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Indie Book Talk — 130 episodes

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An Important Announcement from the hosts of Indie Book Talk

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Book Review: Alice the Cat by Tim Cummings

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From Webcomic to Hardcover Collection with Jimmy Craig

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How to Organize a Writer’s Life When You’re a Hot Mess with Genalea Barker

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The Thrilling Case of the Coverless Book with Alex Kenna

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Disability Representation in Fantasy Stories with L.J. Stanton

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Sneezing Out a Story and Perfecting Illustrations With Help From Children’s Author Sheryl Bass

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How to Build A Street Team and Thoughts on Bibliotherapy with Kacey Rayburn

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Book Marketing Through Relationship Building with Michelle Shores

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Rewarding Rejection to Sell 88 Short Stories to Magazines with Marie Vibbert

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Google Ads for Indie Authors with Nicholas Poe

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What If I Just… An Unusual Path to Comic Book Publishing and Other Strange Adventures with L.A. Cunningham

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Why You Should Live in 1968 With Hugo Award Finalist and Sci-Fi Author Gideon Marcus

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Can You Teach Me to Publish A Picture Book with Harleigh Clark

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A One Word Story and Other Amazing Feats of Fiction with Briane Pagel

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How to Pitch a Podcast If You Want To Be A Guest

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Using Fiction to Embrace Identity As a Middle Eastern Girl in America with Anisa Ashabi

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Representation Matters, LGBTQ Characters in Mystery with Audrey Hanagan

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Following The Call Of Your Creative Heart with Dallas Woodburn

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Keep Your Medieval Potatoes (or Testing Types of Publishing) with Karen Heenan

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Trying It All In Publishing with Editor, Author and Writing Coach Alison McBain

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How to Start a Writing Group Based On Our Real Experience

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Building An Audience As A Kindle Vella Early Adopter with K.J. Gillenwater

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Climbing Out of the Querying Trenches to Choose Indie Publishing with Erin Reilly

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Writing Middle Grade in Middle School with A.Y. Johlin

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Writing Fiction Rooted in a Real Place with Stacy Lee

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Why We Hate the "Lose Her Power" Trope with Myah Bawadi

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Storytelling at the Prep School for Serial Killers with Tara Platt

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Mistakes On the Path to Publishing Success with Jared Morrison

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What A Small Traditional Press Can Do For You with Geoff Habiger

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Keeping LGBTQ+ History Alive with Owen Keehnen, Co-Founder of The Legacy Project Chicago

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Writing Your Real Life Medical Drama in Fiction with E.D. Hackett

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Writing Blind and Standing Up to the Studios with Jim Stovall

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Photographing Music's Biggest Stars with Paul Natkin

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Creativity In All Directions with L.L. Smith of Lachdown Productions

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What is a Developmental Editor? With Jennifer Milius

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Build Better Fictional Worlds Through Anthropology with Kyra Wellstrom and Michael Kilman

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Speculative Fiction and the Space Cowboy with Jean-Paul L. Garnier

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Managing Multiple Pen Names with Corinne O'Flynn

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Battling Imposter Syndrome and Writing About Mental Health with Sarah McKnight

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Writing Your Values Into Fiction with Iris March

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Business Essentials for Writers with James P. Nettles

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Being an Expat Writer Living in Spain with Jesse Salvo

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International Book Marketing on Amazon and Beyond with Nenny May

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Author Names and the MFA Thesis (Novel) with Ian M. Rogers

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When's the Right Time to Hire an Author's Assistant? with Jenna Lee

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Publishing as Fundraising (for Animals!) with Amit Verma

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Book Review of Scribes' Descent by Dylan West

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Crowdfunding to Kickstart a Charity Anthology with Elyse Russell

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Special Guest Interview: Why Suicide Awareness is Part of Emma G Rose's Author Platform

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Transforming Screenplays Into Novels with Andrew Dean

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Poetry and the Creative Process with Joseph Fasano

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Author Visits to Schools with Emma G Rose

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What is a Story? Metafiction, myth, and whiteness with Mike Hilbig

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8 of Our Favorite Books On Writing

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Writing in Your Non-Native Language with Ricardo Victoria

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How To Meet Your Writing Goals, No Excuses with Gerald Dean Rice

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Book Review of Unravel by Amelia Loken

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Shanti Hershenson Is 14 and Has 10 Books Published

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Mythulu Magic: An Experiment in Character Development

