Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing Podcast

Interviewing and Learning from Successful Authors

SFA-132 - Getting Books Done: Productivity and Revision (plus news) 10/05/2023

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SFA-130 - Marketing Strategies from Top Authors 06/20/2023

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SFA-130 03/16/2023

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SFA 129 - Why Book Sales Might be Down This Year and What to Do About It 10/20/2022

SFA 129 - Why Book Sales Might be Down This Year and What to Do About It /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/24743190

sfa-128 04/11/2022

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SFA-125 03/21/2022

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sfa-121 02/19/2022

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sfa-118 01/29/2022

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SFFMP-067_-_Hybrid_Publishing_and_Writing_about_Writing_with_Beth_Revis.mp3 02/10/2016

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SFFMP 39: Creating Successful Series, Permafree Boxed Sets, and Epic vs. Urban Fantasy with Robert J. Crane 07/15/2015

SFFMP 39: Creating Successful Series, Permafree Boxed Sets, and Epic vs. Urban Fantasy with Robert J. Crane On today’s episode, we chatted with successful epic and urban fantasy author, Robert J. Crane. He’s sold more than a million books and was able to turn writing into his day job early on. Now, he has four successful series going, including his well-known Girl in the Box books. Here’s a little of what we covered: Productivity — how Robert has written /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3675378

SFFMP 38: Writing 5,000 Words an Hour and Selling Zombies and Werewolves with Chris Fox 07/08/2015

SFFMP 38: Writing 5,000 Words an Hour and Selling Zombies and Werewolves with Chris Fox On today’s show, we chatted with Chris Fox about marketing zombies, werewolves, and vampires, and also about how he writes incredibly quickly. He holds down a 60-hour-a-week day job as an app developer and doesn’t have a lot of time to devote to fiction, so he’s learned to be productive, logging 5,000 words in an hour. He’s even written about /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3662392

SFFMP 37: Amazon Algorithms and Making a Book Stick 07/01/2015

SFFMP 37: Amazon Algorithms and Making a Book Stick Today, Jeff, Jo, and Lindsay shared what they know about how the Amazon algorithms work, about categories and keywords and sales rankings, and about what’s working now to make a book stick and start selling on its own. They also discussed KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited and how borrows from that program are currently affecting visibility and sales rankings. Here /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3648810

SFFMP 36: Susan Kaye Quinn on Tips for Going Pro, Genre Hopping, and Selling Lots of Science Fiction 06/24/2015

SFFMP 36: Susan Kaye Quinn on Tips for Going Pro, Genre Hopping, and Selling Lots of Science Fiction Today we chatted with best-selling science fiction author Susan Kaye Quinn, and she had a lot of amazing advice. Here’s a look at some of what we covered: How important the science is in science fiction (Susan has a PhD in engineering, so she knows her stuff, but says she puts emotion before tech) Trying to develop new worlds and /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3634303

SFFMP 35: The Challenges of Selling Cross-Genre Fiction with Derek Siddoway 06/17/2015

SFFMP 35: The Challenges of Selling Cross-Genre Fiction with Derek Siddoway Tonight we chatted with “medieval western” fantasy author Derek Siddoway. We discussed the challenges of marketing cross-genre fiction and also grilled him for tips he could share based on his experience in his day job at a PR agency. Before we got into the interview, we talked a bit about the recent changes to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program and what /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3620337

SFFMP 34: Facebook Marketing, BookBub, and Tips from Book Expo America 06/10/2015

SFFMP 34: Facebook Marketing, BookBub, and Tips from Book Expo America We talked among ourselves tonight, discussing a lot of the news and tips Jo brought back from Book Expo America. He went to panels on Facebook marketing/reader engagement and talked to the Bookbub people about what it takes to get listed and about some of the best practices. He also picked up some links to cool resources that you may /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3606831

