Indie Author Magazine Featuring Ben Hale: Indie Author Magazine, #38

By Chelle Honiker and Alice Briggs

Welcome to the June issue of Indie Author Magazine, your guide to the ever-evolving world of independent publishing. This issue is packed with insights, strategies, and stories to inspire and support indie authors at every stage of their journey.

Inside, you'll find:
✓ From the Editor in Chief: Nicole Schroeder draws creative inspiration from the upcoming Olympic Games and invites authors to do the same.

✓ Martelle's Motivation: In his final column, Craig Martelle encourages authors to embrace courage and conviction in their writing journey.

✓ ALLi Exclusive: Melissa Addey shares valuable insights into effective market research strategies for indie authors.

✓ Solari Says: Joe Solari explores how to better understand your readers to grow an authentic audience.

✓ Dear Indie Annie: Learn how to niche down and identify your ideal reader avatar to better focus your marketing efforts.

✓ Ten Tips: Discover how the PARA method can streamline your workflow and boost productivity in your author business.

Features:
✓ Ben Hale's Unconventional Path to Writing Success: Follow the journey of Ben Hale, whose passion, humility, and storytelling power have led to a successful indie publishing career.

✓ Tapas and Friends: 20Books Sevilla 2024 in Review: Grace Snoke recaps the vibrant networking and learning opportunities at the 20BooksTo50K® event in Seville.

✓ Marketing Lessons Children's Book Authors Can Learn from the 2024 Olympic Games: Learn how to apply the innovative marketing strategies behind the Olympics to market children's literature.

Practical Strategies for Indie Authors:
✓ Upgrade Your Marketing with AI Initiatives: Unlock the potential of AI to enhance your marketing strategies.
✓ Tried-and-True Methods for Marketing Nonfiction: Explore proven strategies to market your nonfiction works effectively.
✓ ScribeCount Brings Your Sales Data Across Retailers into One Place: Understand the benefits of consolidating your sales data.
✓ Navigating the Seas of Nautical Fiction: Dive into the genre of nautical fiction.
✓ Prosperity: Six Steps to Success: Learn the steps to help your indie business thrive.
✓ Five Tips to Free Your Mind from Analysis Paralysis: Overcome decision fatigue and free up your creative mind.
✓ Corner the Market: Steve Higgs shares how to build a personal narrative that resonates with readers.

Join us this month as we celebrate the inspiring stories, cutting-edge strategies, and insightful advice that will empower and elevate your indie author journey!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Athenia Creative Services, LLC
• Release date: May 28, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227847799

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Indie Author Magazine Featuring Ben Hale

INDIE AUTHOR MAGAZINE FEATURING BEN HALE

CHELLE HONIKER

ALICE BRIGGS

Athenia Creative Services, LLC

Indie Author Magazine

Chelle Honiker and Alice Briggs

© 2024 by Indie Author Magazine

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ISSN 2768-7880 (online)–ISSN 2768-7872 (print)

Contents

In This Month’s Issue

Ad

Typewriter Tales

Editor’s letter: Lessons from the Olympics

Nicole Schroeder, Editor In Chief

From the Stacks

This Month’s Book, Tool, and Podcast Picks

Insider Insights

Martelle’s Motivation

The Courage to Keep Writing

ALLi Exclusive: Invest in the Best of Your Business

Prosperity: Six Steps to Success

Corner the Market: You Can Too

Solari Says: Know How to Read Your Readers

Marketing

What the Machines Have Learned

Upgrade Your Marketing with AI Initiatives

Tried-and-True Methods for Marketing Nonfiction

Ad: Alliance of Independent Authors

Health, Wellness, and Mindset

Five Tips to Free Your Mind from Analysis Paralysis

On The Cover

From Nighttime Narratives to Novels

Ben Hale’s Unconventional Path to Writing Success

Ask Indie Annie

Searching for Serials: Serial Story Recomendations?

10 Tips

10 Tips for: The PARA Method

Ad: Indie Author Tools

Business, Finance and Strategy

Let the Games Begin

Marketing Lessons Children’s Book Authors Can Learn from the 2024 Olympic Games

Genre Focus

Navigating the Seas of Nautical Fiction

Production & Workflow

Tapas and Friends: 20Books Sevilla 2024 in Review

Technology

Everything under the Sunburst

ScribeCount Brings Your Sales Data Across Retailers into One Place

Afterword

In This Month’s Issue

Welcome to the June issue of Indie Author Magazine, your guide to the ever-evolving world of independent publishing. This issue is packed with insights, strategies, and stories to inspire and support indie authors at every stage of their journey.

Inside, you’ll find:

✓ From the Editor in Chief: Nicole Schroeder draws creative inspiration from the upcoming Olympic Games and invites authors to do the same.

✓ Martelle’s Motivation: In his final column, Craig Martelle encourages authors to embrace courage and conviction in their writing journey.

✓ ALLi Exclusive: Melissa Addey shares valuable insights into effective market research strategies for indie authors.

✓ Solari Says: Joe Solari explores how to better understand your readers to grow an authentic audience.

✓ Dear Indie Annie: Learn how to niche down and identify your ideal reader avatar to better focus your marketing efforts.

✓ Ten Tips: Discover how the PARA method can streamline your workflow and boost productivity in your author business.

Features:

✓ Ben Hale's Unconventional Path to Writing Success: Follow the journey of Ben Hale, whose passion, humility, and storytelling power have led to a successful indie publishing career.

✓ Tapas and Friends: 20Books Sevilla 2024 in Review: Grace Snoke recaps the vibrant networking and learning opportunities at the 20BooksTo50K® event in Seville.

✓ Marketing Lessons Children’s Book Authors Can Learn from the 2024 Olympic Games: Learn how to apply the innovative marketing strategies behind the Olympics to market children’s literature.

Practical Strategies for Indie Authors:

✓ Upgrade Your Marketing with AI Initiatives: Unlock the potential of AI to enhance your marketing strategies.

✓ Tried-and-True Methods for Marketing Nonfiction: Explore proven strategies to market your nonfiction works effectively.

✓ ScribeCount Brings Your Sales Data Across Retailers into One Place: Understand the benefits of consolidating your sales data.

✓ Navigating the Seas of Nautical Fiction: Dive into the genre of nautical fiction.

✓ Prosperity: Six Steps to Success: Learn the steps to help your indie business thrive.

✓ Five Tips to Free Your Mind from Analysis Paralysis: Overcome decision fatigue and free up your creative mind.

✓ Corner the Market: Steve Higgs shares how to build a personal narrative that resonates with readers.

Join us this month as we celebrate the inspiring stories, cutting-edge strategies, and insightful advice that will empower and elevate your indie author journey!

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Typewriter Tales

Our executive team offers a bit of perspective and insight into the issue.

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Editor’s letter: Lessons from the Olympics

NICOLE SCHROEDER, EDITOR IN CHIEF

I’ve never considered myself much of a sports fan, but the Olympics have always been an easy exception to make. I remember waking up early to watch cycling during the Rio Olympic Games in 2016 and setting reminders on my phone for gymnastics events held at the Tokyo Games in 2021. It’s a safe bet my writing soundtrack will shift from movie scores to sports announcements over the next couple of weeks.

But there’s more that we, as authors, can take from the games than