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YouTube For Authors And Multiple Streams Of Income With Meg LaTorre
How can you use video to attract readers to your books — and create multiple streams of income? Meg La Torre gives some tips for video marketing.
In the intro, ACX emails the community apologizing for an incredibly slow production process; but doesn't address the serious issue of returns [Susan May Writer]; ALLi revokes ACX as a recommended self-publishing service; Level up your author business [ALLi]; and Tree of Life, ARKANE 11, is in the final stages of production. Out 9 Dec 2020.
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Meg LaTorre is a bestselling science fiction and fantasy author, YouTuber at iWriterly, speaker, and a blogger. She previously worked at a literary agency and has a background in magazine publishing, medical and technical writing, and journalism. Her latest book is The Cyborg Tinkerer.
You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript below.
Show Notes
* Thoughts on publishing options and what authors get wrong when pitching agents
* The difference between AuthorTubers and BookTubers
* What works, and doesn’t work, when selling books on YouTube
* What kind of personality suits video marketing
* Tips for YouTube video titles and graphics
* Why consistency matters for feeding the YouTube algorithms
* How YouTube can add to an author’s multiple streams of income
You can find Meg LaTorre at iWriterly.com and on YouTube.com/iwriterly and on Twitter @MegLaTorre
Transcript of Interview with Meg LaTorre
Joanna: Meg LaTorre is a bestselling science fiction and fantasy author, YouTuber at iWriterly, speaker, and a blogger. She previously worked at a literary agency and has a background in magazine publishing, medical and technical writing, and journalism. Her latest book is The Cyborg Tinkerer. Welcome, Meg.
Meg: Hi. Thank you so much for having me.
Joanna: It's great to have you on the show.
Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing?
Meg: Like a lot of people, I've been writing since I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to write books, but I didn't actively start writing books until probably about 10 years ago. After I'd been working in corporate for a few years as a journalist and technical writer a...