#057: Julia Scott – Formatting books the right way, tackling the second novel, and diving into audio.

Activated Authors

English - October 15, 2020 23:01 - 42 minutes - 40.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Previous Episode: #056: Ben Errington – Starting with just a cover, gaining confidence as a writer, and positivity on social media.

Next Episode: #058: V.S. Holmes – Advocating for queer and disabled representation, winning awards, and collaborative relationships.

Julia Scott is a British author, whose goal is to take you out of ‘regular life’ and teleport you to new worlds and alternate futures through her writing. The Mirror Souls is her debut novel, and like many sci-fi and fantasy books, it started off as a dream.

In her ‘other’ life, Julia lives in Essex, England with her husband and two children. She spends her time mum-ing, writing, prettifying books (via Evenstar Books), graphic designing, singing, and digging or planting stuff up in the garden without really knowing what she’s doing.

In this episode we go deep into:

How Julia got started as a new author
The difficulty of writing the second book after such a well-received debut
Her history as a graphic designer
How she wound up being such an in-demand formatter
The common mistakes authors make when formatting their own books
Having multiple streams of income - the pros and cons
Her formatting course, The Book Formatting Formula
And why she writes

Find out more about Julia:

https://www.evenstarbooks.com/

https://www.juliascottwrites.com/

Links from the show:

NaNoWriMo Bootcamp: https://www.danielwillcocks.com/bootcamp

Holly’s new release: www.bookst2read.com/fate-blue-moon

Get more from Great Writers Share!

https://www.danielwillcocks.com/merch/gws

https://www.facebook.com/groups/greatwritersshare/

GWS Press books:

Collaboration for Authors: https://books2read.com/u/3G2jLn

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