{"id":27319,"date":"2023-07-18T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=27319"},"modified":"2023-07-18T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T08:01:10","slug":"self-publish-your-novel-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/self-publish-your-novel-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/75-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27320 size-full\" title=\"Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/75-1.png\" alt=\"Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell - How To Write the Future episode 54\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/75-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/75-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/76-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27321 size-full\" title=\"Quote from Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell - How To Write the Future episode 54\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/76-1.png\" alt=\"Quote from Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell - How To Write the Future episode 54\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/76-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/76-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell &#8211; How To Write the Future episode 54<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou can spend as little or as much as you want, and it&#8217;s really a time and money equation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cSelf-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell\u201d host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and science fiction and fantasy novelist shares a short summary of the key elements you need to self-publish your novel including resources that can help prepare you for your publishing journey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms the podcast is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/54-self-publishing-your-novel-in-a-nutshell\/id1641025914?i=1000621360831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMDEyMDYxLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMzIzMTc2NQ?sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjnmau14peAAxUqTaQEHTHJDXEQkfYCegQIARAF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/13231765-54-self-publishing-your-novel-in-a-nutshell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/48pIjKF5oUXxO79JXOKqZz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/how-to-write-the-future\/episode\/160789159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/54e33119-e8f7-4a7f-894f-4b1869ddc0bf\/how-to-write-the-future-54-self-publishing-your-novel-in-a-nutshell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2fnKjX_jyi0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2fnKjX_jyi0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-large-player\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RESOURCES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Benefits of Working with a Fiction Writing Coach &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/the-benefits-of-working-with-a-fiction-writing-coach\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/the-benefits-of-working-with-a-fiction-writing-coach\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT THE <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HOW TO WRITE THE FUTURE<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> PODCAST\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Write The Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tips for fiction writers! This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I figure out what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you looking for a way to dig into your world-building for your story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I recommend that you check out my World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers. Now available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s at How To Write The Future.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just head on over there. Click, sign up. Put your name and email, and there you go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That workbook will be delivered to your inbox straight away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, Beth Barany here for How to Write The Future podcast. The focus of this podcast and the focus of my work is to support science fiction and fantasy writers to create positive, optimistic futures. Because when we vision what is possible, we help make it so. This podcast is also for anyone who cares about the future and who cares about making the world a better place for future generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m really excited to bring you this short episode today about self-publishing your novel in a nutshell. Not that you&#8217;re self-publishing inside of a nutshell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a very short episode to explain the key elements of self-publishing. I just want to let you know that I recorded this while I was walking from my house to the cafe in response to the need of a client. And I recorded this back in 2014, so I did cut out some things that no longer exist, basically, some technology and tools that don&#8217;t exist anymore. But the key information on editing and prepping your book for marketing is absolutely the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So keep in mind, this is just a very short summary of everything that you need for self-publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have more questions, please, please reach out to me. And I will either support you directly with resources that I already have or point you in the right direction if I don&#8217;t have them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;d like someone to help you self-publish, I take a few clients as a self-publishing consultant and producer. So check in with me and see if we&#8217;re a good fit. I&#8217;d be happy to have that conversation. How to set up a call with me will be in the resource section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. Enjoy this episode. And happy writing and happy publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Self-Publishing &#8211; What to Think about\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of my clients today asked me to tell her about self-publishing, kind of chuckled and asked her, well, where do you want me to begin? And then she&#8217;s like, gosh, I don&#8217;t know. And she waited for me to fill in the blanks. So I did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In about 10 to 15 minutes, I gave her a rundown of everything that she needed to think about if she wanted to self-publish her young adult fantasy novel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here&#8217;s what I said in summary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said, well, the first thing that you wanna do is make sure your book is edited. She was concerned about costs. She said I heard that self-publishing is way more expensive than traditional publishing. And I said, well, that depends. Depends on your budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can spend as little or as much as you want, and it&#8217;s really a time and money equation. You&#8217;re gonna either spend a lot of time and do it yourself. And get your friends to help you, or you&#8217;re gonna spend money and have people do things for you, or you&#8217;re gonna do a combination of the two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And seriously with a good, writing community around you and reaching out and asking for help at various moments, your budget can be quite small for self-publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yes, that does mean you will have to put your time into the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>You&#8217;re now entering the world of commerce<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep in mind, if you&#8217;re gonna self-publish, whether you&#8217;re a fiction writer, which is my specialty, or non-fiction writer, either way or in any genre, memoir, poetry, you are now entering the world of commerce and you are now entering the world of business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that means you need to understand the publishing industry, book marketing, how to reach your audience, all things that anybody who wants to sell something needs to understand. So back to the chain of events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there you are. You have your book, it&#8217;s finished. You feel like it&#8217;s finished, but you&#8217;re not sure. Is it publication-ready?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, you want to either hire an editor or have a critique group, or both, to help you make sure that your book is a compelling read, error-free, that you&#8217;ve put thought and care to every single word in that story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you see a book on the shelf, the library, or the bookstore, they have been heavily edited usually. And of course, in modern-day times, you&#8217;re gonna find books with typos. That&#8217;s because they weren&#8217;t properly edited.