Lindsay - January 9, 2020It’s just Andrea, Jo, and Lindsay on this week’s show. They did a little masterminding with each other in regard to their book plans for 2020 and also shared some of the mistakes they’ve made on their ways to becoming successful authors.
During the mastermind session, Jo brought up the urban fantasy series he launched in 2019 that didn’t do as well as he’d hoped, and Andrea and Lindsay offered some ideas for a possible relaunch or reinvigoration of it when he goes to put out more installments.
Andrea brought up all the things she’s thinking of working on in 2020 and wondered where it would be best to focus her efforts (beyond, of course, writing new books). Audiobooks? Kickstarter? Patreon?
Lindsay talked about her plans for launching a new series in a sub-genre of fantasy she hasn’t written in much before. Andrea and Jo added their ideas for getting it off to a good start.
In the mistakes section, Andrea, Lindsay, and Jo talked about impatience, making assumptions based on your preferences as an author, and struggling with focus (both in hitting daily writing goals and in planning series). They also talked about failing to plan for success, taking poor advice from so-called professionals in the field, and investing too much time and energy into one book launch.
They ran out of time to get to listener questions but will do a Q&A show soon.
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I loved the discussion on genre to Jo’s question about his series (urban fantasy, etc) and how we might not always be writing in the genre we think. I’m always trying to decide if I’m more paranormal thriller, urban fantasy (well now I know I’m not), paranormal PI (like Dresden files, but not a wizard, nor nearly as bad ass), slightly paranormal noir pulp, or just contemporary…. hmph..
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Holy cow, this episode was AMAZING!
And yeah, I can completely empathize with being wedged somewhere between genres and having an identity crisis.
My wife and I write a series that we’re currently marketing as “UF thriller” but our protagonist is in her 30s, isn’t over-powered with her magic.
Discoverability continues to be the biggest challenge.
Really enjoying your podcast, and how you each wear your hearts on your sleeves.
I’m glad you found it helpful, Frank! I think a lot of us are in the same boat. Who even thinks “write to market” when they’re first getting started? (Or sometimes years later too!)