

How to Sell Books Directly to Readers with Joanna Penn

Oct 11, 2023

How to Win Friends and Pitch Your Book

Oct 4, 2023

The Most Important Lessons from 10 Years of Novel Marketing 

Sep 27, 2023

How Karyne Norton Successfully Kickstarted Her Book in 1 Hour

Sep 19, 2023

Announcing the 2024 Novel Marketing Conference 

Sep 13, 2023

Workshops, Retreats, and Pitches: How to pick the best writers conference for you

Sep 6, 2023

Book Marketing 101: Product

Aug 30, 2023

How to Run an Independent Publishing Company

Aug 23, 2023

How to Get Book Clubs to Pick YOUR Book

Aug 16, 2023

From Book Blurb to Bestseller: How to Craft Compelling Amazon Pages With Dave Chesson

Aug 9, 2023

How the Hollywood Strikes Will Help (& Hurt!) Authors 

Jul 19, 2023

Substack for Authors: An Exciting Opportunity or Just Hype?

Jul 12, 2023

How to Make Money as an Author Assistant

Jul 5, 2023

The Tortoise Release Method: Why Slow and Steady Beats Rapid Release 

Jun 28, 2023

How to Extend Your Book’s Life With Effective Marketing

Jun 21, 2023

Trim to Win: Why Saying ‘No’ is Crucial for Publishing Success: A Pruning Story

Jun 14, 2023

Good Brands Vs. Big Brands 

Jun 7, 2023

How to Hook Readers in the First 50 Pages

May 31, 2023

The Amazing Power of Reader Surveys 

May 24, 2023

How to Get Good Website Stats

May 17, 2023

How to Turn a Podcast Episode into a Blog Post

May 10, 2023

How to Thrive as an Author in Your Twilight Years

May 3, 2023

How to Find Your Timothy  

Apr 26, 2023

How to Create an Email Drip Marketing Campaign

Apr 19, 2023

How to Convince Readers to Read *Your* Book Next

Apr 12, 2023

How to Nail a Hostile Media Interview  

Apr 5, 2023

The Psychological Reasons Readers Read Books

Mar 29, 2023

How to Prepare for Your First Webinar  

Mar 22, 2023

The 2023 Book Launch Blueprint

Mar 15, 2023

Why Many People Are Afraid to Buy Books (Marketing Psychology)

Mar 8, 2023

How to Successfully Market a Children’s Book

Mar 1, 2023

How a War Between China and Taiwan Would Change Reading, Writing, and Publishing  

Feb 22, 2023

AI Book Covers & ChatGPT

Feb 15, 2023

How to Look and Sound Professional on Zoom, Webinars, and Podcasts

Feb 8, 2023

How to Get More Book Reviews With Derek Doepker

Feb 1, 2023

Brandon Sanderson’s Crop Rotation Method for Restful Rapid Writing

Jan 25, 2023

How to Build Hype for a Debut Novel

Jan 18, 2023

Whisper and the World Whispers Back

Jan 11, 2023

Trolls, Haters, and Critics Oh My – How to Handle Negative Feedback as an Author

Dec 14, 2022

20 Ways to Promote Your Book During the Holiday Season  

Dec 7, 2022

How to Grow your Platform Without Social Media – with Sandy Cooper

Nov 30, 2022

How to Save Money as an Author

Nov 22, 2022

How to Hire a Good Editor

Nov 16, 2022

How BookFunnel Can Help you Grow Your Email List

Nov 9, 2022

Obscure No More Course Overview

Nov 2, 2022

Do novelists need a college writing degree?

Oct 26, 2022

How to Use QR Codes to Boost Book Sales & Grow Your Email List

Oct 19, 2022

How to Find a Good Literary Agent – with Mary DeMuth

Oct 12, 2022

How to Supercharge Ebook Sales

Oct 5, 2022

How to Turn a Podcast into a Bestselling Novel – with Scott Sigler

Sep 28, 2022

Marketing Lessons from Bestselling Author James Patterson

Sep 21, 2022

How to Work with an AI Writing Assistant

Sep 14, 2022

Affiliate Marketing for Authors

Sep 7, 2022

How to Become an Amazon Affiliate

Sep 2, 2022

How to Market Your Book in a Recession (Preview)

Aug 31, 2022

AI Tools for Authors

Aug 24, 2022

How to Find the Perfect Narrator for Your Audiobook – with James L. Rubart

Aug 17, 2022

How to Become a Big Name Author (Marketing Psychology: Authority)

