SPA Girls Podcast
Join the SPA Girls each week for the top self-publishing podcast!
Episodes
April 1, 2025 • 54 mins
oday, we’re diving into one of the most powerful tools in your writer’s toolkit—story structure!
Whether you're a plotter, pantser, or somewhere in between, a strong story structure is the secret sauce that keeps readers turning the pages. In this episode, we’ll dive into chapter “rules”, beats,scenes and sequences, how to craft a compelling beginning, keep the momentum going in the middle, and deliver a satisfying, page-turning e...
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March 25, 2025 • 79 mins
What ten editing tips should all authors know? We share in this classic replay of our interview with Editorial Consultant, Mary-Theresa Hussey.
Prior to becoming a freelance editorial consultant, Mary-Theresa (known as Matrice) worked at Harlequin for more than 25 years, editing nearly a thousand titles. As editor, senior and executive editor, she read, acquired, revised, rejected and critiqued triple that. Many of the books she h...
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March 18, 2025 • 54 mins
The SPA Girls get down and personal with a Q1 2025 catchup! From surprising successes, unexpected writing tips, hybrid publishing adventures to mindset resets, we KEEP IT REAL in this wild author life.
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March 11, 2025 • 61 mins
A Classic Replay of an episode we recorded with the fabulous NYT Bestseller, Laurelin Page, a few years ago. Her advice is just as relevant today as it was then to invigorate sales on your backlist books.
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March 4, 2025 • 53 mins
Today we welcome back Tara Cremin, Director of Kobo Writing Life (KWL) to chat about exciting new opportunities for authors on Kobo and her very best tips and tricks for selling more books and finding your readers!
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February 25, 2025 • 62 mins
Lucy Score is an instant #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of our all time favorite podcast guests (we've interviewed her twice now). She is a fantastic example of great branding, great writing, great team work and immense talent for connecting with her readers.
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February 18, 2025 • 47 mins
If you’ve ever wondered about Kickstarter - where to start, if it’s right for you, and tips for running successful Kickstarter campaigns, this episode is for you!
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February 12, 2025 • 52 mins
Becca talks to us about how we can all write better-faster in our writing careers, using our own unique skills to improve your chances of success.
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February 4, 2025 • 62 mins
Holly Roberds, spicy romance author and Booktok fav is here to tell us all about Building Fandoms and reaching Critical Mass with her publishing strategy. From facebook ads, pinterest boards, to her readers group, Holly gives actionable tips you can apply to your own author career, today!
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January 28, 2025 • 54 mins
Bella is a true Indie Superstar with more than 10 million books sold (so far!). We interviewed her when she visited New Zealand for the Romance Writers of NZ conference a few years ago and this is well worth a re-listen. Bella is an inspiration and talks about her path to self-publishing, how she made it as an Indie, and her advice for people aiming to follow in her footsteps…
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January 20, 2025 • 59 mins
You've heard of tropes - but have you heard of MICRO tropes? Today's guest, romcom queen Amy Award, is sharing her incredible experience of incorporating readers fav micro-tropes, scenes and emotions that have made her books bestsellers!
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January 14, 2025 • 35 mins
This is part two of two episodes where Skye covers her facebook advertising strategies that you don’t want to miss!
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January 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Skye went from struggling to earn five figures while working all day, to earning over a million dollars a year working only four hours a day. This is part one of two parts you don't want to miss!
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December 31, 2024 • 45 mins
Start the New Year strong! From choosing your "word of the year" to planning tools that simplify your workflow, we share our picks. Tune in and make this your most productive year yet!
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December 23, 2024 • 32 mins
Who’s been wild and who’s been sweet? The SPA Girls are here with a festive treat!”
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December 17, 2024 • 61 mins
We're thrilled to have Ines back in the SPA to teach us about Direct Selling for Authors AND Special Editions in a very special episode packed with great advice for writers at all stages.
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December 10, 2024 • 44 mins
A Replay Classic : Samantha Price is a USA Today bestselling author of Amish romance and cozy mysteries. Focused and organized, Samantha’s results speak for themselves, but it will amaze you to hear how prolific she is and how she built her career in a smaller niche than usual.
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December 3, 2024 • 64 mins
Kaci Rose is a steamy romance author who published her first book in March 2020 and has since catapulted into six figure income thanks to intentionally connecting her books within a universe.
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November 26, 2024 • 63 mins
Stop dreading writing another author newsletter and get ready to sell more books with email! Holly Darling (Mortimer) is the "newsletter queen" and has fantastic, actionable tips.
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November 19, 2024 • 24 mins
A short but impactful (hopefully!) run down of great tips for growing your author career and staying (relatively) sane and focussed.
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