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The Author’s Voice, Candy, Colleen, and Peter, talk with each other and guests about how writers can take their book from Blank Page to Bestseller. From published authors to industry professionals and everyone in between, Blank Page to Bestseller sheds light on the many facets of the publishing industry.
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7 days ago
7 days ago
Biz Buzz
How To Prepare Your Book For Design
Once your book is all written, you've sent it off for the edit and proofread, and polished it as much as you can, it's time to set the book for design. But what does that mean? Who do you work with? How does you make sure your document is ready?
We talk all about the interior layout in this week's segment and touch on everything involved in the process. Whether you are preparing an ebook, an audiobook, or a physical book like a paperback or hardcover, have a proper design can save you delays with the printer, headaches from retailers, and complaints from your readers.
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Biz Buzz Segment: How to Prepare Your Book for Design
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Tuesday May 26, 2026
Tuesday May 26, 2026
Biz Buzz
FROM THE VAULT - Summer Beach Reads
This week's episode is everything you ever wanted to know about summer beach reads!
June is the start of summer which means vacation season. It seems like every bookseller, magazine, or any one related to the publishing industry are release their best summer beach reads list. But have you every wondered what a summer beach read is? Are you writing a beach read without knowing it? How can you capture the rise in book reading during the summer months? We answer all that and more in our Biz Buzz segment.
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Biz Buzz Segment: Summer Beach Reads (3:08)
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Tuesday May 19, 2026
Tuesday May 19, 2026
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How You Can Turn Your Book into a Film
Since the beginning of film, filmmakers have turned stories found in books, magazines, and other print formats into film adaptions for the big screen and television. Today, not much has changed!
So how do you take your book and turn it into a film or television series?
We talk about the process you might take to pitch your story, who you would talk with, and how involved you might be in the final production. Plus, CaZ shares her firsthand knowledge of the process.
We also talk about some of our favorite (and least favorite) book adaptions throughout the entire episode.
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Biz Buzz Segment: How You Can Turn Your Book into a Film (3:15)
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Tuesday May 12, 2026
Tuesday May 12, 2026
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Creating Our Mt. Rushmore of Authors
In this week's Biz Buzz, we celebrate our 100th episode with a monumental discussion! We each create a Mt. Rushmore of authors. What are the criteria? Who do we place on our own monuments? What authors do we have in common?
Whether you have listened to all 100 episodes or this is your first, we hope you enjoy this week's show. If you have listened to us before, we bet you'll understand why each of us selected the authors we did.
Let us know your four authors to memorialize in the comments or on social media!
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Biz Buzz Segment: Creating Our Mount Rushmore of Authors
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Tuesday May 05, 2026
Tuesday May 05, 2026
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Celebrating Mother's Day
We celebrate Mother's Day this week with a fun discussion about our favorite memories of reading or books with our mothers! What was each of our mother's favorite genres? Who did homework at the same time as their mother? What was the Christmas present of choice?
We celebrate our mom's and our love of books in this week's show.
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Biz Buzz Segment: Celebrating Mother's Day (2:00)
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Biz Buzz
What Are the Classics and Do We Need to Read Them?
This week, we ask the question, do we need to read the classics? As people who work inside the publishing industry do we need to know the classics and if so, why? As authors, editors, and other professionals inside the industry, having a base level of knowledge in the classic pieces of literature gives us the ability to have clear and easy to follow conversations about important parts of literature. We also talk about what makes a classic a classic and whether or not there are instant classics.
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Biz Buzz Segment: What Are the Classics and Do We Need to Read Them? (3:27)
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Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
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What Are Distributors and Do I Need One?
There is one area of the publishing industry authors do not normally interact with: distribution! But what are book distributors, who do they normally work with, and do authors actually use them? Most independent authors would be surprised to know who their book distributor is. Even if you are self-published your book has a distributor, you just may not have the option to choose a different one. Come learn more about a somewhat hidden part of the publishing industry.
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Biz Buzz Segment: What Are Distributors and Do I Need One? (2:36)
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
Biz Buzz
How Readers AND Authors Can Support Local Bookstores!
They say that bookstores are dying. That's not really true and whether you are a reader, an author, or a publisher you can help your local bookstore by buying books online. We discuss the site bookshop.org in this week's Biz Buzz segment. It's not always possible to visit your local bookstore and sometimes you want to support more than just one store, by using bookshop.org you can do just that!
Book Review
The Bookshop
Peter goes back into the archives for this week's show to bring back his review on The Bookshop. This book takes a closer look at the history of the American bookshop from Colonial times all the way to the recent present and everything in between. Where do you buy your books today?
Plus, he reviews the Kobo app with his book review as this was his first time reading a book on the Kobo phone app.
Timestamps
Biz Buzz Segment: How Readers AND Authors Can Use Bokshop.org (3:13)
Book Review: The Bookshop Review (27:20)
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