yespodcastSupport us on Disctopia!6768c15d-b3b5-4c8f-8594-7602f7d55cb5D332404286<p>Join your hosts Victor Volkman, Irene Watson, and Tyler Tichelaar as we interview a leading expert on writing, publishing, and marketing books.</p> https://play.disctopia.com/podcasts/authors_access_where_authors_get_successfulAll rights reserved.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:17:29 GMTTue, 30 Jun 2026 00:17:29 GMThttps://cdn2.disctopia.com/disc-podcasts/victor4fc3c95f7fe94896a766aeff56b88957/authors_access_where_authors_get_successful/disctopia-authors_access_where_authors_get_successful-20230315.pnghttps://play.disctopia.com/podcasts/authors_access_where_authors_get_successfulenArtsVictor R. VolkmanAuthors Access - Where Authors Get Successfulvictor@LHPress.comNohttps://play.disctopia.com/podcasts/authors_access_where_authors_get_successful07769713-7841-43fc-b7f5-048796ad8079<p>Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with greeting card and gift industry maven Kate Harper. Kate Harper started her line of humorous greeting cards from a hobby of making greeting cards for friends as gifts. Over the next 15 years, Kates turned her hobby into a business, manufacturing and shipping cards to over 2,000 stores, including Barnes &amp; Noble, Whole Foods Markets and the Papyrus chain. She informed us on key areas of getting started as a writer or self-publisher of greeting cards, including</p> <ul> <li>&nbsp;Card trends: research, seasonal cards, occasional cards, and publishers</li> <li>What subject areas and categories to focus on, how to stay organized</li> <li>Test marketing your cards and card verse.</li> <li>Seven most common mistake card writers will make</li> <li>Why competition in the card business is vastly over-estimated</li> </ul> <p></p> Authors Access - Where Authors Get SuccessfulWed, 15 Mar 2023 11:37:00 GMTAuthors Access - Where Authors Get Successful00:31:23No<p>Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with greeting card and gift industry maven Kate Harper. Kate Harper started her line of humorous greeting cards from a hobby of making greeting cards for friends as gifts. Over the next 15 years, Kates turned her hobby into a business, manufacturing and shipping cards to over 2,000 stores, including Barnes &amp; Noble, Whole Foods Markets and the Papyrus chain. She informed us on key areas of getting started as a writer or self-publisher of greeting cards, including</p> <ul> <li>&nbsp;Card trends: research, seasonal cards, occasional cards, and publishers</li> <li>What subject areas and categories to focus on, how to stay organized</li> <li>Test marketing your cards and card verse.</li> <li>Seven most common mistake card writers will make</li> <li>Why competition in the card business is vastly over-estimated</li> </ul> <p></p> greeting cards;marketing;gifts;hobby;humorfullhttps://play.disctopia.com/podcasts/authors_access_where_authors_get_successful3240d475-c251-4cef-9043-053dee1c626f<p>Tyler R. Tichelaar and Victor R. Volkman spoke with Toronto-based educator and print, radio, and TV journalist Donna Kakonge about how any writer can successfully refocus their work into the freelance journalism marketplace. She believes that you CAN break into the journalism business without having to have a specialist bachelor's degree in the subject. Donna has been involved in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio Canada International (RCI) on and off for 15 years at the local, national and international levels of both television and radio. She has also worked for the Discovery Channel and Discovery Channel International, Vision TV, the BBC and various publications around the world. Key talking points of tonight's talk were:</p> <ul> <li>How can I educate myself to start a career in journalism?</li> <li>What important trade associations can help me on my journey?</li> <li>Besides book writing, what other kinds of journalism are out there now today?</li> <li>Should I establish some sort of business identity?</li> <li>Can I make money just from my blogs?</li> <li>What about rejection, how do you deal with it?&nbsp;</li> </ul> Authors Access - Where Authors Get SuccessfulWed, 15 Mar 2023 04:31:00 GMTAuthors Access - Where Authors Get Successful00:54:58Yes<p>Tyler R. Tichelaar and Victor R. Volkman spoke with Toronto-based educator and print, radio, and TV journalist Donna Kakonge about how any writer can successfully refocus their work into the freelance journalism marketplace. She believes that you CAN break into the journalism business without having to have a specialist bachelor's degree in the subject. Donna has been involved in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio Canada International (RCI) on and off for 15 years at the local, national and international levels of both television and radio. She has also worked for the Discovery Channel and Discovery Channel International, Vision TV, the BBC and various publications around the world. Key talking points of tonight's talk were:</p> <ul> <li>How can I educate myself to start a career in journalism?</li> <li>What important trade associations can help me on my journey?</li> <li>Besides book writing, what other kinds of journalism are out there now today?</li> <li>Should I establish some sort of business identity?</li> <li>Can I make money just from my blogs?</li> <li>What about rejection, how do you deal with it?&nbsp;</li> </ul> blogging;writing;marketing;journalismfull