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Marketing Mastery: Essential Tips for Indie Authors with Author Rodney Miles

Author
Teri M Brown
Published
Sat 02 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://brownterim.podbean.com/e/marketing-mastery-essential-tips-for-indie-authors-with-author-rodney-miles/

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Rodney Miles, author of the book The Book Dude's Guide to Self-Publishing. He is here to chat about indie marketing.


 


Rodney is a self-publishing expert, consultant, and provider of author services.  In over 14 years he has helped create and publish over 300 books for clients and helped launch careers for authors and speakers, including self-help, business, memoir, fiction, and children's books. He writes about his experiences and methods anyone can follow in his latest book, The Book Dude's Guide to Self-Publishing: The Modern Author.


 


At the age of 40 Rodney re-created himself by going back to college and ghostwriting for a penny a word. Fourteen years later he brings all of that life and professional experience together and shares it now so we can all make our own contribution to what he calls the "Great Library." 


 


His message is that (A) your story is important, (B) you really don't know how much you know until you write a book, and (C) the process of creating a book when done right is fun, revealing, surprisingly therapeutic, and life-changing. 


 


He finds almost all authors only regret not doing it sooner, and with a good process, almost anyone can and should write a book.


 


The Book Dude’s Guide to Self-Publishing, Book 1: The Modern Author, brings you up to speed on the industry as it is now versus where it has been in the past. It reveals secrets and exploited misunderstandings that will save you time, effort, even embarrassment, so your book project as well as your finished book are the best they can be and just as important, accomplish your goal(s). It explains platforms, procedures, and the publishing industry as it was and as it is today. It lays out those things typically explained in intro and strategy calls with new clients diving into creating a book for the first time. It’s about being safe and savvy.


 


Start your adventure! Discover not only your best path forward with your project and book, but the myriad options we enjoy today as indies. Buy, read, review, and share The Book Dude’s Guide to Self-Publishing. Add your ideas to the Great Library and live your dreams as an AUTHOR.


 


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Join the Novels N Latte Book Club community to discuss this and other books with like-minded readers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3576519880426290


 


You can follow Author Rodney Miles


Website: www.RodneyMiles.com


 


Purchase The Book Dude's Guide to Self-Publishing on Amazon:


Paperback: https://amzn.to/3FCJ3cO


Ebook: https://amzn.to/3ZBTG6H


 


Teri M Brown, Author and Podcast Host: https://www.terimbrown.com


FB: @TeriMBrownAuthor


IG: @terimbrown_author


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Want to be a guest on Online for Authors? Send Teri M Brown a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/onlineforauthors


 


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