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Writer Craft Podcast — 213 episodes

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Visibility for Your Book and Your Brand with Kae Wagner (Ep211)

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Developing a Book Coaching Program to Fund Your Author Life with Jessie Kwak (Ep210)

3

There's No Brain Hack for This?! with Erick Mertz (Ep209)

4

Infusing Self into a Resurrected "Trunk" Book with guest Jessie Kwak (Ep208)

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Changing the Way You Put Words on the Page with guest Crys Cain (Ep207)

6

5 Take Home Tips for Getting Started Anywhere Along Your Journey "Home" (Ep206)

7

What's Coming in February to the Writer Craft Podcast? ANNOUNCEMENT Episode (Ep205)

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Flawed Female Leads with guest Heather Snodgrass (Ep204)

9

How Point of View Affects Your Story (Ep203)

10

Finding Voice and Author Identity with Anne Abel (Ep202)

11

Writing the Hybrid Memoir (Ep201)

12

Onboarding Ghostwriting Clients: How to Identify Needs, Set Scope, and Build Trust (Ep200)

13

Intentionality in Writing: Hendrika de Vries on Resistance, Feminism, and Telling the Truth (Ep199)

14

The Art of Starting Over: Getting Back Into Your Writing Flow (Ep198)

15

How to Write a Book That Grows Your Business and Honors Your Spirit (Ep197)

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From Reserved to Ravishing: Writing Spicy Scenes that Feel True to You, with guest HR Cole (EP196)

17

The Book You Were Born to Write: Legacy Crafting, Part 3 of 3 (Ep195)

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The Book You Were Born to Write: Where Ego Meets Soul, Part 2 of 3 (Ep194)

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The Book You Were Born to Write: Hearing the Call, Part 1 of 3 (Ep193)

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Crowdfunding Your book: Why Kickstarter Might Be the Perfect Launchpad, with guest JP Rindfleisch IX (Ep192)

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How to Start Your Author Business on a Budget (Ep191)

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Staying Productive While Embracing the Chaos and Boredom of Summer (Ep190)

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Using Unconventional Thinking to Tackle Creative Blocks with guest David Carson (Ep189)

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Book Coaching is Next-Level Book Editing (Ep188)

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Anti-Hustle Culture with guest Rachel May and Emily Golden (Ep187)

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Must-Have Elements in Every Nonfiction Book (Ep186)

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Ep185: Beyond the Hero's Journey: Exploring the Hidden Arcs in Every Story

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Ep184: The Confidence Paradox with guest Angus Nelson

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Ep183: ChatGPT and Writing Exercises

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Ep182: How to Start a Ghostwriting Business

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Ep181: Autofiction: Letting Go at Launch Time with guest H.H. Rune

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Ep180: (B)Romance: How Dumb & Dumber and When Harry Met Sally are the Same Screenplay

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Ep179: The 3 Types and 5 Rules of Screenwriting

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Ep178: How to Find Writing Community

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Ep177: Favorite Writing Craft Books

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Ep176: How to Resuscitate a Trunk Novel

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Ep175: Problem Solving Your Novel

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Ep174: What Are You Bringing to 2025?

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Ep173: Battling Self-Doubt

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Ep172: Pricing Author Services

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Ep171: The Process of Planning Your Book Without Getting Bored

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Ep170: Courage in Story Telling with guest Anne Abel

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Ep169: Writing as a Black Woman in the Speculative Fiction Genre, with guest Dr. Michele Tracy Berger

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Ep168: Fostering Creativity

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Ep167: Hiring an Editor: What My Book Should Look Like

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Ep166: Conference Expecatations

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Ep165: Story Retellings with Guest Jeanne Blasberg

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Ep164: Welcome to Season 5!

