Description
Watch this if you've been making the same goals over and over. Or Jump to Creative Q&A at 22:00.
🖋️ Want my help with your work? Go to kelseyhumphreys.com/faq
👋 If you’re new here I’m Kelsey—rom-com author, stand-up comic, and mom of six. I make real-life rants about mid-life, writing, creating and staying delulu with our creative dreams. I am a lot. Subscribe for weekly humor, heart, inspo, motivation and zero perfectionism.
Q&A street cred: I have published over 12 novels, made six figures in just over a year from booksales, have thousands of reviews and over 32 Million Kindle page reads.
________________________________________________________________
🔗 LINKS
🎁 Get a FREE full-length novel: https://kelseyhumphreys.com/freebie
______________________________________________________________
📌 FOLLOW ME
Instagram → http://instagram.com/thekelseyhumphreys
Amazon → https://www.amazon.com/author/kelseyhumphreys
________________________________________________________________
⏱️ CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Welcome & how to submit questions
0:47 - Personal update: Goal setting & a hard realization
2:00 - The 4-7 PM mom life struggle
3:00 - Achieving goals but still being unhappy
4:40 - The epiphany I had about JOY
6:00 - Choosing that joy over constant striving
8:15 - Almost turning joy into a content series 😂
9:00 - Nuking my Instagram & shutting down TikTok?!
11:30 - Releasing my personal brand & comedy career
12:00 - The ONE thing worth the "growth" hustle
13:00 - Cedar Rapids book signing recap & tips!
15:30 - Author event finances: Did I actually make money?
16:30 - Calculating the real cost of your time
18:00 - Meeting a frand from 2016
19:00 - My plan going forward
20:00 - Making it about the WORK, not the brand
22:00 - Q&A: How important are matching series titles?
23:00 - A genius title strategy
24:30 - Why similar titles make your series bingeable
26:00 - How I planned my bestselling series titles
28:00 - Tips for brainstorming great book titles
30:30 - Q&A: Should you pause to write and then rapid release?
32:30 - Staying top of mind
34:00 - How to choose your next series idea!
35:30 - Teaser: A CRAZY book announcement is coming 👀
36:00 - Outro & encouragement
________________________________________________________________
🏷️ tags: indie author, self-publishing, romance author, romcom author, book titles for series, how to title a book series, rapid release strategy, book marketing tips, author business tips, book signing recap, author event tips, author travel tips, making money as an author, email list for authors, growing your author business, writing a series, planning a book series, creative burnout, joy as a creative, doing less as a creator, letting go of social media, personal brand, content creator burnout, author life vlog, writer life vlog, life as an author, busy mom vlog, working mom vlog, author mom, write with me, indie author tips, self-published romance, Emily Henry book titles, Lucy Score, Megan Quinn, happy tears podcast