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Carissa Broadbent is the No. 1 New York Times and USA Today best-selling author behind the Crowns of Nyaxia series, one of the biggest names in the romantasy boom taking over readers’ hearts, minds, and eyeballs. She joined me on How Success Happens as her new fantastic new novel, The Lion & The Deathless Dark, is about to hit shelves, to talk about the years she spent self-publishing in near-total obscurity before her books became a cultural phenomenon. If you are an aspiring writer, you are going to want to listen because Carissa gives one piece of advice I have not heard anywhere before.
Check out the episode and read on for her killer insights to help you draft your own plan for success in three, two, one!
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Three Key Insights
1. Finishing Is a Skill, Not a Feeling
Carissa self-published three early books that are, in her words, “all varying degrees of bad” — one sold roughly 30 copies total. But she says the real skill new writers lack isn’t talent, it’s finishing. “I think that is the number one pitfall of a new writer,” she told me. “You talk to a lot of authors and they’ll say, ‘Oh, it took me five years to write my first book, and now I write a book in like 90 days.’” Her mantra: “A book is 1,000 words 100 times.”
Takeaway: Stop perfecting — momentum beats polish every time.
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