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  @maxstravagarКүн бұрын

  I dont like the merger largly because I couldnt find my smashword dashboard...it feels like a death and theft or a parent abandoning their kids!!!

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  @BruceRobertCoffinAuthor3 күн бұрын

  Thanks so much for having us on the program, Matty!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 күн бұрын

  Always a pleasure, Bruce!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 күн бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with LynDee and Bruce! Have you co-authored fiction? If yes, are there any best practices we didn’t hit in the interview? If not, are you tempted to explore it?

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  @Sydulislam-ob4kf9 күн бұрын

  🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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  @winkletter10 күн бұрын

  I have so much trouble finding books I want to read, let alone write. Kindletrends looks like it could help with both problems.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast10 күн бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Nat! When you consider your own book’s cover, blurb, conventions, and the other aspects Nat mentioned, do you feel like their “in the right neighborhood” along with the books you consider comps? If not, are there steps you might take to address that?

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  @BruceWBishop10 күн бұрын

  I think my trilogy of novels are placed in the right neighborhood, but I'm about to publish a standalone this fall. The genre and category(ies) are changing, so this conversation with Nat was valuable. Thanks, Matty!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast10 күн бұрын

  @@BruceWBishop I'm glad you found it helpful!

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  @kindletrends10 күн бұрын

  @@BruceWBishop Great to hear - glad it was helpful for you!

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  @lindarees987017 күн бұрын

  This was so extremely helpful. The more I know the more I want to know. Thank you so much!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast17 күн бұрын

  I'm so glad you enjoyed it--it was a fascinating discussion!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast17 күн бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Katherine! Which of the mistakes she mentioned have you seen in a book or movie, and can you think of a way the author or screenwriter could have fixed it that wouldn’t have undermined or might even have improved the story?

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  @wordsbyartemis19 күн бұрын

  This video gives me a lot of hope about the novella I’m working on! Thank you!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast19 күн бұрын

  I'm so happy it was helpful for you!

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  @winkletter24 күн бұрын

  The reader-focused tagline reminds be of Bill Schley's "micro-scripts." Can you distill your brand down to a few words that immediately describes your unique selling proposition, infects the reader's brain, and spreads from person to person?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast24 күн бұрын

  Sounds a little creepy 🙂 but also a great encapsulation of what a tagline should do!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast24 күн бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Greta and Megan! Do you find yourself falling victim to shiny object syndrome and, if yes, how do you combat it?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcastАй бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Kathleen! What was the most surprising piece of information she shared about working K-9s?

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  @ldwenzel1Ай бұрын

  Thanks for sharing Jeff. I enjoyed your conversation with the Indy Author. I especially appreciated your struggle to find the right genre to market your book in that you seem to feel that your book falls in between Christian and general fiction.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcastАй бұрын

  Thank you for the note! As someone whose books don't fall cleanly into the center of a particular genre, I struggle with this as well.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcastАй бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Chelle! Did any of the perspectives Chelle shared convince you to think differently about how you approach sales?

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  @winkletterАй бұрын

  Great metaphor! Do you just let the music play, or lift the needle?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast28 күн бұрын

  Great question! I find that I need to lift the metaphorical needle and not allow myself to just let the music play without stepping back to consider if it's serving my creative needs.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcastАй бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Johnny! What steps do you take so that you remember to notice the magic that’s happening around you?

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  @lorenhackney9981Ай бұрын

  Great idea! Because I'm usually all over the place.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcastАй бұрын

  Yes, any tips that make better work focus possible are always helpful!

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  @lorenhackney9981Ай бұрын

  Higher royalties!!!

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  @lorenhackney9981Ай бұрын

  You have got it Melissa! Diverse characters doing people things!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcastАй бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Melissa! What was the biggest surprise for you from the Big Indie Author Data Drop results? What data bore out what you believed about indie publishing?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcastАй бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Jessie! Are you thinking about organizing a conference of your own now? If not, which of her tips are you going to apply to another major undertaking you’re considering or are working on now?

