Can Writers create a business they love? Sharon Woodhouse, author and consultant, believes that they can! In this podcast interview, Sharon offers advice and ideas from her many years in the publishing and book marketing industry to help authors - yes, sell books - but also create a long-term business that they love AND that turns a profit.

Sharon’s new book: The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books is a fabulous tool for authors to learn how to market their book AND build a business that is profitable and long-lasting. We chat about her book specifically: how it helps, how to use it, why it works, and some specific ideas that have worked for Sharon and/or clients over the years and could work for you!

Get ready to get motivated, authors!

Here are just some of the sites that are mentioned in the podcast:

ConspireCreative.com - Sharon’s website

Sharon’s Substack - The Profitable Author - a business that you love

Sharon@conspirecreative.com - Sharon offers a free 30 minute chat with authors - send her an email to request the link to schedule a chat with her.

More Great Stuff In The Podcast Episode That Sharon Shares For Authors:

Sharon has a site dedicated to her new book: (1) a dedicated site is a great idea to highlight your own book (2) it’s full of information about how you can use the book to its fullest potential for you!

What’s an author business template and how it might pertain to your author business

Sharon’s 5 things strategy for book promotion

Sharon isn’t just teaching book promotion, she is doing it herself and documents her outreach on her substack!

Why “finding the thing in the thing” brings author satisfaction

Why “Done is better than Perfect”

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Claudine stuff:

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Keith Kopka is the recipient of the 2019 Tampa Review Prize for his debut collection of poems, Count Four (University of Tampa Press, 2020). His poetry and criticism have recently appeared in publications such as Best New Poets and mid-American Review among many others.

Keith is also the author of the critical text, Asking a Shadow to Dance: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry (GRL 2018) and the recipient of the International Award for Excellence from the Books, Publishing & Libraries Research Network.

Currently, he directs the low-res MFA Program at Holy Family University in Philadelphia. He spent many years touring the country in punk and hardcore bands.

In the interview, Keith shares the behind the scenes look at book marketing and book publishing of poetry through his personal experience - experience that he brought directly into his poetry.

Keith shares:

* The place poetry award programs play in poetry publishing and marketing

* His successful book review outreach for his book “Count Four”

* Why MFA programs are important for writers

* How publishing in other places: literary magazines, et al is a great help to market your books

* Two site resources for writers: Duotrope and Submittable

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Joe Walter’s started his book review website, Independent Book Review, in 2018 after his extensive experience in publishing unearthed a need - a need for speed - no, I mean a need for Indy authors to get honest book reviews. His popular book review service has helped countless authors and readers as well. You see, his site is for readers, too, a community to help readers to learn about great books to read.

Now, he helps even more with his new book, The Truth About Book Reviews: An Insiders Guide to Getting and Using Reviews to Grow Your Readership. It is available NOW for pre-order and launches officially on July 10th.

Enjoy this interview where I ask everything from Joe’s tips on gathering book reviews to how he applies his creativity on writing his novel to creativity in book marketing. Joe is an example of the experts that I love to feature on the Get Your Book Seen and Sold Podcast - people who care about authors and provide reasonably priced solutions for them to give their books the best chance to be seen and sold. I thoroughly enjoyed his new book, The Truth About Book Reviews, gave it a rave review, and feel that it is the perfect resource to help authors with one of the most important aspects of successful book publishing - gathering book reviews, blurbs and endorsements.

Here are just some of the advice authors will find in the book:

* Sample book review request pitches, sample blurbs

* What to NEVER put in a book review pitch email subject line

* The three different kinds of book reviews

* Example of spreadsheet to keep track of pitches and results of your outreach

* Where to place your precious blurbs and reviews on your book’s Amazon page

Here is part of my blurb for what I am sure will be a best-selling resource for writers!

The Truth About Book Reviews is available for pre-sale today - launch date, July 10th!

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