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:
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.
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 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.