SPS 201: What I Learned Publishing 50 Fiction Novels In 22 Years with Tim Waggoner

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

Chandler Bolt, Founder of selfpublishing.com

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

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Join me and Tim Waggoner, a successful fiction author with 50+ books under his belt, in this episode as we discuss the secrets to writing a novel. In this episode, we cover a wide range of topics, including: Tim's journey from writing his first book at 19 to publishing his first book at 36, and the lessons he learned along the wayThe importance of finding your writing process, whether you're a plotter or a pantserWhat media tie-in books are, and how to get involved in this type of writingTips...

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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 Selfpublishing.com.
0:29.1	For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies, go to selfpublishing.com
0:34.5	forward slash free training.
0:44.4	Hey, Chairman Bolt here and joining me today is Tim Wagner.
0:51.4	Tim's first novel came out in 2001 and he's published close to, get this, 50 novels and seven collections of short stories since. He writes original fantasy and horror as well as
0:57.9	media tie-ins. His novels include Like Death, which is considered a modern classic in the genre,
1:04.5	and the popular Necropolis series of urban fantasy novels. He's also written tie-in fiction, which we're going to talk
1:12.4	a little bit about that for supernatural, alien, grim, the X-Files, Doctor Who, and a nightmare
1:19.2	on Elm Street, transformers, among others. Today we're going to be talking, I mean, obviously
1:26.2	all things fiction. so a lot of things
1:28.9	about writing habits writing practice what writing in the dark what is it what does it mean we're
1:35.2	to talk about fiction marketing tie ins tie in books what are they there's a lot of things for us to
1:41.4	cover so tim welcome great to have you here.
1:45.3	Glad to be here.
1:46.1	Thanks for having me.
1:48.5	Yeah, so I guess, let's start with this.
1:49.2	Why books?
1:52.7	Why are you so passionate about writing great fiction?
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