Six Figure Authors
Six Figure Authors is the show that helps you take your writing career to the next level. Lindsay Buroker, Jo Lallo, and Andrea Pearson are sharing their own insights, as authors who’ve been publishing since the beginning of the e-reader revolution, and they’re also interviewing industry experts and other successful authors to help you figure out what’s working right now.
Latest episodes
Dec 31, 2020 • 1h 4min
SFA 071 – Selling Hard-to-Categorize Books That Aren’t Written to Market/Trope Pt 2
We had a lot of listener questions that we didn’t get to in the first Selling Hard-to-Categorize Books That Aren’t Written to Market show, so we’re back for part 2, and it’s all about answering…
Dec 24, 2020 • 1h 6min
SFA 070 – Subscriptions, Audiobooks, and Viability of Traditional Publishing Today
Our guest this week is publishing consultant and author Jane Friedman. With twenty years of experience in the publishing industry, she has expertise in digital media strategies for authors and publishers. She’s the co-founder and…
Dec 17, 2020 • 57min
SFA 069 – Selling Hard-to-Categorize Books That Aren’t Written to Market/Trope
Very few authors think of writing “to market” or “to trope” with their first book/series. They’re just writing what they love! Sometimes, that ends up being popular with readers, but sometimes you end up with…
Dec 10, 2020 • 1h 1min
SFA 068 – Hype Cycle + Have Audiobooks Reached a Tipping Point?
On this week’s show, we talked about the Gartner Hype Cycle as a framework to think about where we are with ebooks, audiobooks, and the up-and-coming technologies that may become useful (or even necessary) for…
Dec 3, 2020 • 56min
SFA 067 – Audio Reader Magnets, Amazon Ads, and Are Newsletters and Social Media Really Worth It?
It’s a “just-us” episode today, with Jo, Andrea, and Lindsay answering listener questions. We ran out of time and didn’t get to the leftover protagonist-craft questions that we teased in the intro (whoops), but we…
Nov 26, 2020 • 57min
SFA 066 – A Book in 15 Minutes a Day, Author Mindset, and Marketing Non-Fiction
Our guest this week is Honoree Corder, an executive and strategic book and publishing coach, TEDx speaker, and the author of dozens of books including You Must Write a Book and The Prosperous Writer series.…
Nov 19, 2020 • 57min
SFA 065 – Marketing as an Introvert, and Successful Urban Fantasy Outside of Kindle Unlimited
For this week’s show, we’ve got an interview with contemporary/urban fantasy author Sarah Painter. She publishes wide (in all the stores) and has had good luck with her books, even without signing up for Amazon’s…
Nov 12, 2020 • 1h 20min
SFA 064 – Creating a Protagonist that Readers Will Love
We return to the craft of writing for this week’s show, because good craft makes it a lot easier to sell books! The topic for the show is protagonists. How do you create the kind…
Nov 5, 2020 • 58min
SFA 063 – Getting Movie Deals and Amish Romance with Serena Miller
We had a guest on this week’s Six Figure Authors, USA Today bestselling romance writer Serena Miller. She’s both traditionally and indie published, and she’s had one of her books (Love Finds You in Sugar…
Oct 29, 2020 • 1h 10min
SFA 062 – Is It too Late to Break out in 2020?
If you frequent the various author forums and Facebook groups, you probably see people say it again and again: book publishing (especially ebook publishing for indie authors) has gotten too competitive, it’s pay to play…
