A motivational show for all the creatives out there with an inner rebel. Listen for interviews, industry news, tips, tricks and tools to help you take your creative business to the next level.
Episodes
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Hello Rebels, surprise! Here's a bonus minisode with me and J Thorn where we talk about personal finance for writers.
We talk about a new book we've cowritten that focuses on the good stuff: money. I go deep and get personal in this book with my experiences of debt and money and the lessons I've learned that took me from aspiring writer to full-time business woman.
Read the Book: 9 Things Career Authors Don't Do: Personal Finance
Read the rest of the series: http://getbook.at/9thingsseries
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
This week’s questions is:
What part of the writing publishing marketing journey do you like best?
Book recommendation of the week is: 9 Things Career Authors Don’t Do: Personal Finance by Me and J Thorn. Read the book here: http://getbook.at/9thingspersonalfinance
Find out more about Tiffany Yates Martin
Read Intuitive Editing here: http://foxprinteditorial.com/intuitive-editing/
www.facebook.com/FoxPrintEditorial
Twitter: @foxprinted
Insta: @tiffanyyatesmartin
The Anatomy of Prose: How to Breathe Life into Your Story, Characters and Sentences WEBINAR
Listener Rebel of the Week is Beth Ball
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
If you’d like to support the show, and get early access to all the episodes as well as bonus content you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Episode Show Notes
This week’s questions is:
If you could do anything as a side hustle, what would it be?
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Find out more about our guest Jennie Nash:
If you want to be a book coach, you can find out more about Jennie’s courses and free information here: bookcoaches.com/abc
If you’re a writer and would like to be matched with a coach, then visit here: authoraccelerator.com
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Book recommendation of the week is: How to Write a Series by Sara Rosett
Don’t forget The Anatomy of Prose is now live, you can get it in ebook, paperback or hardback now.
Click the link here. Order the Workbook here.
Listener Rebel of the Week is Jasmine Arch
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
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Two new patrons this week, welcome and thank you to Denise Berndt and Rae Tauranga. A huge thank you also to all my current patrons for the ongoing support.
If you’d like to support the show, and get access to all the bonus essays, posts and content, you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
Sponsor of the show this week is ProWritingAid
Find out more about ProWritingAid software using my link here.
Use my discount code: REBEL25
Connect with ProWritingAid on social media:
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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
This week’s questions is:
How do you use data in your writing business?
Find out more about K-Lytics here:https://k-lytics.com
Book recommendation of the week is: Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Yates Martin
Sign up for the The Anatomy of Prose: How to Breathe Life into Your Story, Characters and Sentences Webinar
Listener Rebel of the Week is Jay Renee Lawrence
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
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No new patrons this week, a huge thank you to all my current patrons, you help not only to keep the podcast running, you make me feel like what I do is worthwhile. If you’d like to support the show, and get early access to all the episodes as well as bonus content you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Episode Show Notes
This week’s questions is:
What self care do you do?
Book recommendation of the week is: Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
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Find out more about our guest Kay Hutchison on her
website: www.kayhutchison.com (also www.bellemedia.co.uk)
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Join me for the The Anatomy of Prose: How to Breathe Life into Your Story, Characters and Sentences Webinar
Rebel of the Week is ANONYMOUS!
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
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No new patrons this week, a huge thank you to all my current patrons, you help not only to keep the podcast running. You make me feel like my potty mouth antics are worthwhile.
If you’d like to support the show, and get early access to all the episodes as well as bonus content you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
That’s sacha with a C not an S
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY KOBO WRITING LIFE
Visit Kobo Writing Life here, read the Kobo Writing Life blog here, and listen to their podcast here.
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Surprise! Here's a bonus minisode with me and J Thorn.
We talk about a new book we've cowritten that focuses on why you should have a rebel mindset as an indie author and the 9 things you shouldn't do.
Read the Book: 9 Things Career Authors Don't Do: Rebel Mindset
Read the rest of the series: http://getbook.at/9thingsseries
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
This week’s questions is:
What writing or editing software do you use?