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Ep163: How Writing Heals with Guest Becky Ellis

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Ep162: Announcement Only Episode

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Ep161: Writing (in Multiple Genres) During the Stolen Moments

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Ep160: Using Imagery in Your Writing

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Ep159: Discovery Writing with KimBoo York

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Ep158: Using Tropes to Avoid Writer's Block

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Ep157: How to Reuse Content in Your Business

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Ep156: Writing Cross-Genre with Dyslexia, featuring guest A.B. Herron

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Ep155: Step One of Setting Goals

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Ep154: First Lines, Openings, and Hooks

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Ep153: Writing Through Chronic Illness, with Kathie Giorgio

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Ep152: Exploring the World and Your Values in the Stories You Write

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Ep151: Go for the Little Wins

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Ep150: Transforming Your Manuscript from Boring to Badass

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Ep149: Does Permafree Still Work on Amazon?

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Ep148: Starting an Anthology

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Ep147: Reset Buttons and Pivots for Authors

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Ep146: How to Maintain Your Writing Business During Crisis

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Ep145: Using Your Local Library as an Author Resource

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Ep144: Writing from Your Body, with Anna Willman

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Ep143: Favorite Characters

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Ep142: How to Know if Your Story Idea Has Legs, plus Reflecting on 2023 and Looking at 2024

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Ep141: Mining Your Life for Story

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Ep140: Top 3 Tips for New Writers

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Ep139: Identifying Limiting Beliefs, Understanding How They Affect Writers, and How to Reverse Them

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Ep138: Budget with Confidence When Building Your Writing Business

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Ep137: Serial Fiction with KimBoo York

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Ep136: All Things Nanowrimo

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Ep135: Making Business Decisions

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Ep134: Let's Get Meta: Behind the Scenes of the Podcasting Experience

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Ep133: How to Use Your Backlist

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Ep132: Your Story Starts Here, with Mary Carroll Moore

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Ep131: Does My Book's Hook Work?

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Ep130: Pitching the Conference Circuit

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Ep129: Non-Traditional Writing Prompts, with Zachary Jeffries

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Ep128: Accountability Buddies and Masterminds--How Group Coaching Can Help You

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Ep127: Coming Back from Chaos

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Ep126: Content Writing: Should I Start a ___?

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Ep125: When Should I Start Using Ads?

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Ep124: From Screenwriter to Published Author with Jane Rosen

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Ep123: The Hardest Things for Memoirists

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Ep122: The Prolific Writer with Brock Swinson (Take 2)

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Ep121: How to Improve Your Craft

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Ep120: Budget Alternatives for Editing

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Ep119: The Seven Components of Dialogue, with Dialogue Doctor Jeff Elkins

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Ep118: Interview with a Memoir Coach

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Ep117: Marketing Basics for Authors

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Ep116: Marketing with Other Authors

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Ep115: Writing a Clearly Defined Problem and Solution in Non-Fiction

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Ep114: Manifesting What You Want for Your Business

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Ep113: How to Give and Receive Feedback from Critique Groups

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Ep112: What's Wrong with My Story?

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Ep111: Writer's Block

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Ep110: Marketing from the Ground Up (Part 3 of Marketing That You Own series)

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Ep109: SEO for Authors (Part 2 of Marketing That You Own series)

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Ep108: Website Basics (Part I of Marketing That You Own series)

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Ep107: Jennie Komp Interview on Anthologies

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Ep106: Setbacks

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Ep105: Reflection as an Indie Author Tool

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Ep104: Launch Day and Living in an Upside-Down World

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Ep103: Mailing List Maintenance

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Ep102: Professional Relationships

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Ep101: CEO Check-In Strategy for Authors

112

Ep100: Landmark Episode, with love and outtakes

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Ep99: Overthinking Your Writing

114

Ep98: Monthly Gamechangers

115

Ep97: Accountability for Authors (So You Can Focus and Finish)

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Ep96: Tarot for Your Business

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Ep95: A Year in Review

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Ep94: How To Decide On Your Next Project

