Sneak Peek into the 2024 Children's Book Mastery Summit

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What's that incoming?

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Is it the 2024 Children's Book Mastery Summit?

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It is, and we've got a sneak preview!

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Hello and welcome to the Writing Momentum Podcast, I'm Christopher

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Maselli, here with my wife, Gena.

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Hi there, we're so glad you're here.

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Yeah, and we're excited and we have something a little bit

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different we're going to do today.

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Ok

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Now normally on the podcast, we just talk about stuff.

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We talk, we kind of share, we kind of teach, we kind of

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do a little mini training.

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This is different though.

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This today, we have a sneak peek of one of our favorite

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events that happens every year.

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It's the 2024 Children's Book Mastery Summit.

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This is put on by our friend Karin and she does a really great job.

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She's bringing in 25 of some of the best authors and speakers and people who do

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things in the children's book market.

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And you can learn from them at this summit.

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And, uh, Hey, we, we got a sneak peek into everything going on.

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Yeah.

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Well, not only that, but Karin Ferreira is a good friend of ours and

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we have had the privilege of being part of the Children's Book Mastery

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Summit for a couple of years now.

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That's right.

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And so we are going to be part of this, but you know what?

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We're not just teaching at it or talking and training in it.

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We are also, I've gotten my ticket, have you already gotten your ticket?

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We are attending it as well.

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We are attending it.

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Yeah and so, this is really cool because she's

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bringing 25 people, right?

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So there's going to be 25 sessions.

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What are the dates that it happens?

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I'll tell you what, for those of you who are, listening, we're

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going to tell you what we're seeing, uh, in this preview here.

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But if you're viewing this on YouTube or on our website, you'll be able to

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actually see what we're looking at.

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So we're going to jump over here to the screen of the website that's

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just dropped and you can see on here, it's a free five day summit.

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Oh, that's right.

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It's free.

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It is free.

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Wow.

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Now we talked last week about how important it is to invest in your writing.

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In this case, it doesn't even cost anything.

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As long as you watch them in real time.

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All it costs is your energy and your time to learn this,

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which is important

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which is important.

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But I'll tell you this is one of those investments that is well worth it.

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This is well worth it.

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It's happening July 22nd through the 26th, and it's all online.

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So you don't even have to go anywhere.

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You don't have any travel expenses.

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It's all online.

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And Karin just does such a great job and she has brought together people.

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And what I love about this summit is that we have said before, uh, many

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times that writing is a business.

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Your writing is a business, even if you just do it kind of for fun on the

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side, there is a business element to it.

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And at some point, if you publish, you have to think about all of that.

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And Karin knows that, and so she is bringing together people who are going

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to talk about the craft of writing, the publishing of children's books.

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She's also talking about, um, the marketing and sales of children's books.

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She's talking about, um, the productivity of how do you treat

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your, your book writing as a business.

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There's also some really good tech classes.

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They're going to cover AI.

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They're going to cover some apps that are really great to use.

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Let's jump in.

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Soo this as it says here, it's about a $1, 100 value.

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I don't doubt that when you count all these people time they're putting together

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their classes Well worth it again.

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There's 25 people.

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It's from July 22nd to 26th Now tell you this if you want to get

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your ticket You can go to wmdeal.

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com slash 2024cbm.

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Okay.

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I know that's a mouthful.

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We'll have a link somewhere around this video.

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Look around and we've got it there for you.

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It's a direct link.

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That'll make it so that you can go ahead and get a free

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ticket to this entire summit.

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It won't cost you a thing.

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Now she does allow you to if you want to you can purchase

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these at a premium package

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There's a premium package,

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and the premium package gives you this it gives you Not only the ability

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to watch the videos later on your own time And, and again and again, if you want

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to, but she's also putting in a bunch of really great items that are of full value.

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So for instance, you'll get a full month of our, um, writing momentum

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membership just by joining the summit and, uh, getting that premium package.

