In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about using the book promotion site Bargain Booksy to promote your book when it's at a promotional price under $5. Here's some of the topics covered in the show:
Bargain Booksy Nonfiction Genres
The Emotional Resistance to Reducing your Book Price
Bargain Booksy Pricing Strategy
Amazon Countdown Deals
Amazon Regional Pricing
Amazon Reviews

Bargain Booksy has lots of benefits. It's low cost, and it's one of the best book promotion sites for nonfiction authors with only a few (or no) reviews or star ratings for their books. If you're looking for an entry-level book marketing activity, this is one to cut your teeth on.
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com
 

Ep#44: Promote your Nonfiction Book with Bargain Booksy

In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about the different decisions needed to narrow done the content scope of a Travel Guide. Even though she's published multiple guides, she still use the concepts and strategies she shared in Book 1 of "How To Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide" series. 
Are you writing a traditional Travel Guide or Travel Narrative?
Would a Hybrid guide work for your content? 
How to use Theme and Angle to define your content scope. 

In order to stand out in the travel guide market place, your book has to appeal to a specific audience niche in order to get noticed. As Jay walks you through the evaluation of her Cambodia Travel Guide, it'll help you assess the decisions you need to make about your own travel guide.
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Ep#43: How to Narrow the Scope of your Travel Guide

In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about the benefits to taking part in blog commenting threads, and which Facebook Groups host quality reciprocation events. 
Using Comments to Grow your Blogger Community.  
Run a Mile from Spam Comments.  
SEO Benefits - Referral Traffic.  
SEO Benefits - Reducing Bounce Rate.  
Getting Social Proof from Blog Comments. 
Prompts for generating blog commenting ideas. 
4 Facebook groups that host weekly blog commenting events. 

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Ep#42: Why Travel Bloggers need to Leave Blog Comments

In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about how she improves the readability of her books by using just one of the self-editing reports in ProWriting Aid.
Explore Professional Editing Options. 
Overview of Structural, Line and Copy Edits. 
Self-Editing by Listening to your Content. 
Self-Editing in ProWriting Aid to eliminate Complex Sentences.    

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Ep#41: How to Improve your Book's Readability with Self-Editing

In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale continues the discussion about fast drafting. This technique helps you streamline your note taking activities when you're traveling, so that you can spend more time exploring and less time writing. In this episode we look at what to fast draft.
Capturing a sense of place. 
Moving from thinking too feeling. 
Focusing on the right details. 
Choosing the right words. 
Using your five senses. (you should also listen to episode #25 where we went into more detail about using your sense of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste to improve your travel writing). 

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Ep#40: Travel Writing details you need to capture when you're fast drafting

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale continues her travel writing tips series. Each episode provides a concise list of prompts from A to Z to give your travel writing the TLC it needs. Today's episode looks at the prompts beginning with C: 
Cliches
Conversational
Cadence
Cycle Back to the Beginning at the End

We’ll cycle through all letters in the alphabet in turn from A-Z. Jay also invites you to become part of her beta reading team to review her new book for writers, Fast Drafting for Travel Bloggers, and let's you know how to claim your free copy of her Introduction to 5 Senses Travel Journaling PDF.
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Ep#39: A-Z of Travel Writing Tips. C is for Clichés, Conversational, Cadence, and Cycle

In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale introduces you to a fast drafting technique that'll help to streamline your note taking tasks while you're traveling, so that you can spend more time traveling and exploring and less time writing.
What other travel bloggers do. 
Why we need to fast draft. 
How fast drafting can help you. 
Two planning elements to set up you for success. 

Make sure to listen to Episode #40 which provides ideas and prompts about what details to include in your fast drafting notes.
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Ep#38: An Introduction to the art of Fast Drafting for Travel Writers

In this 20-minute show travel writer Jay Artale chats with blogger and freelance writer, Carol Duval, who house sat around the globe with her husband. She started off by blogging about her travels and adventures, and then wrote and published her first memoir, Trying Lives. We'll look at where Carol's travel bug came from and how she started house sitting, and then dive into the intricacies of writing and publishing a memoir. Here's some of the topics we discussed:
The impact of blogging before you start writing your book. 
How to use your blog to create the first draft of your book. 
The challenges and solutions of the blog to book approach. 

If you've been thinking about writing your own travel memoir, this conversation should inspire you to put pen to paper.
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com

Ep#37: Travel Memoir Writing Inspiration (Guest: Carol Duval)

In this 8-minute show travel writer Jay Artale continues her travel writing tips series. Each episode provides a concise list of prompts from A to Z to give your travel writing the TLC it needs. Today's episode looks at the prompts beginning with B. 
Beginning. 
Bounce. 
Books. 
Blog.  

We’ll cycle through all letters in the alphabet in turn from A-Z. 
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Ep#36: A-Z of Travel Writing Tips. B is for Beginning, Bounce, Books, and Blog

In this 9-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale reviews the different Front Matter sections you can include in your nonfiction book, who writes them, and what they should include: 
Foreword, including how to increase your chances of success in finding a contributor.
Preface. 
Introduction. 
Copyright, where to get example copyright pages to cut and paste. 
Dedication. 
Epigraph.
Table of Contents.  

