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037: Kick off your Author Career with Book Coaching with Christina Kaye
Does book coaching make a difference? Listen in as author and editor, Christina Kaye, shares how you can kick off a successful author career with book coaching. IN EPISODE 37 YOU WILL LEARN: Why it's okay to treat writing as a side hustle so you don't become a...

036: BookSniffer: The New Marketing Tool For Indie Authors
Meet BookSniffer. An app for book lovers and the new marketing tool for indie authors. Have you signed up yet? IN EPISODE 36 YOU WILL LEARN: The NEW tool to help connect authors and readers with out the headache.What is BookSniffer, how much is it and where can you...

035: How to Have a Blast Editing your Novel with Best Selling Author and Career Editor Tiffany Yates Martin
Can editing be fun? Tiffany Yates Martin shares how you can have a blast editing your novel without the headache. Listen in to her tips on writing and editing your next bestseller. IN EPISODE 35 YOU WILL LEARN: From acting to journalism to editing and writing, Tiffany...

Indie Author Lifestyle was founded in 2019 by International Bestselling Author Angela J. Ford (the pantser) and YA Fantasy Author, Stephanie BwaBwa (the plotter).
Indie Author Lifestyle was created to support and encourage indie authors and enthusiasts at all stages of their careers by providing weekly advice, resources, and best practices for finding success as an author.
On the podcast we discuss topics related to the craft of writing, the technical aspects of publishing, creative ways to market your book (even if you’re on a budget), author platforms, branding, and the everyday lifestyle of indie authors.
We go beyond writing, marketing and publishing to discuss real issues that affect indie authors, like burnout, writer’s block, health and balancing a career while taking care of family, working other jobs and going through life changes.
What you do in life counts and Indie Author Lifestyle is all about supporting your author career AND your life.
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How a Business Plan Can Help You Achieve Indie Author Success
Storytelling may be a craft and a calling, but publishing is an industry. If you’d like to publish and profit from your stories, then you must treat writing as a business. After all, indie authors are neither employees nor independent contractors. They’re small...

Mining Your Main Characters: Working Backward to Create Fully Fleshed, Compelling Protagonists
Readers don’t care what’s happening unless we care who it’s happening to. This is the truest truism I know about writing—that character is the vehicle in which readers travel through your story. We don’t rave about a story of the savant-like solution of seemingly...

Plotters Edition: How to Pre-Write Your Novel In 6 Steps
Plotters tend to love a good roadmap to turn to when it comes to tackling their stories. Pre-writing a novel is a surefire way to avoid a messy draft and more revisions than you'd want. In this article we'll discuss some steps for you to consider so your drafting...