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But.

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If you just want to join the summit and that's it, you can do that too.

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So let's check it out.

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Let's check it out.

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So here on the website again, that's WMDeal.

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com slash 2024CBM.

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What a mouthful.

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All right.

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So, uh, Karin is hosting it and you want to tell them a little bit about Karin?

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Yeah, Karin is, she is the CEO of GetYourBookIllustrations.

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com.

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We've had Karin on our podcast before.

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And she's talked about, uh, helping independent authors who want to,

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uh, illustrate and publish their own children's picture books.

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And so she has a company that she helps with that, but she also does training.

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She has a membership herself that she does training, specifically

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for the children's book market.

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And it's kind of like a mentorship kind of training,

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really, really good stuff.

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And, um, uh, the illustrations that her book, the get your book

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illustrations does are fabulous.

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We've had some friends who've taken advantage of them.

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We told them about it and they've said, okay, we'll go ahead and try it.

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And wow, are they good?

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Yeah, they are.

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The thing about Karin's, um, company that she has, the Get Your Book

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Illustrations, is that she works, from my understanding, she works

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with illustrators all over the world.

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And so there are all these different styles.

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So if you're an independent, author.

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And you're thinking, I want to publish my children's book, but I

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don't know an, an artist or I know what style I want, but I don't know

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anybody who does that exact style.

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You can just kind of sift through all the different types of illustrations that

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Karin has access to and the illustrators who do those different styles.

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So it's really a lot of fun.

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It's kind of like you can go on there and do a dream.

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You know, you can do your dream wishlist right there of, one day I want a book that

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looks like that, and you can work on it.

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But let's get back to the children's book Mastery.

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Yes.

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So this, if you get your, um, uh, free ticket, you also get a free playbook.

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What this playbook is, is a, is a short book that just has some of the

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best tips from the sessions I believe, that are in this, uh, whole summit.

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And so that's, it's a nice bonus that you get.

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Again, that doesn't cost you anything.

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It's going to start off with a kickoff party, which is kind

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of fun that Karin's hosting.

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And then, Oh, look, the first, Hey, I'm the first speaker this year.

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I'm talking about writing by the numbers.

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I'm going to show you how powerful numbers are when it comes to your writing.

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Have you ever thought, man, I don't know how I'm going to finish

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a book that's 40, 000 words.

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That will take forever.

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I'm going to show you how you can use those numbers to your advantage and break

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it down to where you're going to find, man, I might be able to finish something

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like that in just a month or two.

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It's kind of crazy.

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If you are someone who enjoys, um, systems.

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Chris is definitely somebody who, um, works to crack the code

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on systems and productivity.

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So, um, you're, if you are that kind of person, or if you just want to be

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inspired, I think that, that session that you give, you've talked about

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this before with our membership site, with our memberships, and you've, um,

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walked them through what does it mean?

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How does A little bit writing a little every day really add up and

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how can you make the most of that?

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So yeah, that was beautiful.

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Uh, then she's uh, let's see They've got uh, Daniel is i'm not i'm not

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gonna say everyone's last names because I know i'm gonna butcher some of the names

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So i'm just gonna say the first name.

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Is that okay?

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That's not cheating.

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Is it?

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It's kind of cheating.

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I'm sorry.

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I didn't say my first name.

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Well, no, I think I did at the beginning of the podcast.

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Let me help you out here.

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Daniel David Wallace is going to be talking about character first writing,

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which is going to be, um, discovering the power of character first writing to

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create an emotionally resonant story.

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That's good.

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Yeah.

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Uh, you know, I, I think so many times, I love plot, but so many times we can

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get so wrapped up in just making sure the plot's correct that we forget that

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our characters have to have a depth to them to make that story really live long.

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So he's going to talk about that.

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Sandra Beckwith.

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Yes, she's talking about the three easiest ways to get

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author and book publicity.

