#The Stacks Podcast

[booksbydlwhite]

Bookcast Epi 83: Who do you write for, and are they reading your books?

Welcome back to the Bookcast, my platform for sharing short fiction and updates on what I'm reading and writing.

In this episode, I provide insights into my writing progress, current reads, author branding and the challenges of marketing while maintaining brand authenticity. I shared  book and podcast recommends, and wax on about the the Friends-to-Lovers romance  trope. I'm prepping for a  work trip, so I've outlined my plans for writing amidst a busy schedule and tease plot developments in my current novel.

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Listen to the show here (grab a transcript here!)

BOOK REPORT

READ - 6

The Way You Tempt Me (Pure Talent, #1) by Elle Wright

She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

Double Lives by Mary Monroe

Take It (On the Clock #1) by Shae Sanders

The Replacements: A Grumpy Boss Romance by Shae Sanders

Happy Hour Hoe (On the Clock #2) by Shae Sanders

READING -3

Invasion of Privacy by Imani Jay

Work Song by Danielle Allen

Some Kind of Love: Prelude by Elle Wright

PUT DOWN -0!

Recommended Listening:

Recommends: THE STACKS POD - Traci asks a question that absolutely blows my mind, to the point of not remembering what the answer was. “Who is your audience and are those the people reading your book?“ Is the best question I have ever heard in my life. The Stacks is my fave Wednesday and occasional Friday bonus epi listen… it’s pinned to the TOP of my podcast list so it always plays first. Give Traci a listen and join us in the Stacks Pack.

Ep. 314 Being Chesty with Andrew Boryga

Traci asked me why I love this question. My response- Authors (who aren't white) have the added hurdle of WANTING to write to a siloed audience but publishing wanting to be more broad and vast (read: white readers) which makes it hard to reach your target audience bc the marketing approach is different. Asking this q especially to a debut author gives us insight into whether they see what efforts their agent/publisher marketing dept are making toward their books, and is that at the expense of the people you're trying to reach? It's also about some of the conversations authors are having about book covers. Slapping those cute illustrated covers on a steamy romance or a lit fiction book works against us because cover branding is a promise to the reader. If I write a steamy romance but my cover looks like a funny romcom, am I reaching the audience that wants to read steamy romance? And if I hit romcom and get 2 star reviews for all the sex and profanity bc they didn't expect that, is it hurting me?

My second rec ties into my first and it was kismet that it played right after that episode. I listen to a long list of writing, author, publishing pods and one of my faves is the Wish I'd Known Then podcast. Authors Jami Albright and Sara Rosett interview self-published authors about how they found success as well as lessons they've learned. This week’s episode is on author branding and is worth a listen or two. I’m definitely going to run it back.

How to Find Your Author Brand - Wish I'd Known Then For Writers

Both episodes echo conversations that writers have been having about cover, about voice, about standing out but blending in. Both episodes are great and I highly recommend them!

WRITING UPDATE

My last reported word count was 63,523 words. Today I’m’ at 70,559 words. And I am not done. I’ll definitely have to cut some back, but I’m not worried about it yet. YET. Listen to today’s episode and stress out with me about it.

Thank you so much for joining me for today's chat! I truly enjoy having you here and welcome any comments or feedback at booksbydlwhite.com/bookcast. Don’t forget to share the podcast if you enjoyed this episode and if you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, give a girl a rating! I’d really appreciate it. Do not forget that you can support this podcast with your book purchases, by spreading the good word, or by throwing some coins in the hat at bookcast.buzzsprout.com. Every little bit helps.

I'll be back on Saturday April 20th. We’ll talk about how much writing I didn’t get done (LOL), and what books I got into whilst on my trip. Please enjoy this weekend, have a superlative week and we'll chat again soon. 

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[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[vernanonix]

If I had a nickel for every audio fiction podcast that started as an anthology before slowly weaving in an overarching narrative with heartfelt character growth, interactions, and maybe a little bit of gay as a treat… I’m not sure how many nickels I’d have but it’d be more than two.

[enkays-den]

making the prediction

impulsesv studio tour will be uploaded between 6-8am PST on Tuesday, just enough time to watch it before his stream

skizz and prim will be there

[amongthestackspodcast]

Thank you all for your votes! The results of the @audioverseawards finals are out and we’ve won 4 awards!

