Since our inaugural issue, Indie Author Magazine’s slogan, “When Writing Means Business,” has shaped our coverage. We’ve highlighted tech tools, platforms, and strategies to help you expand your earnings and reach new readers, and we’ve explored every stage of the publishing process to help you grow in this industry.
Of course, no author can grow without focusing on their craft, and one section that appeared in that inaugural issue, Devil in the Details, was designed with craft in mind. In this section, we helped smooth over the pitfalls every author encounters when writing something from the real world. Our Devil in the Details articles have dispelled myths about corsets, asked equestrians common questions about horseback riding, reminded authors to be mindful of wandering body parts in their manuscripts, and more. We’ve all read a scene that took us out of the story because a character referenced a song that shouldn’t exist yet, or a building in a famous city was inexplicably on the wrong street. With this section, we wanted to help authors recognize those potential mistakes and give them the tools they needed to correct them.
This month, however, we’ve decided to expand that section. Of course, getting the details right in your story is important, but getting them right in your business can be even more so. Whether it’s understanding trends in the industry or dissecting the legal requirements you face as a publisher, we want to help authors avoid common mistakes in their work, in both the writing and business sides of the job.
Of course, we’ll still be sharing craft-focused articles from time to time—and we’d love to hear your recommendations for topics to cover! Reach out to me at nicole@indieauthormagazine.com to share the snafus authors make that bother you most or the tricky elements that trip you up every time they come up in a scene. Let us know, too, the aspects of managing your writing business that you’d like to understand better. The devil is in the details of every part of independent publishing, and we want to help you get them right.
Nicole Schroeder
Editor in Chief