Aug 10, 2022

How to Crowdfund Your Book

Aug 3, 2022

How to Diversify Your Income as an Author

Jul 27, 2022

How to Get Better at Public Speaking with Jane Jenkins Herlong

Jul 20, 2022

Hybrid Publishing

Jul 13, 2022

How to Promote Your Book Using AuthorsXP.com with Amy Vansant

Jul 6, 2022

Write Bestselling Pitches by Avoiding These 10 Copywriting Mistakes

Jun 29, 2022

How to Record Your Own Audiobook Using Hindenburg Narrator

Jun 22, 2022

7 Business Mistakes That Ruin Author Careers

Jun 15, 2022

How to Conduct Your Own Media Tour (without hiring a PR Firm) With Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

Jun 8, 2022

How to Grow Your Email List Using Delicious Reader Magnets with Tammi Labrecque

Jun 1, 2022

How to Get the Most Out of Scrivener

May 25, 2022

Why do good books fail to sell while poorly written books fly off the shelves?

May 12, 2022

Innovative Indie Marketing with S.D. Smith

Apr 29, 2022

10 Reasons to Delay Your Book Launch

Apr 5, 2022

How to Use Goodreads to Promote Your Book

Mar 30, 2022

Effective Book Cover Design

Mar 23, 2022

Facebook Advertising for Authors

Mar 9, 2022

How to Launch Your Book on a Budget

Feb 23, 2022

How to Launch Your Book in 2022

Feb 16, 2022

How to Build an Author Brand with David Loy

Feb 9, 2022

How to Speed Up Your Author Website

Feb 2, 2022

Everything Authors Need to Know About Writing in Atticus

Jan 26, 2022

How to Write More Productively

Jan 19, 2022

How to Write Short Stories with James Scott Bell

Jan 5, 2022

7 Things Santa Can Teach Authors About Book Marketing

Dec 15, 2021

What Every Author Needs to Know About Cyber Security

Dec 8, 2021

Tools To Make Publishing Easier

Nov 26, 2021

How to Run a Kickstarter Campaign for Your Second Book with Jonathan Shuerger

Nov 17, 2021

How to Create an Author Press Kit with Susan Neal

Nov 10, 2021

What Every Author Needs to Know About Copyright Law with James Scott Bell

Nov 3, 2021

How to Grow Your Podcast Audience – with David Hooper

Oct 27, 2021

Is Your Author “About Me” Page Boring Your Readers To Death?

Oct 20, 2021

How to Write Faster and Better with Chris Fox

Oct 12, 2021

Author Media: The Behind-the-Scenes Story

Oct 6, 2021

How Jack Ellem Went from Unpublished to Bestselling Indie Author

Sep 29, 2021

How to Use Price Pulsing to Supercharge Your Backlist Sales

Sep 22, 2021

How to Get Endorsements for Your Book

Sep 15, 2021

Yes, YOU Can Make a Living as a Writer, Here’s How

Sep 8, 2021

How to Sell Your Book In Person (and make way more money per copy)

Sep 1, 2021

Everything Authors Need to Know About K-Lytics

Aug 25, 2021

How to Write Book Reviews Readers Will Want to Read

Aug 18, 2021

An Author’s Guide to StoryOrigin

Aug 11, 2021

How Author Websites Irritate Readers (and what to do about it)

Aug 4, 2021

How to Spend LESS Time Marketing Your Book

Jul 28, 2021

The 10 Commandments of Book Marketing

Jul 22, 2021

The Author’s Guide to LLCs

Jul 14, 2021

How to Find Your Readers

Jul 7, 2021

Niche Marketing: A Coaching Session

Jun 30, 2021

How to Get a Reader’s Attention by Shocking Broca

Jun 23, 2021

7 Kinds of Indie Authors

Jun 16, 2021

Two Quick Announcements

Jun 9, 2021

How to Pitch Your Novel

Jun 2, 2021

A New Social Network for Authors

May 26, 2021

How Jason Porterfield Grew His Email List from 0 to 6,000 in One Year

May 19, 2021

How to Overcome the Fear of Book Promotion

May 12, 2021

How to Create Press Releases

May 5, 2021

How to Get Strangers to Want to Buy Your Book Using Reciprocity (Marketing Psychology)

Apr 14, 2021

How to Connect with Teen Readers: A Coaching Session With a Pre-Published YA Novelist

Apr 7, 2021

How to Publish Your Book Independently

Mar 31, 2021

10 Decisions Every Indie Author Needs to Make

Mar 24, 2021

How to Get More 5-Star Reviews With Beta Readers, Editors, and Launch Teams

Mar 17, 2021

The 2021 Book Launch Blueprint is Here!

