Brain Burps About Books: How To Create Your Author Platform, Adult And Children's Book Publishing, Book Marketing Podcast

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #208 Holiday Replay: How to Promote Your Book Announcements It's coming! I'm working on my New Year's Gift for you! (Hint: I'm planning on helping you have a productive year.) Sign up here so you'll get it as soon as it's available: katiedavis.com/2015 Have I helped you this year? Did I say something on the podcast, or in a course, or in an email that you've been able to use? I would love to hear about it! Send me an email at support@katiedavis.com and let me know. This week authors share their fails, successes, and ideas, so listen up! Uma Krishnaswami direct from India! Chris Cheng talks about python massages Loreen Leedy talks about promoting and making money at the same time here Darcy Pattison talks about creating book trailers with help from this site Editor Deborah Halverson reveals her big fail that happened with her own book Julie Hedlund stumbled upon a great way to pre-promote for the time she gets published Elizabeth O. Dulemba talks about how she's gotten over 3

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #207 Our 101 Favorite Children's Books of the Year Part 2 Announcements Would you answer this one question survey? I want to hear from how I can help YOU: http://www.katiedavis.com/onequestion Getting excited and prepped for the next session of Business for Writers 101: Crank It Up with Katie. Get it now for the early bird price of $97. Support Pencils of Promise! See the free replay of How to Explode Your Career with Video to find out how you can help HERE. Get Video Idiot Boot Camp for $25 off, too and learn how to create videos to help your career as a writer and help a kid get a good education. Between now and December 31, half of every tuition for Video Idiot Boot Camp will be donated to Pencil of Promise, an organization that ensures quality education for children in Ghana, Guatemala, Laos, and Nicaragua. Use code pencils25 when you check out to get your discount. So far, we've donated over $800! This Week's Guests are Matthew Winner of The Busy Librarian and the Let's

Our 101 Favorite Children's Books of the Year Part 1 Click to tweet about this week's episode Announcements Would you answer this one question survey? I want to hear from how I can help YOU: http://www.katiedavis.com/onequestion Getting excited and prepped for the next session of Business for Writers 101: Crank It Up with Katie. Get it now for the early bird price of $97. Now through Dec 6, get Video Idiot Boot Camp for $25 off and I'll donate half of every tuition that comes in to Pencils of Promise. Not only that, but the value of your contribution will be doubled because Pat Flynn will match everything up to $25,000! Use code pencils25 when you check out to get your discount! FREE webinar where I'll teach you how you can use video to explode your writing career, on Dec 6th at noon. Sign up here. http://www.katiedavis.com/pencils This Week's Guests are Matthew Winner of The Busy Librarian and the Let's Get Busy Podcast with Cynthia Alaniz of Librarian in Cute Shoes & Contributor at the Nerdy Book Club

I’m so thankful for my business because it means I’m able to donate to charities close to my heart. Inspired by Pat Flynn, I decided to donate half of every Video Idiot Boot Camp tuition from Nov 24 through midnight December 6. Like this: now through Dec 6, I'll make a donation to Pencils of Promise for half of every Video Idiot Boot Camp tuition. You'll get $25 off the course, and not only that, but the value of your contribution will be doubled because Pat Flynn, a friend I'm so very grateful for, will match everything up to $25,000! Use the code pencils25 when you check out to get your discount! I’ll have a free webinar to teach you how you can use video to explode your writing career, on Dec 6th at noon. Sign up here or copy and paste: http://www.katiedavis.com/pencils. If you want to be your own CEO, run your Writer Business, and be able to do things like this, don’t miss my Black Friday sale for my four weeks of live coaching––it’s Writer Business 101, aka Crank It Up with Katie. It’s because of my busi

Announcements Thanksgiving next week! I'm grateful for those of you who have donated to the podcast. Getting excited and prepped for the next session of Crank It Up with Katie. There will be an early bird price of $97 but don't join yet. Wait for Cyber Monday when it will be even less. The lowest it will ever be. If you're not on my mailing list go to KatieDavis.com/news and get on it so you can be notified of the Cyber Monday sale – and if you miss it, you can be notified when the early bird price ends so you don’t miss THAT. This Week's Guest is...  ... author- illustrator James Burks. After spending fifteen years working as artist in animation working on such movies as Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Home on the Range, Space Jam, the Iron Giant and the television shows, Wow Wow Wubbzy, Ni-hao Kai-lan, the Dinosaur Train and most recently on Fan Boy and Chum Chum, James is now writing and illustrating his own children's books including Gabby & Gator, Bird & Squirrel on Ice, and Bi

