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Welcome to Paul's Podcast Diary for Saturday 1st April, 2017.
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 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) The benefits of using YouTube – page views grow consistently over time and drive decent web traffic:
2) This is a preview for my InstaFreebie webinar on Wednesday 5th April – you can register via https://free-book-giveaways.com/webinar/
3) My InstaFreebie Crime/Thriller Giveaway event has gone really well this week https://freebie-books.com/crime-thrillers/
This is what the leaderboard looks like: https://freebie-books.com/leaderboard-mar2017/
A look at leads added during the week:
4) Amazon Academy event took place in Manchester on Friday 31st March.
Speakers were:
Tracy Bloom https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracy-Bloom/e/B00BSRA0TA/
Keith Houghton https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keith-Houghton/e/B005UMEUJA/
Joseph Alexander https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joseph-Alexander/e/B008VW6Q0M/
5) Reminder! The Self-Publishing Conference in Leicester on Saturday 22nd April https://selfpublishingconference.org.uk/
6) Reminder! The Newcastle Writing Conference on Saturday 20th May http://newwritingnorth.com/projects/newcastle-writing-conference/
7) My Q1/Q2 planning boards:
This Week’s Self-Publishing News
The Alliance of Independent Authors news update: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-strength-to-strength/
Our next Self-Publishing Q&A with @OrnaRoss & @PaulTeagueUK is in Apr 11 https://t.co/wNJhfA1prT #AskALLi #IARTG pic.twitter.com/e5e8lu5FXR
— IndieAuthorsAlliance (@IndieAuthorALLI) March 31, 2017
2 replies to "Paul’s Podcast Diary 042 (Saturday 1st April, 2017)"
Fab diary this week Paul – it absolutely resonated with me. You add so much value.
I’m also working 3 days per week, and have delivered sessions at four national conferences in the last couple of months, while doing half the work with my business partner on blogs, newsletters, producing a plan for our next set of non fiction books and editing existing drafts of two books. On top of this, I’m trying to edit (more like rewrite!) a women’s contemporary novel that started out life in NaNoWriMo 2014, hoping to get a professional edit in advance of FOW this September, just to test out if it stands any chance out there. I’m intending to self publish it, so I also need to work my way through your course modules (note to self…), having not quite completed the ALLI Fringe episodes yet.
I use a monthly (smaller) whiteboard and it definitely helps to motivate me. But sometimes I am tempted to cheat and put something on that I have already done so I can tick it!! Disgraceful I know… but if it keeps you going then what’s the harm?!
Your diary was a timely reminder that I shouldn’t beat myself up about not getting everything done – many thanks.
Thanks Julie, it is ridiculous the work we have to do to ignite our author careers – I also know the lure of the whiteboard ‘cheat’ tick 🙂
I spent Saturday just doing the tasks that I fancied doing, that completely refreshed me, and I was up at 6.30am on Sunday refreshed and ready to go with my webinar prep.
So creating a little white space in the schedule is a good think I think.