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The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast

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In today’s publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don’t even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join the two bestselling fantasy authors, Autumn and Jesper, every Monday, as they explore the writing craft, provides tips on publishing, and insights on how to market your books.

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Sometimes you just have to face the facts and accept reality for what it is. Even when it hurts.

We've decided to make a major change to the Am Writing Fantasy YouTube channel and Podcast. The reasons and what this change encompasses are shared in this announcement.

Thank you so much for watching over the past three years. We sincerely hope that you'll continue supporting and find what we do helpful.

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Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion)

Jesper (1s):

Hey there. Jesper just dropping in here, uh, up at the front of the episode. I have an excellent guest host on today, but I just wanted to drop in here quickly to let you know that we had a bit of audio quality issues, the internet on my guests and is not entirely stable and at one point about 18 and a half minute in it actually drops, which means that I cannot hear him and he keeps talking for a bit while I'm also talking on top of him to hoping, hoping that he's coming back online.

So you're going to get about one and a half minute where we accidentally talk over one another. So my apologies for that. And also when it comes to his internet connection, there is a bit static on his end and uh, unfortunately I've done everything I can to try to clean it out, but, but it's not possible to get it any better than it is now, but you can hear everything he says. So I've decided to release this episode anyway, so I hope you will get a lot out of it. And the much, much apologies for the audio quality here.

Thank you.

Narrator (1m 7s):

You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, autumn Bert and Jasper Schmidt.

Jesper (1m 35s):

Hello, I am Yesper and this is episode 43 of the amwritingfantasy podcast. And we are going to talk about reviving dead books. Meaning, how do you get books that doesn't sell to start selling again? And as you've noticed that autumn is not with me today, but instead I actually have a guest host and that's Stuart Peyman, whose books have reached international international bestseller status in the U S Australia and Canada. So we'll come to the amwritingfantasy podcast do it.

Stuart (2m 7s):

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Jesper (2m 10s):

And I, I actually understood, uh, from a bit of our email conversations that they just spent a bit of time in. I was about to say my part of the world, well I think it was in Germany and I'm in Denmark, but it's close.

Stuart (2m 21s):

Pretty close. Yeah. I was in central Germany, went to college and verts Berg, so been a decent amount of time in Europe. Oh, okay. What's bird? Where's when Germany is, that is basically dead in the center of Germany. So it's a sort of a little bit to the East of Frankfurt. Probably the nearest a landmark, but not too far from you hick and yeah, honestly you can get anywhere from the center of the country, so it got to travel around a good amount as well. Oh, nice. Nice. Nice. So you were there for several years then. Yeah, for a good bit of time and really, really enjoyed it.

I love the food. I love the climate. Uh, it's just a wonderful place to live.

Jesper (2m 59s):

Oh, cool. Very cool. But uh, but I think you're back in the U S now, right? Yup.

Stuart (3m 4s):

So living in Kentucky, which is a in the Midwest of the United States. Yeah.

Jesper (3m 9s):

Right. Okay. And actually before we get into the whole conversation about reviving dead books, which, ah, which I guess you've made a bit of a specialty out of. But before we get into that, I also noticed that you writing some lit RPG books and uh, I know that that's a, a Shaundra that has been a bit there. I don't know if we can call it hot, but, uh, I, I haven't understood that it's, it's something that, um, that is selling quite well in general, but, but it's also I think a bit of a special show to write.

So I was just wondering if you could, you know, just yeah, a bit of insights about what is lit RPG and how do you g...

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08/19/19 • 37 min

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Autumn have been feeling quite overwhelmed and stressed out lately.

Unfortunately, she is far from alone in dealing with these feelings, yet its a topic that each writer often deals with in isolation.

It's our hope, that by putting it out in the open - with this episode 42 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast - that others will feel more empowered to talk about their feelings.

Hopefully, Autumn also managed to be inspirational in sharing her personal story.

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Read the full transcript below.

(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (2s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need in literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self-published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Bert and Jesper Schmidt. Hello? I am, Jesper.

Autumn (32s): And I'm autumn,

Jesper (35s): this is episode 42 of the amwritingfantasy podcast and we are going to talk about feeling overwhelmed today. And, uh, in many ways, uh, today's topic is, it's a bit personal, so I, I guess he upfront, I want to thank you autumn for the fact that you agreed to share some about, uh, you know, those feelings for the benefit of our podcast listeners. So I hope we were going to create a episode here that will really help people.

