Episode 5.14: Author-Entrepreneurs vs. Professional Writers

This episode of the Write.Publish.Market podcast is short but hits on a topic that is crucial for you when writing your book. Jodi wants her listeners to know and note that author-entrepreneurs and professional writers are not the same and those differences are ones you need to be aware of. She’s talking about your

  • goals

  • your writing schedule / purpose of writing

  • your job description

You’ll have to listen in to hear all of the details!

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Episode 5.9: Your Nonfiction Book Website Page with Erin Ollila

On this episode, Jodi Is talking with Erin Ollila about a very important part of your author platform - your author website. They discuss the options of having a designated website or just page for your book and how to make it work best for you and your followers. She also shares her top 3 tips for creating messaging around the message you have to share. This episode is so helpful and is a major part of your book launching process, so tune in and don’t skip it!

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Episode 5.8: Social Media and Your Book with Andréa Jones

You can’t deny it; (almost) all business owners need to be on social media. And if you’re writing a book as part of your business strategy, then a social media strategy for your book is something you need to have more than you might think. But we all know social media in general can be overwhelming and if you’ve been working on a project like a book, you may not have the energy to get on social media and talk about your book. On today’s podcast Jodi asks her guest Andréa “How do we figure out where to be so that we can then manage our time and energy effectively?”

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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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