Blondie and the Brit

This week on Blondie and the Brit we welcome back our Podcast Award Winner Kim Hunt Harris. Kim won for her Best Fangirl Story with her story about meeting Diana Gabaldon from Outlander fame.

Kim writes humorous women fiction and is about to release her latest cozy mystery, Knickers in a Twist. In this interview, we discuss the highs and lows of writing comedy. Kim also shares with us some of her book marketing strategies, from email list building to newsletter management. Ever considered creating an audio book? Kim talks about her experience with that as well. Don't miss this fun but informative episode.

Kim is also part of our #SummerBookBlast Facebook party and Kinde Fire giveaway. Join us June 16th for a lot fun and great prizes hereon Facebook.

This week we are excited to bring you award-winning author Martin Lastrapes, a great friend to Blondie and the Brit and one of our Podcast Heroes. Martin brings to the show all the weight of his comedy and interviewing expertise from his own podcast, "The Martin Lastrapes Podcast Hour" (check it out here).

This is a fun upbeat interview that also has very poignant moments where Martin opens up about the struggles we all face on the writer's journey. Don't miss this open, funny, 'telling it like it is' interview with one of our favorite guests.

This week we are excited to air a brand new interview with one of our podcast heroes, Amazon best-selling author Susan Wingate. A lot of laughter in this one as it is always a fun interview with Susan. We delve into her latest woman's thriller she is working on, and dreamabout clones helping us get everything done. She also gave us a behind the scenes of her ongoing success and how she uses google analytics and book awards to promote book sales.What your clone doing today?

This week on Blondie and the Brit we head back in time to revisit our premier podcast interview with successful author Darynda Jones. We were fortunate to land our very first interview with Darynda who is a USA Today and New YorkTimes best-selling author. Sheshared her journey of how she was first discovered and also talks about her writing process. Daryndaentertained us with a behind the scenes view of her characters in the Charlie Davidson Series. Regularly a traditionally published author, she also talks to about stepping out into the world of Indie publishing for the first time.

Ever wonder what makes a great book cover? This week we revisit a very informative podcast where we interview our very own KJ Waters and her business partner, Jody Smyers. Together they have a book cover business called Blondie's Custom Book Covers. In this episode we discussSuzanne's first book cover, that KJ and Jodydesigned, as an example of whatelements to consider when hiring someone to create a book cover for you. As the very first thing your readers will see, your cover is a crucial part of packaging your book.

This week we are excited to re-air the interview with Blondie and Brit Podcast Award winner, Jeri Walker. Jeri is an outstanding editor and her skills include all elements of manuscript editing and profreading. We have both used her and love her work. She is a former English teacher who also runs a highly successful blog with writing tips called WordBank.

Jeri discusses how she made her blog so successful, and how she encourages people to comment on it. She also talks about her first novel, Lost Girl Road, and gives advice on how to choose an editor, and how she works with a style sheet. Don't miss this great episode.

This week we re-introduce you to another of our Blondie and The Brit podcast winners, J.D. Lex. J.D. won our audience choice for Funniest Podcast. Check out our funniest lighting round to date at the end of the show. J.D. kept us highly amused throughout the interview as he shared his authorjourney, spontaneous writing style, and entrepreneurial spirit. We know you will enjoy this one!

This week we are excited to bring you another amazing Blondie and the Brit podcast winner. Terry Persun was a recipient of one of our two best overall podcast awards for everything he brought to the show. So much here, including his amazing book knowledge, helpful writing process, and great sense of humor. Stroll down memory lane with us as we revisit his in depth interview about writing across different genres, his inspiration practices of meditation and poetry to help free up his mind for the writing process, and how to have deeper conversations on social media, plus so much more.

This week we were excited to talk with Vaun Murphrey, an amazing author who is therecipient of our Most Inspired StorytellingPodcast award. Vaun details her recent book launch of The Blood Keyand some of the strategies she used for this and previous launches including using Net Galley for reivews. Other selling strategies she uses areselling books at Comic Con events, submiting short stories for awards, and attending conferences. Don't miss Vaun's other interview last year and her foray into last weeks Blooper Reel.

We are taking a break from our usual podcast format to bring you our one and only Blopper Show!Ever wonder what isleft on the cutting room floor when we air a podcast? Here is apeek at some of our goofier moments. Join us and our amazing guests, Vaun Murphrey, Jody Smyers, Mark Sadler, Nicole Waggoner, Barbara Sissel, Joey Pinkney, Gisela Haussmann, Thelma Adams, David Estes, Nicole Persun, Kerry Schafer, and Elie Alexander, as we go behind the scenes at Blondie and the Brit.