Nonfiction Authors Podcast: Recent Episodes
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This 30-minute podcast is packed with actionable advice from our guests that help you write, finish, market, publish, and promote your books and do business as an author. We also publish top replays from the archives of the Nonfiction Authors Association teleseminars that Stephanie Chandler started recording in 2014. Wow!
In this episode of the Nonfiction Authors Association podcast, Carla King welcomes guest Alex Kapitan to discuss how to edit for inclusivity to reach more readers.
Alex Kapitan (no pronouns) is a trainer, speaker, consultant, editor, and activist who left the world of non-fiction book publishing to start Radical Copyeditor, an anti-oppressive language project. Alex draws on an eclectic background in the publishing industry, sexuality and gender education, and faith-based organizing to help people and organizations align their words with their values.
Here’s what writers need to know about AI for writing, image creation, and audiobooks, synthetic voices, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and more.
In this top replay from 2022, Stephanie Chandler talks with editor Cristen Iris who gives memoirists valuable advice on storytelling structure, outlining, scenes, and other essentials for creating a truly compelling memoir.
Synthetic voices--what a concept! Now it's easy for authors to use text-to-speech technology to create audiobooks with any voice they'd like! Join podcast host Carla King and guest Ryan Scott, founder of Audie.ai, as they discuss more about the process.
Looking to grow your sales directly? Join Carla King and website expert Nate Hoffelder as Nate waters down what you need to do to sell digital and physical books straight from your website.
Looking for the perfect literary agent match? Join podcast host Carla King and guest Lisa Tener in this top replay episode, as Carla and Lisa discuss processes you can use to find the agent for your book. And don't forget, Lisa will be joining us again next week for the Nonfiction Writers Conference May 10-12, 2023. Find the whole lineup and registration information here: nonfictionwritersconference.com
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is becoming more and more important in our culture and in our world. Join Carla King and guest Catarina Rivera as they have an important discussion on ableist language, and how authors can be proactive in avoiding it altogether.
Wondering how to find your community of dedicated supporters? In this podcast of the Nonfiction Authors Podcast, we revisit the 2022 Nonfiction Writers Conference to hear Stephanie Chandler's advice on attracting lifelong fans. Listen in for great tips for your path forward, and be sure to check out the lineup for this years Nonfiction Writers Conference at nonfictionwritersconference.com.
Modern day marketing can be a lot of work, and includes using many tools such as email newsletters, social media platforms, websites, and blogs. In this episode of the Nonfiction Authors Podcast, podcast guest Jenny Levine Finke joins host Carla King to discuss her tips on growing email newsletters. Listen in to find out how you can grow your business without stretching yourself too thin.
It can feel like a race to the finish when launching your book. If you find yourself running the marathon, listen in on this podcast episode with host Carla King and guest Anne Janzer. As a marketing expert, Anne has graciously poured an immense amount of time into sharing her expertise on how to successfully market your book!
Essays-there are so many types in writing. Wondering how essays might benefit your career in the long run? Join podcast host Carla King as she discusses concept essays with editor and author platform coach Joey Garcia, and find out why they are an important component of your publishing plan.
Part of the modern day author's craft involves marketing one's own books through opportunities such as podcast and radio. Have you ever struggled with engaging with this audience? Join podcast host Carla King and Joanne McCall as they sit down to talk about delivering media interviews that are riveting to listeners.
Titles can be tricky, especially if you want to stand out from the crowd amongst thousands of other writers and authors. In this top replay episode of the Nonfiction Authors Podcast, join host Stephanie Chandler and guest Roger C. Parker as Roger gives tips on writing better titles for your books and blog posts.
Writer's block is a real thing. If you're stuck in the 'muddy middle' of your book and trying to find your way out, join Carla King and JourneySixty6 co-founders to learn about a structure technique for writers that may be the answer to your struggle!
Virtual assistants are a newer addition the workforce, and their demand is growing rapidly. If you've been curious about VA's and their ability to lighten the load when it comes to admin tasks, web developing, marketing, and more, then join Carla King for this discussion with Katie Santoro, owner and founder of River City Virtual Assistants.
Octavia Goredema shares her story of how she was able to increase her online presence to make the launch of her business book bigger and better than ever.
This one's for the introverts! Join Stephanie Chandler and expert introvert Steve Friedman as they discuss how to navigate marketing for those who don't like to be in the spotlight.
It's important to stay up to date on changes in the writing industry. This week, join host Carla King and podcast guest Paige Allen as they discuss updates on publishing print books and ebooks with IngramSpark.
Copyright rules can be tricky. Luckily, we've called in an expert! Join Carla King and podcast guest Joseph Perry as they dive into the author's guide to fair use copyright rules and talk about the legalities of publishing a book.
