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Indie Book Talk — 130 episodes · page 1 of 2
An Important Announcement from the hosts of Indie Book Talk
Book Review: Alice the Cat by Tim Cummings
From Webcomic to Hardcover Collection with Jimmy Craig
How to Organize a Writer’s Life When You’re a Hot Mess with Genalea Barker
The Thrilling Case of the Coverless Book with Alex Kenna
Disability Representation in Fantasy Stories with L.J. Stanton
Sneezing Out a Story and Perfecting Illustrations With Help From Children’s Author Sheryl Bass
How to Build A Street Team and Thoughts on Bibliotherapy with Kacey Rayburn
Book Marketing Through Relationship Building with Michelle Shores
Rewarding Rejection to Sell 88 Short Stories to Magazines with Marie Vibbert
Google Ads for Indie Authors with Nicholas Poe
What If I Just… An Unusual Path to Comic Book Publishing and Other Strange Adventures with L.A. Cunningham
Why You Should Live in 1968 With Hugo Award Finalist and Sci-Fi Author Gideon Marcus
Can You Teach Me to Publish A Picture Book with Harleigh Clark
A One Word Story and Other Amazing Feats of Fiction with Briane Pagel
How to Pitch a Podcast If You Want To Be A Guest
Using Fiction to Embrace Identity As a Middle Eastern Girl in America with Anisa Ashabi
Representation Matters, LGBTQ Characters in Mystery with Audrey Hanagan
Following The Call Of Your Creative Heart with Dallas Woodburn
Keep Your Medieval Potatoes (or Testing Types of Publishing) with Karen Heenan
Trying It All In Publishing with Editor, Author and Writing Coach Alison McBain
How to Start a Writing Group Based On Our Real Experience
Building An Audience As A Kindle Vella Early Adopter with K.J. Gillenwater
Climbing Out of the Querying Trenches to Choose Indie Publishing with Erin Reilly
Writing Middle Grade in Middle School with A.Y. Johlin
Writing Fiction Rooted in a Real Place with Stacy Lee
Why We Hate the "Lose Her Power" Trope with Myah Bawadi
Storytelling at the Prep School for Serial Killers with Tara Platt
Mistakes On the Path to Publishing Success with Jared Morrison
What A Small Traditional Press Can Do For You with Geoff Habiger
Keeping LGBTQ+ History Alive with Owen Keehnen, Co-Founder of The Legacy Project Chicago
Writing Your Real Life Medical Drama in Fiction with E.D. Hackett
Writing Blind and Standing Up to the Studios with Jim Stovall
Photographing Music's Biggest Stars with Paul Natkin
Creativity In All Directions with L.L. Smith of Lachdown Productions
What is a Developmental Editor? With Jennifer Milius
Build Better Fictional Worlds Through Anthropology with Kyra Wellstrom and Michael Kilman
Speculative Fiction and the Space Cowboy with Jean-Paul L. Garnier
Managing Multiple Pen Names with Corinne O'Flynn
Battling Imposter Syndrome and Writing About Mental Health with Sarah McKnight
Writing Your Values Into Fiction with Iris March
Business Essentials for Writers with James P. Nettles
Being an Expat Writer Living in Spain with Jesse Salvo
International Book Marketing on Amazon and Beyond with Nenny May
Author Names and the MFA Thesis (Novel) with Ian M. Rogers
When's the Right Time to Hire an Author's Assistant? with Jenna Lee
Publishing as Fundraising (for Animals!) with Amit Verma
Book Review of Scribes' Descent by Dylan West
Crowdfunding to Kickstart a Charity Anthology with Elyse Russell
Special Guest Interview: Why Suicide Awareness is Part of Emma G Rose's Author Platform
Transforming Screenplays Into Novels with Andrew Dean
Poetry and the Creative Process with Joseph Fasano
Author Visits to Schools with Emma G Rose
What is a Story? Metafiction, myth, and whiteness with Mike Hilbig
8 of Our Favorite Books On Writing
Writing in Your Non-Native Language with Ricardo Victoria
How To Meet Your Writing Goals, No Excuses with Gerald Dean Rice
Book Review of Unravel by Amelia Loken
Shanti Hershenson Is 14 and Has 10 Books Published
Mythulu Magic: An Experiment in Character Development
Bestseller Michele Scott on Luck in Indie Publishing
Navigating Genre with Bryan Nowak
Telling Ghost Stories Anchored in the Real World with Eleanor Wagner
Writing Characters with Disabilities with Amelia Loken
Indie Book Class Session 6 - Different Types of Publishing
Book Review of After Io by Elliot Wink - the first book in the Far Light Series
Claiming Time to Write with Kelsey Kupitz
The Sleeze-Free Secret to Succeeding on Twitter with Lee Hall
How to Write About Hard Situations Without Traumatizing Your Audience with Savannah Goins
Getting Recognized By Indie Book Awards and Why Renaii West Loves Indie Publishing
A Writer's Cooperative: Indie Books, Movies and More with Gary Vincent
Planning and Marketing a Massive Series with Nicholas Woode-Smith
Book Review: Sleeping Beauty and the Cursed Code
Writing Humor and Turning Indie Books into Indie Movies with Michelle Bowser
Indie Book Class Session 5 - Getting To Know Your Characters
The Curious Case of the PI Professor, Meriah Crawford
Morgan Quaid on Using Music to Promote Books
Book Review: Part Time Monster Hunter by Nicholas Woode-Smith
E. G. Creel on Writing Despite Distractions & Dyslexia + Thoughts on Kindle Vella
Indie Book Class Session 4 - Rules for Writing the First Draft
Writing Mental Health Tropes with Mark Harbinger
Dominic Martell on Resurrecting a Character After 20 Years
Missy Sheldrake on Cover Design and Fairies
Libby Klein on Traditional Publishing and how to market your books
Sneak Peek at the Storybilder tool for writers and how to get free access
Why Elizabeth Spann Craig Left Traditional Publishing to Go Indie (And how she's written more than 40 books)
Indie Book Class - Session Three: Writing Past the First Page (what to do when you get stuck early in the story)
A prodigy, a psychotherapist and two podcasters walk into a cult (interview with Verlin Darrow, author of Prodigy Quest)
Indie Book Class - Session Two: Plotting vs. Pantsing
Domenic Marinelli: Following the beat to write 16 books since 2016
Indie Book Class - Session One: Where to Get Ideas
What Type of Editor Do you Need? With R.T. Cole
Becoming Instagram Famous with IG Lives and @Emma.Jean.Author
Turning Memoir Into Fiction with Christy Alexander Hallberg
Jessica Dall on Writing Historical Fiction
Using Mythology In Fiction: Beware the Teenage Kraken
Book Review: A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Claire
Overcoming Procrastination and Distractions for Writers
Stormi Lewis: 6 Months to Write and Publish a Novel
Romancing the SquidgieWitty: On co-writing gay romance