Click to tweet about this week's episode Announcements Thanks to Carrie Charley Brown for the lovely interview she did with me. You can find it at CarrieCharleyBrown.com Since it's NaNoWriMo, PiBoIdMo and PictureBookMonth, I talk a little about the Learn Scrivener Fast course I’ve been going through. This Week's Review This week’s contributor is Emily Wylie with a review of Barry Jonsberg’s The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee This Week's Guest Chris Barton is the author of the picture books Shark vs Train (a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller) and The Day-Glo Brothers (winner, American Library Association Sibert Honor), as well as the young adult nonfiction thriller Can I See Your I.D.? True Stories of False Identities. Chris and I talk about   Austin! Secrets from the 200th episode. Jennifer Zeigler's How Not to Be Popular. Two best pieces of advice for writers. How he came up with Shark Vs. Train. The Great Brain. Note to my podcast listeners When I was listening to Fresh Air on NPR

Announcements Free 4 Quick & Easy Video Marketing Lessons for Writers You’re not making book trailers yet? Really? Seriously? You know I'm an insane, video-crazed freak, right? But do you know why? Book trailers have literally changed my career as a writer. They’ve made me successful, gotten me attention for my books, earned me income, and I absolutely can’t stand it that you might not be doing them. I’m going to make this ridiculously easy for you. Unless you’re cray cray crazy, you’re going to sign up for this free mini-course and learn how you can create and use video to help you sell books and build your platform. Click here to get on the dedicated list of people who will get the info when it starts. You’ll receive an emailed mini-lesson for four consecutive days. But because I don’t want to bug people who don’t want to know how to get more books into more hands, you do need to sign up for it, even if you’re already on my mailing list. This Week's Review This week’s contributor is Heather Preusser, wi

Announcements EXTENDED! Leave an honest review of the podcast in iTunes by November 7th and be invited to a free Q&A with me. Ask me anything! 1-Go to http://bit.ly/1rxoGdF 2-Click VIEW ON iTUNES 3-Click RATINGS & REVIEWS 4-Click WRITE A REVIEW 5-Enter the Rafflecopter here. Check out the deets and the 200th episode celebration here. Club Burp-a-Palooza It's only .19¢ a day, and you can get weekly transcripts, a monthly marketing Q&A and more here: http://www.katiedavis.com/clubburp Are you ready to invest in yourself and crank up your writing career? My next session of Crank It Up group coaching starts Tuesday, November 4th. Let me show you how to expand your audience and build your platform with email lists, social media and video creation. Join here. Reviews Emily Wylie reviews Falling into Place by Amy Zhang This week’s guest is Tara Lazar, author of the picture book illustrated by James Burks, The Monstore, and creator of Picture Book Idea Month, aka, PiBoIdMo. (You may even learn how t

To celebrate my 200th episode I wanted to go big. Go big or go home, right? So this is a three parter: 1. A free info-packed webinar for you, my listener. Your ticket is an honest review of the podcast, which you can write by clicking here, then clicking the VIEW IN iTUNES button, then click RATINGS AND REVIEWS and then WRITE A REVIEW. 2. Let us know you did it by entering your email into the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this page so we can notify you the details for joining the webinar. 3. I'll donate $1,000 to this charity if I get 40 new honest reviews by November 1. Are you ready to crank up your career? Crank It Up October is open for registration! Four weeks of group coaching with me at a steal of a price. Find out all the deets here. Club Burp-a-Palooza It's only .19¢ a day, and you can get weekly transcripts and more here. Get the FREE course I'm giving away called 100 Things Every Writer Must Do To Succeed Online here: CoursesForWriters.com. This week’s guests are:  Alan Katz Ame Dykeman Artie Be

