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Paul Teague authorWelcome to Paul's Podcast Diary for Saturday 10th August, 2019.

Coming up this week:

  • I’m off travelling again – but did anything get done this week?
  • I’m back on BookSweeps, this time with my thrillers
  • I just hit a big target, but it's nothing to do with books
  • 15 Things I’ve Changed My Mind About In Self-Publishing

This diary charts my self-publishing journey – the ups the downs, the successes and the failures.

Everything goes into this diary, week-by-week, but you'll also find it a source of great tips, resources, tools, podcast recommendations and so on.

If you're new to the podcast and want to easily access the back catalogue of podcast diaries, in chronological order, please check out this page.

If I ever miss something out, or you'd like more information, just drop me an email at paul@paulteague.com.

This Week's Talking Points

1) Younger Next Year book:

2) Promoting my thrillers via Booksweeps [My referral link]

3) BookBrush examples – this is my BookBrush referral link

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15 Things I’ve Changed My Mind About In Self-Publishing

#KDP Select vs Wide

Publish on Amazon

Publish on Draft2Digital [My referral link]

Publish on PublishDrive [My referral link]

#Paperbacks and Ingram Spark

Publish on IngramSpark

#Project Bloodhound aspirations

Bloodhound Books: https://www.bloodhoundbooks.com/

Joffe Books: http://www.joffebooks.com/submissions/

Bookouture: http://www.bookouture.com/

#Series vs standalones vs trilogies

#Entering competitions

Wishing Shelf book awards: http://www.thewsa.co.uk/

ALLi article ref: best competitions to enter: https://selfpublishingadvice.org/author-awards-contests-rated-reviewed/

#Non-fiction > evergreen topics

#Marketing more important than the books

#Planning rather than pantsing

#Collaborations

#Writing to market [Chris Fox]

#Ideal book length = 75k

#Best software to use …

Use Vellum on a PC: https://paulteague.com/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc/

Vellum: https://vellum.pub/

MacInCloud: https://www.macincloud.com/

Novel Factory: https://www.novel-software.com/

#Cover strategies

Hex colour picker: https://html-color-codes.info/colors-from-image/

#Launch techniques – rapid release

#Submitting to agents – the trad route

Festival of Writing in York: https://jerichowriters.com/festival-of-writing/

This week on Twitter

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