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    Wish I’d Known Then: a Podcast for Self Published Indie Writers

    Indie authors Jami Albright and Sara Rosett interview authors focusing on lessons learned about writing, marketing, and self-publishing.

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    Copyright: © Sara Rosett and Jami Albright 2020

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    How to Pitch Your Book to Bookstagrammers, Podcasters, and Other Influencers Apr 05, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 115 / Cindy Burnett, host of the Thoughts from a Page Podcast, joins us this week and shares tips for authors who want to pitch book reviewers, podcasters, or bookstrammers. We also talk about Cindy’s Patreon and how she’s structured it to appeal to readers.

    Show notes:

    • How Cindy’s love of reading launched her into reviewing books, writing columns about books, and eventually podcasti
    • How she decides which books to read and review
    • What Cindy wishes authors knew about book reviewers/bloggers/podcasters
    • Common mistakes authors make when they reach out to podcasters and reviewers
    • Common mistakes Cindy sees in books that are a turn off
    • How Cindy’s set up her Patreon to attract readers
    • The advantages and challenges of in-person book events

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Links:

    Cindy’s podcast website: https://www.thoughtsfromapage.com

    Twitter: @burn555555

    Instagram: @thoughtsfromapage

    Facebook Author Page: @thoughtsfromapage

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    Jami’s books

    Sara’s books

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Zoe York on Secret Pen Names, Iterating Your Goals, and Tik Tok for Authors Mar 29, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 114 / Do you wonder if a secret pen name is for you? Do you want a sustainable long term writing career? Romance and nonfiction author Zoe York joins us to discuss secret pen names, how she iterates her goals, and gives out of the box marketing tips. Also why Tik Tok is working now and Facebook is stagnating for authors

    Show notes:

    • Why Zoe started a pen name and why she keeps it secret
    • Why she writes nonfiction for authors and why she recommends other authors give nonfiction a try
    • What tools Zoe uses for goal-setting
    • The Series 2.0 concept and how it gives you progressive career growth
    • When it’s time to change your goals
    • The importance of understanding your goal profile
    • Where social media like Tick Tok fits with your goals
    • Out of the box marketing ideas

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Links:

    Episode 51, Zoe York on Goal Setting:

    https://wishidknownforwriters.com/zoe-york-on-goal-setting/

    Books:

    Writing from the Middle

    Romancing the Beat

    Build a Book

    Zoe’s Websites:

    www.romanceyourbrand.com

    www.zoeyork.com

    www.ainsleybooth.com

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Selling Books in Person at Shows with Clare C. Marshall Mar 22, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 113 / Are you looking for a new revenue stream? Selling in person at shows is an option to add to your list of possibilities. Young adult science fiction and fantasy author Clare C. Marshall joins us today to share her tips for selling in person at craft shows, festivals, and comic conventions.

    Intro links:

    The Thing About Austen podcast

    The Thing About Austen Instagram

    Nightingale: An Anthology for Ukraine

    Resources to Help Ukrianians

    Show notes:

    • How Clare pivoted from planning a career in journalism to writing and self publishing
    • Why her goals have changed and how the pandemic helped her fall in love with writing again
    • How outlining has helped her writing process - Resource mentioned: Take Off Your Pants by Libby Hawker
    • How she interacts with people at shows to give them easy choices
    • Why going to shows is a type of performance and how she mentally prepares for that aspect of selling in person
    • How Clare recovered from a mistake that involved her books not arriving for one of her shows
    • Specific tips on booth set-up, estimating how much stock you’ll need, taking payments, and interacting with customers

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Links:

    https://faeryinkpress.com - Clare C. Marshall’s YA science fiction & fantasy publishing brand.

    https://faeryinkpress.com/post-mortems/ - Clare’s experiences selling books at shows, comic conventions and festivals

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Ask Us Anything: Is there an Ideal Length for a Series, Revision, and Marketing on a Budget Mar 15, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 112 / We get an update from Jami on her vacation, check in on how the writing community is helping Ukrainians, and answer listener questions.