Autumn (1m 2s): Yes, we're going to definitely keep this one real folks. And I promise I will not be breaking down in tears though.

Jesper (1m 11s): No, hopefully not. We'll see how and, and Hey, I also have to say, I apologize if my voice sounds a bit raw today. I'm still recovering from a cold and the actual had a bit of fever over the weekend, so that was really annoying. Uh, and I am feeling better now, but I, I'm not quite there yet. So, uh, sorry about the bit here in voice today. It's really not the how try not to cough in your ear as well.

Autumn (1m 36s): Sounds good. But yeah, that's the funny thing doing the podcast. So I can't see you if, so for all I know, you know, you've got like your pajamas and your robot and a wash cloth over your forehead, so hopefully you're not that ill anymore.

Jesper (1m 50s): No, no, no, it's not that bad. Uh, it wasn't, uh, in bed either, you know, a sleeping all weekend or anything. But, uh, I was still, I was still moving around but I really wasn't, especially Saturday. I was really feeling bad, but

Autumn (2m 7s): it's getting better. That's good. That's an important thing, you know. And it's funny cause I, I just picked up Adam from a a leave no trace master educator canoe trip. So we had this wonderful training where you went to go canoeing in the Adirondacks and the fall weather. And while he was gone, I had the camper to myself for five days and I picked him up and he absolutely had a bat. Great time. It was fantastic. He met some fantastic people. Uh, he passed obviously. So now he's a master educator. Can train other people on how to leave no trace. But what was interesting is that of all the things, he has a lingering bad back.

So he's am ever since. I think it runs in the family because his mom has the same issue, so, Oh my goodness, yes. Talking about things that are slowly recovering, he is limping around very much and it's always one of those, it's a perception. I should, we kind of talked about perceptions and stuff before, but I've always thought it was you. You look at someone and you feel people look at him and he's six foot, two broad shoulder and it's very, you know, he looks like he would be a police officer. His family, way back to his great, great grandmother was a warden at a women's prison.

So I mean he's got that physique and they're like, Oh, you're so strong you can do anything. It's like, dude, his bag is so fragile. It's like I feel so bad for him. I haven't seen him in this much pain since am Oh geez. When we probably first met 19 years ago and, but it's recovering and I think it was just the way he was sitting in the canoe and paddling. I'm like, next time you wear a brace, next time you do this and, but he's on the meds and yeah, at least he got to go out.

Some of the pictures he took during the chorus or just, I almost wish I had gone with them, but Hey, I got some time on my own and I got to exp...

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10/14/19 • 45 min

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Have you noticed those free ISBNs that come with distributors or with Amazon's paperbacks?

Is there a catch to using them and you should run like a maverick demon on a rampage to purchase "safe" ISBNs directly ... or are they really OK to use and might be saving you up to $125 a book?!

Join Jesper and Autumn as they lay out what an ISBN is and does as well as what the deal actually is with those free ones!

Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.

SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST!

Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.

Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy.

For as little as a dollar a month, you’ll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.

Read the full transcript below.

(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (2s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self-published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts. Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt.

Jesper (30s): Hello. I am Jesper and I'm Autumn, this is episode 41 of the amwritingfantasy podcast and we are going to talk about ISDM ISBM numbers. I almost stumbled the same bed ESPN numbers and uh, whether you should buy you own ISBNs numbers or if you should use free once. So yeah, we'll get into explaining all the details about what ISB and numbers are and all that. But, uh, I think, can I first say that I actually had a very busy weekend here because my oldest son had his birthday this weekend.

He turned 11 Oh, vial. That's fun. Always almost a teen. It's coming up. Yeah. So, so that, that's the bat. But we had, we had the house full of guests, so that, that was great. Uh, w w we had great fun and it was nice. And uh, my brother and his fiance came already on Friday and then they stayed all weekend and then the other guests came on Saturday. Uh, and then, uh, yeah, some, some, some of them of course from left in the middle of the night and a Sunday morning, uh, my brother and his fiance had to, to go to, because they are picking up a dog, so they have to drive to pick up a dog.

So I had to get up early to make breakfast for them and all that. So I was really, really tired. Or there's something about a group of kids, especially 11 years old with all that energy that can really make you feel tired, I think. Yeah, absolutely. And then of course when you have to wait on your guests for for like two full days, you know, I don't know for me that, I mean, I, I actually think some people enjoy doing that and I do enjoy the company and all that, but, but waiting on people is sort of not maybe my favorite activity, but uh, of course you'd do it anyway.

