How Writing Work For Hire Books Led To Becoming An Indie Author With Aubre Andrus

How can you blend ‘work for hire', ghostwriting, and being an indie author into a successful hybrid career writing books for children? Aubre Andrus gives her tips. 27:25 - Interview starts
In the intro, Countdown Pages on FindawayVoices by Spotify; the impact of AI narrated audiobooks on Audible [Bloomberg (www.bloomberg....) ]; Ideas for short fiction anthologies and Kevin J. Anderson's Kickstarter (www.kickstarte...) ; Penguin Random House launches internal ChatGPT tool for employees [Publishers Lunch (lunch.publishe...) ]; 2024 is the year AI at work gets real [Microsoft (www.microsoft....) ].
Plus, reasons for the new theme music, licensed from AudioJungle (audiojungle.net/) for 10m downloads (the podcast is up to 9.7 million with the old tune); and planning for my Kickstarter launch for Spear of Destiny (www.jfpenn.com...) .
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Aubre Andrus is an award-winning children's author with more than 50 books, as well as being a ghostwriter and former American Girl magazine editor. Her books, The Look Up Series, feature women in STEM careers.
• The background of the American Girl brand
• Pros and cons of work for hire and ghostwriting
• Work for hire best practices to make it worth the money
• Differences in work for hire contracts and payment models
• How to seek out work for hire projects
• Using lessons learned from past projects in your own series
• Creative control over content and marketing a self-published author
• Marketing self-published children's books
You can find Aubre at AubreAndrus.com (www.aubreandru...)
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Your podcast quit playing on my Amazon's Alexa for the last 2 weeks (not sure if that's intentional or not) but I'm so glad you put them on youtube as well!
I just wanted to say I LOVE doors also and my next fiction book is called The Door 🤣I take it just a step further and photograph ceilings, floors and fancy sinks! It's the little things that bring me bursts of joy!

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I also photograph ceilings :)