Summary: <p><strong>#Authors #Books #SelfPublishing #SerializedDrama #StoryTelling</strong></p> <p>Marketing, building a platform as a writer… There’s more to being a novelist than simply writing. Many successful authors started out serializing chapters in newspapers and blogs. What are your thoughts on selling books?</p> <p>Got questions, thoughts, and/or experiences to share about writing and publishing? Record them on my Anchor by Spotify page — or comment at HappinessBetweenTails.com — or email me — or <a href="//buymeacoffee.com/SupportHBT" target="_blank">support me</a> at buymeacoffee.com/SupportHBT</p> <p><strong>Time Stamps (list of segments):</strong></p> <ul> <li>HBT introduction</li> <li>Some of my findings on authors who start by serializing their books and a little about today’s guest 1:05</li> <li>Charles Sterling on Marketing and Author Platform 4:45</li> <li>My question for you 12:20</li> <li>HBT outro</li> </ul> <p><strong>Photos available at the blog version of this show:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Charles’ self-portraits</li> </ul> <p><strong>Links referred to in this episode:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://wp.me/p6OZAy-1eHg" target="_blank">Happiness Between original blog post for this episode.</a></li> <li> <a href="//charlesimagines.com" target="_blank">Author Charles Sterling</a>, this episode’s guest.</li> <li><a href="https://happinessbetweentails.com/about/5767-2/" target="_blank">About the novels I'm writing.</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time" target="_blank">Wikipedia on madeleines that writer Marcel Proust used as analyze memory.</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens" target="_blank">Wikipedia on Charles Dickens who serialized.</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Jones%27s_Diary" target="_blank">Wikipedia on Helen Fielding' and her orignially serialized, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_City" target="_blank">Wikipedia on Armistead Maupin and his newspaper serialized “Tales of the City”.</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.eljamesauthor.com/blog/" target="_blank">E. L. James, began her “Fifty Shades of Grey” as a blog.</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Powell" target="_blank">Julie Powell blogged “Julie and Julia” into a book, then movie.</a></li> </ul> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/depe9/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/depe9/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/depe9/support</a>
