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January 24, 2023 18 mins

Learn How to Write your First Book with Best-Selling Author Mila Johansen

 

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In today’s episode of GabTalks™ Success Tips from Experts, we got the chance to sit down with professional speaker, writer, published author and teacher: Mila Johansen. She is the author of twenty-two plays and musicals that circle the globe, along with two teaching manuals, 101 Theatre Games and 50 Scenes to Go. She has written just under ten screenplays and enjoys the process. Mila has one Young Adult historical novel, The Four Thieves, finished and ready to publish, along with several children’s picture books. She also has three provocative upmarket women’s fiction novels almost completed. Mila also teaches social media, screenwriting, creative writing, public speaking and herbology at a local adult education school. Mila recently completed a book about her famous suffragette grandmother, Jessie Haver Butler, for the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in August, 2020. Mila lives on her organic citrus ranch in Northern California with her husband, four dogs and a cat. 

 

✨ Timestamps:

1:13—Mila introduces us to her passion for the written word and briefly talks about how to publish your own books for free on Amazon.

2:24—Mila shares her incredible background and how she got to where she is today.

4:43—Mila’s famous grandmother happens to be her biggest inspiration and she lets us in on her incredible story. 

8:27—Just start. Don’t wait, keep writing, is the advice Mila would give her younger self.

 

✨ Mila’s Top Tips to Succeed:

9:23—Tip #1: Start writing today and fix it later!

9:37—Tip #2: Go to amazon and join KDP!

10:33—Tip #3: Pick your templates with placeholders!

11:04—Tip #4: If you want to self publish, it’s all up to you!

12:28—Tip #5: Book cover hacks!

 

➡️ Contact Mila Here:

Website: https://www.milajohansen.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mila-johansen-pentopublished/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frompentopublished

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/writeyourshortbook

Twitter: https://twitter.com/johansenmila

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn6veUVpWR-lP1wUWlqYp-Q

Booking Page: https://johansenmila.youcanbook.me/

 

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Get your FREE copy of 101 Surprising Tips to Promote your Book PDF here: https://milajohansen.influencersoft.com/101-surprising-tips-summit

 

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