Chelle Honiker empowers indie authors to thrive in publishing. As publisher of Indie Author Magazine, she helps authors navigate the business of storytelling with confidence, strategy, and community.
Big Tech Beginnings Leonelle started her career as a software engineer, spending years in “Big Tech” before earning her MBA and then taking executive positions in marketing at startup companies. Her author career started in 2009. Initially, Leonelle’s career goals included public speaking, she says, and in her mind,...
Transmedia versus Adaptation You’d be forgiven if you heard the word “transmedia” and didn’t immediately understand the term or how it relates to an indie author. You’d also be forgiven if you conflate transmedia with adaptations. An adaptation takes an existing work and translates it into a...
Guidance Through Hell: Embracing Consistency There’s an old saying that goes, “If you’re going through Hell—keep going. That’s no place to stop.” The same can be said about first drafts, editing, and most of the business tasks associated with being a self-published author. Many of the...
Tameri Etherton - The Storyteller Tameri Etherton discovered she was a natural storyteller when she was six. “I have three older siblings and then a stepsister who was four months younger than me, and we'd go camping a lot,” she says. “And I would be the one telling...
The food was different. When I moved to Texas from California what feels like a million years ago, it sometimes felt as if I’d moved to a far more exotic locale than just a new state in the same country. The BBQ meat looked burnt and inedible but tasted...
Main Characters Rejoice: Texas Has Diverse Ecoregions Need to hide a body in a sand dune? There are 367 miles of shoreline facing the Gulf of Mexico with a chain of seven tropical barrier islands, stretching from Galveston Island to Brazos Island. Rather than tumbleweeds, the lush coastline could be...