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Ep#35: What Front Matter does your nonfiction book need?

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale launches her new travel writing tips series. Each episode will provide a concise list of prompts from A to Z to give your travel writing the TLC it needs. We're kicking this off with letter A. 
Audience. 
Action. 
Anecdotes.
Angles. 
Adjectives and Adverbs. 

We’ll cycle through all letters in the alphabet in turn from A-Z. 
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Ep#34: A-Z of Travel Writing Tips. A is for Audience, Angle, Adjectives and...

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale explores the different ways you can use Facebook to reach readers within your niche and building your mailing list. 
Using Facebook Communities. 
Integrate your mailing list client with your Facebook Page.
Adding a Call to Action Button on Facebook.
Using Facebook live to showcase your book and build your mailing list.  

All of these Facebook features are available to use on your business page at at no charge, so isn't it about time you started using this social media platform to work for you? 
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com

Ep#33: How to use Free Facebook Features to promote your book

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale explains why she took a podcasting break, and how she's going to fill her free time with blog maintenance tasks, blogging, and memoir writing during the Covid-19 travel restrictions.
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Ep#32: Show your Blog and Travel Writing some love during travel restrictions

In this 20-minute show travel writer Jay Artale chats with blogger and freelance writer, Mariana McDougall, who traveled around the U.S. and Canada for 12 months in an RV with her husband and 3 kids. She blogged about the adventure, and is in the process of turning it into a travel memoir to show other parents that just because you have children, doesn't mean the travel adventures have to stop. Here's some of the topics we discussed:
Blogging a Book.
Creative nonfiction resources.
What differentiates a travel journal from a travel memoir.
The importance of a story arc in your travel memoir.
Mariana's writing and editing process

If you've been thinking about writing your own travel memoir, this conversation should inspire you to put pen to paper.
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com

Ep#31: Travel Memoir Writing Inspiration (Guest: Mariana McDougall)

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale covers tips and techniques for becoming a confident interviewer. 
Informal Interview Scenarios.
Formal Interview Techniques.
How to get the best from your interview subjects.
How to eliminate formal interview nerves.
How to capture your interview notes.
Learn the key to becoming a good interviewer.
How to open up the conversation to broader topics.

This episode shows you how to make the most of an interview opportunity in order to bring your travel writing to life. Practice makes perfect. 
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Ep#30: How to Become a Confident Interviewer

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale covers the individual elements you need to incorporate into your book description in order to grab your reader's attention and get them to click the buy button. 
Use the ideal length for your Book Description.
Use Clear Language That’s Easy To Read.
Write An Engaging Opening Paragraph.
Weave In Keywords.
Establish Your Expertise.
Write In Third Person Objective.

Authors, you need to view your book description as a promotional opportunity, and spend time crafting a description that puts your book's best foot forward. Don't make the mistake of rushing this self-publishing step, and wasting a free marketing tool that can differentiate you from other authors in your niche. In this episode you'll also learn which free tool will help you format your book description.
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Ep#29: Tips for Writing your Nonfiction Book Description

In this 20-minute show travel writer Jay Artale talks to Rachel Malek (a millennial) about the type of travel research she did when she visited, and then later moved to Italy. The goal of this show is to give us an insight into what's important to our audience.
What research did Rachel rely on prior to her vacation and her move?
The challenges of local of area travel resources. 
How information needs vary based on the purpose of your trip.
An overview of travel resource sites, publications, and social media.

When you're writing a travel guide you have to consider your audience. The more we understand how our target audience looks for information, the better we can craft our content.  
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Ep#28: Rachel Malek talks about her travel research process

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale looks at the two different ebook distribution options if you don't want to go exclusive with Amazon:
Going direct and non-exclusive with Amazon, and signing up with an aggregator (Draft2Digital, PublishDrive and Smashwords) to reach retailers other than Amazon.
Going direct and non-exclusive with Amazon, and going direct with Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, or Google Play, and also using an aggregator to reach other retailers.
The pros, cons, and challenges of going direct with all of the different retailers.
How to simplify your distribution network.

Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com

Ep#27: Do you know your ebook distribution options?

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale introduces the three different strategies you should be considering to publish your ebook, and goes into detail about the benefits and drawbacks of Amazon KDP exclusivity:
What are the three different ebooks strategies? 
What are the royalty, marketing, and promotional benefits of Amazon exclusivity?  
How to use Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Lending Library to increase your royalties.
What are the drawbacks of Amazon exclusivity? 
What marketshare does Amazon have in English speaking markets?

Jay also shares the results of a three-month test she did for the latest edition of her Bodrum Travel Guide. She enrolled it in KDP Select for a 90-day period—and the impact to book royalties came as a surprise. 
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com

Ep#26: Should you go Exclusive with Amazon KDP?

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale delves into the five senses and how to use them to bring your travel writing to life by looking at your environment and capturing:
What you see.
What you hear.
What you smell.
What you taste.
What you touch or what touches you.

Jay has also published a series of five senses travel journals to capture your senses during your trip.
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com. There is also a free PDF version of this show available on my website.

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