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SPS-472: Surviving Black Friday

Black Friday is approaching, but is it a golden opportunity for indie authors or a time to rethink your advertising strategy? This week on The Self-Publishing Show, Jam

Nov 5
49 min

SPS-471: Finish Your Book, Superdraft with T.D. Donnelly

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are joined by Hollywood screenwriter and author Thomas Dean Donnelly to discuss his new book, Superdra

Oct 29
44 min

SPS-470: Is the AI Deluge Hurting Us?

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca tackle a growing concern for indie authors: is the flood of AI-generated books making it harder for ge

Oct 22
51 min

SPS-469: Are you Visible?

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are joined by Stuart Grant to talk about author discoverability in the age of AI and why your author w

Oct 15
54 min

SPS-468: SPS Live is Coming to the USA!

Big news this week – The Self-Publishing Show Live is coming to the USA! James Blatch and Cissy Mecca reveal the plans for the first SPS Live USA, taking place at the F

Oct 8
34 min

SPS-467: Amazon KDP Is Changing – Are You Ready?

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, it's launch day for Cissy Mecca's latest medieval romance, while James Blatch is getting serious about his own writing again, with

Oct 1
50 min

SPS-466: Has Digital Narration Come of Age?

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca catch up from opposite sides of Europe, with Cissy joining from Sicily as she prepares for the Septemb

Sep 24
47 min

SPS-465: Does BookBub Still Work?

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch is joined by author Skye McKinnon to dig into the numbers behind BookBub Featured Deals and ask whether they still off

Sep 17
44 min

SPS-464: Romance Tropes That Work For Everyone

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are together in Pennsylvania after celebrating the wedding of their friends Lucy Score and Tim. James

Sep 10
39 min

SPS-463: Big News From KDP

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca have a packed episode of indie publishing news, starting with a significant change to Amazon's preorde

Sep 3
44 min

SPS-462: The Meta Ads Panic!

Big news this week, the first two speakers for SPS Live London 2027 have been announced! Melanie Harlow and Theodora Taylor will be joining us in London. James and Ciss

Aug 28
54 min

SPS-461: The Book Launch Process

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch checks in from his final day in New Zealand while Cissy Mecca takes us behind the scenes of her upcoming historical ro

Aug 20
38 min

SPS-460: Crossing the AI Boundary

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch checks in from New Zealand with Cissy Mecca to tackle the increasingly complicated relationship between authors and AI

Aug 13
45 min

SPS-459: Your Book As An AI Movie (Part 2)

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca conclude their two-part conversation with Michael Evans, founder of Creatorwood. They delve deeper int

Aug 6
47 min

SPS-458: Your Book As An AI Movie (Part 1)

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are joined by Michael Evans, founder of Creatorwood, for Part 1 of a two-part discussion about using A

Jul 30
41 min

SPS-457: Craft is King (Again)

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca argue that as AI makes it easier than ever to produce competent books, craft is becoming an author's g

Jul 23
45 min

SPS-456: The Robot Read My Backlist

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca dive into the next wave of AI tools for authors, focusing on Fable and the rise of agentic AI. They ex

Jul 16
43 min

SPS-455: Lessons From Rock 'n' Roll

Episode Summary This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca welcome author and former music industry executive Jack Williamson to discuss what aut

Jul 9
57 min

SPS-454: Launching a New Series

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca dive into the latest AI developments, including changes to Claude's subscription tiers and what they m

Jul 2
49 min

SPS-453: Three Questions Every Author Should Ask

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca reflect on The Self Publishing Show Live 2026 and discuss what happens after the excitement of a confe

Jun 25
50 min

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Mark has such great tools and experts on to support self-published authors with getting their work out to the world! A must listen for anyone looking to self-publish and put their books into the world.

Crown Yourself · Dec 2023

Mark and James are great hosts and interviewers passionate about writing and self-publishing. From the first episode I listened to, I was hooked. If you want to believe you can be a writer and learn the skills and insight to do so, this is a great podcast. But wait, isn't this a self-publishing podcast? Icing on the cake. It does the same for that part of the process as well. If you want the encouragement and courage to fulfill your writing dream, listen to The Self-Publishing Show.

Adjobology · Mar 2023

Love the guests and info but wish there was less banter from James and Mark at the beginning and end of the show. Would also like to see Mark work on not interrupting his guests, particularly women; I was cringing listening to the Marie Force interview.

Itslikethattoday · Dec 2022

Great interviews , great commentary, super helpful! I like Fridays anyway but enjoy them even more because of this knowledgeable podcast. Mark Dawson is incredbly generous with his knowledge James Blatch is a great interviewing and listening to his progress as an Indy author is hugely inspiring.

CatrinBlair · Dec 2022

Once the episodes get rolling they are fine. Sadly, the first 10 minutes is just back and forth chit about mind numbing nothingness. Circular talk about what the episode will be about. I get it. Sometimes I also have nothing to say…but why not skip that part?

mdandy1968 · Jun 2022

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