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Resources for today's indie authors
Six Figure Author Podcast (Marketing advice for building your author business.)
Sell More Books Show (Self Publishing news and current events)
The Writing Gals (Writing, marketing, and publishing tips)
The Story Studio Podcast (Storytelling tips; NSFW)
Self Publishing Formula Podcast (Interviews & tips for authors of every level)
Chris Fox’s Tips (Writer tips)
Create If Writing (Discussions for professional authors.)
20Booksto50k (Marketing tips for authors of all levels)
YA Author Alliance (For authors who write Young Adult)
Clean Indie Reads (For authors who write clean fiction)
Indie Inspiration with Elana Johnson (Advanced author tips)
I also recommend the Six Figure Author Podcast group, but you need to listen to the podcast to join! 🙂
These are posts I’ve written over the years of my author journey.
How to Self Publish a Book (A quick overview)
How I Wrote 150k Words in a Month (Really, I did.)
Can’t Write to Music? Try this.
Top 5 Tips & Myths of Self Publishing
Unique Ways to Find Character Names
Why You Aren’t Writing More…And What You Can Do About It
5 Lessons Learned from NaNoWriMo
How I Wrote 1/2-Million Words with a Day Job
Using Pinterest to Find Readers
I Finished my Novel, Now What?
You’ll need a newsletter list to keep in contact with your readers, especially when you release your new book! I use and recommend MailerLite.
My favorite resource for planning — everything from my publishing schedule to the daily to-do lists — is definitely the Erin Condren Planner! I have four different ones and I love them all! You can customize them to your own preferences. They’re really versatile and you can do a lot with them! Give one a try for yourself:
My interviews on writing and publishing, including how I went full-time.
Follow my Writing board on Pinterest!
Over 1,500 valuable and inspirational pins!
If there’s one thing that will kill any writer’s chance of success, it’s distraction. Losing focus of the important goals can cost a lot of time and money. And it’s all too easy in this digital age. And as I like to say, I put the pro in procrastination.
That’s why I’m so grateful for Sara Cannon’s HB90 Bootcamp! Every quarter, she leads us through the process of planning our next quarter with a plan to avoid those “squirrel moments” we all have!