Angela Engel launched The Collective Book Studio to build a different kind of publishing business that brings bright light to an author's vision. Join Angela and host Carla King as they discuss the process of publishing with The Book Collective Studio.
Book reviews are an essential part of a books journey. In this Top Replay, Sandra Beckwith shares helpful tips and strategies to help authors generate more book reviews.
Stacy Ennis is a best-selling author, coach, and speaker on a mission to help leaders clarify their ideas and harness their unique story to make an impact. Join Stacy and Carla King as they discuss why a book outline is so important for authors.
Join host Carla King and podcast guest JoEllen Nordström for a discussion on all things scheduling! JoEllen Nordström is First Editing's Chief Word Wizard and the host of the Publishing Power Podcast. A fellow published author and writing enthusiast, JoEllen co-authored her first two books as an authorpreneur in 2005. Since then she has led her army of editors at First Editing to assist over 50,000 authors worldwide.
The Nonfiction Authors Association is celebrating 10 years of being in business this year. We are so excited to welcome founder Stephanie Chandler to get some insight into what she's learned during this time of growth!
Have you ever thought about taking your career as an author even further? In this podcast, Crystal Daye joins host Stephanie Chandler to discuss the endless possibilities of your author brand-specifically how to create a flourishing and impactful business around your book.
Find out how this entrepreneur launched his book with high-profile testimonials, rave reviews, and an affiliate program, along with other marketing techniques you can model for your own launch. This is also a book recommendation for McWilliams' new release, for authorpreneurs, Turn Your Passions into Profits: The Proven Path for Building a Rewarding Online Business. With Carla King, host of the Nonfiction Authors Podcast.
Audiobooks are a growing trend in our technology ecosystem. They provide a great way to listen to a book at any moment in time, and they are found on familiar platforms these days. David Wolf, founder of Audivita Studios, is here to answer your questions on recording your own audiobook. Whether you love the sound of your own voice or desperately want to hire the audio production out, Audivita is here to help you!
Overwhelmed by everything that comes with marketing your book? We’d like to introduce you to one of our newest partner members, Payhip! Payhip takes the hassle out of the ecommerce platform and provides a plethora of free features for authors. Learn how you can connect with your readers in a customized, more personal way through Payhip. The benefits seem endless.
If you are in the midst of publishing, you might also be in the midst of contracts, agreements, and trademarks. In this top replay, attorneys Joe Perry and Jen Chen Tran unravel some of the legalities behind publishing, and remind authors of the importance of a good publishing lawyer.
The right editor is worth their weight in gold, but how do you find them? Authors and editors will learn how to use the EFA as a matching service–no, it’s not quite like a dating app but there are similarities! This is a free service for authors and a membership organization with lots of benefits for editors.
Book designers prefer that you give them more direction than you might think. Their creativity can kick into gear when you provide clear guidelines, inspiration, and your vision. Learn how the process works from this dynamic design duo who serve both big publishing houses and independent authors.
Turns out your reader doesn’t need to know everything about the past to understand the present. Discover some surprisingly simple ways to transition timescapes and incorporate your “back” story with your “front” story. Jordan Rosenfeld talks with our host Carla King about why authors often overwrite or underwrite (or futz with verb tense). You’ll also learn about the old style memoir as essay versus the new style memoir as closer to commercial fiction. Hmmmm.
This educator leveraged his research on “how black college students learn to code switch” to write a book and then started a publishing business to launch it quickly. Today his business aims to facilitate publishing inside the classroom and workplace setting to diversify classroom libraries, and also provides diversity, equity, and inclusion training to colleges and universities across the US.
Learn how the library market works for authors in conversation between OverDrive’s Lateefah Zawistowski and host Stephanie Chandler in this top replay.
Find out what motivates this publisher to take on a new author, where the money goes, where his time goes, what he likes (and doesn’t like) about his days at work. Stone Bridge Press concentrates on Japanese subject areas, but has recently expanded to include authors who write about China, Korea, and other Asian locations.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Discovering who your audience is, being present and generous with them, and being fearless about sharing your message are a few of the tips you’ll learn in this interview with Becky Robinson by host Carla King. Mobilize your team and deepen your reader and influencer connections right now or even before you launch your book.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Get tips on writing and publishing your memoir in a way that resonates with thousands of readers. Got a mission? Make it a movement! Carla King interviews Laurent Eckhardt on how finding your purpose can help you connect to your audience on a deeper level.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
In this top replay, Stephanie Chandler talks with guest Edie Jarolim about how she organized tours for her books, in person and online. In the conversation you’ll learn how to write a book tour pitch, when to start pitching and mapping out your tour, how to manage book sales, and how to promote your tour. Going virtual? That works, too!