Autumn (2m 28s): So, but it was very, it was very nice. Oh, that sounds really good. I houseful of family is definitely fun, but I'm like you where I, you know, my parents, we were just visiting with them and sometimes it's like, Oh, you're having a party in the basement. I just, that's a lot of their friends. All their friends are, you know, they're super nice to us and they often have their kids, you know, are mostly my age to sometimes the kids tag along and it's great, but it can be so overwhelming and you know, so much time of it, I'm like, I need to go to the woods so little while

Jesper (3m 6s): w that was also why when it came to Sunday, you know, we just decided to, I'm going to relax on the couch and basically do nothing. So actually we decided to, uh, to watch the first episode of a dark crystal eight of resistance with the kids. And I believe you told me that you watched it too, didn't you?

Autumn (3m 25s): Yes. I've only watched the first one. I'm giving it a try out. I think I have to watch a second one, but it's, what did you think of it? It's okay.

Jesper (3m 34s): No, but yeah, but I think, well, first of all night, my wife noticed that it was, it's in fact a prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson film, the dark crystal. So that was quite interesting to me. Uh, but I think I would say that if I wasn't watching it with the kids, I probably wouldn't watch it to be honest. I mean, I think it was OK and, but there was, there was quite some info dumping going on. Like, like you can almost tell that that's because they want to make sure that the younger audience understands what's happening and all that.

Whereas as an adult, what's in that? That's a bit like OK. Uh, you could probably do that a bit better. Um, so, but, but it's OK it's, it's, it's fine, but I don't think I woul...

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10/07/19 • 41 min

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09/30/19 • 43 min

The character arc represents the change the character will undergo as the story progress.

Stories are all about growth.

If the character doesn’t change then there is no story.

But how do you create a character arc and what different kinds are there?

Join Autumn and Jesper as they share how to create an authentic and believable character arc.

And here's the link to the really cool (funny) map, Autumn was talking about: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2MttwuA-kW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.

SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST!

Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.

Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy.

For as little as a dollar a month, you’ll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.

Read the full transcript below.

(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (2s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts. Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt.

Jesper (31s): Hello, I'm Jesper and I'm Autumn, this is episode 40 of the amwritingfantasy podcast and we are going to talk about character arcs today.

Autumn (44s): So yeah, I think that that's going to be an interesting conversation because character it's a pretty important they are. And well, you know, as we just were recently talking to each other and I said characters are easier to understand the most people. So I think we're going to nail this one pretty good.

Jesper (1m 2s): Yeah. And the thing would characters is that, uh, we have, we have control of what they say and what they do, right? So it's much easier than real life. People

Autumn (1m 10s): insert evil laugh here. So yes, I think this'll be really good. And it's, it's important to understand your character. So this'll be a lot of fun. I love adding depths and finding new ways to bring out different aspects of character. So we'll try not to get carried away with this one.

Jesper (1m 25s): Yeah. Who knows where we're going to end up actually, you know, speaking of, of real life people, uh, I was, uh, I was in Sweden this last week and, uh, I just, I don't understand people. I am, I think the longer I live, the more I figured out that I don't understand. So I was am, I was in the airport in Stockholm or queuing for to enter the plane to fly back home to, to Copenhagen. And then, uh, they, I don't know how they do it in the U S but at least here, you know, if you have priority seats then you're always, you're called on first.

Um, and then they, of course, they scan your boarding pass and whatnot to make sure that the UI actually a priority customer. And, uh, luckily enough, I am one of those all the time. Yeah. I fly so much that I'm a priority customer. So, so the thing is that, and this is what I don't get right, so we, I'm queuing at that airport and I need to uh, uh, bought the plane and they call priority customers. So we'd go up and we stand in the queue and of course scan the boarding costs.

Uh, and then you enter the plane, right. But there was, again, this, this is not because it's not just happened once, it happens all the time, but this time there was five people in that queue who were not priority customers who tried to skip in and get on board. And it's like, and every time it happens, I'm like, why do people do this? I don't understand. Please they can see that the boarding is getting scammed. They know that they're going to get caught and they're still standing there in the queue trying to get in.

