Your Breakout Book
Welcome to Your Breakout Book, the podcast that helps authors like you write, publish and prosper. Hosted by Dana Kaye, founder of Kaye Publicity, Your Breakout Book is a combination of live audio trainings and expert interviews, providing everything you need to launch your own breakout book. If you’re looking to implement long-term, sustainable strategies that ensure your readers will come back for every book you write, then you, my friend, are in the right place.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
The Full Time Author: Lessons from the Your Breakout Book Conference
All month, we’ve been learning about what it takes to become a full-time author. Here are the two big takeaways: there’s no one way to do it and success does not equate to writing full time. You can …
Choosing Not to Be a Full-Time Author with Gigi Pandian
This month, we’re focusing on what it takes to quit your day job and become a full-time author. We learned how Rachael Herron used Patreon to fill in the financial gap left by her day job. We heard h…
How Ghostwriting Helped Keir Graff Write Full-Time
When you think about life as a full-time writer, it might seem like a solitary practice. But for today’s guest, it was actually his extensive network of publishing people that helped him smoothly tra…
How Patreon Helped Rachael Herron Write Full-Time
This month, we’re focusing on what it takes to quit your day job and become a full-time author. For most, the transition to full time means writing more and finding new and creative ways to monetize …
Welcome to Season 2 + January Theme
Welcome to Season 2 of Your Breakout Book, the podcast that helps authors like you write, publish and prosper. I’m Dana Kaye, the founder of Kaye Publicity, and I’ve dedicated the majority of my life…
[BONUS] Interview with Kaye Publicity Marketing Coordinator, Hailey Dezort
This is our final bonus episode of Your Breakout Book, where I’m revisiting interviews with some of the most knowledgeable and encouraging publishing pros. Here to round out our replays is none other…
[BONUS] Interview with Jane Friedman of The Hot Sheet
\This is our second bonus episode of Your Breakout Book, where I’m revisiting interviews with some of the most knowledgeable and encouraging publishing pros. Today, I’m thrilled to re-introduce Jane …
[BONUS] Interview with Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn
Welcome to our first bonus episode of Your Breakout Book! These bonus episodes are previously recorded and will hopefully tide you over until the season two premiere in January.
First up, is an interv…
Taking Action as an Author
If you've listened to all six episodes, congratulations! You now have an understanding of what it takes to launch your breakout book. But knowledge is meaningless without action. So this week, I’m sh…
Community Outreach: The 3rd Pillar of Successful Book PR
In the last episode, we discussed two crucial pillars in a successful PR campaign: publicity and marketing. Today’s focus is on the third pillar: community outreach. When it comes to generating word …
Publicity vs. Marketing (and Why You Need Both!)
As a publicist, I am constantly hearing from people that they “want to get their name out there” or that they “need more media coverage.” But in my 10 years working in PR, I find that most people rea…
How to Identify and Establish Your Author Brand
Readers are risk averse. They don’t want to invest time and money on something unless they know it’s good. According to Nielsen, 60% of readers buy books from authors they like or because they’ve enj…
Focus on the Fans (Not the Numbers)
Is it better to reach a new reader or cultivate a relationship with an existing one? A variation of this question is, is it more expensive to sign a new client or re-up with an existing one?
Too often…
Welcome to Your Breakout Book!
Welcome to Your Breakout Book, the podcast that helps authors like you write, publish and prosper. I’m Dana Kaye, the founder of Kaye Publicity, and I’ve dedicated the majority of my life to helping …