Mar 10, 2021

How to Improve Your Author Website with Carla Hoch

Mar 3, 2021

A Short History of Facebook Marketing for Authors

Feb 17, 2021

10 Classic Branding Blunders Authors Make (and how to avoid them)

Feb 10, 2021

How to Market Books to Homeschool Families with Tricia Goyer

Feb 3, 2021

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Author Websites

Jan 20, 2021

How to Promote Literary Fiction With Jane Friedman

Jan 13, 2021

Amazon Advertising

Jan 6, 2021

How to Prevent Writing Burnout

Dec 21, 2020

How to Pick a Strong Book Title

Dec 9, 2020

Parler, MeWe, and How to Navigate Social Media Splintering as an Author

Dec 2, 2020

How to Find and Work With a Virtual Assistant

Nov 18, 2020

How to Develop an Author Tagline

Nov 11, 2020

The 5 Baby-Step Platform Building Process

Nov 4, 2020

How to Build a Rejection-Proof Platform Q&A

Oct 28, 2020

How to Start Building a Rejection Proof Platform

Oct 21, 2020

How to Advertise Your Book on Podcasts

Oct 14, 2020

Why Rapid Release is a Risky Book Launch Strategy

Oct 7, 2020

How to Get Published with a Traditional Publishing House

Sep 30, 2020

How to Create an Email Onboarding Drip Campaign

Sep 23, 2020

How to Market Your Audiobook

Sep 9, 2020

How to Make Money From Your Platform

Sep 2, 2020

How to Pick the Right Email Marketing Service for You

Aug 26, 2020

Episode 250: The Story of Thomas Umstattd Jr.

Aug 19, 2020

Software Guide for Authors

Aug 10, 2020

How to Survive Cancel Culture as a Writer

Aug 3, 2020

Publishing Myths That Will Waste Your Time and Money

Jul 6, 2020

Lessons from Blogging a Book

Jul 2, 2020

How to Build an Author Website in a Day

Jun 29, 2020

8 Tools to Help Authors Get More Email Subscribers

Jun 22, 2020

How to Price Your Book Using Marketing Psychology

Jun 8, 2020

Where Negative Book Reviews Come From And How to Make Them Go Away

May 25, 2020

Painful Book Launch Lessons You Don’t Want to Learn the Hard Way

May 19, 2020

COVID-19 Kindle Stats: Genre Winners and Losers

May 11, 2020

How to Launch a Book in 2020

May 4, 2020

How to Use Metadata to Sell More Books

Apr 27, 2020

Readers Are Changing What They Read (and what to do about it)

Apr 23, 2020

How to Launch a Book: A Coaching Session With Krystal Proffitt

Apr 13, 2020

11 Places to Get Free and Legal Photos for Your Blog

Apr 10, 2020

How to Start an Author Podcast

Apr 6, 2020

How to Quiet Your Inner Editor (so you can write faster)

Mar 30, 2020

How to Build Your Platform During Your Social Distancing

Mar 23, 2020

7 Blogs Every Author Should Follow

Mar 20, 2020

How to Get More Book Reviews with Jim Kukral

Mar 16, 2020

Kickstarter Tips and Tricks With Chris Fox

Mar 9, 2020

What Indie Authors Need to Know About Kindle Unlimited with Lacy Williams

Mar 2, 2020

How to Make Your Book More Popular (Marketing Psychology: Social Proof)

Feb 24, 2020

State of the Kindle 2020

Feb 17, 2020

How to Work With Fellow Authors To Sell More Books

Feb 10, 2020

How to Rank in Amazon Search Results with Dave Chesson

Feb 3, 2020

How to Use Scarcity & Ubiquity to Make Your Book Irresistible (Marketing Psychology)

Jan 27, 2020

How Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith Grew Her Email List by 23k Using a Reader Quiz

Jan 20, 2020

How to Create Urgency to Buy Your Book (Marketing Psychology)

