Wish I'd Known Then . . . For Writers 🥳 200 Episodes! What We Learned + Trends that will Impact Authors in 2024 📈
Episode 200 / We’re celebrating 200 episodes with a look back (what we learned in 2023) and a look forward to 2024 (trends that matter to authors).
We’re so happy to have such a warm community around the podcast! Thanks for listening and supporting us during the last four years.
Here’s to the next 200 episodes! 🥂
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Top Episodes in 2023:
- How to Thrive in a Flooded Market: Discussing Becca Syme’s New Rules of Publishing
- Angel Lawson on Learning to Use Tropes and Universal Fantasy
- How to Use Tropes to Create Strong Characters and Deepen Conflict with Jennifer Hilt
- How to Pace Your Novel with Ines Johnson
- Olivia Hayle on Reader-Centric Books and Promotion
First episode released on Jan 15, 2020!
Top episodes (All Time):
- Zoe York on Secret Pen Names, Iterating Your Goals, and Tik Tok for Authors
- Holly Darling on the Power of an Email Welcome Sequence
- Book Launch Plans: The Mega Episode (Reair)
- Tammi Labrecque on What to Email to Newsletter Subscribers
- What We Wish We’d Known About Creating Characters
Life Trends from Accenture: “trends that will give businesses a way to navigate change in the next 12 months and beyond.”
Trend discussed that impact authors:
-Customer service
-Branding
-Disengaging from tech
Link to article: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/song/accenture-life-trends
Link to Infographic:
Year in Review Sell More Books Show episode:
🚀 Jami’s Launch Plan https://www.jamialbright.com/authorservices
❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5
🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/
📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/
The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast
Resources from the Author and Reader Community to Help Ukrainians https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9QQhmcpa_dlxQY-GEqBiIbIZk-_J1MgQX_BxLI3F84/edit?usp=sharing