It’s getting hard to find an audience these days so leveraging multi-author box sets and anthologies might be one solution.
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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The ways you can reach new audiences with:
- Multi-author box sets
- Anthologies
Things to consider when going to market:
- Distribution
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- Promotion
- Revenue Management
- Pricing
Also, learn how you can use text-to-speech software to improve your revisions.
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4 responses to “The Career Author Podcast: Episode 84 – Finding an Audience with Anthologies and Box Sets”
Morning guys. Great way today J. I always read my work aloud as part of my comprehensive self-editing process 🙂. I recall when I used to work for the Corporate £ having fun (those were much simpler times) with the pdf bot reading aloud – there were two voices one male and one female. I had forgotten about that so I’m going to try this bot reading aloud for my stories. Could be fun.
Not ready for a box set yet but I enjoy contributing short stories to anthologies. It allows me to try things I might not try in a novel because a short story is not such a big time commitment. I recently wrote a short story for an anthology in the first person and enjoyed it. Next year I may try and write a novel in the first person, which I would never have considered without my experience of trying it in a short story first.
Interesting point about Box sets: as you get the same amount per page read in KU it overrides the cheap pricing and is a kind of Amazon friendly page stuffing, I think.
Great show today.
Thanks, Chris! I agree that short stories/anthologies are a great way to hone your chops and try something new.
I use text-to-speech programs to review everything I write. In the past, when I just read what I had written, I read my intent, not my execution. My brain filled in what I intended to write, not what I left out or mistyped. It also helps me catch clunky sentences. If I can’t understand a sentence read back to me or get tripped up in it, it’s time to re-work the sentence.
Over the past three years, I’ve used two different programs. One is Natural Reader. I have that on my PC. This year, I discovered Voice Dream Reader on the iPad. It is a fantastic program. Both have helped improve my writing immeasurably.
Thanks for the tip!