And

Autumn (3m 5s): I just, I don't get it just to go and sit down. I always laugh because a, we take ferries quite a lot and the best sign ever saw was at the front of a ferry that said, do not turn on your car engine. So far. No car has reached the dock before the ferry. Like yes, they're not going to make the plane go in faster by boarding faster is not going to happen. You're not going to beat the actual airplane. No. But but it's just, I mean I did the,

Jesper (3m 32s): the thing about wanting to get on board and and I mean that's one of the things honestly I do like with B about being a priority customer because you sort of get on board and you get to sit down off of standing in the queue and there is space in the overhead compartments for your luggage because there's nobody else on the plane at that point. So that part I do like, so I...

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09/30/19 • 43 min

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There are so many ways to market your book from paid advertising to join promos and newsletter swaps. But does joining a free group promo really help you with sales or new readers?

Join Autumn and Jesper as they discuss the pros, cons, and possibilities out there with group promos in Episode 39 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast.

Check out some of the links mentioned in today's show at:

https://storyoriginapp.com/

https://bookfunnel.com/

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SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST!

Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.

Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you’ll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.

Read the full transcript below.

(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (3s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt

Jesper (31s): and hello there. I'm Jesper

Autumn (34s): and I'm autumn. This is episode number 39 amwritingfantasy podcast. Hey, we're going to talk about group promos and if they are worth it., but you know before we get there it's been a, even though we're batch recording things, we always have things going on. It's been always,

Jesper (55s): yeah, certainly. Certainly a lot of things. I mean this here in Denmark we just been hit by a complete like late Shama heat. It's a normally here by the end of August it's, well it's not cool but you know it's the summer sort of starting to come to an end, but now it's just like last couple of days. It's been 30 degrees here and a Celsius of course.

Autumn (1m 22s): Possibly 30 gosh, she's a sure there are no, Oh you mean,

Jesper (1m 29s): yeah, exactly. I mean it's really warm and it's am. It's incredible. I dunno what happened, but it's very wrong all of a sudden.

Autumn (1m 37s): That's funny cause that we've been in am, Adam and I, my husband and I don't like heat and that's half the reason we travel as we get to go up to the North, we like to be like for us to be 70 Fahrenheit. So you know that's pretty moderate. It's like a jacket might be necessary in the morning and usually when we're down in Pennsylvania and usually when we get here it's less stirring hot. But for end of August is actually perfect. Like 70s am. Beautiful, beautiful. It feels like fall, which I can't say it's really felt like fallen August in Pennsylvania since I was a little girl, so I'm not complaining.

Jesper (2m 14s): No. Wow, that's nice. I mean I actually don't mind it being hot outside, but I must admit right now in, you know, sitting inside in my little office here and recording this podcast, I'm like, it's feels like I'm sitting in a sauna or something. It's really, really well.

Autumn (2m 33s): I know the other on the other side of the Atlantic, I've got the window is open and I'm actually a little cool and capris.

Jesper (2m 40s): Yeah. Then that's the thing, right? Because if for me it's, it's late evening time now. So my problem is that if I opened the window or the insects comes in here, eh, if it was daytime it would be no problem. Right. But uh, during nighttime and you have the, you know, the lights turned on inside, then all the insects likes to come and I don't want that. So I have to sit in the sauna here and record. Oh, I will, I will. We're going to hold a few weeks. If you disappear, we know you possibly passed out. Oh shit.

Yeah. I mean, I was out the other day with my youngest son. He was playing in a, in a soccer tournament the other day and he was just as hard as this. It was 30 degrees and luckily none of the kids passed out, but it was, it was really, really, really warm. And they were playing this tournament so they will playing like eight matches or something. And it was, yeah, steaming from above and, but it was really cool. It was, uh, just as kids tournament, you know, and um, and uh, they didn't play very well for the first couple of matches.

They, they sort of draw off you and, and lost a few and maybe one one. So when once the group play was sort of done, then I was thinking, okay, we'll probably go home then because that was it. But then for some re reckless reason, they actually went to the semifinals as the last team that just made it above the cut. So, so then, okay, fine. Then there was one moment. So he played o...

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09/23/19 • 42 min

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Discoverability is a true challenge for authors in today's publishing landscape. The Internet is a crowded place and it’s getting increasingly difficult for authors to get their work seen.

Jim Kukral is an Internet Marketing veteran who has helped companies like Fedex and Ernst & Young to understand how to use the Internet to grow their businesses.

He is also a bestselling author of non-fiction books and an international professional speaker. On top of that, he is the co-host of the Sell More Book Show podcast.