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Okay, you guys who are looking for tips on marketing, you

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definitely want to tune in to this.

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Because publicity, PR, we, this is an area that Chris and I are

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learning more and more about.

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And it's just really powerful.

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Yeah.

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And she's an award winning publicist.

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And so you want to hear what she has to say.

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I think she's got some really interesting insights that you'll enjoy.

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And she says that she's going to share shortcuts, shortcuts to success.

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We all love those, right?

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We like the shortcuts.

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And then we have the business of being an author.

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This is, you know, here's the thing, being an author today, It is a business.

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You can't just think, Oh, we're just going to do our writing and that, that's it.

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It is full on business.

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And this is taught by Alexa Bigwarfe.

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Is that right?

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Yes.

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Bigwarfe.

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And while we could go on and on about why writing today is a business and

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it is, regardless of whether you are traditionally or independently

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published, you have to get in the game.

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You can't just think, Oh, I'm going to go right out in my cabin in the

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woods and send off my manuscript.

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And.

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It's gonna, you know, do whatever.

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It's gonna sell.

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You have to get in there even if you are being traditionally published.

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You got to get out there and you got to work it.

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This next session is also a marketing session.

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This is interesting.

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This is from Derek.

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How do you say his last name?

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Doepker

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Doepker I think.

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And he's talking about influencer marketing for authors.

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Now, this is interesting.

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It's not how you're being an influencer, but it's how to identify

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the right influencers and get them to help promote your work, man.

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I'll tell you there.

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We get one of the biggest questions we get is, you know, how do I sell my book?

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And there are some new ways to do that through things like influencer

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marketing and getting insights into that.

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Super valuable.

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That, uh, that ought to be a good session.

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All right.

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That's, that's on the first day.

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So that's, uh, that'll be next, uh, on Monday, the 22nd, are

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those 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 sessions.

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And then the next day on Tuesday, we start off with,

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A session that you're kind of interested to hear

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what he has to say, aren't you?

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Yeah, I'm interested in this because we've had some people

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ask us about AI when it comes to writing because there's AI is basically

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getting into everything we use, right?

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Every app that I use has an AI feature now.

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We are not getting away from this.

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This is, they are building this now into the operating

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systems of our computers, right?

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Just this last month, Apple, and then the month before that, Google announced,

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and Microsoft, how they're building it into their operating systems.

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This is just becoming a part of our lives.

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So how can we use AI ethically, as writers, to help with our

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productivity without crossing a line.

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And so this, I think this will be a really good, um, uh, session.

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And it's he's going to talk about how to enhance your writing process.

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I look forward to that.

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Yeah.

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Well, and Marcy, uh, Pusey is plotting perfection, how to create

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strong picture book stories.

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Uh, you know, there's a lot of people who think that writing

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children's picture books is easy.

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Getting a story with a three act structure done in 32 pages with short

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copy is not always as easy as it may seem and so This would be a good one.

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Yeah, this, this ought to be good.

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And then we have Krista Safarova.

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She's talking about nine types of stories to build connection with readers.

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So yeah, a lot of times, you know, we, we write off of our fancy and

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not kind of really focusing on what will connect with readers.

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What will draw them in?

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And she's going to cover that.

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That's, that's a good one.

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Even if you've got a manuscript you started to run your manuscript

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through that litmus test of, is it going to connect with readers?

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Right.

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And that emotional connection, especially when you're dealing with writing for

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kids, because remember, you're not, you're not just writing to small adults.

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You're, you're writing to children who are at different developmental stages.

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And so you have to understand.

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How to connect with them when you're writing picture books in a

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way by understanding what really probably their, their wants, their

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needs, what their expectations are, what their thought processes are.

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There's a lot to that.

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So definitely check that one out.

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Next is Shelby Leigh.

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She's got the Social Media Marketing for Authors.

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Hey!

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Gotta market.

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Gotta use social media.

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How do you do it?

