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Tara Lush & LL Kirchner hosts YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WRITE THAT, a education show with 27 episodes published.
A series bible is a continuity document. It lives outside your manuscripts and records everything that’s true in your fictional world: characters and their eye colors, backstories, the streets your shops sit on, the time
If you’ve published a book on Amazon, you already have an author page. It’s there whether you’ve touched it or not, and most of the time it’s a blob doing absolutely nothing for you. This week on You Should Totally Write
Nobody told us that publishing a book meant starting a company. You’re not just the writer — you’re also the design department, IT, marketing, and accounting. And somewhere along the way, most of us bought a bunch of too
If you’ve ever seen a book drop on release day with 50 reviews already live, you were looking at an ARC team doing its job. ARC stands for Advanced Reader Copy (sometimes Advanced Review Copy) — a pre-release version of
I’ve spent a lot of money as an indie author. Some of it was money well spent. Some of it I would set on fire before doing again. That’s the whole episode this week on You Should Totally Write That. LL and I sorted throu
Every author you admire has a list. Thousands of subscribers, books launching to actual readers. Meanwhile, your list is basically you, your mom, and three people who signed up by accident. If you’ve ever wondered HOW pe
The first writing conference I ever attended was the Romance Writers of America in Times Square. I walked through the lobby of the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, looked at thousands of people in name badges greeting e
There’s a stretch of your book most readers will never linger on: the pages right after “The End.” The pages right before Chapter 1. Many authors treat them like an afterthought — slap on a copyright page, drop in an “al
We’ve been teasing this one since the very first episode—reader magnets, freebies you can offer readers to entice them to read your whole book. Maybe we put it off to avoid all the confessions? We’re no different than an
Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you’re starting out: choosing where to sell your book is just as strategic as writing it. And “going wide” — making your e-books and audiobooks available beyond Amazon — isn’t autom
I’ve seen this happen more than once. Two authors at the same event. Same kind of table. Same kind of books. Same foot traffic. One goes home frustrated, convinced events “don’t work.” The other leaves with a handful of
We come to you this week with what feels like a breakthrough: improved audio! We’ve heard from our listeners about past audio issues and believe we have fixed the glitches. This podcast has been a true learning experienc
You’ve heard this author advice before: build your platform. Get on social media. Post consistently. Post constantly. Post every minute of your waking life.But do you have to? What if you don’t want to? And does it trans
When we are young, green writers, we ask ourselves: can I write a book? But once you sort that out, a much different question shows up. Should it be a series? But wait — then you learn about “serial fiction.” Or maybe, y
The constant pressure to market can feel like quicksand—the harder you struggle, the deeper you sink. This week, LL and Tara tackle the question every indie author dreads: how much time do I really need to spend on marke
After giving away more than 10,000 books in a single day and spending over $800 on a single ad, I can tell you BookBub isn’t what most authors think it is. And that’s why it works. This week on You Should Totally Write T
If you’re an indie author and you publish in Kindle Unlimited, your ebooks are exclusive to Amazon. There are a lot of reasons why you might not choose exclusivity, and that’s totally okay — but there are also many oppor
Kindle Unlimited can feel confusing, intimidating, or like a black box of algorithms and acronyms. In this episode, Tara and LL break down what Kindle Unlimited actually is, how authors really make money from page reads,
Metadata — If your book can’t be found, does it exist? Metadata might be invisible to readers, but it’s doing an enormous amount of work behind the scenes. In this episode, LL Kirchner and Tara Lush break down what metad
They say audiobooks are booming. That you NEED an audiobook. But do you really? The market hit $2.2 billion last year, and everyone’s saying you must get in on the action. Award-winning authors LL Kirchner and Tara Lush
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