Lindsay - October 28, 2021On 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 careers.
Lindsay did this back in late 2014 with a then-anonymous pen name, and Andrea just launched a new pen name without telling most people about it, so it’s less hypothetical for her. If Jo has ever tried a secret pen name, he wouldn’t admit it to his co-hosts…
To make things realistic, they gave themselves a $2500 budget for their hypothetical book launches, money they could have saved from a day job or perhaps finagled out of a supportive partner. Since they were all planning to launch a series rather than just one book, this budget had to cover several titles and a little bit of an advertising investment.
Listen to the show to find out which genres they would choose for the experiment, how long of books they would write, how they would price them, and how they would structure their series!
Also, if you want to pick up a bunch of great books on writing and marketing, Andrea has a book in this year’s NaNoWriMo-themed Storybundle, so make sure to check that out.