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Join nonfiction literary agent Ted Weinstein and our host Carla King as they discuss the importance of a book proposal as a business plan, building an author brand/platform, publishing in periodicals, and how to gain community and support for your book. Lots of thought-provoking insights about publishing, self-publishing, foreign rights, and what agents care about in this quick 30 minute interview!
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Risa’s a wellness writer, a licensed therapist, a professor, and a time management coach. In this 30-minute podcast, Risa Williams talks with host Carla King about mental roadblocks, how to retrain negative thoughts and ideas, tech tools that help, and even how to incorporate a goal sponsor for your writing.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Autofiction is a genre that combines both autobiography/memoir and fiction. Whose memory, perspective, and fact are true? Where do you draw the line between absolute truth vs reorganizing the facts? Join author Lisa Sellge in conversation with Carla King in this lively discussion that includes a long book list on memoir and craft.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Podcasts are a great way to introduce your work to the world and grow your audience. Join Lee Chaix McDonough and Stephanie Chandler in this top replay as they discuss the ins and outs of podcasts, and how to work them into your marketing plan.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Freewriting! Have you done it lately? Freewriting is great for any author to provide inspiration, energy, and maybe even some surprises. Get tips for freewriting and some great prompts to boost your freewriting practice with our guest Marijke McCandless and host Carla King.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Are you a nonfiction author curious about historical nonfiction? Good news for you! You don’t have to be a pro to write about a time period or event. In this podcast, Natalia Molina joins Carla King to share some encouragement and tips for writers who write historical nonfiction, memoir, and related genres.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Cherie Kephart burned the first version of her memoir, rewrote it, and penned two related books. Join us with your host Carla King to hear Cherie’s thoughts on the important heart work we do when writing a memoir, and how to keep the momentum going with related books that are helpful to your readers.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Twitter Spaces is the audio-broadcasting platform (like Clubhouse) that lets you become an audio program host. Growing your platform with audio? Find out how to start in this conversation between Megan Aronson and Carla King.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Everything audiobooks! Recording, narrating, publishing, retail pricing, royalty rates, costs, length, and giveaway codes for promotion. Nathan Agin joins Stephanie Chandler to discuss how audiobooks have the potential to exponentially grow the size of your audience and your wallet in this top replay.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
The world of social media continues to expand, and for most of us, it can be overwhelming. Dan Blank, in conversation with Carla King, shows us how to create systems to help remove that overwhelm of sharing on social media platforms.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Publicist and media trainer Joanne McCall joins Carla King to discuss the inner and outer game of media and how to present yourself so that you come across as believable and credible about your subject matter.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Smashwords and Draft2Digital just merged! Kevin Tumlinson joins host Carla King to chat about how the merger will combine both platform’s book creation and distribution options for authors around the world.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
After writing 34 books, Kristina Marie Darling has a pretty good idea of what’s needed when applying for grants to support a writing project! Kristina graciously shares all of her tips and tricks about the process in this top replay hosted by Stephanie Chandler.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Join us for a concise description of children’s picture book authorship and publishing as from the various sizes and number of pages to how to get them to schools and libraries. Creative director and illustrator Karen Ferreira in conversation with Carla King.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
These aren’t theoretical tips. These are three specific actions you can use to become inspired and reinvigorated. Join Carla King in a talk with Janna Maron who shares wisdom from her 20 years of experience in helping authors get unstuck.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Feeling overwhelmed with your task list? Here’s how to hire an effective virtual assistant to take the load off. Digital marketing and systems strategist Jen Lehner demonstrates the hiring process to find the right VA and how to make them an integral part of your team.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
There are currently 1 billion active users on TikTok, including tons of book lovers and authors doing really cool things on the platform. Join Kelly Schuknecht and Carla King to find out how to get started with TikTok so you can start to reach your audience and wherever TikTok integrates.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Learn how to find the support you need from friends, family, colleagues, and readers, as you write your first book or your twentieth! In this top replay from the archives, NFAA founder Stephanie Chandler dives into community building.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Author and motivational speaker Allan Karl knows everything about podcasting and video-streaming at home and out on the road, on his motorcycle! You’ll get a big list of tools and equipment suggestions, promotion advice, and strategies and ideas for topics in this discussion with our host, Carla King.
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Editor and author Allison Lane joins Carla King for some good news and some bad news: Publicity is the author's job, whether you are traditionally published or self-published. And you can probably do it better yourself, not to mention saving a lot of money. Find actionable tips here!
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.
Finding an agent to represent your book is hard work, not to mention the query letter, proposals, contractions, and all those hopes and dreams and expectations. Lisa Tener talks with our host Carla King about that and throws in self-publishing, intellectual property lawyers, and so much in only 30 minutes!
Find out more about our guest including show notes, highlights, and the transcript at https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/category/podcast.