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PBN's Hyper-Specific Reading Moods & Recommendations

Professional Book Nerds - April 18, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
Emma and Joe talk about some VERY specific reading moods and offer recommendations to match!  Emma’s moods & book picks:   A romance book that’s 10/10 and has Easter eggs a plenty   Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez  Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez  Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez   A cozy f...

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Think Like a Cartoonist

Self Publishing Insiders - April 18, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutes
Today we celebrate humor and creativity with accomplished author and cartoonist, Leigh Rubin. An author of more than 20 books, 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of Leigh's internationally syndicated cartoon, Rubes®, which is distributed by Creators Syndicate to hundreds of newspapers and media out...

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Episode 68 - Made for TV Horrors 3

Discover the Horror Podcast - April 15, 2024 22:37 - 1 hour
The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964), Crowhaven Farm (1970), and Cruise into Terror (1978) With this being our 3rd episode covering these little television terrors, one would get the idea that there is a lot of teleplays, or TV-movies, out there that deserve our attention. And you would be corr...

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Just decide it's not gonna be a problemmmmmm

FAITH, FIRE & FLOW - April 15, 2024 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
There's a time and a place for fitting neatly in a box, laying yourself down all purty-like, and asking somebody politely to shut the lid while you show the world that THAT is who you -  hang on, WAIT. SOME of us, if we went in a blender with a bunch of normal people, are STILL going to come ou...

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Don't Lose Your Whimsy - Coming of Ages Stories for All Readers

Professional Book Nerds - April 11, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
Today on the pod, Joe is joined by Jane, Quinton and Sarah to chat coming of age stories. Today's recommendations run the gamut from middle grade through adult fiction, from graphic novels to fantasy. These character-driven narratives open our eyes to the many ways we all experience life. There's...

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Self Publishing Lesbian Fiction

Self Publishing Insiders - April 11, 2024 05:00 - 46 minutes
An award-winning writer and former newspaper reporter, Elizabeth Andre currently writes cozy paranormal mystery, science fiction, young adult and lesbian romance. Elizabeth began publishing lesbian fiction in 2014 and joins us today to discuss why self-publishing is such a great option for the g...

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Ep131 Picture Book Picks: Poetry Month

Picture Book Look - April 09, 2024 04:30 - 21 minutes
We're back with more Picture Book Picks! We have more great mentor texts for you all around the theme of poetry! Listen to the episode to see why we made our picks! Kim's Picks: Nonfiction: A Stone is a Story by Leslie Barnard Booth, illustrated by Marc Martin Silly: Animals in Pants: A Poetr...

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233 – How Your Business Model Impacts Your Marketing and the Money You Make

Content Sells: Attract, Convert & Keep Your Ideal Clients with Content Marketing That Works - April 08, 2024 21:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon are discussing your business model and how to choose the right one for you. Plus, we’re looking at the direct impact your business model has on your marketing choices. When you get those choices wrong, it can be challenging to reac...

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Adventuring Through The Wide World with Douglas Westerbeke

Professional Book Nerds - April 08, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
On this episode, Joe talks with fellow Clevelander Douglas Westerbeke about his debut novel A Short Walk Through a Wide World (out April 2 from Avid Reader Press). They talk about writing an adventure story, the difficulties between writing strong "walk-on" characters versus writing your main ch...

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Episode 81: Weird Era feat. Alexander Sammartino

Weird Era - April 05, 2024 13:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
About Alexander Sammartino: Alexander Sammartino lives in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Syracuse University. Last Acts is his first novel. About Last Acts: Following a near-death experience, an entrepreneurial father-and-son duo wreak havoc and fend off bankruptcy in this unflinching portray...

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Nerd Chat: April 2024

Professional Book Nerds - April 04, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
Emma and Joe are back for their casual nerd chat. The nerds discuss what they've been reading, audiobook preferences, comfort reads, the upcoming solar eclipse, reading pauses, and live events at Cuyahoga County Public Library. Emma’s books:   Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez  Part of Your World by ...

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Book Marketing and Launch Plans

Self Publishing Insiders - April 04, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes
Publishing and distributing your self-published books is the easy part. Reaching readers is still the challenge. Today we speak with Stephanie Chandler, the founder and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association. Stephanie began building her email newsletter list and experimenting with self-publi...

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High Standards & Vanilla Cappuccinos with Abby Jimenez

Professional Book Nerds - April 01, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
Emma welcomes Abby Jimenez to the podcast to discuss her new book, Just for the Summer! In this casual chat, they also talk high standards, "if he wanted to he would, " drawing inspiration from pop culture, Easter eggs galore, how being a reader made Abby a writer, vanilla cappuccinos, book tour ...

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Episode 67: Film Preservation and Archiving with Special Guest Oscar Becher

Discover the Horror Podcast - March 31, 2024 19:59 - 1 hour
During conversations with serious film collectors, you might hear terms like inter-positive, or first negative, or even OCN, and have no clue to what they actually mean. Don’t feel bad because a lot of us are in the same boat. These are some of the many terms used when discussing the preservatio...

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Episode 80: Weird Era feat. Brontez Purnell

Weird Era - March 29, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
About Brontez Purnell: Brontez Purnell is the author of several books, most recently 100 Boyfriends, which won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction, was longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and was name...