119

Extra Extra Ep93.5: ANNOUNCEMENT: New Pricing for Writer Craft Writing Retreat

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Ep93: Failure (In Order to Succeed)

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Ep92: Gratitude for the Author Life (plus Covers and Cohesion)

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Ep91: The Nitty-Gritty of Self-Publishing

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Ep90: Receiving Feedback

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Ep89: Celebrating Successes

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Ep88: Submissions

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Ep87: How to Prepare for and Stay Balanced Through a Busy Season

127

Ep86: Short Stories and Patreon

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Ep85: Partner or Spousal Support at Home

129

Ep84: Production and Publication Schedules

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Ep83: Author Services Side Hustle

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Ep82: Email List Care and Onboarding Sequences

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Ep81: Focus and Productivity

133

Ep80: Crowdfunding

134

Ep79: Planning Your Creative Path

135

Ep78: Finding the Core of Your Memoir

136

Ep77: Erick Mertz, the Sequel

137

Ep76: Marketing You Can Do While Writing Your Book

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Ep75: Erick Coaching

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Ep74: How to Catch Up When You're Drowning

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Ep73: Editing Passes and A.I. Software

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Ep72: Global Conflict, Choice, and Consequence

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Ep71: How to Find Time to Write When Your Kids are Home During Summer

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Ep70: Passive Voice and Sentence Structure

144

Ep69: Writing Full-Time

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Ep68: Pacing

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Ep67: Editing vs Ghost-writing

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Ep66: Filling the Creative Well

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Ep65: Showing vs Telling

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Ep64: Theme and Story Hypothesis (with JP Rindfleisch)

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Ep63: Emotional Tone

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Ep62: Writing Tools

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Ep61: How to Write a Villain

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Setting and World-Building

154

59: Writers Retreats and Residencies

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Ep58: Genre Expectations

156

Ep57: Character Arc

157

Ep56: Book Launch Fundamentals

158

Live Scene Analysis (featuring Crys Cain)

159

Maintaining Positivity in Your Author Life

160

Dialogue Doctor Jeff Elkins Interview: Writer Craft Ep 53

161

Reading Like a Writer

162

Memoir Myths

163

Protagonist's Needs and Wants

164

Fracturing of the Writing Community

165

Characterization

166

Writer Craft Podcast, S4, Ep 47

167

Writer Craft S4, Ep46

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Writer Craft Ep 45

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Strategies for Authors and Other Entrepreneurs, Ep44

170

Strategies for Authors and Other Entrepreneurs, Ep43

171

Strategies for Authors and Other Entrepreneurs, Ep42

172

Strategies for Authors and Entrepreneurs

173

Side Hustle Strategy #1: CEO Control Journal

174

Using Personality to Build Habits and Change

175

Taking a Step Back to Thrive in Life and Business

176

Voice Double

177

Why Monthly Reviews Are Important For Your Business

178

Business Action Plan, Case Study 1, Ep35

179

Pivots, Ep34

180

Healthy Grieving When Things Aren't Great

181

The Difference Between Getting Organized and Getting Focused, and other myths about productivity

182

Focus and Productivity

183

The Indie Author Mentor Show, Ep 30

184

The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E29:

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E28:

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IAM Show, S2/E27

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E26

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E25

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E24

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E23

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E22

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2, E21

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, S2/Ep20

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The Indie Author Mentor Show, Season 2, Ep 19

195

Indie Author Mentor Show, Season 2, Episode 18

196

Indie Author Mentor, Episode 17

197

The Indie Author Mentor Show, Season 1, Episode 16

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 15

199

The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 14

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 13

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 12

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 11:

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 10

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 9:

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 8

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The Indie Author Mentor, Episode 7

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Indie Author Mentor, Episode 6

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Indie Author Mentor, Episode 5

209

Indie Author Mentor, Episode 4

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Indie Author Mentor Show, Episode 3

211

Episode 2: Plotting and Outlining

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Indie Author Mentor, Episode 1

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