#322 – Successes and Strengths in Self-publishing with Jasinda and Jack Wilder
Release Date: 07/25/2023
#351 - Translating Your Books with Hanna Wheeler
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode of the KWL Podcast, we were joined by Hanna Wheeler, translator and copywriter who has worked on translating several Kobo Originals titles (check out )! Hanna grew up in a bilingual family and is fluent in both English and Dutch, and has translated a variety of titles, from biographies to children’s pictures and more! Her work is expansive; some of her previous clients include MTV, Greenpeace, Sony Pictures, and more. Hanna had a lot to tell us about her experience as a translator, her reading habits, her foray into freelancing, how she got started as a...
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#350 – Writing Young Adult Fantasy Novels with Nicki Pau Preto
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we spoke with science fiction, fantasy, and young adult fiction author ! Nicki is a Sunday Times best-selling author of six books across these genres in both the middle grade and young adult fiction categories. Her latest YA fantasy release is , the sequel to ! These two books make up , a “dark young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince.” We spoke to Nicki about her publishing journey, her writing inspirations, writing YA and middle grade titles, the House of the Dead duology,...
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#349 – The Abundance Mindset for Authors with Renee Rose and Lee Savino
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by and , best-selling authors who have written over 20 titles together! The best-selling is the result of their collaborative effort to write spicy wolf-shifter books. Their collaboration goes all the way back to 2015, when they first met at a writing conference and became fast friends. Lee and Renee had so much great advice regarding indie publishing, collaborative writing and thinking abundantly that we could have recorded for twice as long! We also discussed Lee and Renee’s writing careers, how they got into indie publishing, their views on marketing...
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#348 – Promo Stacking and Prioritizing Your Book Marketing with Clayton Noblit
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by Clayton Noblit, senior book marketing manager at . Clayton has been a voracious reader his whole life and, after working in financial start-ups, moved to and has been there ever since. Clayton loves working with indie books and indie authors and has a lot of great advice to offer the community! As an expert in digital marketing, he had a lot to share with us. We talked about Clayton’s start in the indie author community, learned more about s services, discussed strategies around promo stacking, and got lots of great marketing advice for authors. If...
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#347 – Writing Award-winning Fiction with Nora Decter
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by Nora Decter, writing instructor and author of , her debut YA novel that won the . Nora’s latest book, , is described as an "absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival." We spoke to Nora about her writing career, writing YA before transitioning to writing adult fiction, what it was like winning the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, what books and authors inspired her, reading and writing "voice-y" novels, balancing humour with difficult subject matter, and more! Nora had many great insights into writing (and thinking about writing),...
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#346 – Spicy Romantasy, Podcasting, and Pen Names with Sacha Black
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we spoke to indie author, writing craft expert, podcaster, and all-around talented rebel author ! Sacha is the author of several writing craft books, host of , and writer of adult sapphic fantasy fiction under the pen name . Sacha is also a regular speaker at author conferences around the world, and offers writing craft courses with the goal of helping authors improve their descriptive writing, craft compelling villains, write amazing side characters, and more. We had such a great time chatting with Sacha about her career as an author, what being a rebel means to her,...
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#345 – Maximizing Your Book Marketing with Mal Cooper
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by Malorie Cooper, author and co-founder of The Writing Wives, where Malorie and her wife Jill offer author coaching and author marketing services! Mal writes science fiction titles under M.D. Cooper and non-fiction titles under Mal Cooper, with a focus on Facebook advertising and helping indie authors market their books for the better. Check out Malorie and Jill’s marketing book series, for more. We had a great chat with Malorie about everything from her writing career, writing a series that consists of over 120 books, co-writing with her wife Jill,...
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#344 – Committing to Your Writing Practice with Jessie Kwak
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by author, conference organizer, and ghostwriter Jessie Kwak to discuss all things writing and publishing! Jessie is the author of over fifteen books, including series like and , as well as standalone thrillers such as . Jessie’s expansive career has encompassed so many aspects of publishing and she had lots of amazing advice and insights to offer us. We chatted with Jessie about ghostwriting, writing sci-fi and paranormal thrillers, time management as an author, and what inspired her to start an author conference, as well as learned more about her career...
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#343 – From Romance Reader to Romance Author with Bal Khabra
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by Vancouver-based Bal Khabra, debut author of hockey romance novel Collide! Bal started out as an avid reader of romance and reviewer of romance titles, and after reading over 150 romance novels in one year, decided she was ready to write one! That novel, Collide, was picked up and published by Penguin Random House after starting out as a self-published work. We can’t wait to see what Bal writes next! We talked about Bal’s writing journey, her beginnings on Wattpad, how she utilizes social media and what happened when her book went viral on TikTok,...
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#342 – Academics and Authorship with Patrick E. Horrigan
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
In this episode, we spoke with Patrick E. Horrigan, academic and author of , published by . Since recording this episode, was shortlisted for the category. Congratulations, Patrick! Patrick is also the author of two other novels, plays, essays, and more. He and taught literature for twenty-five years at LIU Brooklyn, and was a previous winner of Long Island University’s David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, among many other accolades. We had a great time talking to Patrick about his career as an author, his history in academia, his past experiences at Columbia and LIU Brooklyn...
info_outlineIn this episode, we spoke to the writing team of Jasinda and Jack Wilder (who we had the chance to meet at NINC 2022), wife and husband and parents to six kids, who write their own books as well work collaboratively. Between the two of them, they have written dozens of books, many of them best-sellers, across a multitude of genres and sub-genres. Be sure to check out their latest releases, Dirty Beasts: Chance, the latest instalment in the Dirty Beasts series, Music & Lyric, a new adult contemporary romance, and Blood Heir, a vampire romance (hinted at in this very episode!).
We heard about how they balance parenthood with working as indie authors, how they utilize their newsletter to reach readers, how they use their pen name for multiple genres, and get into how the indie publishing industry has changed over the course of their ongoing career and more!
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