    Intro links:

    Writers For Ukraine

    Wish I’d Known Think Mini-sode: Writers Helping Ukrainians

    Show notes:

    Listener questions:

    How do you record audio yourself? What is the equipment you need, how do you edit etc.

    • Zoom
    • Hindenburg
    • Wish I’d Known Then Episode 100: Behind the Scenes of the Podcast Plus How to Work With Teams: https://wishidknownforwriters.com/100-2/

    Does the death in a cozy mystery always have to be someone who was bad or villainous?

    Is there an ideal number for books for a series?

    • Sara’s book How to Write a Series

    Can you describe your revision processes? Lots of people say they revise in passes, but what passes and in what order? What exactly do you look for in looking for plot holes, character arcs, world building, etc.

    • Wish I’d Known Then Episode 98: Writing and Publishing Tools We Use, Favorite Craft Books, and Organization Tips : https://wishidknownforwriters.com/writing-and-publishing-tools-we-use-favorite-craft-books-and-organization-tips/

    I’m beginning a new pen name and I will need to set up a FB author page for it. How do I do this? From my current profile or another way?

    • 6 Figure Author Podcast about pen names: https://pod.link/1480978629/episode/d8eab32f82a81d9833f27f13ebafdc8a

    What's the best way to get ARC readers if you're new?

    • Wish I’d Known Then Episode 31: How to Get and Use Reviews: https://wishidknownforwriters.com/how-to-get-and-use-book-reviews/
    • Booksprout

    I'd love to know more about marketing on a budget and finding readers (especially how it might look in a post

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    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Writers Helping Ukrainians Mar 08, 2022
    Show notes

    Resources to Help Ukrainians Ways to help, sourced by author Sara Rosett, from the writing community:

    Fundraisers from Writing Community

    Author Daniel Willcocks has set up a fundraising writing challenge: Writers for Ukraine, the One Million Word challenge. The charity drive runs March 9th-15th www.activatedauthors.com/ukraine

    Author Cecelia Mecca has set up a reader giveaway of fiction books to promote charitable giving.

    Authors & Readers Stand with Ukraine {Giveaway}

    Charities

    Ukraine Crisis Fund - European Christian Mission of North America

    One of my (Sara’s) reades, Ken Sears, has been a missionary to Zaporozhye, Ukraine for over 25 years. He was in the US on leave when the attacks began so he’s safe. He forwarded me what he posted on his Facebook page:

    "From Ken Sears, missionary to Ukraine since 1995, commissioned by the Evangelical Congregational Church, 100 W. Park Avenue, Myerstown PA 17067.

    I am a seminary teacher and pastor in the city of Zaporozhye, Ukraine. My personal e-mail address is seaken57@yahoo.com

    My mission, European Christian Mission of North America, is setting up a "Ukraine Crisis Fund." We will convey funds as fast as we can to contacts who can then direct them further to people in critical need.

    Checks should be made payable to "European Christian Mission" and, VERY IMPORTANT, then designated in the notes section for "Ukraine Crisis Fund." Please do not make the check payable to the Ukraine Crisis Fund or the mission will have to return it to you. So both points are critical: payable to European Christian Mission, and "Ukrainian Crisis Fund" in the note space at bottom left.

    The mission's address is:

    ECM, N.A., PO BOX 1006, PT ROBERTS WA 98281

    The mission's phone number is 1-604-946-6236.

    This is the mission's Canadian address: 5097 47A Avenue, Delta BC V4K4G5

    All funds directed to my mission's funds will be routed to our contact who is responsible for humanitarian aid in the region of Ukraine where I work, and applied to the most dire needs.

    Thank you so much for your help."

    World Kitchen

    Author Jenny B. Jones recommends World Kitchen, which mobilizes chefs and volunteers to feed people. Chef Andres’ Instagram account:

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    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Writing Into the Dark with Krystal Shannan Mar 08, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 111 / Paranormal romance author Krystal Shannan joins us this week to talk about how shifting to writing intuitively was freeing for her and revitalized her writing process. We also talk about whether or not you should cull your newsletter, what Krystal does when she gets stuck, and why readers want specific emotional payoffs in each genre. Plus, mythology and unicorns!