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  @lorenhackney99812 ай бұрын

  Great idea to give it away for your newsletter subscribers!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast2 ай бұрын

  It does take the sting out of removing a scene you love!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast2 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Tiffany! Do you understand your characters’ intrinsic need as well as their want? Was that obvious to you when you started your story, or did one or the other of them become clear to you over time?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast2 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Rob! Which of Rob’s tips most resonated with you, and how are you going to put his advice into practice?

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  @PamelaFaganHutchins2 ай бұрын

  Loved it!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast2 ай бұрын

  Me, too! 🙂

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast2 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Michael! Do you lean toward plotting or pantsing ... or, like me, percolating (thanks to Art Taylor for introducing me to that term) ... and how have you experimented with other approaches?

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  @PeterTurner-dm7zq2 ай бұрын

  A few comments on this excellent interview (very open, transparent, and honest) about the current state of publishing. The recent data I've seen is that approximately 60% of nonfiction book sales are happening online (in print and digital). And, in many nonfiction categories, the sales online are lower still. Other categories, such as genre fiction, see much higher online sales. Okay, with that as a reasonable baseline, what about the intangible value of getting physical books into retailers. There's no way to gauge this effect--that is how significant physical retail is for sales overall--but there's lots of anecdotal data. The average sales volume of self-published books is clearly dramatically lower than the average sales of books from traditional publishers. There are many possible reasons for this--all of which are up to debate--but there it is. Another comment I'd add to the mix is the ability of traditional publishers to secure subsidiary rights (translations, audio, etc.); hybrid and Indie publishers naturally are going to struggle on this front. One last comment is that in the last year or two there's been a decline of the influence of author social media platforms; the "noise" is just so great that it's increasing hard to break through.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast2 ай бұрын

  Peter, thank you for the extensive and thoughtful response to the information David shared! I feel confident that enough reputable organizations are seeing the possibilities for indies in subsidiary rights and are starting to offer services to help indies pursue that. So many ways in which indie / trad is a spectrum and not an either-or ... I love what Pamela Fagan Hutchins had to say about this in this week's podcast episode! kzread.info/dash/bejne/aGGg0dVxnseoZc4.html

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  @lakedrivebooks2 ай бұрын

  Thanks Peter for the comment and for watching! Perhaps what I'd offer is that for most nonfiction books that aren't part of the "Big 5" publishers, they're print and ebook sales are easily 95% online. That's definitely true for independent publishers. But even conventional publishers have many slower-selling books on their lists where that's true from day one. The other issue, and look up what Michael Schatzkin says about this, is that with online retailers, backlist has come alive because of online retailers. So even the big publishers are seeing less profit from frontlist titles and are focusing on backlist and even acquiring other publishers to get more backlist. That's quite telling. It also means that independent publishers and authors have an advantage, if they can find an audience.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast2 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Pamela! How do you think you’d react to a publisher making the kinds of requests of you that Bookouture made of her?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Bryan! What do you think about our discussion about advertising your first book?

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  @bethcox32263 ай бұрын

  I am in a small writing accountability group and we have a Google Sheet that we write in each week. We share our goals for the week. We share how thigs went for the past week and we share what we did to celebrate our accomplishments. We can also encourage one another on the sheet. That sheet we share has been motivating and rewarding to me.

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  @rumrunner80193 ай бұрын

  I heard somewhere that even if one doesn't have time to write on a given day it help to at least open the WIP one is working on and look at it for a couple of minutes. That way one train's their mind to use to looking at their WIP

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  @rumrunner8019 that's great advice, especially because I find that if I make that first effort, I often find myself an hour later still working happily away on my WIP (even if it's at the expense of other activities I had planned for that time). 🙂

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  @rolanddenzel-authorcoach3 ай бұрын

  Great idea. It might also train your mind to write in tiny slivers of time 😁

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  @magi67043 ай бұрын

  I loved this podcast! Thank you so much! Subscribed!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  I'm so happy it was valuable for you, and thrilled you subscribed--thank you!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Roland! Are you going to make changes to your approach to goal-setting based on his advice? In what way have you broken down a big goal into the smaller goals that he recommends?