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What platform should you use?

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How do you build your author brand?

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How do you engage with your audience?

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She's going to cover that.

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That looks like it's probably going to be a good introductory session to that.

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And a lot of us need that.

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So that sounds like a really, really good one.

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And then Bethany Barany.

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This is the next day on day three.

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Day three.

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So crafting compelling characters and character transformation.

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Another good character one.

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Another good character one.

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And remember, this is for children's books.

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But now I do want to point out that when we talk about children's books, that's

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not just picture books, is it, Chris?

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No, no, no.

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Children, children's books is everything from board books, right?

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The kids like to chew on as they read it all the way up through young adult novels.

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So if you are writing any kind of children's book, even young adult, right?

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Something that you're like, Oh, teenagers will like this.

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You want to have compelling characters and you want to have transformation.

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And Beth is a wonderful teacher and I think you'll really like what

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she's going to teach in this session.

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Yeah.

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And I also love to go do a shout out for children's nonfiction because,

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Oh my gosh, children's nonfiction.

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It is, it was like, Uh, cause you guys know I'm a homeschooling mom.

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So I have worked with my kids.

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My kids are, our kids are older now.

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They're more teenagers.

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But when I discovered nonfiction children's book, it was like the Holy

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Grail of our elementary education because it was just so much fun to have them

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bring Science, technology, history, math, just all of these different

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things that bring them to life through these, um, Non fiction picture books.

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And non fiction books use fiction techniques to

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bring that non fiction to life.

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So you'll want to learn from a session like this.

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I think you'll like it.

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Oh, Arielle.

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Oh, I'm going to mess up her name.

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Uh, Arielle Haughee.

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I think so.

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Um, how to work with an illustrator.

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That's so important for those of you, not only for those of you who

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do are doing picture books, but if you have any kind of illustration in

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your book, you may be doing a chapter book, which has fewer illustrations.

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You may be writing a YA novel, but you'd like to have some illustrations at the

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end of the chapters or something that will, uh, be helpful to, to, to sit

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there, to learn from someone exactly how to work with an illustrator.

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Speaking of which the next session is, uh, Tamara Dever.

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And now she's going to talk about book design, the ins and outs in terms of.

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All the different type parts of design because when you get into

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it, you start realizing, Oh, it's not just getting a picture.

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It's thinking of about bleed and trim and gutter and typography

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and layout techniques, right?

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All of these things are important.

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And even if you're not doing it yourself, you want to understand these terms and

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How they work in book design so that you can work with that, uh, illustrator

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as, uh, Ariel was talking about.

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So I would attempt both those sessions if you're doing any kind

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of book with illustrations with, uh, design to it, which is fine.

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Pretty much any book.

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Yeah, and Maria Dismondy, An Insider's Guide to Getting

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Traditionally Published.

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I know there are some of you out there who really have your heart set on

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getting traditionally published, so you definitely want to check that out

Gena: 00:16:27

because, uh, the traditional publishing market is really changing a lot.

Christopher: 00:16:32

A lot.

Gena: 00:16:32

A lot.

Gena: 00:16:33

There's a lot of kind of condensing and different houses that are

Gena: 00:16:37

building, uh, or buying one another up.

Gena: 00:16:40

And so you want to learn about that.

Gena: 00:16:42

So definitely check that out if traditional publishing is on the horizon.

Christopher: 00:16:46

There's a lot of authors that don't want to self publish.

Christopher: 00:16:48

They want to try traditionally publishing.

Christopher: 00:16:50

And so this is good to find out where this is state of where it's at today.

Christopher: 00:16:53

And then, Oh, this, I know this next author real well.

Christopher: 00:16:56

Her name is Gena.

Christopher: 00:16:57

Hey, that's you.

Christopher: 00:16:58

And why don't you tell everyone what you're talking about?

Gena: 00:17:00

Okay.

Gena: 00:17:00

So I talked about how to develop an audience through email marketing.

