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
Jun 4, 2020 • 1h 15min
SFA 041 – Finding a Narrator, Cost, and DIY Tips for Audiobooks with Gary Bennett
On this week’s show, SAG-AFTRA audiobook narrator Gary Bennett joins us to talk about finding and choosing a narrator, how much you should expect to spend on audiobook production, royalty share options, and equipment in…
May 28, 2020 • 1h 13min
SFA 040 – Launches, Re-Launches, and Juggling Writing and Publishing with a Young Family with Andrea Pearson
On today’s show, we did the third of our three co-host interviews, this time with Andrea Pearson. We asked her questions about book launches, re-launches, dictation, and the ways she manages to do all she…
May 21, 2020 • 1h 25min
SFA 039 – Trends on Amazon, New Opportunities, and How CoVid-19 Is Affecting Ebook Sales with Alex Newton
Our guest this week is Alex Newton, the mastermind behind K-Lytics, a market intelligence service that monitors close to 100,000 Amazon titles each month to help publishers of fiction and non-fiction spot trends, identify opportunities,…
May 14, 2020 • 1h 32min
SFA 038 – Book Covers That Sell Books and Common Mistakes When Working with a Designer with Rebekah Haskell
We’re talking about cover design today—everything from common mistakes authors make to how to have a good relationship with and get what you need from a designer. The cover is the most important part of…
May 7, 2020 • 1h 17min
SFA 037 – Adapting as the Market Changes, Screenwriting, and Mixing Wide with Exclusive with Michaelbrent Collings
This week, we interviewed Michaelbrent Collings, an internationally bestselling novelist, produced screenwriter, and multiple Bram Stoker Award finalist. He’s written in numerous genres, including horror, thriller, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, humor, young adult, middle grade,…
Apr 30, 2020 • 1h 23min
SFA 036 – Revving up Backlist Book Sales, Writing and Selling Short Stories, Planning out a Series, and Jo Juggles
This is the second of our host interviews, with Jo Lallo in the hot seat today (except for the portion at the end where he leaves his seat to juggle). Before jumping into the interview…
Apr 23, 2020 • 1h 3min
SFA 035 – From Traditional Publishing to Indie, Clean Romance, and Book Covers and Editing on a Dime
This week, we’re joined by clean romance author Rachael Anderson who started out with a traditional publishing contract and later shifted to self-publishing. She’s a rarity in that she puts her books together inexpensively (DIY…
Apr 16, 2020 • 1h 12min
SFA 034 – Switching Genres, Do Novellas Sell, and Are There Marketing Differences from Genre to Genre?
We had a just-us show today and decided to break up the usual format of us all chiming in on listener questions. Instead we’re doing the first of three interviews with each other using a…
Apr 10, 2020 • 1h 15min
SFA 033 – Amazon Ads and Book Blurbs That Convert to Sales with Bryan Cohen
Our guest this week was fantasy and non-fiction author Bryan Cohen from the Sell More Books Show. Bryan also runs Best Page Forward, a book description service for people who don’t want to write their…
Apr 2, 2020 • 1h 23min
SFA 032 – Passive Advertising, Rapid Release, and Marketing Cross-Genre Fiction, and other Listener Questions
This week, Jo, Andrea, and Lindsay shared some of their news and updates before launching into answering listener questions. The questions covered such topics as forms of passive advertising for books, rapid release pricing and…