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Two Main Kinds of Editing You Need\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So just a bit on editing. You&#8217;re gonna wanna make sure, there&#8217;s two main kinds of editing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s story editing. Making sure your story is interesting, your characters are interesting, your plot is interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then you&#8217;re gonna wanna have people help you with typos and, making sure your word choice is appropriate. And people often call that copy editing. I, for one, am very weak on noticing typos and, even homonyms, where I&#8217;ve used the same, spelling, like two and too, and things like that. I won&#8217;t even always notice that I also reverse words. I don&#8217;t always notice that in the revision phase. So I always have someone helping me with that, and I will hire a copy editor to help me fix those mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I use a critique partner. I use beta readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Beta Readers\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beta readers is something you&#8217;re gonna wanna have. When your book is done. Now it&#8217;s been critiqued, it&#8217;s been edited by you. You feel good about it, you think it&#8217;s publication-ready? Well just wait. Get some beta readers to make sure that your book is ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are people who love to read. Sometimes they&#8217;re writers. And they wanna be part of the early phase, so they wanna read your book. And we ask them very simple questions. We&#8217;re not asking &#8216;them to make any fixes unless they can&#8217;t help themselves. And there are people like that who can spot a typo, but they&#8217;re not editors, but they&#8217;re very good at catching errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Really what we wanna know is if they enjoyed the story, if there&#8217;s any part of it where they lost interest or didn&#8217;t feel believable, or just wasn&#8217;t working for them. So that&#8217;s editing. So there you are. You&#8217;ve got your book completely editing, it&#8217;s ready to go. It&#8217;s in manuscript format, just in a Word document on your computer, or in a Word program, a writing program of some kind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now what? Okay, so there&#8217;s two tracks. There&#8217;s ebook publishing and there&#8217;s print publishing. In my opinion, these are two ways to get your book out and two ways that are essential. Of course, there&#8217;s other versions of publishing too. There&#8217;s audio, there&#8217;s serial fiction, and I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;ll be more kinds of publishing your story than I can even think of because we&#8217;re creatives, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>E-Book Publishing\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, e-book publishing. You can upload your manuscript to a site like draft2digital, and it will convert it for you, and it will even put it up on the vendor sites, Amazon, Barnes and Noble. iTunes. Awesome, right? Great. So easy. Technology&#8217;s made it so easy to publish today. There are a few things you need to prepare before you do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Your Meta Data<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number one: You need a title for your book and in some cases a subtitle. Of course, you need to have an author name, which is usually your name, although some people want pen names. That&#8217;s something to consider. You need a cover. A cover is a very important marketing tool, as is the title. Everything we&#8217;re gonna talk about now is about marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you have title, you have a cover that you need to have appropriate for your genre, its own huge conversation, and you need the book blurb, the book description, which is a sales tool. You need to write that. You need an author bio that&#8217;s also shows you off. This is also a sales tool. Then you need to know what categories should the bookstores put your books in, and what are the keywords. This is for helping people find your book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Put all of that information into one document&#8211; this is all called the metadata&#8211; and will follow your book to every vendor site, whether it&#8217;s Amazon, Books a Million, Barnes and Noble. You do need to spend time on this with careful thought and consideration as you did to your book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is all the marketing material that will help sell your book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have that and your cover ready, you can upload everything into draft2digital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that&#8217;s for eBooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Print Publishing<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For print, if you want to nerd out, there&#8217;s lots of information online about layout. There&#8217;s a wiki for book design that I used when I first started designing books. Amazon can print your book. There&#8217;s also Ingram Spark. It&#8217;s a print-on-demand service like a lot of others out there. And you only need to print the books that you need so that you can sell them at your events or book signings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do give yourself four to six weeks to upload your books. With digital, it takes 24 to 48 hours to get your books up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With print, it can take a few weeks, depending on how many drafts you want to look at. I do recommend that you ship yourself a book before you publish to make sure that you like what you&#8217;ve created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there&#8217;s the rundown on self-publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What to Price Your Book<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s one more element I forgot to put in the metadata, which is price. When you think of an ebook price and a print price, they&#8217;re not the same. And for all of this, see what your fellow authors in your genre are creating. Make sure that your cover is attractive to your readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure your price is a no-brainer. Don&#8217;t price your book way outside the range of what your compadres, your cohorts, and your genre are charging unless you have a very good reason for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Join A Writing Community<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. Do join writers&#8217; communities in your area, online, in your genre, so that you can get support, you can trade business ideas and marketing ideas, and just commiserate with other writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s my low down on self-publishing on November 24th, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay tuned. These things will change. I&#8217;m sure. Bye-bye. Happy writing. Happy publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there you go. Self-publishing. In 10 minutes on the streets of Oakland by Beth Barany creativity coach for writers, award-winning novelist, and creativity entrepreneurship junkie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for playing!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a fabulous, fabulous week. I look forward to connecting with you next time in our next How To Write The Future episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much, everyone, for listening to my podcast. Your interest and feedback is so inspiring to me and helps me know that I&#8217;m helping you in some small way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you stuck and overwhelmed by world-building?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then check out my new World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head over to HowToWriteTheFuture.com and sign up for yours today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY<a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25580 size-full\" title=\"Image of Beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px.png 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Barany teaches science fiction and fantasy novelists how to write, edit, and publish their books as a coach, teacher, consultant, and developmental editor. She\u2019s an award-winning fantasy and science fiction novelist and runs the podcast, \u201cHow To Write The Future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Beth Barany at these sites:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaching site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/baranyschooloffiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Fiction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersfunzone.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer\u2019s Fun Zone blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CONNECT<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact Beth: <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/podcast\/#tve-jump-185b4422580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/podcast\/#tve-jump-185b4422580<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email: beth@bethbarany.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bethbarany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bethbarany\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CREDITS\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDITED WITH DESCRIPT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.descript.com?lmref=_w1WCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.descript.com?lmref=_w1WCA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MUSIC: 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