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April Book Picks

Professional Book Nerds - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
Emma and Joe return for their monthly round up of books they're most looking forward to in the upcoming month! Settle in for a long list of great books due to release in April 2024. Author interviews:   Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke ...

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Publish with Confidence with ProWritingAid

Self Publishing Insiders - March 28, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutes
Have you ever watched a master at work? The best carpenters, musicians, chefs--and even authors--just seem to have a different way using their tools than the rest of us mere mortals. Fortunately for authors, ProWritingAid is a battle-tested writing tool that's helped some of today's bestselling ...

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Advice to Sell Your Books’ International Rights

Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA) - March 26, 2024 19:27 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
There is a huge market for books outside the United States, so how can U.S. publishers break into the international market, and how do publishers know which markets are a good fit for their titles? Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press Dr. Kate Gale joins “Inside Independent Publishing...

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Ep130 Small Things Mended with Casey W. Robinson, Nancy Whitesides, and Lauri Hornik

Picture Book Look - March 25, 2024 21:49 - 23 minutes
You won't want to miss this conversation! We loved chatting with Casey W. Robinson, Nancy Whitesides, and editor Lauri Hornik about the special project that became this beautiful book, Small Things Mended. ***Find out more about Casey here:  Website: https://www.caseywrobinson.com/ Instagra...

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232 - How to Monetise Your Podcast Even if You Don’t Have a Huge Audience - with Omar Zenhom

Content Sells: Attract, Convert & Keep Your Ideal Clients with Content Marketing That Works - March 25, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Whether you have a podcast, or you’re thinking about creating one, or even if you may never have a podcast but you create regular content that you would like to monetise in some way… today’s episode is for you! In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon speak to massively suc...

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These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things (Libby Features)

Professional Book Nerds - March 21, 2024 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
In this episode, Emma and Joe are joined by their coworker Katie to discuss their favorite new features of the Libby app. They talk about the evolution of Libby over the years and how user feedback has played a crucial role in shaping the app. They also highlight features like multi-library searc...

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Live from Superstars Writing Seminars

Self Publishing Insiders - March 21, 2024 05:00 - 48 minutes
Conferences are vital for author careers. The good ones not only provide stellar learning opportunities from the industry's best and brightest minds, they also provide a sense of community and belonging. In today's episode we'll catch up with D2D's own Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Nick Thacker as th...

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142 Amazon KDP Category and Keyword Secrets with Dave Chesson

Writer on the Side - March 20, 2024 06:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
Dave is the guy behind Kindlepreneur.com. On this episode, we talk about Amazon KDP tips & strategies that authors can use for their books.  

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Gathering a Body of Work – what to do while you’re waiting to be published.

Reading with a chance of tacos - March 20, 2024 02:39 - 29 minutes
  Gathering a Body of Work – what to do while you’re waiting to be published.   On today’s show we chat to one of Australia’s busiest authors about gathering publishing deals, and how important it is to gather a body of work before you’re published.    Today’s guest has wr...

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Ep129 Picture Book Picks: Women's History Month

Picture Book Look - March 19, 2024 11:28 - 24 minutes
We're excited to bring you a new monthly feature on the Picture Book Look podcast- Picture Book Picks! Each month, Kim and Kirsti will each choose 5 books within a theme and share what they love about them and why they make great mentor texts. This month is Women's History Month so the theme is ...

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Romance on Mars - A Conversation with Natasha Pulley

Professional Book Nerds - March 18, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
Joe is joined by Natasha Pulley to talk about her new book, The Mars House (out March 19). Natasha shares how her high school astronomy class inspired her first dive into Sci-Fi writing, writing a marriage of convenience plot to save a character's political aspirations, her deep love of science a...

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Episode 66 - Women Directors

Discover the Horror Podcast - March 17, 2024 22:42 - 1 hour
Chained (2012), Honeymoon (2014), and Relic (2020) With over 60 episodes so far in our podcast history, we realized that in all that we covered, we had never covered anything by a woman director. We knew we needed to change that. Going through the history of women directors, we realized that n...

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Episode 79: Weird Era feat. Eliza Barry Callahan

Weird Era - March 15, 2024 13:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
About Eliza Barry Callahan: Eliza Barry Callahan is a writer and artist from New York, New York. Shortly after receiving her BA from Columbia, where she studied visual art, art history, and poetry, she returned to the university where she received her MFA in writing (2022). Her writing has been p...

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Borrow, Buy, Bin

Professional Book Nerds - March 14, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 302 ratings
On this episode, Joe and Emma play a little game of Borrow, Buy, Bin, a bookish take on the infamous game, Snog, Marry, Avoid. They've provided each other with authors to choose from, but without knowing what the books will be, Emma and Joe have to decide if they're going to Borrow the book for a...

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Story Editing with Fictionary

Self Publishing Insiders - March 14, 2024 05:00 - 47 minutes
Bestselling books have well-structured plots, compelling characters, and engaging settings that tell a great story. The other element bestselling books have in common is masterful editing. Today we welcome Kristina Stanley back to the show. An award-winning author and fiction editor, Kristina is...