How Dale Mayer Shuts Down Intrusive Thoughts and Releases the Words Jenn Lessmann A hostage situation wouldn t be out of place in any of Dale Mayer s Military Romance series It might not even be completely unexpected in one of her Thriller Suspense series or in a novel from her Paranormal catalog So when she talks hellip
Jonathan Yañez on Writing into the Dark and Taking the Next Step Jenn Lessmann Jonathan Yañez doesn t have an outline Some authors talk about writing by the Headlight Method plotting only as far down the road as their headlights will shine For Jonathan assuming that the lights are on might give him too much credit by hellip
As the Writing Wives Malorie and Jill Cooper Make Marketing Success Accessible to Indie Authors When asked about the advice they would offer indie authors heading into a new year Malorie and Jill Cooper start their answers at the same time You go first Mal Jill tells her wife with a laugh I figure we re hellip
The Many Publishing Lives of Skye MacKinnon Never mind that Skye MacKinnon shares her Scotch heritage teaching ability and calm courage in the face of a changing world with J K Rowling s Professor McGonagall Or that MacKinnon s cat never appeared during our interview so spectacle shaped markings around the cat s eyes like those on McGonagall s feline form cannot be hellip
Sacha Black Builds Her Author Career on Authenticity Helping Other Writers Who knew growing up in a remote village in the UK would be the spark that started a young woman s journey to authorship Such was the case for Sacha Black podcast host content and communication strategist for the Alliance of Independent Authors ALLi and hellip
How Kevin Tumlinson Paved His Path up the Mountain If you had to write your first book in a large spiral notebook with a taped together cover to become an author would you That s how Kevin Tumlinson an accomplished Thriller and Speculative Fiction writer began his publishing journey in 2008 On an average Tuesday evening I hellip
When the two of us started the Writer MBA a company built to train authors on the ins and outs of the publishing industry we knew we wanted to share the news with as many authors as we could Our launch for the business was big and bold as we were trying to drum up hellip
How Romance Author Jillian Dodd Makes Her Dreams Come True The plot for Jillian Dodd s first novel came to her in a dream Well in three dreams actually Over the course of a couple of weeks the author dreamt of the characters at different periods of their lives When she woke up she needed to hellip
Theodora Taylor s Recipe for Writing Marketable Books Without Writing to Market Ingredients Theodora Taylor knows what her readers are hungry for The Amazon Top 10 bestselling author has a seemingly never ending backlist of interracial romances with stories that explore a range of cross genres and subgenres from Fantasy to Billionaire Romance nbsp She describes her fiction as hellip
In the vast landscape of modern literature there are authors who possess an uncanny ability to captivate readers with their words whisking them away to worlds both real and imagined Among them stands Ben Wolf the award winning author of multiple Children s and Middle Grade books as well as the Blood Mercenaries Fantasy series and the hellip
Award nominated author podcaster and creative entrepreneur Joanna Penn is a force to be reckoned with in the world of writing and publishing Writing under the name J F Penn she s a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Thrillers Dark Fantasy and Crime Her popular ARKANE Action Adventure Thrillers Brooke amp Daniel Psychological Thrillers hellip
Chrishaun Keller Hanna on World Building Monsters and Merch Jenn Lessmann Chrishaun Keller Hanna wants you to know you are a success as a writer We are artists that use words as our medium she says We become writers the moment we say we are and we must be the ones that determine when we have succeeded For hellip
Mark Leslie Lefebvre speaks in asides In telling his story he meanders about describing the characters and side quests within the journey I ve got squirrel tendencies left right and center he explains However listening to him wander through stories and back again one feels as if they have gone on an epic journey through time hellip
Tammi Labrecque Shares Lessons on Balance Impostor Syndrome and Making Email Marketing Look Easy Even if you ve never met her before one conversation with Tammi Labrecque is probably enough for the two of you to become friends nbsp The author and course creator is bright bubbly and even on a Friday afternoon ready to talk your ear off hellip
Children s Author Publisher Darcy Pattison Builds Her Brand with the Youngest Readers in Mind Ten years ago children s author Darcy Pattison faced a dilemma After publishing with multiple traditional publishers Lothrup Lee amp Shepard Harcourt Inc Sylvan Dell Publishers Philomel and Stone Arch Books from 1991 to 2011 she couldn t find the right home for a nonfiction picture hellip
