Dear Indie Annie, I am not a software whizz by any means. I just heard of a new platform that is obviously better for my business than the one I’m using, but I know it’ll take me years to learn it. (Okay, not years, but it’ll feel...
Dear Hustle, Honey, if I had a dollar for every bright-eyed writer who burst into January like Gatsby throwing glitter-bombed parties, I’d have enough to hire Brenda Ueland as my personal writing coach—and she’s been dead since 1985. (If you don’t know who Brenda...
Dear Indie Annie, I love setting New Year’s resolutions, sitting down with my planner, and mapping out my most productive and creative year yet. I do it every December … and I end up falling off the wagon halfway through February. I know we all do it, but how do...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear Indie Annie, I know it’s something every author deals with, but I’m heartbroken over my first one-star rating. What do I do? Bad Review Blues Darling Bad Review Blues, Oh, honey, grab yourself a refreshing mint julep, and...
I’m still in the “side hustle” stage of my career, and I sometimes struggle with deciding whether larger costs—platform subscriptions, conference tickets, a specific editor or cover designer, ads—are a good investment or something that should wait until I’m earning more from my books. Any tips?...
I keep hearing that I need to niche down into a genre to build a solid author brand, but I love writing multiple. Is it possible in our industry to build my brand around me and write what I want to write? Genre Wanderer Dear Genre Wanderer, My precious Wanderer,...
