What do you do when someone scrawls “you will never publish” across your pages in red Sharpie? You publish anyway! NYT & USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle shares the real behind-the-scenes story of her debut book (featuring a real-life romance hero!), plus the craft and business lessons that built a 30-year writing career. We dig into author research tactics, her genre shift from historical romance to women’s fiction with magical realism, and what indie publishing actually demands. Boyle also unpacks plotting interwoven storylines, and the best-kept secret for free marketing.
All the links…
Website: http://elizabethboyle.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizboyle/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorElizabethBoyle
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19842.Elizabeth_Boyle
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/elizabeth-boyle
No Marriage of Convenience by Elizabeth Boyle: https://link.amazon/B0f1zxuRb
O, Little Town of Bethlehem by Elizabeth Boyle: https://link.amazon/B03ygI473
Artist Pino Daeni: Pino Artist | Pino Paintings | Pino Prints
Write Your Novel from the Middle by James Scott Bell: https://link.amazon/B097dwdV3
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown: https://link.amazon/B0cHme1GU
Susanna Kearsley books: https://susannakearsley.com/
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/
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About Elizabeth Boyle
Elizabeth Boyle is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 25 novels, novellas and short stories. Her writing has garnered the coveted RITA award, RT Historical Love and Laughter award, as well as the Reviewer’s Choice Award, and has been a finalist for the PNWA Nancy Pearl Book Award, as well the WWW LAURA Award. When she isn’t writing, she’s baking, knitting, or gardening in her beloved rainy corner of the Pacific Northwest. Though she’s a homebody at heart, she never stops scouring maps looking for her next adventure.
About Jen Graybeal
Jen Graybeal (she/her) is dedicated to empowering authors through encouraging feedback, collaborative problem solving and gently-applied tough love. In twelve years of coaching, workshops, and editing projects, she has helped over a thousand authors create stories they are proud of and businesses that align with their individual vision of success. Jen is an award-winning mindfulness-trained Creativity Coach, and international speaker with a degree in English, an ever-expanding TBR pile, and a furball assistant that is usually on her lap. Visit her website for client testimonials at www.jentheeditor.com or follow her on social media: @JenTheEditor. Listen to the Books, Business & Mindset podcast, now available on all your favorite podcast apps.
Jen’s website: https://www.jentheeditor.com/
Jen’s Patreon: https://patreon.com/jentheeditor
00:00 Meet Elizabeth Boyle
01:15 Researcher Mindset
02:42 Museum Archives Secrets
04:34 Bethlehem Series Update
06:27 Origins of Storytelling
09:11 First Publishing Break
10:14 Blizzard Deadline Sprint
15:19 Karma at RWA
17:25 Ignore the Naysayers
22:36 Going Indie Publishing
25:58 Relaunch Lessons Learned
27:59 Rights Reversions Reprints
29:36 Clinch Cover Comeback
30:12 Pino Artwork Story
32:39 Milestones and New Genre
34:39 Writing From the Middle
38:36 Trusting the Subconscious
40:27 Research Serendipity Tales
43:38 Book Recommendations
45:48 Bethlehem Book Details
48:16 Family Secrets and DNA
50:18 Where to Find Elizabeth
Work It: A 6- Week Coaching Intensive for Authors
Information, Wait List Sign Up, testimonials: https://www.jentheeditor.com/work-it
Where to find Jen
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