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #199  Click to tweet about this money-making episode here! Announcements Are you ready to take your writing career to the next level but don't know where to start? Come learn the basics of using video and tech, social media, how to start an email list (and why you need one), marketing your book and yourself and how all this combines to build a platform in the new Crank It Up group starting Oct 30. Click here. I’m grateful to Tim McCanna for his wonderful Halloween jingle! Julie Hedlund returns this week with a gratitude segment. This week’s guest is Steve Scott, independent writer and publisher who has earned $60,000 in a month with his Kindle books. Listen in and learn how he did it! In the interview you’ll hear Steve’s top advice about: Marketing tools that Amazon supplies. Should you give away your book and if so, when? Drilling down into topics and breaking them down for your books. How to find the perfect illustrator. How many words is selling for what amount now an

Click to tweet about this poopendous episode here! Announcements Are you ready to crank up your career? Crank It Up October is open for registration! Four weeks of group coaching with me at a steal of a price. Find out all the deets here. We’re having a giveaway of Artie’s fun science book: Belches, Burps, and Farts-Oh My! Club Burp-a-Palooza It's only .19¢ a day, and you can get weekly transcripts and more here. Get the FREE course I'm giving away called 100 Things Every Writer Must Do To Succeed Online here: CoursesForWriters.com. This week’s guest is Artie Bennett. Despite the titles of his books, like Poopendous!, Belches, Burps, and Farts-Oh My!, The Butt Book, and Peter Panda Melts Down, Artie is a true lover of words. He was a prodigy as a child. A word prodigy. How does that reveal itself in a child that grows up to be a writer? He becomes a crossword puzzle creator. He’s a punster and a rhyming champ. Artie and I talk about Artie’s obscure but fascinating claim to fame (every writer should have th

New Crank It Up with Katie! session starting soon! Check it out here: CoursesForWriters.com/crankitup   This week’s guest is CJ Lyons http://cjlyons.net/ Julie Falatko reviews The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara   ·      This week’s guest is award-winning as well as critically acclaimed New York Times and Amazon AND USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons. ·      Find out why her first book, already with pre-sales, was canceled. ·      Find out about one-star reviews and what to do with them ·      CJ recommends reading Simon Sinek - Start with Why ·      CJ’sHARD FALL (Lucy Guardino FBI Thrillers Book 5) ·      Why you need to be CEO of your own writer company (meaning you)  

Brain Burps About Books: where you'll learn all about the craft and business of children's publishing (and then some!) Go to http://www.katiedavis.com/podcast to subscribe and learn all about the craft and business of children's publishing and get a free eBook of some of the biggest episodes ever!   Announcements   Club Burp-a-Palooza It's only .19¢ a day, and you can get weekly transcripts and more here: http://www.katiedavis.com/clubburp  You still have time to register for a free webinar where you'll learn about Scrivener with The Scrivener Coach (aka the nicest guy around, my friend Joe) Go to http://www.katiedavis.com/joe to sign  up! Get the FREE course I'm giving away called 100 Things Every Writer Must Do To Succeed Online here: CoursesForWriters.com?   This week’s guest is Jocelyn Sams, a brilliant librarian who is having five figure months doing business online––in the same way writers can!   Jocelyn and I talk about What she charges for an entire year of lessons Fall lessons only to try out and

Learn Scrivener Fast with The Scrivener Coach: an interview with The Scrivener Coach In this episode I speak to Joseph Nicoletti, aka The Scrivener Coach. He talks about how he went from failed pizza delivery boy to teaching writers how to use Scrivener to make them better writers! And by the way, if you want to learn Scrivener fast, join Joe and me for a totally free webinar. Click here, and come watch this webinar where Joe'll be teaching all this: 1. How To Get Up & Running With Scrivener Quickly. 2. Simple Tricks For Organizing & Working With All of Your Writing Using The Binder 3. How To Export Your Book Into Various Formats Including .Mobi, .ePub, .PDF, Doc, & more. 4. How To Edit & Save Every Single Version of Your Work (Worry Free) 5. A Few Jaw-Dropping Tips & Tricks To Wow Your Peers With ;-) We also have a review from Julie Falatko of Zack Rock's Homer Henry Hudson's Curio Museum  

