Indie Author Magazine

About Indie Author Magazine

When Writing Means Business, Indie Author Magazine is the guidebook for self-published authors taking charge of their writing career. Whether you've published or not, IAM brings you articles and information designed to save you time, money, and stress. Each month your host Indie Annie shares the full articles in the magazine for listening on-the-go. To subscribe to the print version of the magazine visit https://indieauthormagazine.com

Publisher

Chelle Honiker

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 May 2021

Latest episode

10 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

249 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Oct 2026

   Why Romance Readers are Ditching the Mega Mall

   Romance readers once gathered in the publishing equivalent of a mega mall: enormous online retailers offering endless shelves, convenient delivery, and algorithm-driven recommendations. But reading and buying habits are changing. This episode explores why many romance readers are looking beyond the biggest retail platforms and choosing smaller, more personal places to discover and purchase books. Community, direct relationships with authors, exclusive editions, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and specialist retailers can offer an experience that a vast general-purpose store struggles to match. For independent authors, this shift creates both opportunities and challenges. Reaching readers outside the established marketplace requires more responsibility for discovery, communication, and customer experience—but it can also produce stronger relationships and greater control over a writing business. This isn’t necessarily about abandoning major retailers. It’s about understanding why readers move, what they are seeking, and how authors can build welcoming destinations that give loyal fans a reason to buy directly.

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Future-Proof Your Series with a Story Bible

   Long-running series, shared worlds, and complex standalone novels place enormous demands on an author’s memory. A story bible turns scattered details into a reliable reference, helping you preserve continuity across drafts, books, and years. In this episode, we explore what belongs in a useful story bible—from character histories, relationships, appearance, and voice to timelines, locations, world rules, terminology, and unresolved plot threads. The discussion considers when to begin documenting, how much detail is genuinely helpful, and why a reference system must remain easy to update and search. You’ll also discover how story bibles can support editors, co-authors, assistants, and adaptations without becoming another elaborate form of procrastination. Whether you are writing your first series or returning to a fictional world after a long break, this episode will help you build a practical source of truth that protects consistency, reduces avoidable mistakes, and frees your attention for the creative decisions that matter most.

3. 

   3 Oct 2026

   Stop Paying for Rejection at Scale

   Paid advertising does not fix a weak offer; it simply sends more people towards the same reasons they were not buying. In this episode, we examine what happens when authors scale campaigns before diagnosing why readers are clicking, hesitating, or leaving. The discussion explores the full conversion path—from targeting and creative to the book cover, description, reviews, pricing, sample, series promise, and reader expectations. You’ll learn why increasing budget can multiply rejection rather than sales, how to distinguish an advertising problem from a product-page problem, and which signals deserve attention before spending more. We also consider small, controlled tests, conversion rates, profitability, and the importance of changing one variable at a time. Whether your ads attract clicks without purchases or your campaigns become less efficient as they grow, this episode will help you stop treating scale as the solution and start strengthening the experience readers encounter after the click.

Who has been a guest on Indie Author Magazine

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• Jane Friedman
• Joanna Penn
• Liam Gray
• Erica Parker

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16,582

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3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

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Quality

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Social presence

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YouTube

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Engagement

31

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