Chatting with Russell was like eating beets – you might not like them, but you can’t deny they’re good for you!
Fortunately, I love beets, and I LOVED chatting with Russell. He is a marketing genius with a heart of gold and a mouthful of snark.
He generously shares how he went from screenwriter, to comic book writer, to novelist. He’s partway into his 18 books in 18 months intention, and shares his step-by-step process for that, plus so much more…
You don’t want to miss it. Listen here –
Here are just a few of the things we touched on:
- How he broke all the comic book rules and made it big
- How he had a six-figure year as an “outsider” in the industry
- What publishers are really saying when they reject your book… it’s not what you think.
- Why you should independently publish first, even if you want to traditionally publish
- What it looks like to write a book a month (it’s super sexy)
- His recommended article for outlining, “How to write a book in 3 days”
- What is the “Amazon cliff” and why it will impact your author career
- How connecting with (and befriending) creatives is an important part of your author marketing
- The impact of showing up as an artist over and over and over
About the Author
Russell Nohelty is a writer, publisher, and consultant. He runs Wannabe Press, a small press that publishes weird books for weird people, and hosted The Business of Art podcast for almost 200 episodes, which helped creatives build better business. He’s run successful Kickstarter campaigns for Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter, Katrina Hates the Dead, My Father Didn’t Kill Himself, Spaceship Broken: Needs Repairs, and I Can’t Stop Tooting: A Love Story, Monsters and other Scary Shit, and Pixie Dust raising over $70,000 on the platform to date, including two campaigns that raised over $25,000 each. He’s also written several graphic novels, novels, and children’s books which can all be found on his site, www.russellnohelty.com.
For the last several years, Russell has cataloged and documented his own struggles to build a creative business. He interviewed hundreds of other successful creators and dissected their stories to find out how they built and sustained their careers. He compiled all the lessons, successes, and failures he learned into his book Sell Your Soul: How to Build a Creative Business, a practical guide to building a sustainable business as a creative.
Now, he is dedicated to showing other creatives how to build their own businesses by hosting workshops, developing courses, and traveling the country with his book. He truly believes anybody can be a success as long as they treat themselves like an entrepreneur and run their career like a business.
You can check out his books for yourself by joining his mailing list at www.russellnohelty.com/mail, where he’ll send you a collection of his books for free.
You can find him:
@russellnohelty on Twitter and Instagram. /russellnohelty on Facebook
Russell’s recommended reference for writing: http://selfpublishingmastery.com/
Russell’s recommended reference for marketing: www.thecompletecreative.com
