Jul 5, 2024
Mark interviews Kaye Lynn Booth about her writing life and her new book The DIY Author.
Prior to the interview, Mark thanks Patrons and Buy Me A Coffee buddies, as well as a word from this episode's sponsor.
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In the interview Mark and Kaye Lynn talk about:
- Kaye having written since 1994 and selling her first poem in 1996
- Having always wanted to take a DIY approach to her creativity
- Signing up for a booth at a local fair without having anything to sell and how that led to a creative way of selling her poems
- Kaye's poem "Voices" and the perfect painting she found to use with it that was also called "Voices" and how that led to another collaborative poem and painting
- The early blog-related writing that Kaye had done when the internet was still "young"
- Creating the Writing to be Read brand on her blog/website and writing reviews for books she had read
- How Kaye's blog remains her biggest marketing tool
- The blog team that Kaye has writing specific content for her site
- Getting degrees in genre fiction and screen-writing and then going back with the concentration in publishing
- Kaye's perspective on what the harder part of writing and publishing is
- The long-term outlook that Kaye has taken when it comes to creating and building an audience with her blog
- The breakdown and sections of Kaye's book THE DIY AUTHOR
- Kaye's first poetry collection: Small Wonders
- The children's books that Kaye has written
- The various genres that Kaye writes in as she follows her passion
- And more . . .
After the interview Mark reflects making do with what you have and the creativity that can come when you find you've painted yourself into a corner.
Links of Interest:
- Kaye Lynn Booth's Writing to be Read Website
- EP 356 - The Midlist Indie Author Mindset with T. Thorn Coyle
- DropCap Marketplace
- Use coupon STARK20 to get 20% off
- Cruising Writers
- Buy Mark a Coffee
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
- The Relaxed Author
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
- An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
- Wide for the Win
- Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
- The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
For Kaye Lynne Booth, writing is a passion. Kaye Lynne is an author with published short fiction and poetry, both online and in print, including her short story collection, Last Call and Other Short Fiction; and her paranormal mystery novella, Hidden Secrets; Books 1 & 2 of her Women in the West adventure series, Delilah and Sarah, and her Time-Travel Adventure novel, The Rock Star & The Outlaw. Kaye holds a dual M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing with emphasis in genre fiction and screenwriting, and an M.A. in publishing. Kaye Lynne is the founder of WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services and WordCrafter Press. She also maintains an authors’ blog and website, Writing to be Read, where she publishes content of interest in the literary world.
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0