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Future Best Seller
Future Best Seller
48 episodes
1 day ago
The podcast every author needs! It drives us bonkers that there isn’t a one-stop shop to keep up-to-date with everything going on in the writing industry. We’re asking a lot. It’s a big industry. Still… The Future Best Seller Podcast is solving that problem. We’ll keep you up-to-date with the industry, both trad and self-pub. We’ll talk to industry experts, fellow authors, & other creatives. We’ll share our favorite tools. And we’ll talk about financial independence for creatives. If you’re pursuing a career as an author, then come join us on the path to becoming a Future Best Seller!
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The podcast every author needs! It drives us bonkers that there isn’t a one-stop shop to keep up-to-date with everything going on in the writing industry. We’re asking a lot. It’s a big industry. Still… The Future Best Seller Podcast is solving that problem. We’ll keep you up-to-date with the industry, both trad and self-pub. We’ll talk to industry experts, fellow authors, & other creatives. We’ll share our favorite tools. And we’ll talk about financial independence for creatives. If you’re pursuing a career as an author, then come join us on the path to becoming a Future Best Seller!
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Future Best Seller
EP 48: Zombies Need Brains and so do we, Featuring Joshua Palmatier

Joshua Palmatier is an author, editor, and publisher. He is the founder and operator of Zombies Need Brains, a publisher who specializes in science fiction and fantasy themed anthologies, backed through Kickstarter. Zombies Needs Brains just announced their upcoming themes, and if the projects fund, they will have open calls!

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1 year ago
1 hour 15 minutes 5 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 47: I Want to Go on a Writer Retreat

News:

  • Audible announces a new royalty model
  • KDP announces hardbacks in UK
  • Penguin Random House to buy Boom! Studios
  • Macmillan to launch 23rd Street Books imprint
  • RBMedia to buy Dreamscape

Writing Tools

  • Writing Retreats - Both official and unofficial

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Lifestyle Deflation
  • Different types of conventions and the purpose for going
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1 year ago
1 hour 27 minutes 20 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 46: A Rogue Takes Over the Pod, Featuring THE Asia Lupo

World famous rogue, Asia Lupo, joins the pod this week to talk about song writing and all things creative! Asia is best known by her stage name, Azia, while performing with the bands, Music the Gathering & Sämäs.


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1 year ago
1 hour 22 minutes 47 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 45: Casting Our Pod Under Fire!

News:

  • Audibooks big-bada-boom
  • Camp NaNoWriMo
  • Barnes & Noble foot traffic
  • Romance Writers of America

AI News:

  • Speechify and Audiobooks, read by... YOU

Tools:

  • Publisher Rocket

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Eating healthy on a tight budget
  • Ads Rant - The thing no one told us about ads
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1 year ago
1 hour 14 minutes 43 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 44: YoU JuSt GoTTa WriTe! Featuring Shayne Easson

Old friend of the pod, Shayne Easson joins us this week to blather about all things writing. And fishing. Mostly writing, though.

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1 year ago
51 minutes

Future Best Seller
EP 43: We're Back!

We're back from hiatus and we have a lot to say! We're also just back from Soonercon and it was amazing as usual!

News:

  • Tolkien Memorial
  • 1632
  • Weltbild
  • Bookfunnel & Audiobooks
  • Inkers Con
  • Writer Beware Impersonation Scams
  • Kindle Dire Publishing warns of scams
  • The National Music Publishers Associate vs Spotify
  • KDP announces the Velleys
  • Authors vs Amazon

Writing Tools:

  • Bookfunnel

Creatives on F.I.R.E.

  • How is Phill's retirement going?
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1 year ago
58 minutes 5 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 42: Phill is F.I.R.E.'d

Celebration time! In this week's very special episode, we're celebrating Phill's transition from corporate jerk to full-time author, and getting into the nitty gritty on how Phill and J.H. have slowly grinded this pipe dream into a reality. It's episode 42, and it's about life, the universe, and everything.

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1 year ago
50 minutes 16 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 41: Do's and Dont's of Querying, Featuring Stacey Kondla

Literary agent Stacey Kondla joins the pod this week to talk about agenting, concerts, and parrots. On a related note, Phill might be part parrot. Stacey provides some great advice for anyone out there in the querying trenches.

