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Livestream/AMA: Book Marketing, Motivation, Language Learning, Picking a Project, and Selling Foreign Rights – Love Your Work, Episode 289

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- How should I start marketing my books?
- How can you cope with burnout that gets in the way of creative work?
- How can you market your books when it doesn’t come naturally?
- How did you build your audience and how long did it take? (How can you build an audience without “niching down”?)
- What’s the difference between an accountability partner and a creativity partner?
- How did you get your first book deal?
- How can you stay motivated and get help from others when you work in isolation?
- How can you create luck in creative work?
- Which is better: Medium, or Substack?
- Do you use editing software, such as Grammarly?
- How did you come up with the Seven Mental States of Creativity?
- Have you made soap lately?
- How are you improving your fiction and storytelling skills?
- How do you hack learning a new language?
- Why are you using a pen name to write fiction?
- What are good writing goals for a beginner?
- Why do you prefer self-publishing over traditional?
- How can you pick a creative project when you have too many ideas?
- How do you make foreign-rights deals for your books?
- What should do with lots of different content on different topics?
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Listen to the Podcast
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Theme music: Dorena “At Sea”, from the album About Everything And More. By Arrangement with Deep Elm Records. Listen on Spotify »