In this episode, he visits the Am Writing Fantasy podcast to discuss how to conquer the “visibility issue”.

Jim's most recent book, “Your Journey to Becoming Unskippable" can be found here: www.beunskippable.com

Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.

SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST!

Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.

Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you’ll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.

Read the full transcript below.

(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (2s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt.

Jesper (31s): Hello, I am Jesper and this is episode 38 of the amwritingfantasy podcast and we are going to talk about how to conquer the visibility issue in today's world. And the internet is a crowded place nowadays and it's getting increasingly difficult for authors to get their work seen. So today I actually brought on a guest who will help me understand how to navigate the issue of visibility. And that guest is Jim Kukral, who is also an internet marketing veteran who has helped companies like FedEx and Ernst and young to understand how to use the internet to grow their business.

He's also a bestselling author of nonfiction books and an international professional speaker. On top of that. He also hosts the sell more books show podcast. So that was quite a bio there. Jay, welcome to the amwritingfantasy podcast.

Jim (1m 24s): I am happy to be here. You have a wonderful podcast here and I've heard lots of great things about it and I know that's people who listened to it, so congratulations.

Jesper (1m 32s): Oh, thank you very much. We actually only recently shifted onto a 100% podcast focus because beforehand we had the Brown, I primary source was actually YouTube videos and then we just sort of uploaded a podcast version of it, but recently we shifted it around. So it is now a podcast where we only just uploading a YouTube podcast so to speak. So, so that's great. I'm, I'm glad you liked it.

Jim (2m 0s): I do.

Jesper (2m 2s): Anything else? Uh, you could tell us about yourself other than what I just mentioned in the intro? Jim

Jim (2m 8s): um, I'm uh, from Cleveland, Ohio and I have a family and I have been publishing content online for over 20 years before even blogs started. I started my first blog, uh, two months before nine 11. I am have written books before. They were called, you know, eBooks and just give you apps online. You know, so I've been doing this a long time. I am definitely not Seth Goden or Malcolm Gladwell, but I would like to be, uh, so, uh, I, I love, uh, producing content that helps people.

Jesper (2m 47s): Yeah. And, uh, I'm also a regular listener of the sell more books show myself and I really liked that. So, uh, since this is also a podcast, I might be listeners who are not familiar with your other shoulder. So perhaps before we dive into today's topic, maybe you could just share a bit about what you and Brian are doing over on the sell more books. Show

Jim (3m 6s): yeah, about five years ago, if you can believe it. I think it's five years. I'm bad at math. If you listen to the show, you'll see that we're bad at it.

Jesper (3m 13s): Yeah, I know.

Jim (3m 15s): We started a podcast called the sell more books show me and Brian Cohen and we did recorded the 282nd or 83rd episode yesterday. So we've done it once a week for all of these years. We're approaching our 300 episode and it's all about the news of what's happening in the world of publishing and self-publishing. It's really for indie authors of any genre who want to learn about the latest tools, tips, tactics, strategies involved in self publishing.

It's a fast paced format, 35, 45 minutes ...

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09/16/19 • 47 min

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You've got the story, but what do you title it? Is choosing a title for your novel pivotal? Are there any steps to pick the right title?

Autumn and Jesper hash out why choosing a title is actually very important and how to go about doing it in episode 37 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast.

Check out the links we mention in the podcast:

https://www.adazing.com/book-title-generator/

https://www.pickfu.com/books

http://www.lulu.com/titlescorer/

https://publisherrocket.com/

Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.

SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST!

Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.

Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you’ll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.

Read the full transcript below.

(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (1s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt.

Jesper (30s): Hello, I'm Jesper. This is episode 37 of the amwritingfantasy and we're going to talk about how to choose a title for your novel.

Autumn (43s): It should be an interesting one because I know you and I have very different techniques. Yes. For on how we choose our titles, which would make it really fun for our code books, but we'll get to that in a minute. For now it's a kind of a fun week, so for me, I've just actually gotten off the road, you know, I live like in a camper and we travel all over North America and we are finally landed back in Pennsylvania. I'm visiting my parents, which is always fun and I'm adjusting to waking up in a real bed and are better having family around and not just birds and squirrels.

So that's my life right now that it's so far so good. It's always nice. I'm catching up on sleep for some reason even though we slept really well and I love sleeping in the camper. Am just been tired the last couple of days. So yeah. You said you fell asleep on the couch or something like that? Yeah, yeah. Which is not like me. I'm not a nap person. But yesterday I couldn't, especially just seeing my parents for the first time in months and months and months and, and you know, I'm supposed to be like talking and socializing and I just passed out on their couch.

