Jo Linsdell

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The Authortube Christmas Tag

I was tagged by Jay Dee Archer a long time ago to do this tag (and turns out I actually did do it, I just forgot I did so this is the second time I'm doing this) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC790woUs4SEQGxVnHDJOyw to do the AuthorTube Christmas Tag.

AuthorTube Christmas Tag (Original) by Living Within Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC60Zr8vPdJf5n5WqWzsNrEg

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The questions:

1. What would your main character’s favourite Christmas song be?

2. Pick one of your characters. What would be on their Christmas wish list?

3. Which one of your characters, as an adult, would still believe in Santa Claus?

4. Would your MC drink eggnog? If not, what would their Christmas go-to drink be?

5. Out of all of your characters, who would be the best gift giver?

6. Your MC got a gift that he/she hated. What would he/she do?

7. Does your MC sleep in on Christmas, or wake up early with excitement?

8. What would be your MC’s favourite part about the holidays?

9. Your MC and his/her love interest step under a mistletoe. What happens?

10. Which of your characters would you find in the kitchen baking Christmas treats?

11. Lastly, a question for the author. What are some of your favourite books to read during the holidays?

My answers:

As I've done this tag before I'm not going to tag specific people to do it this time. If you want to do it, consider yourself tagged.

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Welcome to week 11 of the Video Content Challenge!

How to take part:

Just check back at www.JoLinsdell.com every Tuesday for the latest video challenge. I'll be sharing my own video for each challenge to give an example of how you could do it (this is, of course, only an example. I hope people will get creative with their own videos). Once you've uploaded your challenge video for the week to YouTube, share the direct url for it in the comments section of the post so we can all give feedback.

Video Content Challenge Week 11

This week's challenge is to upload a video where you talk about authors you admire.

Video Content Challenge: Talk about authors you admire.

Here's my video for this week

How are you doing with the challenges so far? Remember to link up your videos in the comments section below.

Welcome to week 10 of the Video Content Challenge!

How to take part:

Video Content Challenge Week 10

This week's challenge is to upload a video where you share a reading from your book.

Here's my video for this week

Welcome to week 9 of the Video Content Challenge!

How to take part:

Video Content Challenge Week 9

This week's challenge is to upload a video where you talk about the best thing about being a writer.

Here's my video for this week

How are you doing with the challenges so far? Remember to link up your videos in the comments section below.

Welcome to week 8 of the Video Content Challenge!

How to take part:

Video Content Challenge Week 8

This week's challenge is to upload a video where you discuss the hardest thing about being a writer.

Here's my video for this week

How are you doing with the challenges so far? Remember to link up your videos in the comments section below.

Welcome to week 7 of the Video Content Challenge!

How to take part:

Video Content Challenge Week 7

This week's challenge is to upload a video where you share about what you do when you're not writing.

Here's my video for this week

How are you doing with the challenges so far? Remember to link up your videos in the comments section below.

Also in this series:

Week 1: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2018/05/video-content-challenge-week-1.html

Week 2: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2018/05/video-content-challenge-week-2.html

Week 3: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2018/05/video-content-challenge-week-3.html

Week 4: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2018/05/video-content-challenge-week-4.html

Week 5: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2018/05/video-content-challenge-week-5.html

Week 6: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2018/06/video-content-challenge-week-6.html

During this year's Promo Day event on Saturday 5th May I'm doing a webinar about video strategies for authors and thought I'd take it one step further. Starting today, I'll be posting a weekly video creation challenge over the following months. Check back every Tuesday for the latest challenge.

Reasons for doing the video content challenge:

1) I thought it would make a nice extra to my webinar, and help create a group project for those who take part.

2) I thought it would be a fun way to encourage more people to experiment with video.

3) I want to be more consistent in my own video content and this challenge will make me more accountable.

How to take part:

Video Content Challenge Week 1

This week's challenge is to upload a video where you introduce yourself and your books.

Here's my video for this week

P.S. You can find all my books at https://amzn.to/2rfnipk ;)

Find week 2 here: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2018/05/video-content-challenge-week-2.html

Dealing with Criticism: Authors vs Readers

This topic is evergreen but I've seen it come up a lot recently, and so wanted to give my two cents, both from an author point of view and as a reader.

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Review video for KOSMOS mentioned https://youtu.be/fDYSsvYkaCg

I'm in full swing with my end of year audit, and plans for 2018. One thing I want to be more organised about, and do more of is Authortube. I'm getting organised for Booktube in general, but for today's post I want to concentrate on the author community.

Booktube in a small community on Youtube. Authortube in an even smaller segment of that. My goal is to post one Authortube video, and one Booktube video a week (minimum) in 2018.

Ideas for Booktube videos are easy. Book reviews, unboxings, book hauls, book tags, readathons, etc... There's plenty of content options.

Authortube is a smaller community and so doesn't have many tags. I'm trying to come up with a few originals to post in the new year, so that's a starting point I guess. The problem is, what else should I post?

What to post?

I've done some readings from some of my books in the past and will be adding more of those.

Then I thought about reviews. I do a lot of book reviews for Booktube, so why not do some reviews of gadgets, and tools I use for my writing too, right?

I've also been thinking about writer problems and how to overcome them. If I struggle, maybe others out there are having the same problems. Stuff like time management, and finding inspiration would fall into this category too.

Work in progress vlogs work well during events like NaNoWriMo. Would these still appeal to viewers throughout the rest of the year?

I took part in an Authortube Collaboration earlier this year which was a lot of fun. I'd love to do more of these in the new year. Anyone interested in doing something? Ideas for what that something could be?

Come check out my Youtube channel.

Are you part of Authortube? Do you struggle to come up with ideas for video content?

Got a suggestion for a video that you'd like to see me do that's not on the list above?

The Giant Authortube Collab came to an end in June. This collaboration was a lot of fun to do, and I loved coming together with my fellow Authortubers to work on a project together. I would definitely do a project like this again.

Missed some of the video's? No worries, you can check out the April recap at http://www.jolinsdell.com/2017/05/giant-authortube-collab-april-recap.html and the May recap at http://www.jolinsdell.com/2017/06/giant-authortube-collab-may-recap.html :)

Recap from June

June was particularly exciting as I got to host. I had two questions for our group of authors...

You can find the full playlist for the Giant Authortube Collab at

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXnusrAe-LMAz0U3zVnRelrnADIy8JjQu

Writing Is Life Tag

The Writing Is Life tag has been on my to do list for months now and I finally got round to doing it. The original was done by Julian Grey Stoke at https://youtu.be/vSxOoOMoS4c, but I found out about it via Sarah Wright at https://youtu.be/KFSa92-z7B0.

Check out my answers to all the awesome questions in the video below:

I'm tagging:

Lauren at Cooks Books

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaa4YSaoe0VWBtS2ZiYQU_w

Jessica Samuels

https://www.youtube.com/user/jdsamuels25

Sade Rena

https://www.youtube.com/user/PoundsofBeauti

As some of you already know, I'm taking part in the Giant Authortube Collab over April, May, and June this year. If you missed the April video's you can find them all in the April recap here: http://www.jolinsdell.com/2017/05/giant-authortube-collab-april-recap.html

Here's a look at the video's I was part of in May:

You can follow the whole playlist for the Giant Authortube Collab at

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXnusrAe-LMAz0U3zVnRelrnADIy8JjQu

I was tagged by Jay Dee Archer (Thanks Jay Dee :)) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC790woUs4SEQGxVnHDJOyw to do the AuthorTube Christmas Tag.

AuthorTube Christmas Tag (Original) by Living Within Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC60Zr8vPdJf5n5WqWzsNrEg

Questions: