Scaling An Author Business With Rachel McLean [Video]

How do you successfully scale an author business? How do you delegate to your team as well as continue to research and write the books you love? With award-winning crime author, Rachel McLean.

In the intro, new Kindle devices [Amazon (https://amazon2022tf.q4web.com/news/news-details/2024/Amazon-Launches-Entirely-New-Kindle-Lineup-Including-Reimagined-Kindle-Scribe-and-First-Ever-Color-Kindle/default.aspx) ]; new European markets for Spotify audiobooks [Spotify (https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-10-14/audiobooks-launch-france-belgium-netherlands-luxembourg/) ]; customisable audio with Google NotebookLM (https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-update-october-2024/) ;
Amazon Ads launches new AI tools for advertisers (https://amazon2022tf.q4web.com/news/news-details/2024/Amazon-Ads-Launches-New-AI-Tools-for-Advertisers–AI-Creative-Studio-and-Audio-Generator/default.aspx) ;
Enhancing Creativity with AI Tools [ALLi (https://selfpublishingadvice.org/creativity-with-ai/) ]; My Lessons Learned from 10 Million Downloads of the show (https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2024/10/16/7-lessons-learned-from-over-10-million-downloads-of-the-creative-penn-podcast/) ; and Blood Vintage Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thecreativepenn/blood-vintage-a-folk-horror-novel) wrap-up.

Today’s show is sponsored by Draft2Digital (http://www.draft2digital.com/) , self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Just go to www.draft2digital.com (https://www.draft2digital.com/)  to get started.

This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn (https://www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn)  

Rachel McLean is the award-winning author of the Dorset Crime series, as well as other crime books, and has now sold over 2 million copies.
• Making the decision to scale your author business
• Hiring multiple freelancers with different skillsets
• Money and lifestyle as a source of motivation
• Writing with multiple co-authors and creating a small imprint
• How to write what readers want to read
• Moving your readers from KU to other platforms
• Selling audiobooks direct using Shopify and BookFunnel
• Using AI tools for location research
• Publishing videos on socials to humanise your brand

You can find Rachel at RachelMcLean.com (https://rachelmclean.com/) .