Gena: 00:17:04

You guys know, we've talked a lot about email marketing

Gena: 00:17:07

on this podcast for authors.

Gena: 00:17:09

And so I really go through some of the tips, why email marketing is so

Gena: 00:17:13

important, how to make the most of it.

Gena: 00:17:17

What are some ways that you can build your list?

Gena: 00:17:21

So I go through a lot of those different answering those different questions on it.

Gena: 00:17:26

And, um, just really hopefully helping people know, you guys know that, uh,

Gena: 00:17:32

for us, we believe email marketing is where it is at for authors, because

Gena: 00:17:38

you want to be able to develop a relationship with your readers.

Gena: 00:17:42

And the way that you can do that is through just a regular email newsletter.

Gena: 00:17:47

And so definitely check that out.

Christopher: 00:17:49

Be so good.

Christopher: 00:17:50

Now, if you've been listening to this and you're like, okay, okay, I'm sold.

Christopher: 00:17:53

I'm sold.

Christopher: 00:17:54

There's so many good here.

Christopher: 00:17:55

We're not selling you on anything.

Christopher: 00:17:57

This thing is free.

Christopher: 00:17:58

It's absolutely free.

Christopher: 00:17:59

It's called the Children's Book Mastery Summit.

Christopher: 00:18:01

Go to wmdeal.

Christopher: 00:18:03

com slash 2024 CBM.

Christopher: 00:18:06

And we'll have the link somewhere around this video and you'll be

Christopher: 00:18:09

able to get your free ticket.

Christopher: 00:18:10

You'll get your free bonus that has a bunch of tips for children's book

Christopher: 00:18:14

writers and you can also check out if you're interested in the premium package

Christopher: 00:18:17

where you can keep the videos, watch them at your convenience, it's got a

Christopher: 00:18:20

bunch of bonuses including a free month of the Writing Momentum Membership.

Christopher: 00:18:24

Whew, that's a lot.

Christopher: 00:18:26

We're not even done.

Christopher: 00:18:27

We've still got a couple days left here.

Christopher: 00:18:30

Yeah.

Gena: 00:18:31

And, uh, Laura Backes is leading one of the sessions on

Gena: 00:18:38

how to write classic children's books that stand the test of time.

Gena: 00:18:42

And you guys know I have a stack of books that our kids had.

Gena: 00:18:48

I am not letting them go.

Christopher: 00:18:51

She won't let them go.

Christopher: 00:18:52

We have bookshelves and we're like, no one's gonna read those books anymore.

Christopher: 00:18:55

They're on to other books, right?

Christopher: 00:18:56

Other newer, different old books for older kids.

Christopher: 00:18:59

And she's like, never getting rid of them.

Gena: 00:19:01

We're never getting rid of them.

Gena: 00:19:02

And I have a feeling that once our children have children, they

Gena: 00:19:07

will probably be coming home to, um, wrestle me for them.

Christopher: 00:19:11

Yes, probably so.

Christopher: 00:19:12

All right.

Christopher: 00:19:12

Then we have, uh, Matthew Ziranek and he's going to talk about how to

Christopher: 00:19:16

design in a winning, author, website.

Christopher: 00:19:20

Hey, as an author, you've got to have a website.

Christopher: 00:19:22

You've got to have a website.

Christopher: 00:19:24

It's your, it's not just your calling card, but it can be a

Christopher: 00:19:26

way to connect with your readers.

Christopher: 00:19:28

We have found that our website is a way for people to find out about

Christopher: 00:19:32

us, but it's also a way to connect and watch this podcast to find

Christopher: 00:19:36

out about our membership, right?

Christopher: 00:19:38

To find out about our books.

Christopher: 00:19:39

And so, If you're wanting to design an award winning site,

Christopher: 00:19:43

check out Matthew's session.

Christopher: 00:19:44

Sounds like a good one.