News:

  • The Never-Ending Story will never end
  • Library fines paid in cat pics
  • Reading the newspaper is cool again?
  • The U.K. publishing sector

Tools:

  • The value of a robot voice reading your stories to you

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Do's and dont's of querying
  • What Phill has learned transitioning to a full time author


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1 year ago
1 hour 29 minutes 56 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 40: TikToking & Kickstarting Superstar, Featuring Paula Lafferty

Author Paula Lafferty joins the podcast this week and shares her success with finding an audience on TikTok and running an exceptional Kickstarter for her debut novel, La Vie de Guinevere.

And Phill has an exciting annoucement!

Paula's TikTok

La Vie de Guinevere Kickstarter

News:

  • Writer Beware warns about impersonation scams
  • Book clubs
  • TikTok and the fed
  • Spotify adding Countdown pages to audiobooks

AI News:

  • The Publishers Association pens a letter to the robot overlords

Writing Tools:

  • TikTok & Instagram - Building an audience
  • Kickstarter - Running a big ole campaign

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Putting our money where are mouths are
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1 year ago
1 hour 4 minutes 35 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 39:Beeeeeeef!!! Featuring, Nic Lishko

The book writing, podcasting, movie making, beefy moo man Nic Lishko joins the pod this week! Nic is the author of the Young Adult Fantasy series - John Little. He also a co-created of the award winning web series Long Walks on the Beach. And he hosts a podcast called Cinema Gush.

News:

  • Brandon Sanderson VS Audible
  • Dead Folk's Books
  • The Zon vs Bookwire

A.I. News:

  • More lawsuits!

Writing Tools:

  • Dictation

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Querying Agents
  • Do your taxes
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1 year ago
1 hour 20 minutes 27 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 38: Druid, Folk, and Noir, Featuring Olivia Harding

Musician, author, podcasters, and all around amazing artist Olivia Harding joins the show this week! You may know Olivia as Liv the Druid from the band, Music the Gathering, but she is also the host of the podcast Folk Files, where she dives into the history of famous folk songs. She is also a member of the band Gumshoe Noir, and recently took pen to paper to write a novel to their tunes.

Music the Gathering

Folk Files

Gumshoe Noir

News:

  • Kindle Vella changes
  • Books-A-Million rolls out same day delivery
  • Penguins unite!
  • According to Webster...

Tools:

  • Vellum & Atticus & the joys of formatting

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Cross branding
  • Debt
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1 year ago
1 hour 17 minutes 51 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 37: Thirty-five and Counting, Featuring R.L. King

R.L. King joins the pod this week to tell us about her Alastair Stone Chronicles. She also shares a wealth of knowledge about her process and why her nickname is rat.

News:

  • World Con is going to L.A.
  • Blocking pirate ships reduces pirates. Neat.
  • McAnime Nuggets
  • EC Comics

Tools:

  • Plottr
  • BookBrush

Creativies on F.I.R.E.:

  • Going wide vs going Zon
  • The dangers of life-style inflation


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1 year ago
1 hour 10 minutes 23 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 36: Chapter 0, Featuring Craig Martelle & Stanley

"You can always sell a good book." - Craig Martelle.

Craig Martelle joins the show this week to tell us what he's been working on and to drop some knowledge bombs. Whether you're pursuing the indie or trad path, you won't want to miss what Craig has to say.

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1 year ago
1 hour 2 minutes 44 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 35: Superstars Writing Seminar 2024

Phill & J.H. recap their time at Superstars. Spoiler alert: It was awesome.

News:

  • World Con Awards Drama Update
  • World Con Bids
  • Cormac McCarthy Valentine's Candy
  • Orbit Works

A.I. News:

  • King Charles A.I. books
  • The suit against the robot overlords is not going well for team Authors

Tools:

  • Book Funnel

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Submitting to publishers
  • Reducing expenses & value-based spending
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1 year ago
1 hour 2 minutes 58 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 34: Don't Do Creepy Stuff

News:

  • Don't Do Creepy Stuff
  • Simon & Schuster 100 years
  • Spotify Audiobooks blowing up!
  • Storyfair Partnering with Blackstone

Tools:

  • Health

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • Savings Rate
  • Realistic Expectations
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1 year ago
1 hour 15 minutes 55 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 33: Future Best Seller, Cyberpunk Edition, Featuring Chris Arnone

Author, poet, and actor, Chris M. Arnone joins the pod this week to celebrate the release of the latest book in Cyberpunk series, Necopolis Alpha.

