What’s New with AI in 2026 for Indie Authors
AI technology has moved well past chatbots. Most authors have, too—just not in the direction you may think.
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Tailored for authors who want to excel in the business side of writing, this section will provide valuable insights into managing strategic decisions, as well as the the financial and contractual aspects of your writing career.
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Draft2Digital CEO Details How AI Is Actually Affecting the Industry
Although AI-generated content poses a challenge in the nonfiction sphere, it’s one distributors have seen before—and fiction authors, whether they’re using the tools or worried about their influence, can rest easy, Kris Austin says.
Indie Author Magazine Broadens Community with Wide for the Win Stewardship
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Kickstarter Isn't a Solo Sport: How Community Campaigns Outperform by 34%
Friends Don’t Let Friends Kickstarter Alone Author Nation Cohort Proves Crowdfunding Campaigns Thrive on, Succeed with Community Many authors may have missed the surge of interest in Kickstarter and other crowdfunding options amid the independent publishing industry in recent years. For those who’ve watched publishing through Kickstarter, though,...
Red Flags in Your DMs: The New Wave of AI-Generated Author Scams
Receiving a single email filled with glowing praise for a book used to be a benchmark worth celebrating in an author’s career. Receiving several a week? That felt like a dream almost too big to admit out loud. But in the past several months, some authors have received nearly...
Breaking Barriers: How Marginalized Indie Authors Find Creative Freedom Through Self-Publishing
In 2009, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a TED Talk that would be echoed in public schools across the United States. Titled “The Danger of a Single Story,” she begins her presentation with a story about herself—a child in Nigeria reading Eurocentric children’s books that were absent of...