Gena: 00:19:45

Can I do a plug for you here?

Christopher: 00:19:47

Sure.

Gena: 00:19:47

Do you think people realize that you do author website design?

Christopher: 00:19:51

We do.

Christopher: 00:19:51

We do author website design as part of Writing Momentum.

Christopher: 00:19:54

And I have done it, um, uh, just by myself for years.

Christopher: 00:19:57

I've now built a small team where we help authors with websites.

Christopher: 00:20:01

And so, yeah, if you need an author website, go ahead and, uh,

Christopher: 00:20:04

let me know at writingmomentum.

Christopher: 00:20:05

com.

Christopher: 00:20:06

Just go to the, Form there and you can you can send me an email would

Christopher: 00:20:09

love to help you help you build yours We try to make them very affordable.

Christopher: 00:20:12

We make them with the latest technology and that's not what this is about

Christopher: 00:20:16

But we're glad to let you know.

Christopher: 00:20:17

All right.

Christopher: 00:20:17

How about Lorna Bailey?

Gena: 00:20:19

Lorna Bailey, uh, Simplifying your author business

Gena: 00:20:21

with systems and processes.

Christopher: 00:20:23

I guarantee you I'm going to this session.

Gena: 00:20:25

I know.

Gena: 00:20:26

I told you guys systems and processes.

Gena: 00:20:28

It's his love language.

Christopher: 00:20:30

Here's why.

Christopher: 00:20:31

I have learned that productivity often boils down to having systems.

Christopher: 00:20:35

If you just try to say, I'm going to be productive, be productive, be productive.

Christopher: 00:20:38

You're going to burn yourself out.

Christopher: 00:20:40

But if you can build systems and processes and use the right tools and apps, you

Christopher: 00:20:45

can, you can 10 times what you do with your writing and with your business.

Christopher: 00:20:51

I would attend this session as I would attend every session

Christopher: 00:20:54

because these are just really good.

Christopher: 00:20:56

All right, what's next?

Gena: 00:20:57

And then Ray Brehm.

Gena: 00:20:57

The tech side of being an author.

Christopher: 00:20:58

More good tech.

Christopher: 00:21:03

He's talking about websites, blogs, funnels.

Christopher: 00:21:06

Hey, if you've all been listening to our podcast any time, you know

Christopher: 00:21:08

we love the Marketing Funnel because it's a big part of helping you

Christopher: 00:21:12

start a relationship with people who want to know you and your writing.

Christopher: 00:21:16

And so, yes, get a good introduction to that there, um, as well as listen to the

Christopher: 00:21:21

podcast because we talk about that a lot.

Christopher: 00:21:22

It's good, good stuff.

Christopher: 00:21:23

And then, uh, Laurence O'Brien is talking about the art of

Christopher: 00:21:26

book presentation for promotion.

Christopher: 00:21:30

It says, Laurence shares expert insights on how to prepare your book for successful

Christopher: 00:21:33

promotion, and he's going to share how to optimize your presentations for sales.

Christopher: 00:21:39

That's kind of interesting.

Christopher: 00:21:41

Yeah.

Christopher: 00:21:41

You know, we have to pitch our books a lot of times at conferences

Christopher: 00:21:44

or to editors or to even people.

Christopher: 00:21:47

Right?

Christopher: 00:21:47

If you're, if you're going to present something somewhere, that

Christopher: 00:21:50

could be an interesting session.

Gena: 00:21:51

Definitely.

Christopher: 00:21:52

I'm interested to see where he comes with that.

Gena: 00:21:53

You know, there's a lot of people also who, uh, They are part of like

Gena: 00:21:57

book, book events, like book promotion events where it's just kind of open to

Gena: 00:22:03

the public and people can come through and see the different books that are out

Gena: 00:22:06

there and what they are, what they are.

Gena: 00:22:08

They can meet authors.