    Intro links:

    Intro links:

    Sara’s How to Outline a Cozy course sale

    Author Consulting with Jami

    Show notes:

    • How Krystal got started writing through entering writing contests
    • Why she recommends the Margie Lawson Academy to learn about writing craft
    • Why Krystal wishes she’d developed her brand sooner
    • How she came back after a sabbatical and revived a “dead” newsletter list
    • Why culling her newsletter is one of her biggest regrets
    • Krystal’s process of writing into the dark
    • Why thinking/brainstorming time is so important
    • What Krystal does when she gets stuck

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Links:

    www.krystalshannan.com

    Authors A.I.

    Market Better Faster

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Simplifying your Writing Life with Evan Gow of Story Origin Mar 01, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 110 / Do you want to simplify your publishing process? Evan Gow joins us to talk about how Story Origin can make things easier in your writing life. Story Origin has been around since 2018 and has created a list of features to help authors including, reader magnet distribution, email integration, beta copy and ARC copy distribution and tracking, cross promo opportunities, and more.

    Intro links:

    Author Consulting with Jami

    Sara’s How to Outline a Cozy course sale

    Show notes:

    • Why Evan created Story Origin
    • Why you need to view your writing career as a marathon
    • Why being too complex in your plans can be a roadblock
    • Evan’s recommendations for how to get started with Story Origin
    • Using previews and free books as a reader magnet to grow your newsletter list
    • Possible trends in publishing, including serialization and gamification
    • Why a newsletter is a key to Evan’s success

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Links:

    Story Origin

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    What We Wish We’d Known About Creating Characters Feb 22, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 109 / Jami and Sara talk about creating compelling characters sharing their lessons learned. They give examples of how they created specific characters and delve into naming characters, backstory, and physical description.

    • How they developing a main character
    • Ways to create characters:
      • Character sheets/study/history
      • Images
      • Enneagram
      • Astrological signs/Tarot
      • Strengths
      • Biographies/Memoirs
    • Characters names
    • Backstory/Physical description

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Links:

    The Rebel Author Podcast - interview with Jami

    Episode 039: Understanding Your Motivation to Write with H. Claire Taylor

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Mark McGuinness on Poetry and Putting the Writing First Feb 15, 2022
    Show notes

    Episode 108 / Mark McGuinness joins us this week to talk about poetry and it’s a fascinating discussion. We chat about the multiple ways to experience poetry as well as how writing first thing in the day has been a key to Mark’s success.

    Show notes:

    • Why you sometimes have to get out of the way and let the poem or prose come through
    • Why it’s much better not to treat marketing as something separate from the creation process
    • How a “mistake” led Mark to an unexpected career path
    • Mark’s poetry podcast, A Mouth Full of Air, where each episode focuses on one poem and the inspiration and writing process behind it
    • How poets bring their poetry into physical world, including his collaboration with a sculptor to produce concrete poetry
    • A common mistake poets and writers often make
    • Why writing first is a key to his success

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Links:

    Mark's poetry website

    A Mouthful of Air

    https://amouthfulofair.fm/

    Instagram: @airpoets

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


    Kate P. Adams on Launching a Cozy Mystery Series with Rapid Release Feb 08, 2022
    Show notes Episode 107 / Kate P. Adams joins us this week as part of the New Author series. She’s a newly published cozy mystery author and shares how she researched the genre and self publishing as well as how she rapid-released her series.

    Show notes:

    • How Kate began writing nonfiction and shifted to fiction
    • Expectations of cozy readers
    • Why Kate wrote a reader magnet before writing her first novel
    • How Kate used rapid release to launch her series
    • Why not rushing it has been a key to her success
    • Why the “school of podcasting” is a great way to learn about self publishing
    • Her interesting experience of writing short stories on a manual typewriter
    • How she incorporates elements from her work experience into her books

    Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com.

    Kate’s links:

    • Website: www.katepadams.com
    • Instagram handle: @katepadams
    • Facebook Author Page: @katepadamsauthor

    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes

    Jami’s Launch Plan

    Sara’s Book Release Timeline Checklist

    📥 Send us a Text Message

    Support the show

    🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops
    ❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
    🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
    📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
    The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast


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