Jim and Bryan welcomed their first patron G.D. Leon to the show to talk about what he’s learned from the podcast. After thanking their patrons Jamie Arpin-Ricci (for the book The Last Verdict http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523952687), Gillian Felix (for her service Plain Talk Book Marketing http://www.plaintalkbm.com/ ), and Emma Alisyn (and her book Character Sketch & Color https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692671463 ), the self-pubbed pub-lovers talked tips related to Nook Press, harassment, and cupcakes. News stories included reactions to the Merritt Tierce mail carrier piece, laws about autographed books, TOR’s indie marketing play, the Society of Authors’ request for income protection, the predatory vanity presses at major trade shows, and a new threshold for leaving reviews at Amazon. This week’s Question of the Week: Are you in support of a law that provides publisher transparency AND additional author earnings if companies turn enough of a profit? ALSO, who would you want to see speak at a live author event in 2017?

What You’ll Learn:

• How authors can set their prices to free on Nook Press
• What authors can do to take action in the face of harassment
• How authors can self-promote with book launches, Patreon, and free content
• What some authors are saying about Merritt Tierce’s controversial article
• How new laws in California will affect authors’ abilities to sell signed books
• How TOR may be taking a leaf out of the indie author marketing playlist
• Why the Society of Authors wants the UK to accept EU directives
• How predatory vanity presses rely on the London Book Fair
• What impact incentivized reviews have on Amazon rankings

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Question of the Week: Are you in support of a law that provides publisher transparency AND additional author earnings if companies turn enough of a profit? ALSO, who would you want to see speak at a live author event in 2017?