Nicole Luttrell — AA, Woven, Station 86 & the Business of Being Indie

In this episode of What's Kraken, Jo Szewczyk sits down with Nicole Luttrell — Haunted MTL writer, speculative novelist, and the person behind the audio drama AA — for the first installment of the author series. Nicole walks through AA: a woman looks for a meeting after a bad marriage and finds aliens instead. Season 2 pushes that found family into the dark corners of Earth, the Avant-vir in the shadows, and the government shop hunting them. Listen to Season 1 first. It's nine short episodes. Then the craft and the business. She recast Stevie and rebuilt Season 1's lines with Maddie. She records the same scene five times across time zones and pastes a radio play together by hand. Off the Bone with Jam Brannock was nonfiction; AA is a different animal. On the page: Station 86's Nova, the Woven relaunch, Smashwords / Draft2Digital instead of KDP exclusivity, and a first publisher that purged non-romance authors for "not promoting." Her line on that is the one that sticks. Site: https://paperbeatsworld.com The Takeaway: Nobody promotes your book like you do. Keep the rights. Do the work you hate. Key Moments: AA, decoded: not that kind of meeting — Josie, Stevie, the MIG, and why Season 1 before Season 2 Recasting Stevie, rebuilding Season 1, and making a radio drama from five takes and a sound-effects folder First publisher, Broken Patterns, the romance purge, and why she is taking Woven back Station 86's Nova on paperbeatsworld.com, Smashwords over KDP lock-in, one writing hour five days a week We're Amazon Affiliates – if you buy through our links, we earn a commission. https://linktr.ee/Emptyhell https://paperbeatsworld.com