The Write Podcast with Sarah Williams
The Write Podcast with Sarah Williams
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The Write Podcast helps aspiring and published fiction authors master creative writing, novel planning, book marketing, and self-publishing. Hosted by multi-bestselling author and CEO of Serenade Publishing, it delivers expert writing tips, publishing advice, interviews with authors and industry pros, and a monthly book club with special guests. Build your author platform, grow your writing career, and write books readers love. Subscribe to The Write Podcast today.
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The podcast centers on themes of creative writing, novel planning, book marketing, and self-publishing. Episodes include in-depth explorations of topics like treating writing as a serious career, the impact of AI on storytelling, and strategies for international book marketing, with notable examples including discussions on managing multiple income streams and leveraging translations.

The Write Podcast helps aspiring and published fiction authors master creative writing, novel planning, book marketing, and self-publishing. Hosted by multi-bestselling author and CEO of Serenade Publishing, it delivers expert writing tips, publishing advice, interviews with authors and industry pros, and a monthly book club with special guests. Build your author platform, grow your writing career, and write books readers love. Subscribe to The Write Podcast today.
Fresh off presenting a workshop at the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference in Auckland, and still thinking about TL Swan's keynote on rebuilding her covers and blurbs nine times before Amazon finally took notice, this episode looks back at ten years of conferences, from Romance Writers of Australia to the biggest one yet in New York, and what showing up, year after year, has actually built. Plus, an invitation to the Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival's writer's day on October 30.
In this episode:
TL Swan's keynote on treating self-publishing like a business, and why she never gave up after nine attempts at her covers and blurbs
The workshop I presented at RWNZ: Building a Writing Career That Actually Sustains You
Ten years of Romance Writers of Australia, and the lessons from Michael Hauge, Melissa Storm and Bella Andre that I still use today
Romance Writers of America, New York, 2019: the biggest and most overwhelming conference I've ever attended, and why I've never regretted it
An invitation to the Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival writer's day, October 30
Links & resources mentioned:
My full interview with TL Swan on grit, growth and going all in on your writing dreams:https://serenadepublishing.com/post/tl-swan-on-grit-growth-and-going-all-in-on-your-writing-dreams
Michael Hauge's Six Stage Plot Structure:https://www.storyplanner.com/story/plan/michael-hauge-s-six-stage-plot-structure
Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival, writer's day, October 30:https://serenadepublishing.com/scff/conference

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