Gena: 00:22:09

So I'm sure that this is probably going to give you some ideas and that's

Gena: 00:22:14

what a lot of this is going to be.

Gena: 00:22:16

You're just going to walk away more educated, but it also might on

Gena: 00:22:19

the marketing side, give you some ideas for, okay, what is it that

Gena: 00:22:23

I can do that feels right to me?

Gena: 00:22:26

Uh, you're not going to want to do everything, but, you know, when it comes

Gena: 00:22:29

to promotion, sometimes when we say promotion, it sounds scarier than it is.

Gena: 00:22:35

And you, as you get into it, you realize, okay, maybe I'm not going

Gena: 00:22:39

to be the headliner speaker yet of a big conference, but you know what?

Gena: 00:22:45

I can go maybe promote at a small book lovers event or I can do something online

Gena: 00:22:52

and so anyway this is just a way for you to get some ideas for book promotion.

Christopher: 00:22:56

That's the first 20 we have five more left so stick with us

Christopher: 00:22:59

five more that's the first 20 though you could so what what she's doing

Christopher: 00:23:03

Karin's doing five people a day so you could see how you could spend your

Christopher: 00:23:06

whole week and just immerse yourself in the children's book writing world.

Christopher: 00:23:10

I love that.

Christopher: 00:23:11

Love it.

Christopher: 00:23:11

Love it.

Christopher: 00:23:11

Love it.

Christopher: 00:23:11

All right.

Christopher: 00:23:12

What's Karin talking about on day five?

Gena: 00:23:13

Karin's talking about mastering show, don't tell.

Gena: 00:23:16

I think this is such a, it's a classic talk, but it is such a needed talk

Gena: 00:23:21

because it's one of those things that, um, uh, sometimes I know for

Gena: 00:23:26

me personally, I've had to go through a process of understanding when,

Gena: 00:23:30

what, I thought sometimes that I was, showing when actually I was telling

Gena: 00:23:37

and I actually worked with a coach on that and she was, she brought it to

Gena: 00:23:41

light for me and she helped me see it.

Gena: 00:23:43

And so now I have some more education on that.

Gena: 00:23:47

We talked about that last week about investing.

Gena: 00:23:49

I worked with a coach and she enlightened me to, to maybe

Gena: 00:23:53

something that I could do better.

Gena: 00:23:54

And so I know Karin's going to do that as well.

Christopher: 00:23:57

This is one of those craft sessions that you really

Christopher: 00:23:59

don't want to miss because even if you think, I don't do that.

Christopher: 00:24:03

Go to this session.

Christopher: 00:24:04

This will help build those synapses in your brain so that you will

Christopher: 00:24:08

see when you're doing this kind of thing every single time.

Christopher: 00:24:12

I love attending sessions like this and sharpening myself to this because

Christopher: 00:24:16

it always makes me a better writer.

Gena: 00:24:18

It really does because I a lot of times when you go to sessions like

Gena: 00:24:21

this it'll sit there in the back of your mind and there's even been times

Gena: 00:24:26

when I've heard someone talk about something that I haven't it's like not

Gena: 00:24:30

it hasn't completely clicked, and, but as my mind is working on it and working

Gena: 00:24:36

on it, all of a sudden I'm like, oh.

Gena: 00:24:39

It totally makes sense.

Gena: 00:24:40

And that's what that person was talking about.

Gena: 00:24:42

And so, uh, yeah, go and listen and absorb as much as you can, cause it'll come back.

Christopher: 00:24:49

All right.

Christopher: 00:24:50

Next is our friend CJ Anaya.

Christopher: 00:24:52

Now CJ is talking about how to use Plottr for children's book authors.

Christopher: 00:24:55

So, so Plottr is an app that CJ has built.

Christopher: 00:24:58

Uh, he's a real good guy.

Christopher: 00:25:00

He has a great company.

Christopher: 00:25:02

And, um, this helps you outline your book and plot it on your

Christopher: 00:25:06

computer, which is really nice.

