Kickstarter: Bringing Creative Projects To Life With Russell Nohelty

ALAB 106 Russell Nohelty | Kickstarter

Tips and tricks on kickstarting your creative ideas are okay, but finding a home for your concepts is even better. Bestselling author Russell Nohelty believes that art and creative expression are essential to society. Russell joins Ella Barnard in this episode to present a new, innovative, safe space for artists to showcase their work. Kickstarter is a […]

How To Prevent and Combat Burnout As An Author With Brooklyn Knight

ALAB 104 | Combat Burnout

How do you combat burnout as an author? With deadlines to meet and edits to make, it often gets overwhelming and creatively stifling to deal with all these. To tackle this, host Ella Barnard chats with interracial romance author Brooklyn Knight. After a recent burnout episode, Brooklyn quit her job to become a full-time author. Here, […]

From IT To Writing Cozy Mysteries With Sue Hollowell

ALAB 103 | Cozy Mysteries

There is no deadline to finding your passion. Today’s guest is transitioning from her 33 years of experience in IT to pursuing her love for writing cozy mysteries. Sue Hollowell is a wife and empty nester with a lot of mom left over. But, with newfound time on her hands and a love for mystery novels, she […]

When Life Happens: The Journey Through My Podcast Break With Alana Terry

ALAB 102 | Podcast Break

Taking a break from things that feel heavy is essential for our sanity. This is true, especially when we find it hard to cope with everything around us. After a two-year podcast break, Ella Barnard is back with a refreshing stance on podcasting. She sits down with her good friend Alana Terry and answers questions about what […]

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Pushing Boundaries in Your Writing Skin with K Webster

In this episode with K. Webster, you’ll learn how the one of the biggest setbacks helped her to persevere and find herself and her new “writing skin.” You’ll also learn what makes her novels so unique, and why Amazon banned one of her books for being way “too wild” for the platform. You don’t want […]

Facebook Ads for Authors with Alana Terry

This week I got to chat with the lovely Alana Terry about how she has created systems that ensure her success AND how she transformed her mindset around money and now uses Facebook Ads to put her books in front of readers and make consistent income. You don’t want to miss it. Listen here –  […]

Bringing Your “Weird” to Your Writing with Molly Fitz

In this episode with Molly Fitz (aka Melissa Storm), we talked about engaging your readers and working the algorithms, all while being your weird, authentic self and having fun. You don’t want to miss it. Listen here –  Here are just a few of the things we touched on: How she ran ads to the […]

Writing (& Succeeding) with Mental Illness with Melissa Storm

Melissa Storm believes in angels and in true love and she writes about both in her USA Today bestselling Christian Romances. She’s and entrepreneur, mom, reality TV addict, domestic zoo keeper, founder of LitRing and a jillion other businesses, former gastric bypass patient, quirky person, your new best friend… You don’t want to miss it. […]