Jan 13, 2020

How to Optimize Your Amazon Listing with Bryan Cohen

Jan 6, 2020

Productivity Tips for Authors With Joanna Penn

Dec 30, 2019

The Enclave Files

Dec 23, 2019

Marketing 101: How Readers Make Buying Decisions at Physical Bookstores

Dec 9, 2019

Where to Find Mentorship for Your Publishing Career

Dec 2, 2019

Literary Universe Marketing

Nov 25, 2019

Print On Demand vs Offset Printing for Indie Books

Nov 18, 2019

How to Combine 2 Different Websites Without Losing Search Rankings

Nov 11, 2019

Why Demographics are Mostly Useless And Why You Should Use Psychographics Instead

Nov 4, 2019

How to Use Marketing Data To Sell More Books

Oct 28, 2019

Public Speaking for the Introverted Writer with Joanna Penn

Oct 21, 2019

Bookstagramming on Instagram With Nadine Brandes

Oct 14, 2019

How to Get Booked for Guest Podcast Interviews Overview

Oct 7, 2019

How to Run a Podcast Tour (With Guest Mary DeMuth)

Sep 30, 2019

90% of Top USA Today Bestselling Authors Have a Podcast Presence

Sep 27, 2019

Where to Spend Your Marketing Dollars

Sep 23, 2019

How to Go From 10 to 10,000 Readers in Five Years

Sep 16, 2019

How to Pick a Social Network as an Author (Infographic)

Sep 9, 2019

Focus, Pruning and Why Novel Marketing is About to Change

Sep 2, 2019

Book Marketing Milestones

Aug 26, 2019

How to Create a Landing Page

Aug 19, 2019

Book Marketing 101: How to Price Your Ebook

Aug 12, 2019

200th Episode Celebration

Aug 5, 2019

How to Create a Design Brief for Your Book Cover

Jul 29, 2019

How to Protect Yourself from Counterfeiting and Other Amazon Attacks

Jul 22, 2019

How To Sell A Ton More Books With Public Speaking

Jul 15, 2019

How to Add a Hyperlink in WordPress

Jul 9, 2019

Plagiarism, Copyright and Is Piracy Really a Problem for Authors?

Jul 8, 2019

How to Work With Brick and Mortar Bookstores

Jul 1, 2019

What to Do When Your Book is Not Selling

Jun 24, 2019

How to Create Powerful Ads for Authors Who Hate Math! with Chris Fox

Jun 17, 2019

Marketing 101: Ten Advertising Terms You Need to Know

Jun 10, 2019

How to Track Your Book Promotion

Jun 3, 2019

How to Navigate the Mailchimp Explosion!

May 27, 2019

How to Use Bookbub to Sell More Books with David Gaughran

May 20, 2019

How to Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch for Your Book

May 13, 2019

How One Author Used Her Shelved Manuscript to Get a 3 Book Deal

May 6, 2019

How to Get A Publishing Board To Buy Your Book

Apr 29, 2019

The 5 Best Free WordPress Plugins for Authors

Apr 22, 2019

How To Keep Writing When You’re Scared About What Others Will Think

Apr 15, 2019

How to Work with Editors: Insights from One of the Best in the Business

Apr 8, 2019

Author Taglines With Brandilyn Collins

Apr 1, 2019

How to Use Your Book’s Back Matter to Sell More Books

Mar 25, 2019

How to Sell More Books Using Bookmarks and Business Cards

Mar 18, 2019

How to Find and Work with Beta Readers

Mar 11, 2019

Marketing 101: Twelve Marketing Terms Every Author Must Understand

Mar 4, 2019

How to Get Your First Speaking Gigs

Feb 25, 2019

How to Grow Your Email List With Book Sweeps

Feb 18, 2019

How David Rawlings Broke Into the US Market Despite Living Overseas (Case Study)

Feb 11, 2019

How You Can Create Massive PR for Yourself, Even If You’re A Complete Novice

Feb 5, 2019

How to Create a Written Book Launch Plan

Jan 28, 2019

Bonus Book Launch Q&A

Jan 25, 2019

Marketing 101: How to Create a Value Proposition for Your Book

Jan 22, 2019

How To Split Test Your Book Title Ideas With Facebook Ads

Jan 15, 2019

How to Maintain Your Platform In-Between Books

Jan 8, 2019

Your Best Year Yet With Susan May Warren

Jan 1, 2019

Highlights from 2018

Dec 25, 2018

How James L. Rubart Went From Rejected and Unpublished to Bestselling Author

Dec 18, 2018

How to Use Facebook To Promote Your Book

Dec 10, 2018

Why Facebook is Overrated for Book Marketing

Dec 4, 2018

How to Sound Great As a Podcast Guest

Nov 12, 2018

Ghostwriting 101 with Arlene Gale

Nov 6, 2018

How to Get 10,000 Readers and then Keep Them Happy

Oct 30, 2018

Snowflake Method With Randy Ingermanson

Oct 23, 2018

How to Take Charge of Your Author Career

Oct 16, 2018

Amazon Book Ads – Everything You Need to Know with Brian Berni

Oct 9, 2018

How to Create an Online Author Press Kit

Oct 2, 2018

Six Things Readers are Looking for on Your Website

Sep 25, 2018

How to Boost Book Sales With Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs)

