Summary: Show Outline<br> Introduction:<br> <br> Episode 1 was on Oct 7, 2013<br> A lot has happened over the last four and a half years. <br> Jim has won half a dozen book awards<br> Thomas spent time as the marketing director for a publishing company.<br> We went a couple of years only posting every other week. <br> Starting summer of last year we went back to a weekly show and we’ve loved it … it’s been a ton of fun.<br> Now we would like to talk about the future of the podcast. <br> <br> We Want to Make the Podcast Even More Useful to You and More Beneficial to us<br> <br> Monthly Resource (Like the spreadsheet we gave away last week)<br> We are excited to announce: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing">The Novel Marketing Patreon Page</a><br> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing">$2 Level</a><br> <br> Warm (maybe even toasty warm) feelings inside you, knowing you’re keeping Thomas and James on the air<br> Access to the Patron Only Community Discussion<br> Monthly Resource Archive <br> Exclusive Patron Only Discounts:<br> <br> 20% discount on back cover copywriting<br> 25% discount on the MyBookTable Pro WordPress Plugin <br> 25% discount on the MySpeakingEvents Pro WordPress plugin<br> 25% discount on the MyBookProgress Pro WordPress plugin<br> 50% discount on The Five Year Plan to Become a Bestselling Author<br> 50% discount on The Tax & Business Guide for Authors<br> Over $160 in discounts. You would have to be a Patron for 6 years before you caught up to all those discounts. <br> <br> <br> All that for $2 a month!<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing">$5 Level </a><br> <br> Exclusive Monthly Q&A Episode (like a more exclusive version of the Q&A extravaganza)<br> Special Monthly Episode Bundle where we package several popular episodes on a specific topic and give you private access.<br> Ebook of your choice of one of James’ novels, Rooms, Book of Days, or The Chair<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing">$8 Level</a><br> <br> Everything in the previous levels. <br> This level is limited to only 16 people. <br> Your book and website featured on Novel Marketing.com & on Patreon.com<br> Your book(s) and website mentioned on the show every quarter<br> Two ebooks of your choice from any of James’ nine novels, Rooms, Book of Days, The Chair, Soul’s Gate, Memory’s Door, Spirit Bridge, The Five Times I Met Myself, The Long Journey to Jake Palmer, The Man He Never Was<br> <br> <br> <br> Stretch Goals:<br> <br> $100 Stay a Weekly Show <br> $200 Episode Transcripts <br> $350 Legacy Transcripts <br> $500 Live Q&A <br> <br> What Won’t Change<br> <br> We will still have free episodes for you here every week (assuming we hit our first goal)<br> Otherwise, we will still have free episodes every other week. <br> The podcast will keep getting better as we are more connected with our listeners and have more energy to devote to the podcast.<br> You can still ask questions for free. We will still spend whole episodes answering significant questions. <br> You can still get the monthly resource for free the month it comes out. <br> <br> At this point, you’re probably asking, okay, well how do I get connected? Easy: Go to NovelMarketing.com and click “Become a Patron.”<br> Sponsor: Our sponsor this week is of course, the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing">Novel Marketing Podcast Patron Page</a>! <br>
