Hello dear Patrons!
Kate here. Two of Tao's audiobooks have (finally) appeared on Audible. Please check your messages and reply whether you need UK or US codes!
I want to give you codes...
2020-05-02 14:49:26 +0000 UTC View PostHar.
So, I've been a little lazy, a little sick and a little too creative. And because of that, instead of doing around 3k a day which is what I figured I'd be doing, I've been running around...
2020-04-30 03:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostProduct is what you're selling. Without a product, you have nothing. Without a product, whether it's a course, a non-fiction book, your Youtube channel or a paperback, there's nothing to say. ...
2020-04-29 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostA while ago, I wrote a self-depreciating post about my business posts, about how you should take eve...
2020-04-23 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe idea behind product lifecycle management is that each product - in our case, we can look at it as either a book, a series or a genre - has distinct phases.
The Product Life ...
2020-04-22 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'm already beginning to regret a little bit about offering to play publisher. *sighs* As I think of the work involved.
No worries about my writing getting affected (that will get priotised a...
2020-04-22 03:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Kate here. I wanted to ask your opinions regarding future chapter updates - and when I adjust earlier chapters to lower tiers access.
I did a little experiment today: when I adju...
2020-04-18 11:45:26 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, reminder - read the previous Marketing Plan : Pricing article first before you read this one. There's a lot of data there, and while I have another post I wanted to do (not marketing plan bas...
2020-04-16 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys;
Welcome to the Patron. Thank you for sticking around and supporting me, even when things are tough as I know it is for many. We're releasing chapters from Stars Asunder right now.&nb...
2020-04-14 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello Everyone,
Kate here again. Let's celebrate the upcoming holidays with some freshly generated codes!
The audiobook is The System Apocalypse short story anthology, like last time. C...
2020-04-11 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostOr something like that. Kate here.
I think Tao has already mentioned that he has a few short stories from his early years as a writer. Now he dusted them off, polished them and asked me to sh...
2020-04-10 14:31:45 +0000 UTC View PostSo, we talked about KPIs earlier (key performance index); but I just had a conversation about what kind of data to track. I thought I'd mention a few things that happens when one ends up in the dig...
2020-04-08 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLeft a writing update on the website. Feel free to ask questions there or here.
2020-04-07 23:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Kate here.
I wanted to let you know now we're back to normal schedule with the chapters. Updates will be on Tuesday & Saturday, as usual.
Right now these cha...
2020-04-04 15:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostPhew, that was a long title! Kate here.
Tao left me with a mission: find people who would like to listen to the short story audiobook - and then give them an audible code so they could get it...
2020-04-02 13:29:55 +0000 UTC View PostLet's tackle the one we all like talking about first.
Pricing.
How much should you price your book at? What's the best price?
I. Don't. Know.
It really depends on y...
2020-04-01 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHaven't had time to go into a lot of details about writing business posts, so I figured I'd use this to provide people data points for use. In particular.
I recently ran a UK Bookb...
2020-04-01 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, there's really not much more to say than that. Woot!
Time to see how we do.
Covid 19 has hammered the world. Like, seriously, just put entire economies to a stop, put at least 20% of people out of work. Taken lives and forced a LOT of people to risk their lives, sometimes ...
2020-03-30 18:12:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Kate here.
Tao has asked you earlier about his dilemma of posting chapters on schedule but using a rough version, because the dictating software is still learning OR wait a little unti...
2020-03-26 14:08:19 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, this is what I call my 10% rule.
Take your budget (marketing, production, whatever). Split off 10% of it.
That's now your 'fun project' budget.
Why? 2020-03-25 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys. Tao here.
So, I'm currently working on Chapter 7 of the book. However, to save my hands, I've been switching between typing and dictating. The dictation software is having issues sin...
2020-03-20 18:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello Everyone,
Kate here. I help Tao with his Patreon page.
I wanted to give you an update, since Master class and above have already reached the end of The First War.
So what's ...
2020-03-19 16:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostInterrupting the usual posts about building a marketing strategy and random other business side posts to discuss the Coronavirus. It's 3/18 when I'm writing this. At this time, Canada's restricting...
2020-03-18 18:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, in our previous post, we talked about Marketing Plan Development and you did Goals and the Environmental Analysis.
Next step - putting it together.
Using the Info...
2020-03-11 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI know there's a few people wanting to know about / write for it / read the next SA Anthology.
I'd love to do it, but there's an issue.
The Short Story Anthology 1 is still running at a...
2020-03-10 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostA while ago (December) I heard from another author who updated his website with the Brave website token information to make it more ...
2020-03-09 15:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm on the start of chapter 3 of Stars Asunder.
It's about 10k in. Giant chapters.
Haven't written much in the last few days since I'm getting settled after my long trip and catch...
2020-03-07 18:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostBuilding a marketing plan is a big, involved process. It's more complicated than most people think, and really, I'm sure I'm going to miss or lose aspects here since I'm going to try to simplify it...
2020-03-04 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAlright guys, you might have read my post about the anthology workshop. Of the six stories I wrote, 4 of them are currently spoken for. I want to rework the other short a bit and maybe see if I can...
2020-02-27 05:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post