As a self proclaimed geek in heels technology has been a mainstay in my life and career for over three decades Since my first job out of travel agent training school in 1987 I was the office nerd the one who could fix the printer or reboot the network The agents I worked with were 8220 old school 8221 knowledgeable hellip

Back in the olden days of indie publishing when the earth s crust was cooling and it was a wild west of new information for self publishers I was fortunate enough to attend a conference in Austin Texas with this month s featured subject Tammi Labrecque nbsp It s hard to remember back that far So much has changed since hellip

After years of failing to keep my New Year s resolutions I gave up nbsp But that s not to say that I gave up on making life changes I stopped with the grand declarations followed by the inevitable failure and instead I thought about the reasons those changes were significant to me Those underlying reasons became a hellip

Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing potential new contributors for Indie Author Magazine Thirty four brave souls stepped forward for consideration and a thirty minute Zoom interview Rather than feeling like thirty four business meetings it was instead a delight to meet some of the smartest most interesting writers in our field It was a personal reminder hellip

In the September 2022 issue I wrote an article about transmedia and how indie authors have the opportunity to capitalize on its facets Transmedia at its core focuses on ways to deepen the relationship you have with your current readers and form new ones As Jim Wilbourne explains Transmedia is taking a core story or hellip

I ve been a bit of a process improvement nerd since my days with a company that was chasing the illustrious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The award is the nation 8217 s highest presidential honor for performance excellence Our strategy for winning included looking at every department of a large travel management company with a fine tooth hellip

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 tasks aren t in our wheelhouse as creatives or we do them so infrequently that hellip

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 nbsp The food was different nbsp The BBQ meat looked burnt and inedible but tasted delicious and everything was always covered hellip

I have a new analogy I d like to share this month Indulge me as I rock this newborn while her exhausted parents try to get a nap nbsp When you become a grandparent the universe upgrades your operating system with a new app called Been There Done That It pulls the most obscure memories out of hellip

I realize that time ceased to have meaning when the world went topsy turvy What used to be a minute started to feel like seven hours And what used to feel like a month sometimes felt like a single minute nbsp It s like we all collectively jumped in a Tardis and started cranking the knobs nbsp With that hellip

I have always seen IAM as an extension of the larger indie author community born out of a group of international writers who met daily via Zoom and shared what they were doing to climb the mountain of success Beyond the business chat between sprints we also became bonded friends nbsp There would not be a hellip

Like Michael Scott from The Office I m not superstitious but I am a little stitious I don t open umbrellas inside I throw spilled salt over my left shoulder I don t walk under ladders And I never say It s going to be a calm week Because that s when you know it will most definitely not be hellip

Chelle Honiker Let me introduce the non Texan readers to a new word WhooBuddy It s what we say when we re trying to describe the indescribable It s just days after the 20Booksto50k® conference in Las Vegas and the post con letdown is real In the almost post Covid world it felt surreal to see friends and colleagues from around hellip

Chelle Honiker You could safely call me a digital hoarder If there were a show about nerds who download and play with apps and find obscure programs to solve problems that probably don t really need solving with technology I would be its poster child I am obsessed with trying new things Two of my favorite hellip

In over two decades of entrepreneurship there hasn t been a single successful person I ve known followed or interviewed that hasn t admitted to doubting themselves at some point Call it what you will I ve distilled the many names I ve used over the years down to imposter syndrome existential crisis and plain old doubt It s the voice hellip

One September about a decade ago I learned of National Novel Writing Month commonly known as NaNoWriMo Many of us have attempted to write 50 000 words in a month during that challenge and it remains a popular and useful event When I finally won after several failed attempts I was thrilled and more than a hellip

Depending on several factors the saying Man Plans God Laughs might be familiar to you as a Yiddish Proverb a quote from author Michael Chabon or the name of a Public Enemy Album I m firmly team third camp nbsp However you know this witticism its truth remains The best laid plans are often waylaid by events hellip

Done is better than perfect Just finish the thing You can t edit a blank page All great advice for writers when they re in the middle of the first draft slog Keep going But what happens when the words literally won t come When the muse won t show up Common advice for when you 8217 ve got writer 8217 s block hellip