315 / How can authors find their reader community on Substack while balancing life’s big changes? Jolie Tunnell shares her transition from years of blogging and waiting for permission to publish to indie success and serializing mysteries.

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• Balancing writing with life changes
• Waiting for gatekeepers vs. giving yourself permission
• Using Substack for serialized fiction
• Creative marketing ideas, including membership drives and interactive reader experiences
• Incorporating graphics and interactivity
• Building community and engagement on Substack

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314 / Tee Harlowe, a fantasy romance author, shares tips for successful Kickstarters as well as how she’s adapting to market shifts and why diversification is key to surviving income drops.

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• Rapid release publishing strategies
• Instagram tips for authors
• Fallacies in assumptions about genre size equating to sales
• Challenges with Kickstarter fulfillment
• Diversifying author income streams, including through traditional publishing and direct sales
• Running a successful Shopify store

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313 / How do you balance the demands of a full-time job with launching a romance writing career? Finley Daniels shares her lessons learned in writing and marketing.

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• Balancing writing with a full-time job
• Challenges in marketing and ads
• Importance of book titles and tropes
• Building an email newsletter
• Finding editors and cover designers
• Success with TikTok and BookBub

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