For those who can't make the calls live, all of the call recordings live here: https://www.skool.com/thewritingwives/classroom/a97afb89?md=f7289c0a2d4644de8f5a2bac21f390c4 You can also find them by looking in the classroom tab, the scrolling to Genre and Trope 2025 Edition and clicking on it. It looks like this:

Hey up all :) I am presently rejigging my website. What say you all - to give an idea. 1st link - home-screen https://www.justanautor.com/ 2nd link the page for book 1 https://www.justanautor.com/volumeone 3rd Link - Landing page: https://www.justanautor.com/landingpage

Hey Friends and Authors! For new members of Storyteller Lab (Not you if you are reading this) we have raised prices as we are launching a brand new workshop starting the week of September 22nd! 1 Live Training and 1 Live Q/A! The focus? Using genre and trope to write BETTER Ad copy, Blurbs and covers! Plus we'll teach YOU how to use that sale copy to tell FB's AI what audience to build for your ad (while still making it pleasing for humans to read, too) If we are forced to use FB AI, we might as well learn how to do it WELL and make sure it can target who we want to target! This is a challenging time but let's not forget it is also an OPPORTUNITY! Self-publishing to sell directly to readers is still a blessing and we can't sit back and let the moment pass us by. So let's grab it! For those of you here, you can earn 20% by asking your friends to join and sending your affiliate link! Click on your profile picture and go to your profile to generate an affiliate link. If you need more help than that to find it, message me and I'll help! You can DM your friends, post on FB, send it out as an email, whatever floats your boat! And you can earn the money on either the monthly price or the annual rate! Help us build Storyteller Lab--a safe and inclusive space for all authors!

A while back I experimented with some erotica under another pen name. Nothing really came of it, but I realize now it was never really erotica so much as paranormal romance. It’s three short novellas, so nothing huge, but they’ve been languishing in erotica for years and never moving any copies. I’ve always liked the stories, and thought they were spooky and sexy—and there’s way more supernatural fiction than sex in them. I’m thinking of rebranding as Paranormal Romance and maybe running a small facebook ad targeting female fans of the genre. I may even write some more books, possibly full length ones if these move at all. Or maybe I’ll just run the ad to a boxed set. Here’s my question. Are my new covers on brand for Paranormal Romance? Would they appeal to my target audience? If you were scanning amazon, would you give these a second look? If not, at least I had some fun with photoshop. No harm, no foul.

Thursday is the day! Who is ready to hear from Mal again? Throw some topics you'd like to hear about in the comments.