Introducing... Serving Books: from inspiration to publication, a book's journey into your reader's hands

The Too Much Social Podcast is back for the summer but this time I’m doing something a little different! Instead of focusing purely on the mechanics and mindset of Instagram book marketing, I’m casting my net a little further, partly to satisfy my own curiosity - but hopefully to satisfy some of yours too! To give you a little context, the inspiration for this latest podcast series is that I have lots of questions about the journey to publication because I’m a publishing industry outsider - I cut my social media teeth in the blogging and ecommerce worlds and there are times when professionally and personally, the inner workings of this industry leave me feeling a little stumped. A few months ago, I was looking for a podcast that would answer some of my questions and although I could find some answers dotted around the internet here and there, I couldn’t find a podcast that, in one place, would take me through all the steps a book has to go through before it ends up in a reader’s hands. So I decided to make one! **Welcome to *Serving Books: from inspiration to publication.*** For the last few weeks I’ve been busily recording episodes with some brilliantly knowledgeable and insightful guests from all kinds of niches across the publishing industry. I’ve spoken to book coaches, writing mentors, people who have pursued different routes to publication, agents, editors, book marketing and pr experts, all the way through to book shop owners, book world influencers and some brilliant people who have excellent ideas about how you continue finding new readers once your books are out in the world. Starting next week, on Weds 8th July, I’ll be releasing one episode every week until the beginning of September which you can listen to wherever you get your podcasts. I’m excited to share all these episodes with you soon but in the meantime please share this announcement with all of your writerly friends. To receive the episodes directly into your podcast feed subscribe wherever you listen, or sign up to Too Much by Nicola Washington on Substack and the episodes will land straight in your inbox. I look forward to welcoming you back soon! ***I obsess over Instagram so you don’t have to 😉*** In the **TOO MUCH INSTAGRAM** membership I:✨ hold your hand as you step into a scary new era of publicly claiming your identity as a writer✨ curate post ideas to suit your needs so you stop wasting your time ‘scrolling for inspiration’ and have a clear plan instead✨ offer simple advice and clarity about what you should be doing next ✨ motivate you to engage more in your book marketing than you otherwise would do! **Benefits of becoming a member include:** ✅ weekly check-in chats for accountability and advice ✅ monthly lists of trending and proven post ideas for you to add to your planning ✅ monthly Ask Me Anything calls for personalised advice ✅ fortnightly co-working sessions to get your content made in company ✅ quarterly challenges such as RECALIBRATE and the most recent 🧪TRIAL REELS LAB🧪 Have a browse of the archive to see what you’ll benefit from. **Upgrade your subscription to become a member!** This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nicolawashington.substack.com/subscribe