Find out more about our guest Lisa Lepki and ProWritingAid software:
https://twitter.com/ProWritingAid
https://www.facebook.com/ProWritingAid
https://www.instagram.com/prowritingaid.insta/
Try ProWritingAid for free using my affiliate link: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1516072&u=1810409&m=72053&urllink=&afftrack=
GET A 25% discount using the code REBEL25
Don’t forget The Anatomy of Prose is now live, you can get it in ebook, paperback or hardback now.
Click the link here.
Order the Workbook here.
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Book recommendation of the week is: 9 Things Career Authors Don’t Do: Rebel Mindset by Sacha Black and J Thorn
SERIES LINK: http://getbook.at/9thingsseries
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3asVhRs
Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3kLN7YP
Listener Rebel of the Week is ROSAIRE BUSHEY
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
No new patrons this week but a huge thank you to all my current patrons for the ongoing support. If you’d like to support the show, and get access to all the bonus essays, posts and content, you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Hello Rebels, welcome to The Rebel Author Podcast episode 44. Today, I’m talking to Meg LaTorre all about the traditional publishing industry. It’s a fascinating insight into the other side of publishing regardless of whether your trad, hybrid or pure indie you'll learn how to pursue traditional publishing.
Preorder my new book coauthored with J Thorn: 9 Things Career Authors Don't Do: Rebel Mindset here.
This week’s questions is:
What method of publishing are you following or would you like to follow?
Find out more about this week's guest, Meg LaTorre:
Read The Cyborg Tinkerer
Book recommendation of the week is: Be a Writing Machine by Michael La Ronn
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Listener Rebel of the Week is Victoria LK Williams
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
1 new patron this week, a big welcome and thank you to Jay Renee Weaver and a huge thank you to all my current patrons, you help not only to keep the podcast running. You make me feel like my potty mouth antics are worthwhile.
If you’d like to support the show, and get access to all the bonus essays, posts and content, you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Episode Show Notes
This week’s questions is:
What job does your character have?
Find out more about our guest Becca Puglisi:
The Occupation Thesaurus: https://writershelpingwriters.net/bookstore/
One Stop for Writers: https://onestopforwriters.com
Writers Helping Writers blog: https://writershelpingwriters.net
Don’t forget The Anatomy of Prose is now live, you can get it in ebook, paperback or hardback now.
Click the link here.
Order the Workbook here.
Book recommendation: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
KOBO https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-trilogy-1
Apple: https://apple.co/2BOIAU4
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2XdUZYZ
Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/317Czu3
These are affiliate links.
Listener Rebel of the Week is Steve Moore
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
No new patrons this week but a huge thank you to all my current patrons for the ongoing support. If you’d like to support the show, and get access to all the bonus essays, posts and content, you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Episode Show Notes
This week’s questions is:
What part of character creation do you find the hardest?
Book recommendation of the week is: The Occupation Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
My blog review and lessons learned How to use character occupations to deepen your characterization
Grab The Occupation Thesaurus here.
I was delighted to be interviewed by AG Billig on her Self-Publishing Mastery talks channel. We had an amazing chat about adulting, parenting, creativity, routine and more. Watch here.
Find out more about today's guest:
Website: www.alexbryantauthor.com
Read his books: https://books2read.com/theidentitythief
Instagram: @alexbryantauthor
Facebook: @alexbryantauthor
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Rebel of the week this week is HB Lyne
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
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Thank you to new patron Cari Buziak. Also a huge thank you to all my current patrons, you help not only to keep the podcast running. You make me feel like my potty mouth antics are worthwhile.
If you’d like to support the show, and get access to all the bonus essays, posts and content, you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting:
That’s sacha with a C not an S
THIS EPISODE WAS SPONSORED BY KOBO WRITING LIFE
Visit Kobo Writing Life here, read the Kobo Writing Life blog here, and listen to their podcast here.