Writing Action Adventure Fiction And Systems Thinking With Nick Thacker

The life of a full-time independent author involves wearing many hats. You have to balance your time between learning your craft and pleasing readers with great books, as well as publishing, book marketing, and building a business that will support you for the long-term. In today's interview, Nick Thacker talks about the key aspects of action-adventure thrillers as well as how he runs his publishing company and thoughts on pricing, email list building, and creating systems to avoid overwhelm. In the intro, The Hotsheet reports on the All about Audio conference, publishers start Storyglass, a new podcasting business [The Bookseller], The New York Times acquires a podcast production company [The Verge]; and Amazon Ad reports now incorporate page reads. In the futurist segment, GPT3 takes natural language generation to a new level -- what does this mean for writers? I also recommend The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly and his blog post, 1000 True Fans, and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. Today's show is sponsored by IngramSpark, who I use to print and distribute my print-on-demand books to 39,000 retailers including independent bookstores, schools and universities, libraries and more. Nick Thacker is the USA Today bestselling author of action-adventure thrillers. His non-fiction books for authors include Platform Mastery and BookBub Mastery. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. You can find Nick Thacker at NickThacker.com and on Twitter @NickThacker Joanna: Nick Thacker is the'USA Today' bestselling author of action-adventure thrillers. His nonfiction books for authors include Platform Mastery and BookBub Mastery. It's good to be here, it's good to be talking to you again. Joanna: It's great to have you on the show. Nick: I was late to get to writing. I grew up reading a lot and never really liked writing.