Episode 230 – Mindset, Hooks, and Author Tax Breaks (with Adam Croft)

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Question of the Week: How do you think your mindset has held you back in your indie author career? What would you have to do to overcome that mental hurdle to take your career to the next level?

How can you overcome your own mental roadblocks to take your writing career to the next level? Jim is out fishing and Bryan has a wonderful guest co-host—Adam Croft. Bryan and Adam get off course discussing cider, but bring it back on topic with Adam’s new nonfiction book, The Indie Author Mindset. This week’s Happy Book Reviews feature winner is Steeven R. Orr. Bryan thanks our Featured Patrons The Strange, Excelsior, and How to Sex Your Snake. Some great tips this week include how to republish on Kobo without losing your reviews, which overhaul strategies helped launch one author’s career, and how to up your click-through rates on Bookbub ads. We have and Honorable Mention story this week about which types of entertainment kids are into besides video games. The Top News stories you’ll want to hear are which new promotional tools can help your next release, how soon you’ll have to move your books from Createspace to KDP, an author success story with quadrupled sales, why tax law changes could add to you bottom line, and what strategy one author used to double page reads. Question of the Week: How do you think your mindset has held you back in your indie author career? What would you have to do to overcome that mental hurdle to take your career to the next level?

What You’ll Learn:
  • How you can republish on Kobo without losing reviews
  • How a complete overhaul launched one author’s career
  • How to hone an audience and increase click-through using BookBub ads
  • What kids are doing for entertainment besides video games
  • What new promotional tool is available for new releases
  • How soon you’ll have to move your books over from CreateSpace to KDP Print
  • How an author more than quadrupled his sales in less than a year using ads
  • How changes in tax law might pad your pocketbook
  • How one author tried something she hated and doubled her page reads in one month
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Question of the Week: How do you think your mindset has held you back in your indie author career? What would you have to do to overcome that mental hurdle to take your career to the next level?

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