Season 1
Demystifying Royalties
Have you heard the myths surrounding royalties in book publishing? As an indie author, it's important to know the truth in order to optimize your earnings. Myth #1: Traditional publishers offer higher royalties than self-publishing. Myth #2: Royalties are set in stone and non-negotiable. Myth #3: Royalties are calculated based solely on book sales. The truth is that there are many factors that affect royalties, how they're calculated and paid. In this discussion, John Wagner-Stafford w…
Social Media for Authors
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Developing Your Manuscript
An author's manuscript development process can be as unique as their DNA—and while you can certainly find lots of advice online about the quote-unquote "best" way to develop your story, as an author you must find what works f...
A Long-term Approach to Book Marketing
"You've written and published your book. Congratulations! Your work is just beginning." That's the opening line from the introduction of the book entitled: The Evergreen Author: Master the Art of Book Marketing. The message t...
How to Choose Your Beta Reader
You don’t have to spend much time in the indie author space before you hear the term ‘beta reader’. You’ve written your manuscript, hired an editor, and now you think you’re ready to publish. But wait: there’s another importa...
All About Audiobooks
Audiobooks have been gaining steadily in popularity... which means every author should be asking themselves: is producing an audiobook right for me? And if the answer is yes, how? Do I narrate myself? Set up a home studio? Al...
What's Your Author Brand and Why Do You Want One?
If you, like so many authors, find you're struggling with marketing your book, maybe the issue is related to whether you've done the work to articulate your author brand. As authors, we put so much of ourselves "out there" - ...
Ins and Outs for Authors Seeking Agents
A common desire for authors, indie, aspiring, or otherwise, is to find a literary agent that will help them secure a publishing deal. Maybe even with one of the Big Five or New York publishing houses. But are agents still rel...
From Manuscript to Movie: Pitching Your Book to Film/TV Producers
Who hasn't thought their story —whether fiction or nonfiction — might translate well onto the screen, either as a made-for-TV-series, documentary, or Hollywood movie? Many authors have seen their manuscripts make that leap. H...
Launching My Fat Pants Don't Fit
Author Dina Marie's first book is My Fat Pants Don't Fit: A Mostly True Story of Divorce, Weight Loss, and Finally Finding Self-Love . Discover more about Dina's journey, both as a woman and as an author, and hear her read o...
Do You Know Your Nonfiction?
How many types of nonfiction can you identify? Would it surprise you to learn there are at least six? Boni and John Wagner-Stafford of Ingenium Books discuss and dissect the six main types of nonfiction in this podcast sessio...
Tools to Help You Write Better Books — with Angela Ackerman
Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, screenplays or poetry, the role of emotion in character expression can make or break your writing. It's woven together with that most-feared and most-hated and most-important advice to...
Achieving Change with Author Henrik J. Mondrup
Achieving Change has been called "critical and much-needed tools for the workplace" and it certainly is that. Online learning for employees is no longer optional, no longer 'second-best' to in-person training. To create and d...
How Writing a Memoir Can Change What You Believe About Yourself
When you want to write a memoir but you're having trouble getting going, it could be what you BELIEVE about yourself that is in the way. Join us for this discussion with author C.A. Gibbs about the belief she had to shatter i...
Do You Really Need Permission to Use That Quote?
I'm sure you've read books written by authors who have chosen to include quotes from someone else... usually someone well known. Sometimes they're at the start of each chapter, sometimes they're buried deeper inside the conte...
The Top 7 Mistakes Writers Make and What to do Instead
Better Writer Series! Join hybrid publisher Boni Wagner-Stafford of Ingenium Books and ghostwriter/editor Marie Beswick Arthur as they riff on the Top 7 Mistakes Writers Make and what to do instead! Support the show Thanks fo...
Anatomy of Prose with Sacha Black
Motivation and purpose and tapping into your deepest drives for why you want to write, who the reader is that you’re writing for, and creating just the right structure for your book are all important. However, none of those t...
Writing to Find Purpose in Your Pain: Four Fridays With Christina
Join Ingenium Books' author Cynthia Barlow as we launch her latest book: Four Fridays with Christina—Friendship, Death, & Lessons Learned by Letting Go. Four Fridays with Christina is a poignant and unexpectedly sassy memoir ...
Perspectives & Truth in Memoir: Advice from a Bestselling Author
He has a masters degree in fiction from Columbia University. Why then does he write only nonfiction? An interview with bestselling author Mishka Shubaly where we talk about the need for courageous truth, shifting perspectives...
How to Structure Your Nonfiction Book
You're all fired up to write the nonfiction book that's going to change the world. Your world. You have SO MUCH to say! And then, as you sit down to get writing, you realize that all your ideas and topics are in a jumble that...
Stressed About Writing Your Nonfiction Book? Five Tips To Help You Chill
Writing and publishing a book can be a highly stressful experience. But, it doesn’t have to be. Along with all the other decisions you make in the creative and publishing process, you get to decide how much stress to take on!...
Case Study: Creating, Publishing, and Selling Journals
People are buying trackers and workbooks and journals to help with everything from goal-setting to weight loss. If you repeatedly use any questionnaires, documents, or processes in the course of your business, have you ever t...
Planning Your Nonfiction Book
Bringing your book from idea to published is a big, mushy, jello-like project. Some people might be okay with winging it, taking each step as it comes and hoping for the best. Others, we believe most people, will benefit from...
On Writing Memoir with Author Yvonne Caputo
Author Yvonne Caputo talks about her 12-year journey with her book, Flying With Dad. From the seeds of the idea, to the emotional struggles and impact of such personal work, and the research she chose to do to inform her writ...