SFFMP 33: Selling Tons of Urban Fantasy Books with Annie Bellet 06/03/2015

SFFMP 33: Selling Tons of Urban Fantasy Books with Annie Bellet We interviewed Annie Bellet, author of the very popular 20-Sided Sorceress urban fantasy series this week. She’s also written epic fantasy, dark fantasy, science fiction, sold short stories to numerous magazines, and participated in various writing workshops. Here’s a little of what we talked about: How Annie got started self-publishing and found that it’s much easier to rock it with /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3593348

SFFMP 32: Traditional Publishing, Indie Publishing, and Writing More Words Per Day with Rachel Aaron 05/27/2015

SFFMP 32: Traditional Publishing, Indie Publishing, and Writing More Words Per Day with Rachel Aaron Today we chatted with Rachel Aaron on the differences in marketing between traditional publishing (she has two series out with Orbit Books) and indie publishing (she went her own way last year with Nice Dragons Finish Last). She’s also the author of the popular 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love, a book /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3578444

SFFMP 31: Producing and Marketing Audiobooks with Simon Whistler 05/20/2015

SFFMP 31: Producing and Marketing Audiobooks with Simon Whistler We got up early to chat with Simon Whistler (who’s currently living in Prague) today. He’s the host of The Rocking Self Publishing Podcast and also the author of Bootstrapping for Indies (Self Publishing on a Budget) and Audiobooks for Indies (The One-Stop Guide for Authors Looking to Make More Money Selling Audiobooks). It’s because of that last book and because of /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3565436

SFFMP 30: Writing and Selling Science Fiction Romance with Anna Hackett 05/13/2015

SFFMP 30: Writing and Selling Science Fiction Romance with Anna Hackett Tonight we interviewed the prolific Anna Hackett, a science fiction romance author from Perth Australia, who has a number of series going. She started with traditional publishing but soon shifted to self-publishing, and she has plenty to talk about for folks who are thinking of adding romance to their science fiction or fantasy. Here’s some of what we touched on: /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3551831

SFFMP 29: Increasing Writing Speed and Publishing More Books 05/06/2015

SFFMP 29: Increasing Writing Speed and Publishing More Books For today’s show, we talked about how we’ve learned to write more efficiently and get more books out there. After all, a lot of the marketing stuff we discuss on this show becomes more effective when you have numerous books, and maybe even numerous series, out there. It’s also easier to keep the momentum going if you have new adventures /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3536917

SFFMP 28: Marketing Steampunk and Working with a Small Press with AW Exley 04/29/2015

SFFMP 28: Marketing Steampunk and Working with a Small Press with AW Exley Tonight we talked to AW Exley, the author of the popular steampunk adventures, The Artifact Hunters. She hails from rural New Zealand and signed on with Curiosity Quills, a small press, to start out. She’s since started publishing some of her work independently and spoke to us about the differences in marketing and control. Here’s a quick look at some /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3521144

SFFMP 27: Running Newsletters (how, why, and tips), Entering Contests, and StoryBundle’s NaNoWriMo Opportunity 04/22/2015

SFFMP 27: Running Newsletters (how, why, and tips), Entering Contests, and StoryBundle’s NaNoWriMo Opportunity Hey, everyone! Tonight Jo, Jeff, and Lindsay devoted most of the show to discussing newsletters. What host do they use (or in Jeff’s case, how he does it himself with a WordPress plug-in), how often do they send out letters, what do they write about, how they use affiliate links to monitor sales (and make some extra money), and how /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3507558

SFFMP 26: Self-Publishing and Marketing Tips for Children’s Genre Fiction with Ben Zackheim 04/15/2015

SFFMP 26: Self-Publishing and Marketing Tips for Children’s Genre Fiction with Ben Zackheim Tonight we chatted with Ben Zackheim, middle-grade fantasy author, or “writer of smart books for smart children.” He’s worn a lot of hats in his working life and a few years ago switched from the game industry to self-publishing his own novels. He’s also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he shows creative people how /episode/index/show/marketingsff/id/3493711

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