The Career Author Podcast: Episode 15 – Writing To Market: Misconceptions and Truths

On this week’s episode, Zach and J. discuss some of the biggest misconceptions around writing to market and more:

The excitement of the first time you hit “publish”
How the Story Grid is meant to be used
New data that shows the connection between what types of books people read and how they read them, and how this lines up with the guys’ reading habits
Google’s voice generating AI has become indistinguishable for humans and what this means for authors
Hundreds of Amazon accounts are deactivated without being given a reason and Kindle Unlimited authors are losing pagereads
The importance of having more than one income stream as a career author
What people think “writing to market” means vs what it really means
How writing to market can help you cultivate a long sales life for your every one of your books and build a long term publishing career
How Iron Maiden demonstrates the power of writing to market instead of writing to trend
The risks of writing to trend, as demonstrated by Metallica’s career

The Career Author Podcast is a podcast where co-authors J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon share their struggles and successes as full-time authors, advice for improving your writing craft, and honest discussions of what it takes to build a successful career as an author.

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News Links:

Dude, where’s my Amazon account?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/amazon-customers-take-to-social-media-after-mysterious-account-closures/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/781495321956934/permalink/1379173772189083/

Your Tastes Reflect Your Format

https://media.thinknum.com/articles/kindle-best-sellers-vs-printed-best-sellers-in-march/

A.I., A.I., Uh Oh

https://qz.com/1165775/googles-voice-generating-ai-is-now-indistinguishable-from-humans/