Publishing Rebel Podcast

Roan Parrish is a romance author and she shares how she became an author by accident as well as her thoughts on the romance genre

Diana Xarissa is an author of over 100 mystery, romance and thriller books. Diana started writing in 2013 and hasn't looked back. She writes across 3 pen names. Diana shared her journey on how she's achieved such massive output.

Connie di Marco is the author of the Zodiac Mysteries from Suspense Publishing, featuring San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti who never thought murder would be part of her practice. 

Emma Tallon is a British author of gripping, gritty, organised crime thrillers.

Having worked as a freelance ghostwriter for several years, Emma decided to take the professional leap after the birth of her son and finished the first full novel of her own. 

Emma shared her journey of going from ghostwriter to being traditionally published.

Salem Cross is an avid writer and reader of Paranormal Romance. When she is not reading or writing Salem finds enjoyment in woodworking and traveling the world. Salem shared her author journey and her approach to growing on TikTok.

Ashley is an Amazon Top 50 bestselling romance author who best known for her small town, second chance romances. Ashley touched on protecting the writing process and finding an author group.

R.J. Vickers is the bestselling author of the Underground Academy young adult fantasy series, the Forbidden Queen epic fantasy series, and several other standalone fantasy novels set in the world of the Kinship Thrones. Rebecca shares her journey of building an author career with patience and persistence.

Onley James is the pen name of YA author, Martina McAtee who lives in Central Florida. She splits her time between writing YA LGBT paranormal romances and penning adult m/m romance. Onley shares her journey of building 5-figure per month author brand and building multiple income streams from her author career.

Sade Rena is a USA Today Bestselling Author of Contemporary and Multicultural Romance.A lover of all things romance, Sade enjoys spinning tales that are angsty, emotional, and sexy. In today's podcast, Sade shares her tips on using newsletter swaps to build her readership and what she does when launching a book.

Amy Shannon is an author, editor, proofreader, book reviewer, podcast co-host and more. She published her first book in 2005 and have published 90+ since. Amy shares her thoughts on the creative process of writing and gave some tips on dictation.

Sedona Ashe is the exciting new voice in paranormal shifter romance and epic urban fantasy. Hailing from a small town in Tennessee, near the Great Smoky Mountains, Sedona enjoys reading and writing stories filled with powerful paranormal females and sexy supernatural shifter men. She has published 9 books and plans to keep on going. She shared how she uses Facebook groups to connect with her readers and how you can too.

Tom Dell’Aringa, is an American Science Fiction writer and graphic novelist. He shares how he switched from graphic novels into writing full length novels and give tips on how to get into the graphic novel genre.

Victor Vahl is the pen name of Victor Torres: a writer, designer, and published author.  He wrote a novel, so that‘s a pretty solid credential for a start. Victor shares his journey of writing and publishing during a period in his life when he was sick and what he does now to connect with readers.

Lila Grey is a romance author who dabbles in dark romance. She started publishing in 2020 and has published 12 books since. Lila Grey advice on getting into a genre & her release strategy. 

Kate Callaghan is an Author of young adult dark fantasy. She is currently branching out into adult dark fantasy romance. Kate shares her tips on getting started on TikTok even if you don't want to "dance".

Charlie Cochrane is a historical and mystery author. Her favourite genre is gay fiction, sometimes historical (sometimes hysterical) and usually with a mystery thrown into the mix. She’s a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Mystery People, and International Thriller Writers Inc. She drops some insights into her writing journey.

Lisa Kessler is a Best Selling author of dark paranormal fiction. She’s a two-time San Diego Book Award winner for Best Published Fantasy-Sci-fi-Horror and Best Published Romance. She shares her journey from fan fiction writer to published author and how using short stories can help you grow.

William F Brown is an author of 16 books. He writes mostly suspense novels. He shares his journey from trad published to self published, navigating book translations and wide vs KU. 

Bella Matthews is a romance author with 7 published books. Bella started her journey in November of 2020 and hasn't looked back since. Listen to Bella talk about her journey to authorship, how she broke out into self publishing and her tips for starting your career off strong with community.

John Nuckel is a historical fiction author. John shared his experience with how he got into the historical genre and his inspiration for his novels. 

Elizabeth Lyvers published her first book back in 2020. She writes in the thriller genre. She shares how to juggle writing and taking care of a newborn. Her tips and experience is helpful for anyone who struggles to find the time to write. 

Terry Persun is a multiple award winning author. He writes across multipe genres including fantasy and paranormal, sci-fi and mystery and suspense. He shares his experience as an author who's been writing for 50+ years. He talks about his rolling writing process and gives great advice on how to approach your writing career.

Tamsyn Bester is an International Bestselling Author. She writes sugar and spice and all things nice. She shared her road to becoming an International Bestselling Author, the ups the downs and how she overcame a scandal in the midst of that. She also shared her own tips for authors who are on the road to a thriving author career.

Zelda Knight is a USA Today bestselling author and award-winning editor. She writes diverse steamy and erotic sci-fi and fantasy romance for all orientations. She spent a few minutes sharing her journey. We touched on why you should emmerse yourself in your author community before publishing, getting the support of other authors, finding a platform that gets you engagement or discoverability and so much more.

I had another topic planned for together but I'm too much of a rebel ;). Anyway, I wanted to mention 5 things you could be doing that's preventing you from achieving your author goals. 

I had a lovely chat with Mary Karlik to kick off the Rebel Author Stories series. She is the author of 7 books and plans to keep going. Mary shared her author journey with us and at the end she hit me with a truth bomb that I think you'll find motivating.

When I learned these 5 shifts, it changed everything for me and I want to share it so it hopefully changes things for you too.

Wayne Stinnett has been self publishing since 2013 and has amassed great success with over 20 books and over 7 figures in sales. Learn what he did in his journey.

There are a few branding mistakes that you might be makign and it's stifling your author growth. 

Podcast episodes have been moved to Fridays. 

There is no success without clarity. But how do you actually get clarity? Let's talk about the 3 steps to getting the level of clarity that creates your success.

Your biggest problem isn't that you aren't getting sales. Let's talk about the real problem and how to fix it.

Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter launch taught me 10 lessons and I want to share them with you.

There are 3 main steps to creating a loyal reader base. They are listbuilding, list retention and list loyalty. In this episode I walk you through each step of the process so you know how you can create a loyal reader base of your own.

After episode #2 (The Two Lists You MUST Have & Why), I got quite a few questions about using test messaging. In this episode, I answer your questions.

Discover the two lists you should have as an author and why they are so important and beneficial to your author career.

Find out what to expect with the Publishing Rebel Podcast.