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  @KristinaAdamsAuthor3 ай бұрын

  Thanks for having me again!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  Always lovely to chat with you!

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  @HVAC-EDUCATION3 ай бұрын

  BEWARE, behind that smile, Draft2Digital banned my books with no justified explanation and I'm wondering if this happened to other authors ?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Megan Haskell and Jennifer Hilt! Have you done a Kickstarter and, if yes, are there any tips you can share with your fellow authors? Have you thought about doing a Kickstarter, and did our conversation make your more or less likely to take the plunge?

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  @WriterJeffAdams3 ай бұрын

  This was a great conversion. Accessibilty isn't talked about as much as it should be and it was great to hear this discussion about making accessible books. It's an importat aspect given the European Union accessibility law coming into affect in June 2025 that requires accessible ebooks. This aspect of accessibility is only a part of the story for authors. There's also making sure the websites, emails and social media that authors create are accessible as well (and most often they are not). If you'd like to discuss that on The Indy Author, I'd be happy to shed some light on that.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  Jeff, thanks so much for the comment, and for the generous offer--I'll keep that in mind!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast3 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Michael! Is your work accessible in the ways Michael described? If not, what is a first step you’re going to take to make them so?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Nick! Do you think persistence is ever a problem? Was there a situation where you were persistent longer than you should have been? I’d love to hear what your experience was, and if you carried learnings from that experience forward into another situation.

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  @lindataylor42074 ай бұрын

  David Morris is one of my favorites in the publishing industry. Thanks for sharing. Helps me keep on top of how publishing continues to change.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  I love speaking with people who evolve with the times rather than just complaining about how things used to be.

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  @lakedrivebooks4 ай бұрын

  Hi Linda!! Thanks for listening to this. You are a long-time publishing friend with so much to offer too!!

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  @garnettajohnson45604 ай бұрын

  Thanks for this.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Nick Thacker! What did you think about our metaphors of writing a first draft being like digging clay out of sand or like building sandcastles-or, for that matter, about any other part of our conversation?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with David! What part of the information he shared was the biggest surprise for you?

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  @NewsSports-ey1ke4 ай бұрын

  Nice video

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  @Elisabeth121-uk6pc4 ай бұрын

  You are right. In the writers community the fast release writers are dominant. In romance, detective and so forth. It also made me feel I had to write a series, make the first book free, focus on ebooks. But it only works for certain books and certain people.

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  Elizabeth, yes, matching one's professional and personal goals to the approach is so important! I believe romance authors in particular have a very specific business strategy that doesn't always translate successfully to other genres.

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  @vimeria4 ай бұрын

  Title was clickbait, thought we were talking about another release!! xD

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  @KristinaAdamsAuthor4 ай бұрын

  Thanks for having me!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  Always a pleasure to chat with you!

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Kristina! Have you encountered the kind of burnout Kristina described and, if yes, how did you deal with it?

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  What were your favorite and least favorite parts of THE GREEN KNIGHT? Leave a comment to let me and Jennifer know!

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  @jproog414 ай бұрын

  What a great conversation, and I love hearing his pitch. Very helpful there! Do you happen to have a copy or picture of his banner? I'm getting ready, with release of my third book series one, and first book of series 2, to start going out two more conventions. I would like to get an idea of some other authors' banners.😊

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  @TheIndyAuthorPodcast4 ай бұрын

  I tried to post a link to a photo of my banners but it looked like KZread was going to strip it out, but if you go to The Indy Author of FB, look for a photo dated 10-Feb-2024 ... I'll see if I can point you to a photo of Todd's set-up!

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  @jproog414 ай бұрын

  @@TheIndyAuthorPodcast I will do that, thank you!