EP301: Caimh McDonnell — Stranger Fiction

Bestselling indie author Caimh McDonnell makes a triumphant return to the podcast as Transworld author CK McDonnell with his new novel Stranger Times. Caimh tells us how he took everything he learned as an indie author to pitch this book to traditional publishers. We discuss launching a book during lockdown, inventive book marketing ideas, why selling humour is tricky, and being a squeaky wheel…

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Here are some of the links we talked about in the show…

Mr Stay’s unboxing video: https://youtu.be/ZpbbRBm_6xw
Caimh’s online launch party: https://youtu.be/VdZSthXa4E0
Caimh’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Caimh
The Kindle Storyteller Awards episode with Ian W Sainsbury and Caimh McDonnell: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep238-ian-w-sainsbury-kindle-storyteller-award-winner/
“Philanthropreneur” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropreneur
Sign up to Mr Stay’s newsletter to get details of his launch party: https://witchesofwoodville.com/#library
The Mark Edwards episode where he told us about his launch party: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep35-mark-edwards/
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