There are two key points when it comes to book research that Jodi advises her one-on-one book coaching clients so that they don't get tripped up.
Remember you’re the expert
You want the research to support your points, not the other way around.
Tune in as Jodi dives into these two key points. She also gets into some of the actual how-to, tactical pieces of the research element.
Read MoreJodi is interviewing one of her very favorite people, and very favorite publishing colleagues: Alexa Bigwarfe. Alexa is a USA Today best-selling author, speaker, and publishing partner. They are talking about book marketing and book launching and how that plays into other parts of your business marketing plan.
Read MoreJodi shares that this means parts of your book that can be licensed to someone else and how they profit from it (this includes movie rights, new cover art, excerpts, and maybe even ebooks and audiobooks).
Read MoreA question that is discussed often, especially in today’s author-entrepreneur world, is how much of yourself should you include in your book? And Jodi is sharing her thoughts on this topic in this episode!
Read MoreOn this episode of the Write.Publish.Market podcast Jodi is talking about your book’s secondary audiences.
Read MoreOn this episode of the Write.Publish.Market podcast, Jodi is talking about something that’s becoming more and more popular in the author-entrepreneur world: how to use client stories and interviews (podcasts specifically) in your book.
Read MoreWhen Jodi is talking about backmatter, she is talking about things at the back of the book. That’s how backmatter got its name — not too complex of a concept there. We’re talking about all of those things that follow after the text itself. Your backmatter might include indexes, appendices, endnotes, a bibliography, additional resources for your readers. Now, your book might have some of these. Your book might not have some, or you might have a combination of these things.
Read MoreToday Jodi is talking about your book frontmatter. What that is frontmatter? Frontmatter is pretty commonplace terminology today. And it's basically everything before the main body of the text.
Read MoreToday’s episode of the Write.Publish.Market Podcast is going to be a little bit different than what you’re used to, if you are a regular listener. Instead of digging in deep to one aspect of the book writing/book publishing/book marketing world, Jodi going to peel back the curtain a little bit on the Author-Entrepreneurs Lab, her mentorship-membership program for business owners who want to write a book to serve their business.
Read MoreToday on the Write.Publish.Market Podcast Jodi is joined by Jyotsna Ramachandran. Not only is Jyotsna a best-selling author and book publisher, she has worked with people all over the world build their business through an author funnel and their books.
Read MoreJoin Jodi for today’s Write.Publish.Market podcast for an episode on editorial feedback. She’s diving into the feedback that comes with your manuscript after the editor is finished working on it.
Read MoreOn today’s Write.Publish.Market Podcast, Jodi is interviewing Kelsey Baldwin, an author, designer, and entrepreneur. They chat about all of the things that go into designing your book. This includes the size of your pages, the front and back cover design, the book spine, and so much more.
Whether self-publishing or going the traditional route, there are a few steps that will make designing your book so much easier. Kelsey shares her thoughts on design revisions, pre-made templates, and why the design of the book should allow the reader to follow along almost without noticing the design.
Read MoreOn this episode of the Write.Publish.Market Podcast, Jodi is interviewing Jacqueline Fisch, the author of Unfussy Life: An Intuitive Approach to Navigating Change. They are talking about the building blocks for her first book, what’s she’s expecting when it officially launches, and what is next for her (hint: it just might be more books!)
Read MoreIn this episode of the Write.Publish.Market podcast, Jodi is talking about book giveaways and how they can help launch your book. She’s covering the difference between a giveaway, a contest, a lottery, and a sweepstakes.
Jodi touches on the legal side of giveaways for authors, but reminds you that she in not a lawyer, so definitely consult one if you have more questions!
You want to have fun with a giveaway, but you want to make sure that you’re having fun while being legally compliant. This needs to be much more than just deciding, “Oh, I’m going to put a post on Instagram or on my Facebook page” and then winging it. You want to make sure that you have a plan in place before your giveaway so that you can keep it legal and use it as a book marketing tactic for you.
Read MoreToday on the Write. Publish. Market. Podcast, Jodi is talking about copyright pages. If you’ve started this part of your writing and publishing process, you’ll notice that copyright pages look very similar from book to book, but not quite exactly the same. And you might be wondering why that is. Let’s break that down. There are some elements that are required for a copyright page, and there are some elements that are not required. And then there are things that you might want to include, depending on your kind of your kind of books. So let’s dig in.
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