25 - Early and surprising lessons from self-publishing my book

About this episode

Zoe shares her experiences and lessons learned as a newly self-published exophonic author.

Send a text Hi, exophonics! ✨ Let me share with you all that I'm learning as a newly self-published exophonic author. We'll talk about: why your friends may not read your bookstocking your book in real-life bookstores and librarieswhere is a good place to promote your indie-publish book.Plus, if you stick until the very end I'll tell you one surprising marketing technique I'm deploying 🙃 In the episode, I mentioned Creative Pep talk Podcast (which is pretty famous), but just in ca...

People in this episode

Host: Zoe Gomez Cass

Topics covered

• self-publishing
• marketing
• book promotion
• indie authors
• lessons learned

Keywords

• self-publishing
• book marketing
• indie publishing
• book promotion
• exophonic author

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Creative Pep talk Podcast

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