Jesper (1m 54s): How do you wear, when you're traveling around, how do you actually do laundry and stuff like that? Do you find like laundry, laundry mats? Is that Colton? Is that what you do or do you have any sort of, uh, laundry or possibility in the car? How do we actually do both?

Autumn (2m 14s): So sometimes we'll actually, there's like three choices. Sometimes we go to a town with a laundromat and go there. We used to sometimes stay at a hotel and often they will have at least a washer and dryer and some campgrounds. Especially you're a Canadian, uh, campgrounds. So Canadian national parks, you guys, Canada, you guys are awesome. I don't, there can be, not say that, but uh, often the Canadian national parks, we'll actually have a washer and dryer, which American national parks often don't even have a shower. So I can't even tell you how awesome Canadian national parks are compared to the U S ones.

Sorry guys. It's true. Why is that? Do you know what, why is that different? I don't know. I don't know if we just have more of them and they're very much, the U S ones are very much under funded. They cannot even keep up with the road upkeep where the Canadian, I've been to some of our national parks and they literally have these granite countertop wash stations with under counter lighting is where you just can go and do your dishes and they have hot showers.

I mean there are nicer than someplace, some luxury resorts I've stayed in and this is just a little pavilion to do your dishes and hang out and talk. And they often have open fireplaces. I mean, they're just amazing, amazing places. And then the U S ones, they're often, you know, struggling to stay open, struggling to take care of their finances, don't even have enough interpreters and park Rangers. So mostly budget, uh, Canada seems to take their national parks really seriously. And they just had their anniversary.

I can't remember if it was the Centennial or 150 years on their national parks. And they put a ton of money and made all the national parks in Canada free in 2018 and that was, I just can't ima...

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09/02/19 • 38 min

Not everyone will like your book, but they aren't supposed to either. You aim is to find the reader who likes the kind of fiction you write.

What happens when you do come across someone who doesn't appreciate your work and leave a bad review on Amazon? How do you tackle it?

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08/26/19 • 43 min

If you spend any time on the Internet, you'll find advise stating that writers should write every day. Is that true?

What happens when things get in the way? Are you then a failure?

In episode 35 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast, Autumn and Jesper shares their thoughts on a topic that troubles many.

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Narrator (3s):

You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts. Autumn Bert and Jasper Schmidt.

Jesper (32s):

Hello? I am, Jesper.

Autumn (34s):

And I'm autumn,

Jesper (39s):

this is episode 35 of the amwritingfantasy podcast. And, uh, today we're gonna talk a bit about how difficult it is to write every day. And sometimes things are just getting in the way and it can be difficult to continue to write every single day. And we're probably also gonna touch on what you can do to overcome it. I, I'm not sure we have all the answers, but I think we can probably give you some ideas on it. But, uh, yeah, I guess I guess we need to start to say sort of welcome to the new amwritingfantasy.

Uh, we're not supposed to say that. Maybe

Autumn (1m 18s):

I feel like it's new. This is our first real like dedicated podcast. So yay. Am we've got some learning to do about how we're doing this. It's a whole new set up, a whole new recording system. Um, I'm currently on the road, so I'm sitting outside next to a library in Canada, in Poult port Colborne. So if anyone is from the area listening, Hey, I love your town, it's really awesome. I love that your library. But I'm sitting outside because there's no, I don't want to disturb the other library listeners.

So if you hear a little bit of traffic and cicadas on this beautiful August day, that's because am Hey, we're just kind of winging this and learning. And they always say, never wait until the, the situation is optimal. They see this about writing all the time too. You can't wait for everything to be perfect because nothing will ever be perfect and then you'll just keep waiting. So we're doing this and I'm really excited about it actually.

Jesper (2m 16s):

Yeah. Eh, you know, we, we sort of have a, a game plan how we want to structure these podcast episode, but I sort of feel like, uh, until we get the hang of it, we run the risk of getting lost in our own new forms. We'll see how it goes today.

Autumn (2m 33s):

So everyone bear with us. This will only get better, but I hopefully you're as excited as we are to be really launching our podcast and moving away from YouTube is now our secondary channel, but we're still going to have something up there for the pupil or dedicated fans who are still on YouTube.

