The Publicity dilemma webinar:

• Do you need a publicist to successfully launch your book?

• Is it worth the investment?

• What are the pros and cons of working with a publicist (and how do you pick the right one?)

Ready to get book marketing savvy in the new year? Today’s episode of Charlotte Readers Podcast kicks off with insights from 7 members who’ve participated in the Weekly Writer Support Group.

In this podcast episode, we share our best tips and experience on what works in building author platform and selling books, how to gather reviews, and our most unique or enjoyable marketing events or tactics.

It's the holidays! Cute Bookish Gifts on Amazon, suggested by author, Lainey Cameron

Two fun updates as we kick off the Fall/ Winter season for The Best of Women’s Fiction podcast. We are celebrating our 100th episode (with a giveaway!), and a new collaboration for book clubs, with Book Club Bites.

FeedSpot just released their list of the Top 30 Women Fiction Blogs and Websites.

I was thrilled to see my Lainey Cameron website and blog featured! And even more excited to see I’m on this list with other authors and book bloggers I admire.

PSA of the day: If you haven’t turned on 2 factor authentication on your account, do it now. I put this off for ages, but in the last week I’ve seen 5+ authors and bookstagrammers with 5- 10,000 followers get hacked. And unfortunately, if your account is hacked (I don’t mean copied or cloned, but someone has gained access to it), then you as an author have little recourse.

I’m in in awe of these two amazing women. Pamela Stockwell and Kelly Hartog.

They met through the online Zoom writing dates held by Women’s Fiction Writers Association.

They’ve never met in real life (at least not yet), but when Kelly needed a kidney to continue gifting us with her wonderful self, Pamela stepped up.

This podcast interview is a gift to my writer friends - and includes some topics I haven’t addressed before - Imposter syndrome, how to take something useful from rejection feedback, the biggest mistake I made early in my writing career. And why the writing rules are not always helpful.

Today, I found out that my debut won its 12th award - 2021 Book of the Year from the Independent Author Network (IAN) for Outstanding Women’s Fiction.

And this landed right when I was falling into the danger of imposter syndrome and self comparison, and needed a reminder to keep going.

The Author Talk Network is a small group of award-winning, dedicated authors. We all love talking books, writing, the art of story, and so much more. So we decided to collaborate to make ourselves available to your book group, school, library, talk show, podcast, or other.

Thrilled to be interviewed today on The Storytellers by Grace Sammon. We chat about strong collaborative women, my digital nomad life, how it feels for my debut to win 11 awards, and how a startup mentality can help with writing.

That first line was my reaction in 2017, when this novel reached the finals in the Rising Star…and honestly, it’s still part of my reaction now. You see, as a writer, those accolades, the “yes” if you wish, will always be so much less numerous than the “no”s .

Nicole Kalil and Lainey Cameron focus on how it felt and what Lainey learned in making the change from the corporate world to becoming an author. Including what authors can learn from corporate execs and vice versa!

Bill Kenower and Lainey chat about the question of whether writing is in your blood, Lainey’s most useless life skill, why the stereotypes of women in business just drive Lainey crazy, and why do companies with women on their boards and female CEOs get better business results?

Lainey chats with Dana Kaye on the Your Breakout Book Podcast where we talk about the power of community as a writer.

The Exit Strategy is now an audiobook, performed by Susan Marlowe. An interview with Lainey about why this decision and insights on the process of hiring and working with a narrator.

A special edition podcast episode packed with writing advice from the best of women’s fiction authors.

Author Marketing Tip: Amazon only show the top 3 categories on a book’s page, but here’s a super useful tool to see all 10 categories a book is placed within.

Lainey chats with Maggie Smith on the Hear us Roar podcast. We discuss the hardest character to write, the cliche of women catfighting in movies, the writing community and how Lainey's marketing background helped with novel writing.

As children we are often taught, especially girls, that talent is innate. We are naturally good at some things and not inclined toward others. But this advice does not serve us well as writers.

I’d like to tell you about my biggest strategic error. When I finished the first draft of my debut novel , I read every writing craft book I could lay my hands on.