Wish I'd Known Then . . . For Writers

🥳 200 Episodes! What We Learned + Trends that will Impact Authors in 2024 📈

Sara Rosett and Jami Albright Episode 200

Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.

0:00 | 42:28

Episode 200 / We’re celebrating 200 episodes with a look back (what we learned in 2023) and a look forward to 2024 (trends that matter to authors). 

We’re so happy to have such a warm community around the podcast! Thanks for listening and supporting us during the last four years. 

Here’s to the next 200 episodes! 🥂

💜 🎙 Become a supporter of the podcast! We can’t wait to give you a shoutout in a future episode. https://wishidknownforwriters.com/support


Top Episodes in 2023:

  1. How to Thrive in a Flooded Market: Discussing Becca Syme’s New Rules of Publishing
  2. Angel Lawson on Learning to Use Tropes and Universal Fantasy
  3. How to Use Tropes to Create Strong Characters and Deepen Conflict with Jennifer Hilt
  4. How to Pace Your Novel with Ines Johnson
  5. Olivia Hayle on Reader-Centric Books and Promotion


First episode released on Jan 15, 2020! 


Top episodes (All Time):

  1. Zoe York on Secret Pen Names, Iterating Your Goals, and Tik Tok for Authors
  2. Holly Darling on the Power of an Email Welcome Sequence
  3. Book Launch Plans: The Mega Episode (Reair)
  4. Tammi Labrecque on What to Email to Newsletter Subscribers
  5. What We Wish We’d Known About Creating Characters


Life Trends from Accenture: “trends that will give businesses a way to navigate change in the next 12 months and beyond.” 


Trend discussed that impact authors: 

-Customer service

-Branding

-Disengaging from tech


Link to article: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/song/accenture-life-trends


Link to Infographic:

https://www.accenture.com/content/dam/accenture/final/capabilities/song/communicate/imagery/LifeTrends24-Infographic.pdf


Year in Review Sell More Books Show episode:

https://www.sellmorebooksshow.com/episode-507-self-publishing-2023-the-year-in-review-with-becca-syme/


Send a text

Support the show

🚀 Jami’s Consulting and Workshops: https://www.jamialbright.com/authorworkshops

❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5

🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/

📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/

The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast

Podcasts we love

Check out these other fine podcasts recommended by us, not an algorithm.

Kobo Writing Life Podcast Artwork

Kobo Writing Life Podcast

Kobo Writing Life
The Indy Author Podcast Artwork

The Indy Author Podcast

Matty Dalrymple, The Indy Author
What If? For Authors Artwork

What If? For Authors

Claire Taylor
The Rebel Author Podcast Artwork

The Rebel Author Podcast

The Rebel Author Podcast
Novel Marketing Artwork

Novel Marketing

Thomas Umstattd Jr.
The Two Authors’ Podcast Artwork

The Two Authors’ Podcast

Harvey Books, LLC
Self-Publishing with ALLi Artwork

Self-Publishing with ALLi

Alliance of Independent Authors
Buzzcast Artwork

Buzzcast

Buzzsprout
Crowdfunding Nerds: Kickstarter Marketing, Business, & Beyond! Artwork

Crowdfunding Nerds: Kickstarter Marketing, Business, & Beyond!

Crowdfunding Nerds: Kickstarter Marketing For Board Games & Beyond!
The Sell More Books Show: Book Marketing, Digital Publishing and Kindle News, Tools and Advice Artwork

The Sell More Books Show: Book Marketing, Digital Publishing and Kindle News, Tools and Advice

Bryan Cohen and H. Claire Taylor: Self Publishing Author Entrepreneurs
Self Publishing Insiders Artwork

Self Publishing Insiders

Draft2Digital, Kevin Tumlinson, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Dan Wood
November Learning Artwork

November Learning

November Learning
SPA Girls Podcast Artwork

SPA Girls Podcast

SPA Girls podcast - self publishing for authors
Author Update Artwork

Author Update

Thomas Umstattd Jr.
The Thing About Austen Artwork

The Thing About Austen

The Thing About Austen