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Bestseller Michele Scott on Luck in Indie Publishing

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Navigating Genre with Bryan Nowak

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Telling Ghost Stories Anchored in the Real World with Eleanor Wagner

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Writing Characters with Disabilities with Amelia Loken

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Indie Book Class Session 6 - Different Types of Publishing

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Book Review of After Io by Elliot Wink - the first book in the Far Light Series

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Claiming Time to Write with Kelsey Kupitz

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The Sleeze-Free Secret to Succeeding on Twitter with Lee Hall

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How to Write About Hard Situations Without Traumatizing Your Audience with Savannah Goins

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Getting Recognized By Indie Book Awards and Why Renaii West Loves Indie Publishing

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A Writer's Cooperative: Indie Books, Movies and More with Gary Vincent

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Planning and Marketing a Massive Series with Nicholas Woode-Smith

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Book Review: Sleeping Beauty and the Cursed Code

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Writing Humor and Turning Indie Books into Indie Movies with Michelle Bowser

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Indie Book Class Session 5 - Getting To Know Your Characters

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The Curious Case of the PI Professor, Meriah Crawford

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Morgan Quaid on Using Music to Promote Books

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Book Review: Part Time Monster Hunter by Nicholas Woode-Smith

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E. G. Creel on Writing Despite Distractions & Dyslexia + Thoughts on Kindle Vella

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Indie Book Class Session 4 - Rules for Writing the First Draft

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Writing Mental Health Tropes with Mark Harbinger

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Dominic Martell on Resurrecting a Character After 20 Years

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Missy Sheldrake on Cover Design and Fairies

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Libby Klein on Traditional Publishing and how to market your books

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Sneak Peek at the Storybilder tool for writers and how to get free access

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Why Elizabeth Spann Craig Left Traditional Publishing to Go Indie (And how she's written more than 40 books)

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Indie Book Class - Session Three: Writing Past the First Page (what to do when you get stuck early in the story)

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A prodigy, a psychotherapist and two podcasters walk into a cult (interview with Verlin Darrow, author of Prodigy Quest)

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Indie Book Class - Session Two: Plotting vs. Pantsing

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Domenic Marinelli: Following the beat to write 16 books since 2016

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Indie Book Class - Session One: Where to Get Ideas

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What Type of Editor Do you Need? With R.T. Cole

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Becoming Instagram Famous with IG Lives and @Emma.Jean.Author

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Turning Memoir Into Fiction with Christy Alexander Hallberg

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Jessica Dall on Writing Historical Fiction

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Using Mythology In Fiction: Beware the Teenage Kraken

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Book Review: A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Claire

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Overcoming Procrastination and Distractions for Writers

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Stormi Lewis: 6 Months to Write and Publish a Novel

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Romancing the SquidgieWitty: On co-writing gay romance

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What is Bookshop.org: For Indie Authors and Indie Publishers

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Dave Baker And Nicole Goux Love Indie Comics

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Adventure Riot: On-Air Critique

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Elissa Dickey Author of the Speed of Light Talks Amazon Publishing

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Book Review: The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple

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Demon & Doe: On Air Critique

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Beta Readers: What They Are and Why You Need Them

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Can Podcasting Help Build Your Author Platform with Matty Dalrymple

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How to Get Your Book Into Bookstores with Gibran Graham

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Dirk Manning on Using Kickstarter to fund Indie Graphic Novels

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People really DO judge a book by its cover

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How D&D Influences Novel Writing with Rebecca Ellette Fincher

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Crime Fiction and Hybrid Publishing with Lisa Regan

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Book Review: Lost in a Dream by R.E. Fury

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4 Tips For Hosting a Virtual Book Launch or Author Event

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Creative Book Marketing Strategies

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Overcoming Self Doubt to Publish Your Novel with Lanette Pottle

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8-year-old Author Holly Marshall on Publishing Her First Book

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How to To Take Care of an Author (yourself or someone you love)

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Experiments in Marketing Urban Fantasy with Author Stephanie Mirro

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Why You Need A Writing Group

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Award Winning Short Story Writer Barb Goffman on Mystery Writing

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Setting Achievable Writing Goals

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Book Review: The Panda of Death by Betty Webb

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How to Get Press for Your Indie Book

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Running a Bookshop During a Pandemic

127

Martin Wilsey on Audiobooks

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Book Review: Negative Zero by Ireland Gill

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Indie Books

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