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Self Publishing School: How To Write A Book That Grows Your Impact, Income, And Business

SPS 077: From Writing In Prison To 4x New York Times Bestseller & 1M Copies Sold with Wahida Clark (How To Create Raving Fans With Your Fiction Series)

Self Publishing School: How To Write A Book That Grows Your Impact, Income, And Business

Chandler Bolt, Founder of selfpublishing.com

Education, Book Publishing, Traditional Publishing, How To Write A Book, How To Publish A Book, Self Publishing, Books, Business, Courses, Arts, Book Marketing

4.8704 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Join me in this captivating episode featuring Wahida Clark, a renowned New York Times Best Seller and author of numerous captivating books. Wahida's incredible journey from a prison library to becoming a bestselling author is nothing short of inspiring. During our conversation, Wahida shares her story of discovering her passion for writing while serving time in a federal prison in Kentucky. Despite the absence of computers, Wahida diligently hand-wrote her book on yellow legal paper, captivat...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an

0:07.7

aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to

0:13.1

write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you

0:17.8

who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder

0:22.0

of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of

0:27.5

Selfpublishing.com. For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies,

0:32.5

go to self-publishing.com forward slash free training.

0:41.9

Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me is Wahita Clark.

0:48.8

Wahita is a four times New York Times bestselling author. She's been working with us at self-publishing school. She's written over a dozen books and her novels include the wildly popular Thug series. She's got an

0:57.1

amazing story. She started writing while in prison, which we're going to talk about, which I think is just

1:01.1

unbelievable, so cool. She does amazing work in this space. She's created successful fiction series,

1:08.9

raving fans, so we're going to be talking about that. So how do you create raving fans in a series?

1:13.6

And how do you get to New York Times four times?

1:16.6

So Wahito, welcome.

1:17.6

Super excited to have you here.

1:19.6

Thank you for having me, Chattler.

1:23.6

Thank you for doing what you do.

1:25.6

If you look back there on the shelf, I have two copies of published back there.

1:30.6

Yeah.

1:32.5

That's awesome.

1:34.2

Hey, so let's just dive straight in.

1:35.9

Like, why did you decide to write your first book and walk us through your story?

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