Episode 84: So You Want to Write a Book? Self-Publishing 101 with My Brother, Mike Alwill
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Cara Alwill
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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If you've ever dreamed of self-publishing your own book but have NO idea where to begin, then you are going to find so much value in this episode. Meet my brother, Mike! Mike is an author, editor and self-publishing concierge. He shares his personal story about how he made his own writing dreams come true after leaving his corporate career at Google, and he now writes novels for a living and helps others get their books out there. Tune into our chat and get some tips and learn more about his insight and services, which include cover design, book layout, editing, helping you navigate the wild world of Amazon, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Style Your Mind, a podcast for women who want to design their thoughts, empower themselves, and build a beautiful life. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host, Kara Al-Waleba, best-selling author and master life coach. |
| 0:13.8 | I am obsessed with women on the edge of change, and I've worked with hundreds of those women all around the world to help them unlock the best |
| 0:21.5 | version of themselves and fulfill their potential. If you're ready to style your minds and transform |
| 0:27.2 | your life, then you're in the right place. Let's do this. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi guys and welcome back to the show. I'm really excited to bring you this episode today. |
| 0:40.3 | I am interviewing my brother, Michael Allwell, writer and editor and all around... |
| 0:46.3 | All-something. All around something. All around, insert good word here. |
| 0:50.3 | We were trying to think of like a third cool thing to call him and we couldn't come up with anything. |
| 0:55.4 | But easier. That's a sign of a good writer actually when you can't do that. Yeah. It's so easier. I'm excited to have him on the show today. He has written a couple of books. He is an editor. He is a designer. He is a self-publishing concierge. You guys ask me all the time for advice on self-publishing, on writing, on getting a book out there. |
| 0:55.1 | So I thought, who better to have on the show? self-publishing concierge. You guys ask me all the time for advice on self-publishing, on writing, |
| 1:30.1 | on getting a book out there. So I thought, who better is to have on the show than somebody who does this for a living? So welcome, Mike. Thank you. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. Yeah. So let's dive into it. I feel like the best way to kind of talk about what you do is by sharing your story. So I would love you to kind of tell the audience about what you do. |
| 1:32.8 | I know you just wrote your first full-length fiction novel. |
| 1:34.3 | That's true. I did. |
| 1:38.1 | I've got my first fiction novel under my belt now. |
| 1:42.3 | It's not out just yet, but it will be shortly. |
| 1:43.8 | Don't want to overpromise on anything. We just talked about how you can never say an actual date, something's going to come out |
| 1:48.3 | because then you will absolutely miss the date. |
| 1:50.3 | It will come out before humanity is eradicated. |
| 1:53.2 | Before the end of the world. |
| 1:54.1 | That's pretty good timing, I think. |
| 1:57.3 | Yeah, I know. |
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