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Maruxa "Muh-roo-shah" Murphy is a Culture and Community Architect for companies that want to use their platform to bring more good into the world. Over the past 20 years, she has helped 100+ brands develop and grow their communities as their advisor and consultant. The post #149 – Maruxa Murphy on How Can Authors Create a Writing Community? (Part 1) first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

At four years old, Cindy Tschosik knew she was called to make the world a better place. As the CEO of SoConnected, Cindyʼs “callings” have come full circle to make a difference in the world. Whether itʼs a story from the stage or an authorʼs story in their book, Cindy and the SoConnected Team is committed to Change Lives. Save Lives. Celebrate Lives! One Story at a Time. The post #148 – Cindy Tschosik on How to Write a Prescriptive Memoir to Showcase Your Journey to Mental Wellness first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Barbara Boyd is a nurturer by nature — she helps people, projects, and plants grow and flourish. Since 2015, she has helped more than a hundred authors develop their book ideas and edited more than a hundred manuscripts. Barbara has written or co-written a dozen of her own books, too, including Macs All-In-One For Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pinterest Marketing, and Innovative Presentations For Dummies. The post #147 – Barbara Boyd on How Experts Can Write Books first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Chantel Henry believes that in everything, there is always a dynamic exchange taking place; in business, conversation, relationships, you name it; a person a selling and someone is buying. Through her experience as a college professor, entrepreneur, and sales representative, she has developed an insatiable appetite to provide value through the art of selling. The post #146 – Chantel Henry on How Can Women Executives Write a Book? first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Elsa Kurt is a successful author of women’s fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books. She has proven that TikTok can be a terrific marketing platform for authors who want to sell more books. You can follow her on TikTok at “TheOtherElsa.” The post #145 – Elsa Kurt on How Can Authors Use TikTok? – Part 2 first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Everett O’Keefe is an International #1 Bestselling Author, having authored six Amazon #1 bestselling books. He is the founder of Ignite Press, a hybrid publishing company that specializes in helping entrepreneurs, as well as business and medical professionals, ignite their businesses by becoming bestselling authors. The post #144 – Everett O’Keefe on Don’t Make These Self-Publishing Mistakes! first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Elsa Kurt is a successful author of women’s fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books. She has proven that TikTok can be a terrific marketing platform for authors who want to sell more books. You can follow her on TikTok at “TheOtherElsa.” The post #143 – Elsa Kurt on How Can Authors Use TikTok? – Part 1 first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

As a speaker, trainer, and coach, Dave Bricker helps remarkable people tell remarkable stories—through writing, speaking, graphic design, video, technology, and music. If you want to say it, share it, or sell it, bring him your story; he’ll help you tell it. The post #142 – Dave Bricker on Don’t Make These Book Cover Designing Mistakes! first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

As a speaker, trainer, and coach, Dave Bricker helps remarkable people tell remarkable stories—through writing, speaking, graphic design, video, technology, and music. If you want to say it, share it, or sell it, bring him your story; he’ll help you tell it. The post #141 – Dave Bricker on Don’t Make These Interior Book Designing Mistakes! first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Ken Wachsberger, The Book Coach is Vice President of Marketing, National Speakers Association-Michigan and a Contract Advisor, National Writers Union. He is available for professional contract advising and speaking in front of groups about book contracts as well as book writing and publishing. Ken is the #1 International Bestselling Author and Editor of "You’ve Got the Time: How to Write and Publish That Book in You." The post #140 – Ken Wachsberger on How Can Authors Negotiate Contracts? first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Steve Eriksen is an integration specialist and automations nerd. When Steve hosted a summit for his own coaching business, he couldn't find a good system to help him run his event. So he used his technical background in the events space, along with his real-world experience as an event host, and created EventRaptor, a system that makes virtual event management easy. The post #139 – Steve Eriksen on How Authors Can Get on Summit Stages first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Wendy Strain has been a newspaper journalist, editor, university instructor, tutor, grant writer, and ghostwriter. She now brings that expertise together to help clients tell their stories across multiple formats and platforms – from books to blogs, course content to content marketing. Her special talent is taking big ideas and translating them into everyday language and understandable metaphors. The post #138 – Wendy Strain on How to Get Feedback on Your Writing first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Karen Dimmick of Arcane Covers is a Fantasy and Paranormal book cover designer. She specializes in making genre-specific covers that sell books. She works with both indie authors and one traditional publishing house. There are usually some of her covers in the bestsellers lists and she has also done various re-covers for books already in the top 50 of their category, that have doubled their sales. The post #137 – Karen Dimmick on How To Design A Fantasy Book Cover first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Dr. Janice Harper’s writing has been featured in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. She is the author of several nonfiction books and articles and the ghostwriter of over a dozen memoirs and nonfiction books. Dr. Harper’s expertise has helped beginning and experienced authors turn their stories, ideas, and visions into compelling and prize-winning books. The post #136 – Janice Harper, Ph.D. on How to Write an Irresistible Back Cover for Your Book first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Diane Windingland, owner of Virtual Speech Coach, was originally trained as an engineer, but since 2011, has been speaking, coaching, and writing on communication skills, and has published 10 books. Diane often speaks on the importance of using storytelling to sell products, services, and ideas. The post #135 – Diane Windingland on How to Write a Business Story to Get Your Message (or Book) Remembered first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Penny Hopkinson is a franchise publishing consultant, content writer, and developmental editor who advises and coaches clients on how best to document their know-how and business systems so that franchisees can follow a franchisor's proven system. Her expertise encompasses more than 40 years’ experience as sub-editor, copywriter, Editor-in Chief and Managing Editor in the trade, technical, and specialist sector. The post #134 – Penny Hopkinson on How Do I Structure a Franchise Operations Manual? first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Pat Iyer is an experienced author, coach, and writer who loves to help others polish their writing. Her expertise comes from writing or editing over 800 books, articles, case studies, online courses, or chapters. The post #133 – Pat Iyer on How Authors Can Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Writer’s Block first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Brian Jud is the Executive Director of the Association of Publishers for Special Sales (APSS) - formerly SPAN. He is also the founder of Book Selling University and the author of "How to Make Real Money Selling Books." Brian offers commission-based sales of books to buyers in non-bookstore markets. The post #132 – Brian Jud on How to Sell a Truckload of Books first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

It took Kim O'Hara three decades to publish her first book. Yet, she was hardly a slacker. At the age of 25 she had produced her first million dollar movie. She loved making movies because she could lose herself in stories and bring to audiences the empathy evoked by story telling. Today, she has a thriving coaching business, serving dozens of published clients all over the United States. The post #131 – Kim O’Hara on What Is a Book Coach? first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

Robert Plank is the founder of Done For You Podcasting, host of the Marketer of the Day podcast, and author of WWHW: Why, What, How-To, What-If. He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs create online businesses through 840 podcast episodes, 15 books and 15 online courses. How can YOU use your podcast and book as an advertising, marketing and traffic tool to fulfill your wildest dreams? The post #130 – Robert Plank on How Do I Create an Audiobook? first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.