Congrats to Alasdair Stuart for Best Recurring Voice in a New Production; @reefsharkivist for Best Musical Direction in a New Production;

Congratulations also to @alexyquest for Best Direction in a New Production; and our entire Writing Team: Nigel McKeon, @penofsteele , Spectre, @alexyquest , Jesse Syratt, and @clansocreations for Best Writing in a New Production.

This wouldn’t be possible without your votes so thank you from the bottom of our hearts

So thank you for that! We’d also like to congratulate some of our fellow friends and winners, so congratulations to @re-dracula, @hellofromthehallowoods, @oldgodspod , @ameliapodcast, @ethicstownpod , and @ghostwaxpod !!

Absolutely well deserved

[boltsj]

Relistening to the Sicko Shock saga, and just finished episode 3 and my heart has been ripped out. Sobbing. Native Resolution was too pure for this world.

[keykidpilipili]

Malevolent and Kingdom Hearts are still letting it rip in my brain, sparking an AU in which 100 Acre Wood(Winnie the Pooh world in book format) swapped for John's book on the office's doorstep.

STARRING KH SIDE

Kayne bet against the Master of Masters to see if he can derail the 1000-yearish grand scheme with minimal intervention.

The Entity controls the legs and eye mouvement(aka the right and left joysticks)

Malevolent Entity attempts murder on a duck and gets dunked on by 5 people including two other squatters inside his host's already packed heart.

Kairi post COM accidentally enters in contact with the freaking King in Yellow writing and drawing pulling onto the memory of the Entity to recall Sora.

King in Yellow absolutely baffled by the number of false signals/humans smelling like his fragment. He knows his aura tends to leave a deep stain but also he really doesn't know how that Namine or Xion gal happened.

Roxas not even three hours old to Xemnas and the also newly born manipulative voice in his head: Lol no, bye.

Meanwhile in Arkham

Parker gets to panic over his bestie having been seeming eaten by a blank book and runs a little too fast into a fight to the death in a book store.

Arthur is yoinked out of his meeting characters from some of the stories he read to Faroe by the cultist ripping the pages realizing it was not the right book.

Now solo PI Lester who enjoyed his last break gets to fight the horrors over the pages who have flown off while investigating who murdered his bestie.

Characters tied to pages can manifest for short amounts of time like projections from the Book of Prophecies.

The King in Yellow still sends horrors Arthur's way because yeah having negative leads makes an entity of the dreamlands desperate.

Winnie and Friends miss Faroe despite having never met her the same Hayner, Pence and Olette miss Roxas who befriended their data copies.

[in-the-stacks]

Presenting Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen. Reviewed by Read Local for In the Stacks.

https://www.inthestacks.tv/2024/07/read-local-bad-men-by-julie-mae-cohen

[strongbranchpro]

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[hawkfurze]

Get lost in the Library where every story can be found! It's @amongthestackspodcast !!!

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[readingoals]

I've long been a fan of The Adventure Zone podcast, especially the first arc (Balance). I have a tattoo and everything. So of course, I had to read the graphic novel adaptation! I did fall a bit behind and never got round to reading the fifth volume, The Eleventh Hour, when it was published last year. So, this August, when the most recent volume, The Suffering Game, was released I took the chance to catch up.

These were both fantastic. I love the way they've been adapted. Eleventh Hour was my fave season of the podcast and I just adore what they did with it in the graphic novel. I think the time loop stuff was all incredibly well done.

The Suffering Game was maybe a little shorter than I'd expected, especially considering just how much stuff happens in that season, but I don't think anything especially important was lost during the adaptation. And I think they've done some very clever things with it that make me so excited for the next one.

[clansocreations]

So I'm writing for this amazing audiodrama podcast and guess what: we have a trailer out!! It's on Spotify!

If this sounds good to you, you can follow the show, or look up our twitter, where any further developments will be shared!

@amongstacks on Twitter.

This show is gonna be so awesome, you're gonna flipping love it #bestjobever

[amongthestackspodcast]

Did you know that Spotify has new podcast features?

Under the about tab, we can recommend a good place to start for any new listeners (we've recommended Tale)

And under More Like This we can recommend two other (not us) shows, so we recommend @strongbranchpro and @surceasepod