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In this solo episode leveraging Mark’s voice clone from ElevenLabs, Mark shares an excerpt from his recent book STARK REALITIES: Stacked-up Lessons Every Writer Needs To Know About The Business of Writing and Publishing. The chapter is called “You Don’t Need Permission: On Passion, Authenticity, and Writing from the Nichest of Niches.”
Learn more about this book at markleslie.ca/starkrealities
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- Stark Realities Book
- Manuscript Report (Mark’s affiliate link – use MARK10 to save 10%)
- Buy Mark a Coffee
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- Mark’s YouTube channel
- ElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation – Affiliate link)
- Mark’s Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)
- An Author’s Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
- The Relaxed Author
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
- An Author’s Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
- Wide for the Win
- Mark’s Canadian Werewolf Books
- The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
- Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- I Think It’s A Sign That The Pun Also Rises
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
(Mark, Just catching up on podcasts. Only a month since you released this. Pretty good for me.)
I want to thank you for your candor about the cold, hard math of commercial success as a self-published author. True, the opportunities are many, legitimate, and honest but, unless an author devotes great amounts of time – or length of time – to seeking visibility, the chances of winning the lottery are remote. Even then, a great deal of luck is required. Sadly, depending on a great deal of luck is not a good business plan. Better to, as you said, enjoy the creative process separate from any financial factors.