Memoir Masterclass: Writing, Revising, Publishing & Platform-Building with Ronit Plank

And I'm also discovering, like you just mentioned, you know, I have someone doing PR for the book, but like the opportunities that I'm getting that are really the most valuable to me, they're coming from my own network that is already exists.

Yes.

Tell us about that.

How you started your podcast and that journey and how that plays into your platform building.

Yeah.

And can

I ask you, unless you don't want to share it, did Trio House Press provide you or did you with a PR team or did you have to go and get it, which is really common.

A lot of us have to just pay out of pocket for that.

Yeah, they don't have the budget for that.

And I had gotten some crazy quotes and I found someone much more reasonable, but it's still, it's expensive.

It's really expensive.

So the funny thing is about my podcast, I have a friend who said to me recently, we talk now and then and We're both writers.

And she said, wow, that was really smart of you to create your podcast because it gave you this, this and this, you know, and she mentioned some things.

And I thought, you know, I promise you that when I started the podcast, it was my third podcast.

Actually, I had been part of a team on a feminist podcast that was produced by somebody else called Mouthy Messy Mandatory.

And I left that one after a year, you know, took a year off and created my first solo podcast called And Then Everything Changed.

And that was about pivotal moments in life and the moments that change us.

And I love doing that.

And I interviewed some really great memoirists on it, like Laura Davis.

And I also interviewed Hollywood Park writer Mikel Jollet.

And that was amazing.

And then I realized when I went to speak at She Podcasts Live, I was a speaker there about interview techniques, etc.

I went to a session on niche podcasts.

And I listened to this and I thought this woman who presented had a podcast about Pez.

It was just about the candy Pez.