Christopher: 00:25:08

And it uses a lot of, you can like pull in templates of some of the best book

Christopher: 00:25:13

plotting techniques and use them here.

Christopher: 00:25:16

If you're interested in Plottr, you can go to writing.

Christopher: 00:25:19

fyi slash Plottr, that's Plottr.

Christopher: 00:25:21

P L O T T R, and we have a link there to an exclusive lifetime deal on that app.

Christopher: 00:25:28

It's really great.

Christopher: 00:25:29

So C.

Christopher: 00:25:29

J.

Christopher: 00:25:30

Anaya, How to Use Plottr for Children's Book Authors, and then what?

Gena: 00:25:33

April Cox is talking about the authorpreneur mindset.

Gena: 00:25:37

So once again, we're talking about treating your writing like a

Gena: 00:25:41

business and boy, start that early.

Gena: 00:25:44

Start that, start doing that early.

Gena: 00:25:46

I'm not saying that you need to get caught up in a whole bunch of business processes

Gena: 00:25:50

when you're just writing your first book, but be laying that groundwork now so

Gena: 00:25:55

that as your business grows, so does your processes and the way you approach it.

Christopher: 00:26:02

And then we have one more here.

Christopher: 00:26:02

This is Lisa Ferland.

Christopher: 00:26:03

She's talking about how to succeed at crowdfunding.

Christopher: 00:26:07

Let me say that again.

Christopher: 00:26:08

How to succeed at crowdfunding for children's book authors.

Christopher: 00:26:12

Do you know what crowdfunding is?

Christopher: 00:26:13

It's creating online campaigns so that you can have people who will fund your

Christopher: 00:26:18

book to be written, and then you've already got a built in audience who are

Christopher: 00:26:22

going to be purchasing the book then.

Christopher: 00:26:24

This is becoming, well it has been has been, for a little while now, a

Christopher: 00:26:28

very popular way for authors to get their books to take off and to get

Christopher: 00:26:32

them sold before they even write them.

Christopher: 00:26:34

I mean, think about that.

Christopher: 00:26:35

Would you like to have your book sold before you write it?

Christopher: 00:26:38

This could be a really interesting session to go to.

Christopher: 00:26:40

I encourage you to check that one out too.

Christopher: 00:26:42

And that is all 25 of the Children's Book Mastery Sessions that are

Christopher: 00:26:49

happening next week, July 22nd to 26th.

Christopher: 00:26:53

You can go to WMDeal.

Christopher: 00:26:54

com slash 2024CBM, find the link around this video, click on that, you'll get

Christopher: 00:27:00

your free ticket, you'll also get a free playbook that has a bunch of tips in

Christopher: 00:27:05

it, you can also check out the premium pass that lets you watch those videos

Christopher: 00:27:09

at any time you want, and it has a whole bunch of bonuses including a free month

Christopher: 00:27:14

of the Writing Momentum membership.

Gena: 00:27:17

Yeah, we would love to see you there.

Gena: 00:27:19

So definitely check this out.

Gena: 00:27:21

We're so excited to be part of it.

Gena: 00:27:23

So thankful to be part of it.

Gena: 00:27:25

And we hope that this just, really encourage you in your writing and

Gena: 00:27:29

in your writing business and in your publishing, just all of it.

Christopher: 00:27:33

And do I actually have to wait till next week for this thing?

Christopher: 00:27:35

I'm excited.

Christopher: 00:27:36

I want to watch it now.

Gena: 00:27:38

We hope you've enjoyed this session episode of the Writing Momentum Podcast.

Gena: 00:27:44

And just hopefully you will really enjoy that Children's Book Mastery Summit.

Gena: 00:27:49

We really hope that you will take advantage of this free ticket and um, we

Christopher: 00:27:54

will see you there because together

Gena: 00:27:56

we have writing momentum.

Christopher: 00:27:58

Bye bye.