Become a Writer Today How Your Next Book Will Help You Sell More Copies of Your Last Book with Simon King
Simon King is the author of over 30 books across five different series, including the Sam Rader series, the non-fiction Prison Days series, and the MAX series.
Before he became an author, Simon worked in a maximum-security prison in Australia, and he only published his first book in 2018.
In this episode, Simon explains how he went from working a demanding day job, working nights and shifts, to publishing up to 12 books a year over three years.
Simon also believes that it’s essential to set a clear target for how much you want to write every day. He set a target to write 3,000 words every day no matter what, and he explains what that did for his writing career.
In this episode we discuss:
- How his job as a prison officer helped with his writing
- Having an ideal reader in mind
- Starting with the end
- Moving from writing non-fiction to fiction
- Strategies Simon uses to promote his books
- Deciding on the length of a book
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