Begin Self-publishing Podcast

Learn how to do video just with your mobile phone in this interview with Social Media Expert Amanda Webb. My guest on this episode is Amanda Webb, who's somebody I've met at multiple conferences.   The purpose of today's episode is to talk about mobile video. I did Amanda's Go Do Video course in London and, to be honest, I was extremely impressed by what you can actually do with videos on a mobile phone, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to get Amanda on the show, to talk about the same topic. I mean we all think that you need expensive cameras and things to do video but in today's world, with only maybe a small amount of extra equipment, you can actually do very, very good videos on mobile phones, and certainly I think most self-publishers, as they're fairly cost-conscious, would be quite keen to use something they've already got to create decent videos. Show Notes are available at http://beginselfpublishing.com/mobile-video-amanda-webb

In this episode, I talk to Claire Josa, who is the author of Dare To Dream Bigger, and an expert on overcoming limiting beliefs. The irony is that she actually tells quite often the story about her own failures in feeling like an imposter within the book. Actually, I think a lot of the things that it discusses are quite profound in terms of the whole mental side of writing and doing other things. I think this actually a very interesting interview for psychological perspective. You might be one of those happy individuals who never suffers from writer's block, never feels like an imposter, and is happily getting on with their life. In which case, you might not find this interview that interesting. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/imposter-syndrome-clare-josa

In this episode I talk to Charles Harris, an experienced Screenplay Writer, Filmmaker and now best-selling novelist about how to write and pitch Screenplays, which as we discover are quite a different beast to novels.  His first novel is the Breaking of Liam Glass. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/writing-screenplays-charles-harris

In this show I talk to Louise Harnby, an experienced Fiction editor and proof-reader about how to get the most from an editor for your work of fiction. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/fiction-editing-louise-harnby

In this episode I talk about overcoming the fundamental economic problem - how to prioritise what to spend your money and time doing as an author. Long term listeners to this show will know that every now and then I do a solo show where I talk about something that's either a mindset issue or just something to do with self publishing that's come up. I'll be completely honest with you most of the time I do these episodes because I haven't booked a guest or I've run out of guests. But in this particular instance that isn't the case. I've actually got about three shows recorded. But I don't really want to do an interview show when I'm away. In terms of when the show has been released. So I thought I do one of these shorter shows I need to tide you over until we start getting into the more serious interviews again in September. But also because I've quite missed having these sort of odd philosophical chats on the podcast every now and then. So you're probably wondering unless you've ever done economics in the subj

In this episode and I talk to Marcus Sheridan who is the owner of a swimming pool company who suddenly learned in the days when his business was suffering in the recession that by creating an absolutely amazing blog just about the questions people have about swimming pools, he managed to hold his company back from the point of oblivion just by doing blogging and answering questions. He's now known as the Sales Lion and goes around training people internationally on how to do Content Marketing for fiction especially focusing on answering the questions that readers actually have. You can find full show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/content-marketing-fiction

In this episode I talk again to Alex Newton of K-Lytics about what is happening in the Amazon Kindle Store in terms of what categories are doing well and badly. You can find full show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/latest-kindle-store

In this episode I talk to Denise Cowle, a non-fiction editor based in Scotland.  We talk about what the difference is between copy-editing and proofreading and what you need to look for in an editor. You can find full show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/non-fiction-editing-denise-cowle

In this episode I talk to acclaimed Finnish author Helena Halme about her experiences of writing and self-publishing in English. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/writing-foreign-language

In this episode I talk to WordPress security expert Chris Varnom about how to make sure your website is secure.  Invariably I see on a monthly (and sometimes weekly) basis reports of author websites being hacked, so I thought this was an important topic to cover on the show. You can find full show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/website-security-chris-varnom

In this episode I talk to veteran Book Publicist, Ben Cameron about using a book publicist to promote your book. You can find full show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/book-publicist-ben-cameron

To celebrate Episode 100, I'm doing something different, letting myself be interviewed by the lovely Amanda Robinson (@shewakeboards) of http://www.socialsavvysociety.com/ fame. We talk about me, my plans for the podcast and about my books You can find full show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/episode-100-she-interviews

This show is about the importance of getting the quality right when you do something, which usually means taking time or spending money. You can find show notes at: http://beginselfpublishing.com/the-importance-timing-quality

In this show I talk again to Paul Teague, this time about two of the hottest topics in Self-Publishing at the moment, InstaFreebie and Vellum. You can find show notes at: http://beginselfpublishing.com/instafreebie-vellum-paul-teague

In this show I talk to social media tools expert and regular Facebook Live broadcaster, Ian Anderson Gray.  As well as being a tremendously nice guy he's also a talented singer and musician.  I talk with him about Facebook Live. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/secrets-facebook-live-ian-anderson-gray

In this show I talk to Tyler Anderson, CEO of the Social Media Marketing Agency Casual Fridays in terms of what to look for if you do want to hire an agency for your social media marketing. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/hiring-smm-agency-tyler-anderson

In this show I talk about what I learned from my recent attendance from the biggest Social Media Marketing conference in the world, Social Media Marketing World. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/lessons-social-media-marketing-world

In this show I interview Catherine Carrigan of the WhatIsSocialMediaToday.com society about the benefits of community for authors and how it can help a starting author have success with marketing their book. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/community-with-catherine-carrigan

Way back in Episode number 28: My Top Ten Podcasts, I did my top ten podcasts and in Episode number 8: Other Self-Publishing Podcasts  I also did other self-publishing podcasts. I thought it was time I revisited this area of my favourite podcasts.  This is a list of new podcasts I have discovered since I shared my last list of favourite podcasts. Plus a few that missed the cut last time but have grown on me. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/top-podcasts-revisited

As I mentioned in my last show this is a special episode where I replay the audio of my interview with James Scott-Bell for the Alliance of Independent Authors Indie Fringe Event. You can watch the video of this event and the other Fringe events using this link: http://selfpublishingadvice.org/what-is-indie-author-fringe/  (E-mail sign-up required)   James Scott Bell is a graduate of USC law school and began his professional writing career in 1995 with a series of legal thrillers. He later started teaching writing workshops and eventually landed as the fiction columnist for Writer’s Digest magazine. Jim has had numerous bestsellers in both the traditional and indie world, and was the first self-publishing author to be nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award.