Novel Marketing Podcast
Innovative Ways to Sell More Books
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150 – A Blueprint on How to Launch Your Book
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In this episode, we talk about a new course we’ve released that will help you launch your book in a way that will rocket it to success.
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Podcast Hosts
Thomas Umstattd Jr.
Co Host
Thomas is the founder and CEO of Author Media. He has traveled the nation speaking at writing conventions, sharing his secrets on how to build a powerful online platform. Thousands of writers have attended his popular workshops and breakout sessions
James L. Rubart
Co Host
James L. Rubart is the best-selling author of Rooms, Soul’s Gate, The Five Times I Met Myself. He has won 3 Christy, and 2 Carol awards. He lives with his amazing wife in the Pacific Northwest and still thinks he’s young enough to water ski like a madman.Recent Episodes
149 – How To Set up Pre-Orders for Your Indie Book
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Learn why and how to put your indie book up for pre-order on Amazon. Lacy Williams also shares when it’s a bad idea to put your book up for pre-order.
148 – How to Get Libraries to Buy Your Indie Book, with Lacy Williams
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In this episode, we talk with Lacy Williams about how to get libraries to buy your indie books using services like Overdrive and Draft2Digital.
147 – What We Can Learn from The Greatest Book on Marketing Ever Written
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146 – How to Spot a Publishing Scam
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In this Novel Marketing Podcast episode, we are going to talk about publishing scams and how to avoid them. Don’t get bamboozled by a charlatan!
145 – How to Create a Reader (Lead) Magnet
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A reader magnet is a prize your readers get in exchange for giving you their email. They can dramatically improve how fast your email list grows.
144 – How to Build an Amazing Author Website for $423.20
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143 – Book Marketing 101: Author Advertising
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In this episode, we talk about four advertising fundamentals that apply when buying ads on Facebook, Amazon, GoodReads, and more!
142 – How to Develop Book Marketing Assets
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In this episode, we talk about how to reduce book marketing liabilities and develop assets. The more assets you have, the easier books are to sell.
141 – Amazon Books and the Future of Brick and Mortar Retail
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In this episode, we talk about Amazon’s brick and mortar bookstores, the future of paper books, and how they affect you as an author.
140 How to Develop Multiple Streams of Money from Your Writing Career with Joanna Penn
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In this episode, we share an episode of the Creative Funding Show where Thomas talks with Joanna Penn about the multiple ways you can make money from your writing career that you might have never considered.