Episode 5.7: Your Book's Heading Hierarchy

Jodi is sharing her secret weapon for your book writing and production toolbox: a heading hierarchy. This is a document that ideally you create during the writing process, and you can even use your brain dump and working table of contents exercise. If you’re way past those stages, don’t worry, Jodi walks you through how you can still create a heading hierarchy.

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Episode 5.2: Book Metadata: Book Publishing Glossary

Metadata is hugely, hugely important for your book, because metadata is not only is it telling readers what your book is about — how to classify it — but maybe even more importantly than that, it's telling book buyers and librarians where your book goes in their bookstore or library, which, of course, is important to you, if you plan to sell your book in those places.

So what do we mean by metadata? What kind of data about data are we talking about? This is going to be a sampling of things that are included in metadata.

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Episode 4.11: Book Publishing Contract Basics

One thing you will encounter often during your book writing and publishing process is a contract, and probably more than one. In this Write.Publish.Market. podcast, Jodi is walking you through all the different types of contracts you’ll encounter and what boilerplate language to be on the look out for.

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Episode 4.10: Nonfiction Book Research 101

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.

  1. Remember you’re the expert

  2. 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.

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