Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing EP 120 - Writing All The Things WIth Leah Cutter

In this episode, Mark has a chat with Leah Cutter who writes page-turning, wildly imaginative fiction set in exotic locations, such as a magical New Orleans, the ancient Orient, rural Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many others.

Prior to the main episode content, Mark shares a quick personal update that includes details related to his writing income for 2019.

2019 Writing Income 64.97% Self Published 15.03% Traditional Publishing 20.00% Mixed Self and Trad

He also shares a word about this episode's sponsor, Findaway Voices...

You can learn more about how you can get your work distributed to retailers and library systems around the world at starkreflections.ca/Findaway.

In their discussion Leah and Mark discuss:

• Leah's choice of doing the interview and some writing at a local coffee shop
• How Leah does the majority of her writing during the week in the tiny house she lives and works in during the week
• Leah's 8 year old document that stated that when she grew up she wanted to be a writer
• The way that Leah only writes on one specific project at a time (despite writing broadly in multiple genres)
• How each new project she works on must pass "the giggle test" and how she can't write something that she's not truly excited about
• Leah's writer tagline as "Writer/Traveler"
• How many projects Leah publishers in a given year
• The decision Leah made to publish something new once a month every month for the past three years
• How Leah knows if a project is going to be a story, a novella, or a novel
• The fact that Leah has a seperate writing computer and a separate writing desk in her tiny house where she divides up the different types of work
• The "Business for Breakfast" books that Leah has published
• The strategy of publishing to the 30 day Amazon pulse while still publishing wide to other platforms
• The two flavors of newsletters that Leah produces based on things she learned from Tammi Lebreque's Newsletter Ninja course
• ...and more...

After the interview, Mark reflects on Leah'a positive attitude, her passion, and the dual newsletters that she produces each month for her followers.

Links of Interest:

• Leah Cutter's Website
• WMG Publishing Workshops
• Findaway Voices
• Patreon for Stark Reflections

The 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