Guests:

Marissa Polselli - Set the world ablaze with your talents

and

Dr John Murray - Polish Your Internal Mirror

Join me in saying GOOD RIDDANCE to 2024 and Hello to 2025.

“Auld Lang Syne” by The Irish Rovers

My Stuff for Beginner Authors:

Get Your Book Seen and Sold - eBook or Paperback

Sit & Write: Begin Video Course

The holidays are stressful. Duh! I am starting to feel shaky already.I needed to chat with an expert so I enlisted my friend, Maureen Humpl, a CPA and owner of her own business. The business of keeping things in perspective and stress at bay, especially during the holidays, is welcome advice and perfect for a chuckle.

Gals, you are not wonder women and most importantly, you are not alone. Maureen expounds on her tips for keeping holiday stress to a minimum so that you have time to enjoy your holiday and make some memories.*** Delegate to gain a sense of control*** Forget about what people think*** Prioritize what is truly important to YOU*** Ignore expectations of others*** Pick and Choose what will make YOU happyJoin us as we share stress, motherhood, and what to say if your partner thinks the laundry is "your job." "You'll remember the laughs with family and the food, not the plates it was served on."Maureen HumplThis is part one of a series of "stress relief during the holidays."I mention Comedian/Actress/Writer Meredith Masony in the podcast. You can find her on Instagram

For more information about book publishing and marketing fundamentals complete with exercises to help you create fabulous pitches and an updated book marketing plan, buy my latest award-winning, amazon best-selling book with co-author, Julie Murkette, Get Your Book Seen and Sold today.

Many of my book marketing lesson can also be found in the video course I co-teach with author, Kate Brenton, Sit & Write: Begin : Video Class, $97 which also has lessons to your book & learn to sell it at the same time!

Wat??? Yes, get a FREE copy of the award-winning, 5 star reviewed, #1 Amazon bestseller, Get Your Book Seen and Sold, with a Paid Subscription to Substack - click ‘Go For It’ below.

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At the $75/year level you get: a free book, 30 minute Zoom with me, and a downloadable fill-in the blank marketing plan.

You are listening to the audio version of this Substack Post:

BookBub : Affordable and Effective Book Promotion Ideas to Get Your Book Seen and Sold (Part One)

Hello Authors, BookBub is a Book Promotion Site that could be a key part of your book marketing plan to sell your books. In this post I focus on how BookBub works and explain two of their book promotion products - featured deal and new releases for less. I recognize that there are many different online sites that are vying for your book promotion dollars. I hope by explaining how BookBub works, I’ll save you some time AND introduce you to reasonably priced promotion opportunity for your book. Choices are awesome!

The specific sites I mention:

Bookbub (search “BookBub partners” for info of the their book promotion projects)

BookBub Featured Deals Info

BookBub New Releases For Less

Deep Dive on BookBub: Selfpublishing.com

It Gets Easier! And Other Lies We Tell New Mothers by Claudine Wolk

Sit & Write: Begin : Video Class, $97, write your book & sell it! Taught by Claudine & Kate Brenton (author & Substack: Sit & Write)

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For more information about book publishing and marketing fundamentals complete with exercises to help you create fabulous pitches and an updated book marketing plan, buy my latest award-winning, amazon best-selling book with co-author, Julie Murkette, Get Your Book Seen and Sold today.

Wat??? Yes, get a FREE copy of the award-winning, 5 star reviewed, #1 Amazon bestseller, Get Your Book Seen and Sold, with a Paid Subscription to Substack - click ‘Go For It’ below.

Take the plunge and upgrade your subscription today.

At the $75/year level you get: a free book, 30 minute Zoom with me, and a downloadable fill-in the blank marketing plan.

You are listening to the audio version of the post: Lessons From Authors Featuring Maggie O'Farrell's "After You'd Gone"

Hello Authors,

Fiction writers learn from other fiction writers and Maggie O’Farrell is one of the best. In this podcast you will learn that sometimes NOT playing by “the rules” results in a fabulous book ~ Claudine

Link to After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell

Link to the latest cover of After You’d Gone

Link to the video class mentioned in the intro: Sit & Write: Begin - teaches book marketing and writing… Get Inspired With Confidence. $97 for a limited time by published authors, Claudine Wolk & Kate Brenton.

Get Your Book Seen and Sold book (eBook and paperback) complete with simple description of publishing choices and exercises to identify your book’s target audience and where to find them.

How do you like the new, cool intro music of the podcast? Thank you to composer/performer Nick Gloire with Pixabay!

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Sharon Castlen, an expert book marketer, can be found at her website IntegratedBookMarketing.com. With over forty years of experience as a book marketer with a specialty in book distribution, not to mention the book marketer for my first book, It Gets Easier and Other Lies We Tell New Mothers, Sharon answers questions that I have heard from every author about book marketing - why it’s important and how it works to sell books!

In this podcast, Sharon covers:

* The importance of knowing your target market.

* How book distribution works and when is should be set up

* Ingram vs Ingram Spark

* The relationship between book marketing and book distribution

* The difference between Book Marketer and Book Publicist

* The months to NEVER publish your book

* You can email her for a 15 minute free conversation to see if she can help to market your book at Sharon@integratedbookmarketing.com. Put WOLK in the Subject line so Sharon knows you came from Get Your Book Seen and Sold Podcast.

From the podcast episode: Sharon reminds authors…

If you don’t have good book distribution, the marketing & media you do won’t be valuable because buyers won’t know where to find your book.

The book marketing begins before the writing ends.

Honor your strength, outsource your weakness.

The IBPA “Book Industry Standards Worksheet” that Sharon mentions in the podcast.

Credit: Podcast Pic Photo by Donna Mae Moltio on Unsplash

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Get Your Book Seen and Sold book (eBook and paperback) By Moi and Julie Murkette includes additional information on book distribution - easy graphs and explanations.

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You are listening to the audio version of the post: Get Your Book Out There For Sale - Book Distribution Options

Hello Authors,

Book Distribution IS Book Marketing. Regardless of your choice to traditionally publish or self-publish, it’s important for you to understand book distribution or how your book gets into the hands of book buyers. Consider this podcast a great beginning summary of how book distribution works and why it is important for you to understand. ~ Claudine

Link to Interview with expert author, Joanna Penn on Get Your Book Seen and Sold Podcast:

Link to Joanna Penn’s article, How to Publish An eBook!

Link to Dave Chesson’s article on The Best Aggregators and Publishers for Self-Published Authors - updated for 2024 (love this guy!)

Get Your Book Seen and Sold book (eBook and paperback) complete with Book Distribution graphs and explanations.

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Sign up for a free subscription to my Substack Posts / Podcasts. Most of my posts are available as a free subscriber. If you dig my work and would like to support me, try a monthly subscription $6/ a month or yearly subscriptions with different goodies of you. If you know a writer or an aspiring writer, please spread the word.