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Series: Issue #14 - June 2022

Podcasts
Indie Author Tools

I Should Be Writing

This award-winning show dispenses advice and encouragement for beginning writers. Catch it live on Twitch at 3 p.m. (Eastern time) Tuesdays and Thursdays or listen to the edited version later in the podcast feed. I Should Be Writing has been

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Podcasts
Indie Author Tools

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shit-no-one-tells-you-about-writing/id1530250126Want to learn more about the craft and business side of writing and publishing? Listen to The Shit No One Tells You About Writing. Host Bianca Marais interviews authors, agents, editors, and others involved in getting a book to market.

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10 Tips
Gill Fernley

10 Tips for Better Feedback from Beta Readers

You’ve finally written “The End,” and it’s now time for the next stage in prepping your manuscript for publication: Find some beta readers who will take your story and help you make it better. But what’s a beta reader, where

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Podcasts
Indie Author Tools

Author Like a Boss

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/author-like-a-boss-podcast/id1367276836Ella Barnard interviews successful authors about their best writing, marketing, and mindset secrets on Author Like a Boss. She says the weekly show is for indie authors “who want to publish stories that readers love, utilize marketing that works, make

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Technology
Chrishaun Keller-Hanna

Getting Started with StoryOrigin: A Basic Overview

Released: 2018 Operating System: Online at https://storyoriginapp.com/ Price: Basic: Free (Limited access) Standard: $10/month or $100/year (Full access) Guided Setup is available for a fee StoryOrigin is, by all measures, a wealth of resources for an author first starting out

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Business
Kasia Lasinska

Managing Your ARC Reader Dream Team

An ARC (Advance Reader or Review Copy) team is a valuable tool in an indie author’s arsenal. An engaged ARC team can help you build momentum with solid reviews on launch as well as help with marketing. If your early

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From the Industry
Craig Martelle

Believe You Can, and You will

You didn’t write your book by accident, and your author career won’t take off by mistake.  It starts with you.  If you don’t believe in yourself, how will others believe in you? Flip that switch and know that you are

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Mindset
Laurel Decher

The (Un)Balancing Act: Bring Creativity Back to Your Business

When your creative career is designed solely around stability, you may be tempted to resort to strict word counts, long hours, and crushing deadlines. That’s a classic make-more-to-earn-more model. A creative career works best when it’s diversified. Steady, eddy, income–however

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From the Publisher
Chelle Honiker

Upgrade Your Brain’s Operating System

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.  When you become a grandparent, the universe upgrades your operating system with a

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Business
Nicole Schroeder

A Journalist’s Guide to the Perfect Press Release

When it comes to press releases, I’ve worked on both sides of the writing desk. I’ve stared at the same blank page that other authors—or editorial interns, in my case—have tried to craft into an interest-grabbing announcement, just like I’ve

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Marketing
Laurel Decher

Beta Readers vs. ARC Readers: The Differences, Explained

If you already swap chapters with author friends, you know what it’s like to have critique partners. But have you considered beta readers to deepen your storytelling or ARC [advanced reader copy] readers to create pre-release buzz about your amazing

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Dear Indie Annie
Indie Annie

Dear Indie Annie,

I’m dyslexic, and my family says I should focus my creative energies on arts like pottery, but in my heart, I know I want to write. Are there any other dyslexic writers out there? Dyslexic in Dysart Dear …? You

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