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Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing Podcast

Interviewing and Learning from Successful Authors

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SFFMP 166: Best Price Points, Does Book Length Matter, and Tips for Selling More Books Wide with Mark Coker

SFFMP 166: Best Price Points, Does Book Length Matter, and Tips for Selling More Books Wide with Mark Coker

One of our earliest guests on the podcast, almost 150 episodes ago, was Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords. We had hi... Read more

17 Jan 2018

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SFFMP 178: Making Good Money with Serial Novellas and YA Fantasy with Sarah K.L. Wilson

SFFMP 178: Making Good Money with Serial Novellas and YA Fantasy with Sarah K.L. Wilson

On this week’s show, YA fantasy author Sarah K.L. Wilson joined us to talk about the successful Dragon School serial she... Read more

25 Apr 2018

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SFFMP 176: Launching Well as a New Author, Writing Quickly, and Keeping the Momentum Going

SFFMP 176: Launching Well as a New Author, Writing Quickly, and Keeping the Momentum Going

This week’s interview features NYT best-selling indie fantasy author Jasmine Walt. She talks about how she burst onto th... Read more

11 Apr 2018

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SFFMP 215: Working Hard, Ignoring Naysayers, and Becoming a Full-Time Author

SFFMP 215: Working Hard, Ignoring Naysayers, and Becoming a Full-Time Author

For this week’s show, we talked to return guest Jeffery H. Haskell, who first joined us in December of 2017 for the show... Read more

9 Jan 2019

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SFFMP 204: Selling 10,000 Copies of Your First Novel with Joseph Malik

SFFMP 204: Selling 10,000 Copies of Your First Novel with Joseph Malik

Today, we were joined by fantasy author, Joseph Malik, who published his first novel, Dragon’s Trail, in 2016 and has ma... Read more

24 Oct 2018

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SFFMP 171: Lindsay’s Launch Numbers (Earned vs Spent), Targeting International Sales, and Increasing Mailing List Open Rates

SFFMP 171: Lindsay’s Launch Numbers (Earned vs Spent), Targeting International Sales, and Increasing Mailing List Open Rates

Our three hosts were by themselves today and answered some listener questions that had been stacking up. They ran the ga... Read more

28 Feb 2018

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SFFMP 128: Kindle Unlimited, Perma 99-Cents, and ACX vs. Traditional Audiobook Publishers with Anthony J. Melchiorri

SFFMP 128: Kindle Unlimited, Perma 99-Cents, and ACX vs. Traditional Audiobook Publishers with Anthony J. Melchiorri

It’s not every week that we get authors with PhDs in science on the show (though we’ve had a few!), but today Anthony J ... Read more

19 Apr 2017

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SFFMP 175: The Rapid Release Strategy, Getting Reviews as a New Author, and Where to Spend your Advertising Money

SFFMP 175: The Rapid Release Strategy, Getting Reviews as a New Author, and Where to Spend your Advertising Money

This week, Jo, Jeff, and Lindsay answered listener questions on a variety of topics such as how to spend $1,000 on adver... Read more

4 Apr 2018

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SFFMP 144: Breaking Six Figures as an Author – What Does It Take?

SFFMP 144: Breaking Six Figures as an Author – What Does It Take?

It’s a long show today, but we covered a lot of ground, so hopefully you’ll find it interesting. We discussed last year’... Read more

9 Aug 2017

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SFFMP 211: How to Use Your Newsletter to Build Engagement and Fan Loyalty

SFFMP 211: How to Use Your Newsletter to Build Engagement and Fan Loyalty

Not only was this week’s episode jam-packed with newsletter tips for authors but it turned out to be our longest show ev... Read more

12 Dec 2018

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SFFMP 165: Relaunching a Series, Bookbub Ads, and Does Podcasting Help Authors?

SFFMP 165: Relaunching a Series, Bookbub Ads, and Does Podcasting Help Authors?

A return guest joined us on the show this week, Bryan Cohen, non-fiction author, podcaster, and author of fairy tales an... Read more

10 Jan 2018

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SFFMP 162: Finding Success in a Niche, When 99-cent Novels Make Sense, and Bucking Cover Trends with Amanda Milo

SFFMP 162: Finding Success in a Niche, When 99-cent Novels Make Sense, and Bucking Cover Trends with Amanda Milo

Our guest this week launched her first novel in April of 2017 to great success. Amanda Milo’s science fiction romance, S... Read more

20 Dec 2017

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SFFMP 155: What It Takes to Shift from Hobby Writer to Full-Time Author with Ben Hale

SFFMP 155: What It Takes to Shift from Hobby Writer to Full-Time Author with Ben Hale

This week, we chatted with non-fiction and YA fantasy author Ben Hale. A former business owner, he did a lot of research... Read more

1 Nov 2017

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SFFMP 191: Most Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy Sub-Genres and Analyzing Data Guy’s SWFA Slides

SFFMP 191: Most Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy Sub-Genres and Analyzing Data Guy’s SWFA Slides

On this week’s show, Jeff, Jo, and Lindsay discussed the information on Data Guy’s slides from his 2018 SFWA presentatio... Read more

25 Jul 2018

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SFFMP 132: Are Spinoffs a Good Idea, Costs of Cover Art, & Marketing Unique Stories

SFFMP 132: Are Spinoffs a Good Idea, Costs of Cover Art, & Marketing Unique Stories

For the first time in a couple of months, Jeff, Jo, and Lindsay didn’t have a guest tonight. They answered listener ques... Read more

17 May 2017

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SFFMP 170: Keeping an Older Series Selling, Nebula Awards, and What SFWA Can Do for You

SFFMP 170: Keeping an Older Series Selling, Nebula Awards, and What SFWA Can Do for You

On this week’s show, military science fiction author and retired Marine colonel Jonathan Brazee joined us. We talked abo... Read more

21 Feb 2018

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SFFMP 179: Marketing Wide vs Marketing in Kindle Unlimited + Turning Strangers into Super Fans

SFFMP 179: Marketing Wide vs Marketing in Kindle Unlimited + Turning Strangers into Super Fans

We had a great chat with David Gaughran this week. He’s a historical fiction author who dabbles in science fiction now a... Read more

2 May 2018

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SFFMP 193: Marketing and Publishing Advice for Newer Authors

SFFMP 193: Marketing and Publishing Advice for Newer Authors

This week, Lindsay, Jo, and Jeff geared the show toward newer authors getting ready to publish their first books or with... Read more

8 Aug 2018

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SFFMP 133: Serials, Reader Magnets, and When to Jump to Full Time

SFFMP 133: Serials, Reader Magnets, and When to Jump to Full Time

We switched things up this week and had a guest come on and interview us. Lindsay, Jeff, and Jo did their best to answer... Read more

24 May 2017

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SFFMP 135: Amazon Bestseller Charts, Using Goodreads to Sell Books, and Listener Questions Answered

SFFMP 135: Amazon Bestseller Charts, Using Goodreads to Sell Books, and Listener Questions Answered

Today, the guys answered listener questions, and Jeff and Lindsay interviewed Jo about what he learned at the big Book E... Read more

7 Jun 2017

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