Indie Author Magazine: Featuring Ines Johnson: Indie Author Magazine, #10

By Chelle Honiker and Alice Briggs

Audiobook Production Basics, NFT Books, Marketing Nonfiction, and Getting Cozy with Mysteries

 

For self-published authors, the future is now. Without the traditional roadblocks to publishing, it's now possible to take your intellectual property and expand your publishing universe to include not just e-books and paperbacks but also hardbacks, box sets, audiobooks, serialized newsletters, and even NFTs.

Dazzled by the possibilities? Overwhelmed and don't know where to begin? Don't worry. This issue is just for you.  

 

★ In this issue of Indie Author Magazine, you'll learn what successful authors use to expand their books into other formats like audiobooks, paid newsletters, NFTs, and hardbacks.★ 

 

Read three key articles: 

✓ Hardbacks Made Easy: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Deciding Which Hardcover Options Are Right for You

✓ Make Some Noise: What—and How—Indie Authors Gain From a Growing Audiobook Industry

✓ NFT Books: A Work in Progress: A Vision from within the Infancy of Crypto Publishing

 

You'll also meet Ines Johnson - the bestselling storyteller who loves good tropes,  satisfying her readers with kissing books spanning multiple genres.

 

Plus:

• Industry Insider Jamie Davis helps avoid common writing mistakes when writing medical details
• Win the Short Game: Marketing Non-Fiction Successfully
• Our sassy advice-giving aunt, ★ Indie Annie ★ gives advice to an author when an editor strangles their voice
• 10 Tips for Facebook: What's working in 2022 
• Get Cozy: How these mysteries satisfy readers one murder at a time
• Author Platforms: How to start or manage yours successfully by thinking like a spider 
• Mindset Quick Tips: How to prioritize writing time when you have no time
• Standing Desks and Treadmill Desks: Worth the hype or another expensive coat rack?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Athenia Creative Services, LLC
• Release date: Jan 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201788261

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Welcome from Indie Annie

About This Issue

For self-published authors, the future is now. Without the traditional roadblocks to publishing, it's now possible to take your intellectual property and expand your publishing universe to include not just e-books and paperbacks but also hardbacks, box sets, audiobooks, serialized newsletters, and even NFTs.

Dazzled by the possibilities? Overwhelmed and don’t know where to begin? Don’t worry. This issue is just for you.

★ In this issue of Indie Author Magazine, you’ll learn what successful authors use to expand their books into other formats like audiobooks, paid newsletters, NFTs, and hardbacks.★ 

Read three key articles:

✓ Hardbacks Made Easy: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Deciding Which Hardcover Options Are Right for You

✓ Make Some Noise: What—and How—Indie Authors Gain From a Growing Audiobook Industry

✓ NFT Books: A Work in Progress: A Vision from within the Infancy of Crypto Publishing

You’ll also meet Ines Johnson - the bestselling storyteller who loves good tropes,  satisfying her readers with kissing books spanning multiple genres.

Plus:

Industry Insider Jamie Davis helps avoid common writing mistakes when writing medical details

Our sassy advice-giving aunt, ★ Indie Annie ★ gives advice to an author when an editor strangles their voice

10 Tips for Facebook: What’s working in 2022 

Get Cozy: How these mysteries satisfy readers one murder at a time

Author Platforms: How to start or manage yours successfully by thinking like a spider 

Mindset Quick Tips: How to prioritize writing time when you have no time

Standing Desks and Treadmill Desks: Worth the hype or another expensive coat rack?

TYPEWRITER TALES

Each month we bring you insights and letters from our executive team and industry insiders.

The Product of Perseverance

How to Write Your Own Hero's Journey

When it comes to a hero’s journey, one thing that makes the story compelling is their ability to overcome the obstacle. What odds did they beat? What was previously insurmountable that they have now conquered? And, more importantly, how did they achieve success?

Grit. Determination. Stick-to-it-ness.

The answer, more often than not, comes down to one thing. They simply kept going.

Now that the warm fuzzy glow of the New Year has passed and the resolutions are broken (a statistical probability, I’m afraid) it’s time to dig out the only weapon in our arsenal that can redeem those ambitious goals you set for 2022, back when you were full of hope and optimism.

Perseverance.

You can’t edit a blank page. Write some words. You can’t market what you haven’t finished. Quit scrolling social media. You missed a deadline. Set a new one.

Don’t start over. Keep going. Pretend that you never stopped. Don’t wait for another milestone day of the week or month to give yourself a fresh start. Start again where you are right now.

You’re the hero. It’s your journey. Only you can write your way out of this obstacle. Give yourself the same gift of perseverance that you’d give one of your fictional friends.

Make your life and career unputdownable.

To your success, Chelle

Chelle Honiker, Publisher

Indie Author Magazine

FEATURED AUTHOR

We choose our Featured Author with great care and highlight authors that are blazing new trails and taking charge of their careers. We’re committed to showcasing authors that define success on their own terms.

We welcome nominations for authors on our website. Visit our website and tell us an extraordinary story!

Ines Johnson : Storytelling, but Add a Little Spice

Bre Lockhart

This year, Ines Johnson will have written and published over one hundred books. A seasoned author and introvert who loves sticky notes and colorful pens, she’s a