Jesper (2m 50s):

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean everybody can listen to the amwritingfantasy stuff anywhere. It's almost a little, yeah, if you prefer podcast or if you prefer YouTube. That's all good. The only difference is that you can't see us anymore. So we can sort of sit in our pajamas here like we talked about last week and uh, yeah, you will have no idea.

Autumn (3m 18s):

No, but I says I'm sitting outside. I am not in pajamas today. Maybe next time.

Jesper (3m 24s):

Oh, thank God. I was just thinking if we hear like a police car, something that we know why,

Autumn (3m 29s):

yeah. If I disappear for Siri, suddenly am just don't ask, but post bail. No,

Jesper (3m 38s):

no, exactly. Yeah. And we, uh, we also talked in some, a, a bit of music. They in the beginning as you can hear. And, uh, throughout the podcast we have a few other sorts of music pieces that we're going to use. And by the end of the episode there's also some music. So I will be curious to know what the, what the listeners thinks of the branding music. Uh, I mean, we, you and I autumn have been debating a bit about the, the branding music when we got it recorded. Uh, we, as you can here, we paid somebody other than ourselves to, to do the, uh, the recording of that music.

And of course...

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What is the best way for readers to discover your book?

If you give it away, will readers ever actually read it?

If you've wondered those questions, you'll love today's episode as Jesper and Autumn not only debate the topic but share results tabulated from the answers of hundreds of readers!

Help us with the survey on how readers find books by sharing a link to the survey in your newsletter.

We'll share the final results in the Am Writing Fantasy Facebook group.

You can find the survey at https://forms.gle/4cnjZZNP1VtVmRhC6.

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(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (2s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts. Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Hello. I am, Jesper.

Autumn (32s): and I'm autumn,

Jesper (34s): this is episode 44 of the amwritingfantasy podcast and we are going to talk about something as exciting as free books today.

Autumn (44s): Yeah,

Jesper (47s): yeah, yeah. A lot of people do. But, but actually we're going to look a bit into that. And, uh, just for reference here, these are also called Permafree books, uh, because it's about books that you are setting up so that they are permanently free on all platforms. So that's what we're talking about today. Um, and we actually also covered this topic slightly on a previous episode already. Uh, but since then we've actually gone out and ask for Rita opinions on this topic.

Yeah. And it's better than just being us, us authors here among ourselves, speculating on what we thinking about offering free books. So, uh, yeah, that's what we're going to look into today and also discover if it's actually worth it anymore nowadays, but, but more on that later. How have you been since our last recording? Autumn

Autumn (1m 41s): that was definitely a little bit of a personal one. If anyone hasn't listened to it. Talking about feeling overwhelmed and yes, life hip cups. So thank you. I've actually been doing, you know, well there's still ups and downs and days like that, but I will say, you know, I've been talking about that. I've been struggling with my writing and of all things. I'm very busy at the moment cause am I do my newsletter to my readers on the first and the 15th of the month. That's just when I do them. And so I have this to do and not to do, I've been doing some book cover commissions and so I really don't have, like right now the writing hasn't been doing well.

So I'm like, of course I'm not going to write, I'm not even gonna. Look at it. I'm stuck in this scene. I hate the scene and I figured it out. And so I, I wrote myself two minutes on my phone and I hate writing notes on my phone, but I did two minutes of writing notes and it really came down to a phrase that I had already written. I just was stuck at. And by turning it into a negative, changing things slightly, I think I can finish up the scene that has had me stuck and move on. So I know I'm very excited.

I mean I literally, I'm doing like 500 words a day at the moment. I just, it's kind of a, I actually am not even doing that right now. It's hopefully when I get back to it later this week, it'll, it takes like half an hour. This is not a big deal. It's just to make me feel better and feel like I started my day right. Um, to keep writing cause I'm, Hey, I'm an author, but life's a little chaotic right now and overwhelmed and other things. But it feels good to keep it going. And I'm so excited that I think I figured this one out. I'm going to move forward to the next season that could trip me up.

But that's, that was a good week to have that. That idea. I knew as soon as I got too busy to work on it, it would finally come unstuck. And it did. Yeah. Well that's good news. Yeah. I mean progress is always good. I mean, even the small small steps counts as well. Right. And I think, I think that's a lot of like authors. We love that, that moment of, Oh, that epiphany that when things click into place that especially ones that you've been struggling with for what, two months, uh, when that finally clicks and yo...

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