News:

  • What up with all the World Con Hugo Drama?
  • Penguin Random House to sell and distribute Wattpad WEBTOON
  • Libro.fm & best selling authors donate profits to support independent booksellers
  • Publishers fire metaphorical cannons at pirates
  • New scam! Yay!

Writing Tools:

  • Chris shares his love of whiteboards and laser printers

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • The least you need to know about traditional publishing
  • Recap of the Trinity Study and a personal example from Phill on how it might not be as daunting as it seems
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1 year ago
1 hour 20 minutes 58 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 32: Taco Sauce & Spooky Stuffs, Featuring Becca Harris

Author, poet, and spooky stuff podcaster Becca Harris joined the pod this week to talk all things writing! And to help J.H. pick on Phill.

News:

  • SFWA has announced dates for the Nebulas
  • Holiday book sales soar
  • The Los Angeles Public Library becomes a publisher
  • Blackstone Unlimited

AI News:

  • Fairly Trained
  • Insight
  • Book Mimics

Tools:

  • Scrivener - but this time we air our dirty laundry

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • The Trinity Study
  • The indie path - the least you need to know
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1 year ago
1 hour 1 minute 46 seconds

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EP 31: The Episode Where J.H. reveals Phill's Secret, Featuring Sherry Peters

Award winning author and writing coach Sherry Peters joined us this week to fire off the first pod of the year! She tells us all about her Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf series, winning a Writers Digest award, what it was like living in Northern Ireland, what being a writing coach is all about, and more!


News:

  • Tor.com is changing its name to Reactor
  • Barnes & Noble to open more stores!
  • Library Audiobook lends up 23% last year!
  • January 1st was Public Domain day
  • What can authors learn from Wattpad's reader research?

A.I. News:

  • An A.I. novel won 2nd place in a competition in China
  • The New York Times has raised a suit agains OpenAI & Microsoft

Writer Tools:

  • ReMarkable

Creatives on Fire:

  • A 2nd path to achieving my dreams
  • The 2 paths - Trad or Indie
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1 year ago
1 hour 30 minutes 31 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 30: Setting Your Author Goals for Next Year

Pod favorite authors Julie Jones & Shayne Easson return this week for a deep conversation about setting goals, achieving goals, failing goals, and getting real with ourselves.


And from the Future Best Seller crew to you, we wish everyone Happy Holidays and the best of luck in the new year!


News:

  • Review Bomb Fail
  • Penguin Random House Acquires Hay House


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2 years ago
1 hour 15 minutes 50 seconds

Future Best Seller
EP 29: Our Robot Overlords' Favorite Author, Featuring William Ledbetter

Nebula winning author William Ledbetter joins us this week to celebrate the release of his latest novel, Level Seven in his Killday series. But that's not all he's celebrating. Bill also joins us to celebrate retiring early to write full-time!

A big congratulations to Bill from the Future Best Seller crew!

News:

  • How many people read books on their smart phones?
  • Oddest book title of the year?
  • Barnes & Nobles sunsets Nook Reading app for Windows
  • Bookwire's audiobook service, WAY, or We Audiobook You, goes to English, Brazilian, & Spanish Markets
  • Amazon sunsets Comixology app

AI News:

  • The Authors Guild's survey on generative A.I. **LINK**
  • How to identify A.I. books on Amazon Kindle Unlimited
  • The Association of American Authors submitted a 2nd round of comments to the U.S. Copyright office regarding A.I.

Tools:

  • Portable Monitors >> Link to the portable monitor Phill has and mentioned on the episode

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

  • We celebrate Bill's retirement from the day job!
  • Bill gives us a bit of his villain origin story and some advice about not giving up
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2 years ago
1 hour 11 minutes 45 seconds

Future Best Seller
The podcast every author needs! It drives us bonkers that there isn’t a one-stop shop to keep up-to-date with everything going on in the writing industry. We’re asking a lot. It’s a big industry. Still… The Future Best Seller Podcast is solving that problem. We’ll keep you up-to-date with the industry, both trad and self-pub. We’ll talk to industry experts, fellow authors, & other creatives. We’ll share our favorite tools. And we’ll talk about financial independence for creatives. If you’re pursuing a career as an author, then come join us on the path to becoming a Future Best Seller!