Episodes
It’s Thanksgiving week here in the US, so Lindsay, Andrea, and Jo just did a short “for fun” show this week. We give some tongue-in-cheek advice on how to make sure your novel bombs (that’s…
Published 11/25/21
For this week’s show, Jo, Andrea, and Lindsay discuss characters, book openings, pacing, and other writing craft choices that can help or hurt your book sales. Are you turning off potential readers in your opening…
Published 11/18/21
For this week’s show, Lindsay and Jo talked about the successes and failures they’ve had over the last ten-plus years of indie publishing. After that, they discussed some of the challenges they’re facing in the…
Published 11/11/21
On this week’s show, Jo, Andrea, and Lindsay talk about book and ebook pricing and whether it might be time for prices to go up. Before that, Lindsay shares what it takes to get one…
Published 11/04/21
On this week’s show, Andrea, Jo, and Lindsay shared what each of them would do if they were new authors starting from scratch today with the knowledge and experience they’ve gained over their ten-plus-year publishing…
Published 10/28/21
For this week’s show, Jo and Andrea took the reins while Lindsay scowled at her broken internet. They interviewed six-figure romance novelist Theodora Taylor and talked about finding success through appealing to “universal fantasy,” Facebook…
Published 10/21/21
For today’s show, Jo, Lindsay, and Andrea shared some of the struggles they’re dealing with ten+ years into their author careers. They also answered struggles you’re dealing with (as submitted by listeners in the Six…
Published 10/14/21
For this week’s show, we were joined by Mark Leslie Lefebvre, author, podcaster, and Director of Business Development at Draft2Digital. He and Joanna Penn from The Creative Penn recently published The Relaxed Author, a book…
Published 10/07/21
As a follow-up to Episode 98 (Do Authors Need to Advertise and Where and How Much Should They Spend?), we did our best to answer some of the questions on advertising that our listeners asked…
Published 09/30/21
For this week’s show, Dave Chesson from Kindlepreneur joined us to discuss the new A-plus Amazon content now available to authors publishing through the KDP dashboard, as well as keywords and categories and how they…
Published 09/23/21
For this week’s show, successful romantic suspense author Cami Checketts joins the guys. A USA Today bestseller and award winner, Cami has published over one hundred books. She was not an overnight success but wrote…
Published 09/16/21
On this week’s show, Andrea, Jo, and Lindsay talk a bit about whether authors need to pay to advertise in 2021, how much they spend on ads, where they advertise, and what to do if…
Published 09/09/21
Jo, Lindsay, and Andrea are back from their summer hiatus! On this week’s show, they discuss what to do if you’re an author with a few (or more) books or series out, but you’re not…
Published 09/02/21
A Youtube live question and answer session in which Lindsay, Jo, and Andrea answer questions about publishing, marketing, and more. Original livestream Aug 12, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkq5oDMGtts
Published 08/19/21
On this week’s show, we tackle the question of what passive income is and how it can relate to authors. Specifically, as authors with more than ten years of publishing experience each, we talk about…
Published 06/17/21
On this week’s show, Andrea, Jo, and Lindsay are joined by full-time author and regular poster in the Six Figure Authors Facebook group, Shawn Inmon. Writer of time travel and portal fantasy, Shawn first broke…
Published 06/10/21
On this week’s show, Andrea, Jo, and Lindsay went over some common mistakes that newer authors often make. And plenty of experienced authors get wrapped up in some of these too. If you’re struggling to…
Published 06/03/21
For all of you with audiobooks, or thinking about creating audiobooks, you’ll enjoy hearing from this week’s guest: Victoria Gerken, Publisher and Head of Acquisitions at Podium Audio. We asked her about trends in audiobooks,…
Published 05/27/21
Your two hardcore introvert authors, Jo Lallo and Lindsay Buroker, discuss ways to market that won’t force you too far from your introvert tendencies but that can also sell books. (Note: this is not a…
Published 05/20/21
For this week’s show, Jo and Lindsay talk a bit about Lindsay’s recent epic fantasy launch, Jo’s plans for his upcoming launch, and then jump into a big pile of listener questions from the Six…
Published 05/13/21
Our guest this week is successful romance author Victorine Lieske. She self-published her first book, Not What She Seems, in April of 2010. In March of 2011, Not What She Seems began its 6 week…
Published 05/06/21
We’re going back to the basics this week and talking about how to grow your audience as an author. Whether you’re new to the biz, or have been publishing for twenty years, chances are you…
Published 04/29/21
Andrea, Jo, and Lindsay have all been publishing for more than ten years and have been full-time authors for much of that time. In this week’s show, they start out sharing their paths and how…
Published 04/22/21
For this week’s show, we’re talking all about bonus content, the extra short things you can write that can lead to more book sales — if you do it right. We’ve written a lot of…
Published 04/15/21
Our guest this week is the prolific science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction author Chris Fox. He’s known in the author community for his Write Faster, Write Smarter series, and has spoken all over the country…
Published 04/08/21