Sep 18, 2018

How Fiverr Freelancers Can Help You Sell More Books

Sep 11, 2018

How to Host a Facebook Live For Your Book

Sep 4, 2018

How to Write 5000 Words an Hour with Chris Fox

Aug 28, 2018

How to Write to Market With Chris Fox

Aug 21, 2018

The Launch Your Book Blueprint

Aug 13, 2018

150 – A Blueprint on How to Launch Your Book

Aug 13, 2018

How To Set up Pre-Orders for Your Indie Book

Aug 7, 2018

148 – How to Get Libraries to Buy Your Indie Book, with Lacy Williams

Jul 31, 2018

What We Can Learn from The Greatest Book on Marketing Ever Written

Jul 24, 2018

How to Spot a Publishing Scam

Jul 17, 2018

How to Create a Reader (Lead) Magnet

Jul 10, 2018

144 – How to Build an Amazing Author Website for $459.20

Jul 3, 2018

Book Marketing 101: Author Advertising

Jun 26, 2018

Marketing 101: How to Develop Book Marketing Assets

Jun 19, 2018

141 – Amazon Books and the Future of Brick and Mortar Retail

Jun 12, 2018

139 – How to Think Like a Business, Stay Motivated, And Write With Joy w/ Chad Allen

May 30, 2018

Why American Authors Don’t Need to Worry About GDPR

May 21, 2018

136 – How to Use K-lytics To Sell More Kindle eBooks

May 8, 2018

New Podcast: Creative Funding Show

May 7, 2018

How to Start a Local Writers Group

Apr 30, 2018

How to Relaunch a Book With Chris Fox

Apr 24, 2018

How to Find and Work with an Editor

Apr 17, 2018

How to Increase Your Email Delivery

Apr 5, 2018

130 – Myths Authors Believe  

Mar 27, 2018

How to Build an Email List Before Your First Book Comes Out Using Short Stories

Mar 20, 2018

How to Blog Your Book

Mar 19, 2018

128 – Taking Novel Marketing to the Next Level

Mar 14, 2018

What’s New in MyBookTable 3.1

Mar 6, 2018

How to Connect with Anyone in the World  

Mar 6, 2018

How to Make Word of Mouth Work for You

Feb 27, 2018

125 – Why Word of Mouth Isn’t Working for Your Book

Feb 20, 2018

How to be a Healthy Writer with Joanna Penn

Feb 13, 2018

123 – What the New Facebook Changes Mean for Authors

Feb 6, 2018

122 – How the 2018 Tax Changes Affect Authors

Jan 31, 2018

Email Marketing for Humans with Bryan Cohen

Jan 23, 2018

What Facebook’s 2018 Change Means for Authors

Jan 16, 2018

How to Get to Know Your Readers

Jan 16, 2018

Working with Beta Readers, Crowdfunding, and More with Curt Iles

Jan 9, 2018

Book Marketing 101: Marketing Funnels

Jan 3, 2018

117 – How to Plan a Successful New Year with Tracy Higley

Dec 27, 2017

116 Important Changes GoodReads Giveaways

Dec 20, 2017

115 –  Why Traditional Authors should NEVER pay for marketing

Dec 13, 2017

Five Kinds of Author Homepages

Dec 6, 2017

113 – Content Marketing With Joanna Penn

Nov 29, 2017

Where to Build Your Platform As an Unpublished Novelist

Nov 22, 2017

How to Write Bestselling Back Cover Copy

Nov 15, 2017

110 – 11 Ways Proven to Draw Readers to Your Novel’s Website

Nov 8, 2017

12 Chrome Extensions Every Author Needs

Nov 1, 2017

How Free Pulsing Can Help You Sell More Books with Jamie Foley

Oct 25, 2017

Book Cover Mistakes That Sabotage Sales

Oct 18, 2017

10 Things Every Book Cover Needs

Oct 11, 2017

105 – How to Sell More Books With Amazon Ads 

Oct 4, 2017

104 – How to Independently Publish Your Book

Sep 26, 2017

10 Common Author Homepage Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

Sep 18, 2017

Why Mastermind Groups Give Bestselling Authors an Edge and How to Start One

Jul 24, 2017