Seven years ago Mark Dawson told the world in detail how he got his Thriller novels into the hands of hundreds of thousands of readers His story came in the form of the inaugural Self Publishing Formula online advertising programs and if you were a member of the Facebook Group or enrolled in one of hellip
Beyond The 2023 Author s Planner Audrey Hughey Helps Others Plan for the Future When Audrey Hughey heard about a business planner created by female entrepreneur Carrie Green in 2017 she was hooked The problem As it was the first year they were being printed and with the cost of shipping and exchange rates Audrey wasn t hellip
Just one facet of being a published indie author is universal and that is technology nbsp You are free to choose the genre the tropes and the story arc of every work you produce You re able to choose how words appear on the page whether that means filling notebooks with prose speaking the story aloud into a hellip
Chelle Honiker As a USA Today best selling author and with over fifty books to her credit Monica Leonelle has earned her reputation as a productive novelist She shares the title with one of her two nonfiction series for authors She writes quickly and publishes often nbsp She s also one of the most marketing savvy authors in the hellip
Tameri Etherton discovered she was a natural storyteller when she was six nbsp I have three older siblings and then a stepsister who was four months younger than me and we 8217 d go camping a lot she says And I would be the one telling stories around the fire And I realized I had a gift for hellip
The Thriller Writer Says Traditional Publishing Is Broken He s Got Plans to Fix It When someone called Nick Thacker s novels airplane books early on in his career he took the term and ran with it nbsp The description was meant to be an insult as in his books were the kind you buy at an airport to hellip
Tao Wong Shares His Secrets for Making the Full Time Gig Work Financially Tao Wong never meant to be a full time author Now he helps other authors move closer to realizing the same dream he never thought he d achieve all while advocating the necessity of income diversification His backlist speaks for itself Tao currently has more hellip
One of the many things I admire about the indie author community is how they are of the mindset that there is enough pie for all of us Because of this when an indie author has information that can assist another author they step in and share it One of those helpful people is Robyn hellip
As co founder of Reedsy Ricardo Fayet is a familiar and much respected face in the indie publishing world The company was formed in 2014 to curate editing and design services Ricardo explains that its core purpose is the same now as it was then to provide a safe place where authors could find some of the hellip
Steve Higgs is a man of contradictions a tough ex army man who writes about a bad tempered crime solving police dog and a bored housewife turned sleuth He s also known as the British author who wrote over sixty books in three years He is funny a family man and yet hyper focused He puts some of his success down to having hellip
Storytelling 8230 but Add a Little Spice This year Ines Johnson will have written and published over one hundred books A seasoned author and introvert who loves sticky notes and colorful pens she s a treasure trove of experience She s also quick to point out that her processes may not work for everyone nbsp Just because Ines hellip
How Elana Johnson and Liz Isaacson Jessie Newton and Donna Jeffries left traditional publishing to inspire indie success Nicole Schroeder Over the fourteen years she s spent in the self publishing industry Elana Johnson has learned to use her strengths The USA Today bestselling Romance and Women s Fiction author and CEO of AEJ Creative Works Inc is good at hellip
Forging Your Own Path with Becca Syme Marion Hermannsen Becca Syme is probably best known for her Dear Writer book series The first volume s title Dear Writer You Need to Quit is provocative in an environment where indie authors often feel they need to do all the things all the time to stay in the game hellip
A conversation with the publishing master Joseph Alexander A huge part of life has passed by my window while I ve been locked inside Joseph Alexander has seen the success many writers dream about Starting as a classically trained musician his first guitar tutorial brought with it an income he hadn t expected But as he approaches hellip
Meet the couple behind Mountaindale Press the indie publisher shaping the GameLit genre Dr Danielle and Dakota Krout work side by side to run their independent publishing company but only figuratively With Danielle as the CEO and Dakota as the president and an author for Mountaindale Press both work full time to run the company primarily hellip
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