🥳 200 Episodes! What We Learned + Trends that will Impact Authors in 2024 📈

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Episode 200 / We’re celebrating 200 episodes with a look back (what we learned in 2023) and a look forward to 2024 (trends that matter to authors).

We’re so happy to have such a warm community around the podcast! Thanks for listening and supporting us during the last four years.

Here’s to the next 200 episodes! 🥂

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Top Episodes in 2023:

1. How to Thrive in a Flooded Market: Discussing Becca Syme’s New Rules of Publishing
2. Angel Lawson on Learning to Use Tropes and Universal Fantasy
3. How to Use Tropes to Create Strong Characters and Deepen Conflict with Jennifer Hilt
4. How to Pace Your Novel with Ines Johnson
5. Olivia Hayle on Reader-Centric Books and Promotion

First episode released on Jan 15, 2020!

Top episodes (All Time):

1. Zoe York on Secret Pen Names, Iterating Your Goals, and Tik Tok for Authors
2. Holly Darling on the Power of an Email Welcome Sequence
3. Book Launch Plans: The Mega Episode (Reair)
4. Tammi Labrecque on What to Email to Newsletter Subscribers
5. What We Wish We’d Known About Creating Characters

Life Trends from Accenture: “trends that will give businesses a way to navigate change in the next 12 months and beyond.”

Trend discussed that impact authors:

-Customer service

-Branding

-Disengaging from tech

Link to article: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/song/accenture-life-trends

Link to Infographic:

https://www.accenture.com/content/dam/accenture/final/capabilities/song/communicate/imagery/LifeTrends24-Infographic.pdf

Year in Review Sell More Books Show episode:

https://www.sellmorebooksshow.com/episode-507-self-publishing-2023-the-year-in-review-with-becca-syme/

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