Episode 100 LIVE Extravaganza: Q & A

Jul 21, 2017

099 – Three Marketing Mindsets We Suggest You Adopt For the Rest of the Year

Jul 1, 2017

7 Tips for Best Selling Author Portraits

Jun 15, 2017

097 – Major Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Author Name

Jun 1, 2017

How to Turn Your Book Into An Audiobook

May 15, 2017

7 Reasons Why Your Book Should Also Be An Audiobook

May 1, 2017

How to Use the Ancient Power of Discipline to Accomplish Your Goals

Apr 17, 2017

093 – What Authors Can Learn from Bad Super Bowl Ads

Feb 4, 2017

The 5-Year Plan To Become A Bestselling Novelist

Jan 18, 2017

092 – The Guaranteed Way to Become A Bestselling Novelist

Jan 18, 2017

What The Election Can Teach Us About Copywriting for Your Book

Nov 28, 2016

090 – Q&A Extravaganza #7

Nov 15, 2016

089 – How To Use the Power of Video to Engage More Readers

Nov 8, 2016

13 Ways to Scare Readers Away from Your Book’s Website

Oct 17, 2016

How to Pick Your Genre

Sep 15, 2016

085 – How to Sell More Books with MyBookTable 3

Sep 2, 2016

MyBookTable 3 is Here

Aug 29, 2016

084 – How to Create A Breakthrough Author Brand Step 4 – Look in Your Reader’s Mirror

Aug 22, 2016

How to Get an Agent With Rachelle Gardner

Aug 1, 2016

082 – How to Get an Agent

Jul 16, 2016

7 Website Visitors Every Author Needs to Thrill

May 15, 2016

080 – Q & A Extravaganza

May 1, 2016

MyBookProgress 1.0 is Here!

Apr 30, 2016

How to Write a Crazy Cool Author Bio

Apr 23, 2016

078 – How To Become a Career Writer Part 4: How to Make Money With Your Knowledge & Celebrity

Apr 1, 2016

How To Become a Career Writer Part 3: Make Maximum Money with Your Writing Skills

Mar 15, 2016

076 – How To Become a Career Writer Part 2: Make Maximum Money on Your Book

Mar 1, 2016

075 – How To Become a Career Writer Part 1: Think Like a Business

Feb 15, 2016

When Your Writing Career is Re-Storied

Feb 1, 2016

How to Double Book Profits Through Affiliate Revenue

Jan 15, 2016

MyBookTable 2.2 is Here! Now with Updated B&N Affiliate Support, iTunes, AISN and more

Jan 14, 2016

Barnes & Noble Has Ended its Affiliate Program (and what to do about it)

Jan 14, 2016

How To Set Realistic Writing Goals For 2016

Dec 31, 2015

How to Grow Your Email List from 0 to 10,000

Dec 16, 2015

071 – How To Find a Good Editor

Dec 4, 2015

Cyber Monday Deals from Author Media

Nov 26, 2015

070 – Q&A Lightning Round

Nov 15, 2015

How to Stand Out When Your Name Fits In

Nov 1, 2015

068 – Where to Spend Your Marketing Money

Oct 15, 2015

Bonus Episode: Special MyBookProgress Announcement

Oct 7, 2015

We Are Revolutionizing Author Websites… Again

Oct 7, 2015

067 – How to Keep Your Inbox @ Zero And Have More Time to Write

Oct 1, 2015

066 – Can Writing Contests Be A Powerful Marketing Tool?

Sep 16, 2015

7 Tips for Effective Email Newsletters

Sep 1, 2015

Six Proven Methods for Creating Maximum Impact at Writing Conferences

Jun 6, 2015

062 – 7 Ways to Avoid the Email Spam Filter

May 1, 2015

WordPress Plugin Security Flaw – Update Your Plugins NOW

Apr 20, 2015

How To Install a Plugin on Your WordPress Site

Apr 10, 2015

061 – Marketing 101: The Five Ps of Novel Marketing

Apr 1, 2015

How to Harness the Magic of MyBookTable with Shortcodes

Mar 27, 2015

How the WordPress Philosophy Can Help You Write a Masterpiece

Mar 16, 2015

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