Announcements   •   Club Burp-a-Palooza It's only .19¢ a day, and you win something worth $25 or $50, $100 $300 or more! You gotta be in it to win it! Go to http://www.katiedavis.com/clubburp to check it out •  Did you hear about the FREE course I'm giving away on CoursesForWriters.com? It's called 100 Things Every Writer Must Do To Succeed Online  •   Sign up to get help cranking up your business as a writer with my four week live group coaching session, Crank It Up with Katie!     This week’s guest is The Ironic Mom, author Leanne Shirtliffe   Emily Wylie reviews Rhyme Schemer by K.A. Holt

•   Club Burp-a-Palooza Imagine: you sign up, it's only .19¢ a day, and you win something worth $25 or $50, $100 $300 or more! You gotta be in it to win it! Go to http://www.katiedavis.com/clubburp to check it out •   Did you hear about the FREE course I'm giving away on CoursesForWriters.com? It's called 100 Things Every Writer Must Do To Succeed Online  •   This week's guest is New York Times best selling writer and freelance editor Emma Walton Hamilton. She’s created an incredible system that empowers writers and will help you prepare your manuscript for publication. Emma Walton Hamilton's Editor-in-a-Box will save you a ton of money, too, if you're hiring an editor. Why? Because you'll skip a lot of the editing errors you would have paid for with the editor! Cool part is you get to use it on every book you plan to publish! You can get it here: http://katiedavis.com/editor
. •   We have a review from Heather Preusser of The Tell-Tale Start (Misadventures of Edgar/Allan) by Gordon McAlpine              

Club Burp-a-Palooza is having it's first Prize bomb on Monday! Imagine: you sign up, it's only .19¢ a day, and you win something worth $25 or $50, $100 $300 or more! You gotta be in it to win it! Go to http://www.katiedavis.com/clubburp  Did you hear about the free course I'm giving away on CoursesForWriters.com? It's called 100 Things Every Writer must do to be a Success online  For the Brain Burps 200th episode, what do YOU think we should do to celebrate? What should the show be about? I discuss an idea I have but I want to hear from my listeners so please leave a comment at katiedavis.com/192 This week's guest is indie picture book writer and great marketer, Beau Blackwell. He's created a course for people interested in publishing their own books on Amazon and basically shares everything he knows from his own experience (listen, and you'll hear about that!) You can find the course here:  http://letsmakekidsbooks.com/6weeks Beau has generously offered a huge discount for my listeners if you use the

Check out Club Burp-a-Palooza! A club for Brain Burps About Books fans: what happens in the club is up to you! Get tons of value for a eensy beensy, teeny tiny little fee. Click here to check it out.   Click to tweet about this show! This week's guests are Elaine Kiely Kearns is a picture book writer, a second grade elementary school teacher and a mother of two, who lives on coffee, chocolate and humor. Armed with a master’s degree in Education and working from her home office in New York, she spends her time writing and perusing the internet for golden nuggets of information for KidLit411.com.   Sylvia Liu is an environmental attorney turned writer-illustrator. She won the 2013 Lee and Low New Voices award and her winning manuscript, A Morning With Gong Gong, will be published. She recently completed an illustration mentorship with David Diaz through the Nevada SCBWI Mentor Program.  Her art and infographics have been published on Huffington Post and other venues. She is inspired by aliens, cephalopods, bunn

Announcing Club Burp-a-Palooza! A club for Brain Burps About Books fans: what happens in the club is up to you! Get tons of value for a teeny tiny little fee. Click here to check it out.   Click here to tweet about this episode.   This week's guest is Liz Nealon, publisher of Starwalk Kids Media SWK Facebook page SWK (@StarWalkKids) on Twitter    

Click here to get on the priority list for VideosForWriters.com, my new service that I'll be introducing soon! Affordable customizable videos created especially for writers! Today's interview is with Alison Green Myers and Rosemary Agoglia. Click here for more info on their workshops that marry Ro's experience at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and Alison's speciality in connecting curriculum-driven instruction to creation writing and language work. Heather Preusser reviews Hope is a Ferris Wheel by Robin Herrera Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor