Episode 282 – Law of Attraction, No Math, and the Power of Rejection

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If you could rebuild Goodreads and Goodreads Ads from the ground up, how would you do it and why?

How would you improve Goodreads ads if you had limitless power? Bryan and Jim are counting down to show #300! Jim announces his fiction writing team project will be an amazing sci-fi adventure novel written with Tom Sully Sullivant—sign up for previews in the Show Notes. Bryan . This week’s Happy Books Review Winner is Lori L. Robinett. Thank you to our featured Patrons: The Secret Blush – A Jennifer Morgan Novel, Wanderer’s Escape, and A Curse upon the Saints. The Top Tips of the week include why controlling your brand is so important, how the right reader magnets can attract your ideal reader, and when ritual is needed to accomplish your writing goals. The 5 News stories that matter most to indies this week include how Abacus can make royalty sharing a breeze, what the Big 5 are doing to stop Amazon’s copyright infringement, How author Jim Heskett made the leap to full-time, how Beatrix Potter’s own tale surpasses that of her rabbit, and when Goodreads will stop running their self-serve ads and why. Question of the Week: If you could rebuild Goodreads and Goodreads Ads from the ground up, how would you do it and why?

What You’ll Learn:
  • How to brand yourself, whether you want to or not
  • How to choose a lead magnet for your mailing list
  • How to get yourself unstuck and write fast
  • How to simplify author collaborations
  • Publishers are teaming up against Audible
  • How to go full-time by thinking more holistically
  • How some classics were indie published
  • Goodreads is saying bye-bye to author ads
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If you could rebuild Goodreads and Goodreads Ads from the ground up, how would you do it and why?

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