Episode 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
Mark then shares a word about this episode’s sponsor.
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In their discussion Leah and Mark discuss:
Leah’s choice of doing the interview and some writing at a local coffee shopHow Leah does the majority of her writing during the week in the tiny house she lives and works in during the weekLeah’s 8 year old document that stated that when she grew up she wanted to be a writerThe 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 aboutLeah’s writer tagline as “Writer/Traveler”How many projects Leah publishers in a given yearThe decision Leah made to publish something new once a month every month for the past three yearsHow Leah knows if a project is going to be a story, a novella, or a novelThe 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 workThe “Business for Breakfast” books that Leah has publishedThe strategy of publishing to the 30 day Amazon pulse while still publishing wide to other platformsThe 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 WebsiteWMG Publishing WorkshopsFindaway VoicesPatreon for Stark Reflections
Leah Cutter 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.
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She writes fantasy, science fiction, mystery, literary, and horror fiction. Her short fiction has been published in magazines like “Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine” and “Talebones”, anthologies like Fiction River, and on the web. Her long fiction has been published both by New York publishers as well as small presses.
Read more books by Leah Cutter at http://www.KnottedRoadPress.com.
Follow her blog at http://www.LeahCutter.com.
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
