Metadata is hugely, hugely important for your book, because metadata is not only is it telling readers what your book is about — how to classify it — but maybe even more importantly than that, it's telling book buyers and librarians where your book goes in their bookstore or library, which, of course, is important to you, if you plan to sell your book in those places.
So what do we mean by metadata? What kind of data about data are we talking about? This is going to be a sampling of things that are included in metadata.
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Keeping up your writing momentum during a busy time can seem daunting. But with these easy steps, it is possible! Tune in to hear how from Jodi.
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Jodi is sharing the following three tips to ensure that you can make it happen in the coming year for you:
Tip #1: prepare well.
Tip #2: building out your calendar.
Tip #3: plan for the long term.
Listen in below or wherever you listen to podcast as Jodi expounds on these three tips!
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Throughout this Write.Publish.Market episode, Jodi discusses the two schools of thought on when to share the release date (before the book is written or after).
Her most important tip? Well, you’ll need to listen to the episode for that!
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Jodi shares different ways you can plug your book into your overall business plan. It could be the top level part of your funnel, part of a bigger course, or the end part of your funnel. Check out this episode for tips of how you can fit your book into your business plan.
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One thing you will encounter often during your book writing and publishing process is a contract, and probably more than one. In this Write.Publish.Market. podcast, Jodi is walking you through all the different types of contracts you’ll encounter and what boilerplate language to be on the look out for.
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There are two key points when it comes to book research that Jodi advises her one-on-one book coaching clients so that they don't get tripped up.
Remember you’re the expert
You want the research to support your points, not the other way around.
Tune in as Jodi dives into these two key points. She also gets into some of the actual how-to, tactical pieces of the research element.
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Jodi is interviewing one of her very favorite people, and very favorite publishing colleagues: Alexa Bigwarfe. Alexa is a USA Today best-selling author, speaker, and publishing partner. They are talking about book marketing and book launching and how that plays into other parts of your business marketing plan.
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Jodi shares that this means parts of your book that can be licensed to someone else and how they profit from it (this includes movie rights, new cover art, excerpts, and maybe even ebooks and audiobooks).
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A question that is discussed often, especially in today’s author-entrepreneur world, is how much of yourself should you include in your book? And Jodi is sharing her thoughts on this topic in this episode!
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On this episode of the Write.Publish.Market podcast Jodi is talking about your book’s secondary audiences.
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On this episode of the Write.Publish.Market podcast, Jodi is talking about something that’s becoming more and more popular in the author-entrepreneur world: how to use client stories and interviews (podcasts specifically) in your book.
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When Jodi is talking about backmatter, she is talking about things at the back of the book. That’s how backmatter got its name — not too complex of a concept there. We’re talking about all of those things that follow after the text itself. Your backmatter might include indexes, appendices, endnotes, a bibliography, additional resources for your readers. Now, your book might have some of these. Your book might not have some, or you might have a combination of these things.
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Today Jodi is talking about your book frontmatter. What that is frontmatter? Frontmatter is pretty commonplace terminology today. And it's basically everything before the main body of the text.
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Today’s episode of the Write.Publish.Market Podcast is going to be a little bit different than what you’re used to, if you are a regular listener. Instead of digging in deep to one aspect of the book writing/book publishing/book marketing world, Jodi going to peel back the curtain a little bit on the Author-Entrepreneurs Lab, her mentorship-membership program for business owners who want to write a book to serve their business.
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