SPS-471: Finish Your Book, Superdraft with T.D. Donnelly
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are joined by Hollywood screenwriter and author Thomas Dean Donnelly to...
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SPS-470: Is the AI Deluge Hurting Us?
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca tackle a growing concern for indie authors: is the flood of AI-generated...
SPS-469: Are you Visible?
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are joined by Stuart Grant to talk about author discoverability in the a...
SPS-468: SPS Live is Coming to the USA!
Big news this week – The Self-Publishing Show Live is coming to the USA! James Blatch and Cissy Mecca reveal the plans for the first SPS Liv...
SPS-467: Amazon KDP Is Changing – Are You Ready?
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, it's launch day for Cissy Mecca's latest medieval romance, while James Blatch is getting serious abou...
SPS-466: Has Digital Narration Come of Age?
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca catch up from opposite sides of Europe, with Cissy joining from Sicily a...
SPS-465: Does BookBub Still Work?
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch is joined by author Skye McKinnon to dig into the numbers behind BookBub Featured Deals...
SPS-464: Romance Tropes That Work For Everyone
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are together in Pennsylvania after celebrating the wedding of their frie...
SPS-463: Big News From KDP
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca have a packed episode of indie publishing news, starting with a signific...
SPS-462: The Meta Ads Panic!
Big news this week, the first two speakers for SPS Live London 2027 have been announced! Melanie Harlow and Theodora Taylor will be joining...
SPS-461: The Book Launch Process
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch checks in from his final day in New Zealand while Cissy Mecca takes us behind the scenes...
SPS-460: Crossing the AI Boundary
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch checks in from New Zealand with Cissy Mecca to tackle the increasingly complicated relat...
SPS-459: Your Book As An AI Movie (Part 2)
This week on The Self-Publishing Show , James Blatch and Cissy Mecca conclude their two-part conversation with Michael Evans , founder of Cr...
SPS-458: Your Book As An AI Movie (Part 1)
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca are joined by Michael Evans, founder of Creatorwood, for Part 1 of a two...
SPS-457: Craft is King (Again)
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca argue that as AI makes it easier than ever to produce competent books, c...
SPS-456: The Robot Read My Backlist
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca dive into the next wave of AI tools for authors, focusing on Fable and t...
SPS-455: Lessons From Rock 'n' Roll
Episode Summary This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca welcome author and former music industry executive Jack...
SPS-454: Launching a New Series
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca dive into the latest AI developments, including changes to Claude's subs...
SPS-453: Three Questions Every Author Should Ask
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca reflect on The Self Publishing Show Live 2026 and discuss what happens a...
SPS-452: Lessons from London
This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch and Cissy Mecca reflect on SPS Live 2026 and the Cambridge Retreat, sharing their bigges...