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All Episodes

Pen to Paycheck Authors — 111 episodes

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Title
1

How We Challenge Quitting

2

How Q2 Has Changed Everything

3

How to Reach Readers Without Ads

4

How SPS Live 2026 Helped Us

5

How Our Mastermind Really Works

6

How Best to Learn from Business Books

7

How Collaboration Creates Success

8

How Rewriting Books Changes Careers

9

How Good Books Go Bad

10

How Working Together Means Working Better

11

How to Take Your Writing to the Next Level

12

How To Build Author Communities

13

How We’re Planning Launches

14

How Seville’s Indie Conference Changed Us

15

How We’ll Get Bigger and Better

16

How We’ve Grown in Q1

17

How Ireland’s Indie Conference Changed Us

18

How We Face Challenges

19

How We Plan Long Term

20

How New Ad Strategies Are Working for Us

21

How Working Together is the Secret to Success

22

How to Relaunch a Series

23

How to Plan for the Long and Short Term

24

How to Build Reader Connections

25

How To Build Author Connections

26

How We Finally Fixed Our Mindsets

27

How We Set Money Goals

28

What Crises We Plan For

29

What We Did In Q4

30

What Challenges Set up Success

31

What Our Act Three Will Be

32

What We've Learned From 100 Episodes

33

What Market Research We Do and How

34

What Craft Improvements Are For

35

What Successful New Series Look Like

36

What Translating Really Takes

37

What Makes Successful Year Plans

38

What Strategies Lead to Success

39

What Tactics Make Money

40

What Future Proofing We’re Doing with GEO

41

What We Achieved in Q3

42

What Challenges We Face

43

What Retreats Do For Writers

44

What Authors Need to Quit

45

What It Means to Launch Big on a Small Scale

46

What Our Secret Guest Reveals

47

What Writing Routines We Need

48

What We AREN'T Doing

49

What Our Launches Look Like

50

What Makes A Great Series

51

What Our Newsletters And Websites Do

52

What Formats Mean Money

53

What Improves Readthrough

54

What Strengths Lead to Success

55

What We Learned at SPS Live

56

What We Achieved in Q2

57

What Defeats Author Challenges

58

What Mends Mindsets

59

What Makes Social Posts Easy

60

What Mindset Issues Hold Us Back

61

What To Do Between Launches

62

What Retains Our Readers

63

What Resources Authors Need

64

What We Use Social Media For

65

What Hooks MY Readers

66

What We Do That AI Can't

67

What Audacious Authors Do

68

What We Achieved In Q1

69

What We Challenge Ourselves To Do

70

What Switching Genres Shows Us

71

What Authenticity Does For Branding

72

What Sources of Money We Tap

73

What Keeps Production Schedules Rolling

74

What Post Launch Marketing Is and Isn't

75

What Opportunities Money Brings

76

What Self Publishers Should Do on a Shoe String

77

What Money Mindset Means For Budgets

78

What Financial Plans Should Look Like

79

What A Real Life Act Two Means

80

When We Review 2024

81

When Debt Doubts are Discussed

82

ENCORE: When Butter Makes Things Better

83

When We Find The Secret To Luck

84

When We Hack Our Author Hang Ups

85

When We Spy Other Authors

86

When We Read Our Reviews

87

When We Dig Into Ads Strategies

88

When We Get Results

89

When We Suck at Selling Ourselves

90

When We Put Our Money Where Our Mouths Are

91

When We Uncover Our Obstacles

92

When We Research Resistance

93

When Actions Can't Be Excused

94

When Schedules Are Strengthened

95

When Q3 Is Reviewed

96

When Income Isn't Coming

97

When Social Media Means Fun

98

When Launches Look Easy

99

When Production Plans Pivot

100

When We Need Other Authors

101

When Cowriting is King

102

When We Hire Professionals

103

When Secrets Are Shared

104

When We Try But Don’t Succeed

105

When Day Jobs Teach Us Tricks

106

When Q2 is Reviewed

107

When We Wish We Had...

108

When Setbacks Need Solutions

109

When Finances are Frightening

110

When Routines Become the Dream

111

When Processes are Practised