Episode 391 – Going Wide, Hardcovers For All, and Kickstarter for Authors (with Erin Wright)

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If you’ve considered going wide, what’s currently holding you back? If you ARE wide, what’s one of the reasons you decided to go wide?

This week we dive deep into going wide with western contemporary romance author Erin Wright. Erin is also one of the co-founders of the Facebook group Wide for the Win. Be sure to check out her link in the show notes. Leave us a review on Apple Podcast and answer the Question of the Week in the comment section. The winner this week is Stephen Wholesome. This weeks Honorable Mention is Three Formats, One Dashboard. Top Tips of the week include how to manage your beta readers, what are the best tools to format your books, and how to train your brain to write more. The 5 News stories that matter most to indies this week include how PublishDrive is making things easier on authors, what wide authors can use to help finance book projects, what’s new with the audiobook market, how Trad Pub is defeating ebook pirates, the latest on KDP’s worst-kept hardcover secret, and why most author advice isn’t right for authors selling wide. Question of the Week: If you’ve considered going wide, what’s currently holding you back? If you ARE wide, what’s one of the reasons you decided to go wide?.

What You’ll Learn:
  • How to manage your beta readers better
  • The best tools to format your books
  • How to train your brain to write more
  • How PublishDrive is making it easy to have ebooks, audio, and now print books all in one place
  • How wide authors can use Kickstarter to help finance important book projects
  • How PublishDrive is making it easy to have ebooks, audio, and now print books all in one place
  • How Trad Pub is defeating ebook pirates
  • The latest on KDP’s worst-kept hardcover secret
  • Why most author advice isn’t right for authors selling wide (and what to do about it)
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If you’ve considered going wide, what’s currently holding you back? If you ARE wide, what’s one of the reasons you decided to go wide?

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