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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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Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Biz Buzz
Celebrating International Children's Book Day
Happy International Children's Book Day to you! Coming up on April 2, ICBD is a celebration of all things children's books. In this week's Biz Buzz segment, we dive a little deeper into the celebration like why it's on April 2, who puts the celebration together, and how we can all celebrate this day. Plus, we talk a little about the book award that accompanies this celebration - the Hans Christen Andersen Book Award.
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Biz Buzz Segment: Celebrating International Children's Book Day (4:22)
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Book award episode: And the Award Goes To...
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Biz Buzz
What Is Poetizer?
In this week's segment, we review the Poetizer platform where poets can share their poems in a social media platform geared specifically towards poetry. Plus, the platform offers poets a way to create and publish a book using the poems they create and share on the platform.
We look at the platform from our experience as publishing professionals and share what we learned and some pros and cons of using the Poetizer platform.
If you are a poet, we'd love to hear about your own experience with Poetizer or if we have missed anything in our poetry disucssion!
Timestamps
Biz Buzz Segment: What Is Poetizer? (2:41)
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From Publisher's Weekly - Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
From The Guardian - "We're Losing Accessibility": the US says goodbye to the mass-market paperback
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2026
Tuesday Mar 17, 2026
Biz Buzz
Ghost Categories On Amazon
What is a ghost category and why should you stay away from them? Amazon rarely makes it easy for us to understand the inner workings of the website. In this week's Biz Buzz segment we talk about one of the confusing parts of Amazon's website - the ghost category.
When a publisher puts a book on sale, they have the option to select three categories from a prescriptive list. But Amazon doesn't have to use those categories to sell books to it's customers. Often times a publisher (or author) will inadvertently select a category that does not match with the categories on Amazon which places the book into what we call ghost categories.
We talk all about these categories, how to avoid them and even if you should avoid them, and much on in this segment.
Timestamps
Biz Buzz Segment: The Ghost Categories On Amazon (4:45)
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From Publisher's Weekly - Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
From The Guardian - "We're Losing Accessibility": the US says goodbye to the mass-market paperback
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2026
Tuesday Mar 10, 2026
Biz Buzz
The Death of the Mass Market Paperback
Recently, news came out announcing the death of a popular book format - the mass market paperback. At the end of 2025, the largest distributor of the mass market paperback disclosed they are no longer distributing them to retailers.
So what is a mass market paperback and why are we sad to see them go?
We look at the life of the mass market book and their impact on the publishing industry in this week's segment.
Want to learn more? We've linked two articles down below where we did most of our research.
Timestamps
Biz Buzz Segment: The Death of the Mass Market Paperback (2:04)
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From Publisher's Weekly - Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
From The Guardian - "We're Losing Accessibility": the US says goodbye to the mass-market paperback
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Tuesday Mar 03, 2026
Tuesday Mar 03, 2026
Biz Buzz
What does it mean to have won a book award? Who gives these awards? And how can you apply? We take a closer look at the book award industry to help authors (and publishing professionals!) better understand how book awards fit into the publishing industry.
We look into some of the more well know awards, discuss what these awards recognize, and look at how authors or their publisher put their books into consideration for these awards.
Guest Interview
Dani Rosenblad James is back as a returning guest to discuss what she's been up to in the past year and half. We start off reflecting on her book launch for The Wandering Heart where she became an international bestseller! Then Dani talks about her newest venture working with other writers on their own stories. Finally, Dani gives us just a little teaser look into her new project!
Timestamps
Biz Buzz Segment: And the award goes to... (2:49)
Guest Interview: Dani Rosenblad James (26:28)
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Guest Links
Dani Rosenblad James: Website - Instagram - Facebook - The Wandering Heart - The Storyteller's Path
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Tuesday Feb 17, 2026
Tuesday Feb 17, 2026
Romance Is In The Air!
This week we celebrate Valentine's Day by talking about the romance genre! Everyone has fallen in love with romance so we talk about the effects this has on the genre specifically and the industry as a whole.
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Biz Buzz
Happy Valentine's Day from The Author's Voice! On this week's Biz Buzz we talk about the popularity of romance books. From the image of a shirtless Fabio-type on the cover of the book to the varied genres of romance books, there is a romance book out there for pretty much anyone. So we talk about what makes a book a romance book, the genres romance tropes can be found in, and why everyone seems to fall in love with romance lately.
Timestamps
Biz Buzz Segment: Why Romance Books Are So Popular! (2:44)
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Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
Readers Can Now Ask Your Book A Question
In what surprises no one, Amazon released a new feature on some Kindle apps that allows readers to ask a book a question with a response from an AI chat bot.
Biz Buzz
Within the last month or so, Amazon has released a new product feature in some Kindle apps called Ask This Book. So we ask each other what the Ask This Book feature is and why some authors and publishers are not too happy with this new feature.
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Biz Buzz Segment: Amazon's Ask This Book Feature
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Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Changing how DRM works with Amazon e-books
Amazon is always changing and evolving and we're staying updated with all those changes so you don't have to. In the latest big change, Amazon is changing how authors work with DRM in their e-books. We talk about all fo that and more in this week's Biz Buzz segment.
Biz Buzz
There is one BIG massive change coming soon to Amazon that will effect both authors AND readers. Beginning in late January 2026, Amazon is changing the way authors will grant DRM permissions for their e-books. We talk about what that change is, what DRM is, and how this change will change both the author and reader experience on the Amazon Kindle.
Timestamps
Biz Buzz Segment: DRM and Amazon (3:14)
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