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Updated 19/03/2019
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24/09/2025

How to Boost Sales With Permafree Books

Giving away your hard work for free doesn’t seem to make good business sense. So why do authors give away ebooks for free? What if “free” didn’t kill your revenue, but primed it? In this week’s episode, we’ll dig into the permafree strategy with Dale Roberts, author of Secrets of the Permafree Book. You’ll learn: Where permafree works (and where it flops)How to make Amazon price-match a free bookHow to determine whether the permafree strategy is working for youWhich kinds of standalone books might benefit from being permafreeIf you’ve got a strong series and a tight budget, permafree may be the fastest path from obscurity to discovery. Listen in or read the blog version to see if it will work for your book or books. Support the show

24/09/2025

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50 min
03/09/2025

The Author’s Guide to AI with Joanna Penn

Most authors either avoid AI or use it badly. Let’s fix that. Authors who learn to use AI find that they have more time to write better books. In this week’s episode, Joanna Penn and I break down where to start, which tools are actually worth using, and how to get useful output instead of bland tasteless, voiceless, AI slop. You’ll learn How to prompt ChatGPT like a coworkerThe best tools for images, deep research reports, audio, and marketing tasksWays to use AI that you probably haven’t considered beforeThe most important AI prompting tip you will ever learnListen now or read the blog version to learn how AI can do tasks you hate, sharpen your author voice, and give you more time to do the creative work you wanted to do when you first started writing. Support the show

03/09/2025

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53 min
20/12/2017

116 Important Changes GoodReads Giveaways

GoodReads giveaways, one of the most cost-effective book promotion tactics, are changing. Here's everything you need to know about giving away books on GoodReads. You can find the blogpost version of this episode HERE. The post 116 Important Changes GoodReads Giveaways appeared first on Author Media. Support the show

20/12/2017

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18 min
01/05/2017

7 Reasons Why Your Book Should Also Be An Audiobook

Most books don’t end up as audiobooks and I think this is a huge marketing mistake for the following reasons. You can find the blogpost version of this episode HERE. The post 7 Reasons Why Your Book Should Also Be An Audiobook appeared first on Author Media. Support the show

01/05/2017

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19 min
05/10/2023

Should More Christians Write Novels?

In this episode of Cary and Cooper Have Words, we talk about the process of writing a novel, how to do it, and what pitfalls to look out for.

05/10/2023

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50 min
03/01/2018

118 – Book Marketing 101: Marketing Funnels

When you don't have good book sales, evaluate your marketing funnel. Learn how to create a process that converts. You can find the blogpost version of this episode HERE. The post 118 – Book Marketing 101: Marketing Funnels appeared first on Author Media. Support the show

03/01/2018

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24 min
20/02/2018

125 – Why Word of Mouth Isn’t Working for Your Book

In this episode of the Novel Marketing podcast, we’re going to talk about what has been consistently cited as the number one way to sell books … Word of Mouth. You’ve heard that, yes? Studies have shown that Word of Mouth sells more books than any other marketing method by far … but today […] You can find the blogpost version of this episode HERE. The post 125 – Why Word of Mouth Isn’t Working for Your Book appeared first on Author Media. Support the show

20/02/2018

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14 min
13/10/2020

How to Get Out of the Slush Pile – With Deborah Raney

You would like to think that as soon as you are done with your proposal and send it off to an agent that he or she is sitting there by the inbox ready to read it as soon as it comes in. If only. Before email became the submission method, agents and acquisitions editors threw […] You can listen to this episode How to Get Out of the Slush Pile – With Deborah Raney on Christian Publishing Show. Support the show

13/10/2020

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42 min
17/12/2019

054 – How to Find an Agent With The Christian Writers Market Guide 2020 Edition

Finding an Agent using the Christian Writers Market Guide 2020 Edition You can listen to this episode 054 – How to Find an Agent With The Christian Writers Market Guide 2020 Edition on Christian Publishing Show. Support the show

17/12/2019

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23 min
21/02/2022

Should Christian Creators Abandon Secular Fiction Markets?

In this episode of Fantastical Truth, E. Stephen Burnett, Zackary Russell, and I talk with me about how Christian authors can and should navigate secular publishing markets. Specifically, we talk about the myth that long ago, Christians and publishing companies lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when evangelicals got fearful and/or legalistic, so they chose to leave the big publishers and start their own Christian publishers. If you want to find out what really happened, listen to this episode.

21/02/2022

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1h 37m

Author Media podcasts help authors write resonate books, build powerful platforms, and change the world with writing worth talking about. Each show is hosted by Thomas Umstattd Jr. who has been helping independent and traditionally published authors since 2007.

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How to Boost Sales With Permafree Books

The Author’s Guide to AI with Joanna Penn

116 Important Changes GoodReads Giveaways

7 Reasons Why Your Book Should Also Be An Audiobook

Should More Christians Write Novels?

118 – Book Marketing 101: Marketing Funnels

125 – Why Word of Mouth Isn’t Working for Your Book

How to Get Out of the Slush Pile – With Deborah Raney

054 – How to Find an Agent With The Christian Writers Market Guide 2020 Edition

Should Christian Creators Abandon Secular Fiction Markets?

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