Season 1 of the Process of Publishing Occasional Podcast

How to create a podcast

How do you create and distribute a podcast? Podcasting is a new form of publishing, but how do you go about doing it, practically-speaking? What are the main considerations? What’s the difference between hosting and distribution and what should you think about before you start? Listen to find out.

You’ll find a transcript of this podcast – turned into a blog post – here. I’ve added some links to other guides to podcasting, including popular ones from the Creative Penn and BuzzSprout. There’s a ‘how to video’ version of this content here, which enables you to see the websites I’m talking about as you listen. Opens in YouTube.

How to deal with rejection

In this podcast episode, I give you some tips for dealing with rejection.

 

Here is the original blog post I used to create this podcast, which forms the transcript.

Here are some of the resources I mention in the podcast:

Aim for 100 rejections a year

What 100 Rejections Taught Me

The Most Rejected Books of All Time

An article by Beth Miller on the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook website

The Science of Submission‘ by Keysha Whitaker. Article in The Writer, Sept 2016. Behind a paywall.

Being a Writer Podcast Ep.1, from The Literary Consultancy. Dealing with Rejection with Catherine Cho and Nelima Begum. Behind a paywall.

We Regret to Inform You podcast series, investigating famous rejections.

The Write Off podcast

How to self publish

This podcast is based on part of the chapter on how to get published from my self-published book on novel writing. You can download the relevant chapter by clicking the link below:

How to get published: an extract from my self published book How to Write a Novel and Get It Published.

How to pitch nonfiction

In this podcast, I give you an overview of pitching nonfiction plus some practical steps you can take and I look at how pitching nonfiction is different to pitching fiction. I have turned the transcript into a blog post, which you can find here. I’ve included a PDF download on how to use the subheadings method as a nonfiction writer.