Author Diary Entries

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com : I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching ab...

Today, I have some exciting news: I’ve finished writing Her Bad Idea , Book 7 in the Polyamorous Passions series! I’m so excited. This is an enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity romantic comedy chick lit novel, featuring a fake relationship, age gap romance, and dance competition.  This book will be available on Tuesday August 25, but you can pre-order the book today when you visit SaganMorrow.com/...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com : I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching ab...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com : I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching ab...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com : I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching ab...

This episode of Indie Author Weekly features some of my personal favourite books about polyamory and relationships.  As you may already know, my chick lit, new adult, contemporary romance series is called Polyamorous Passions, so basically, I write all about polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, and relationships in general as a fiction author. You can get more info on those books and read them at Saga...

Today, I want to share about writer’s block… and specifically, 10 tips for how to beat writer’s block.   Let’s be honest: we all tend to struggle to get the words on the page at some point or another. There’s no doubt that it can be difficult to figure out how to overcome writer’s block when it crops up.   But luckily, it’s not the end of the world! There are a variety of ways you can overcome wri...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com : I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching ab...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com : I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching ab...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books. Today, we’re continuing with the author commentary from last week! As I mentioned last week, I always reread previously-published books in my Polyamorous Passions series when I’m writing a new novel in the series, to ensure everything is consistent with characters and plot etc. And...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books. Today we're doing something a little different than usual… I want to share author commentary while rereading my Polyamorous Passions series that I wrote.  I typically reread my previously published works at least twice all the way through, every single time I write a new novel...

This episode of Indie Author Weekly features 5 practical tips for how you can find the time to market your books.  After all, writing your books is one thing… but it’s not enough to just publish it. There’s a whole other side to being an indie author, and that is marketing.  Frankly, this is something I’ve noticed come up again and again in my business journey. People often talk about the joy of t...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com: I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching abo...

Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.  If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com: I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and business. When I’m not teaching abo...

Hello friends! Sagan here. Welcome back to Indie Author Weekly, where I share my behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing books.   If you’re new to this podcast, I am a productivity strategist for multi-passionate creatives at SaganMorrow.com: I help people manage their time and energy effectively, through customized, actionable strategies that work for your unique life and busines...

This episode of the Indie Author Weekly podcast explores going wide, vs going deep, as an indie author... and why go wide instead of deep!  First of all, what exactly does it mean to “go wide” or “go deep” with your book sales?  The concept is that “going wide” means you’re making your book available on multiple different platforms (Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, etc). “Going deep,” on the othe...

For today's episode of Indie Author Weekly, I want to talk about using creativity and creative outlets as a grounding practice and as a coping mechanism.   The reason why I want to share about this today is because I’m doing a brand-new livestream show with my friend Jennifer of Roam Howl Creative. For the next three days, April 14 - 16 2020, we will be teaching the topic of Creative Marketin...

This episode of Indie Author Weekly answers a listener-submitted question from Alana, who asks:  “How do you task-switch between writing fiction and doing other things? For example, I can’t switch from fiction to work emails and back. I can only write fiction with a giant long uninterrupted block… which is why I haven’t written anything longer than a short story in a long time, because there’s no...

Indie Author Weekly podcast is 1 year old! This episodes shares backstory to how I started this podcast, plus the top 5 most popular episodes—as well as my personal favourite 5 episodes from over the past year.  Since I’m in a celebratory mood, I also want to spread the love. Here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to gift you the e-version of one of my books—either one of my romance novels or one...

Learn my current writing and planning process for the book I’m working on right now, Her Bad Idea . It’s an enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, fake relationship romantic comedy, and it’s Book 7 in my Polyamorous Passions series.  I have been dying to write this book for so long! It’s the first in Scarlett’s trilogy, and it’s about how she needs to enter a dance competition in order to make money...

This episode of Indie Author Weekly follows up on Episode 50, where I shared my polyamorous background. Today, you'll get more details about my novels: Polyamorous Passions romantic comedy series.  FAQ:   What is Polyamorous Passions?  Why did you decide to write Polyamorous Passions?  Why write these stories as books (instead of a screenplay, for example)? Why did you choose this genre of co...

Find out what made your host Sagan Morrow start writing her Polyamorous Passions series in the first place, and a peek behind the curtain of her polyamory lifestyle, in this episode of Indie Author Weekly.  Today is Episode 50! I’m so happy to be releasing this milestone episode, and it seems like the perfect episode to answer a question I get all the time from different people, when they start re...

Learn a few of the things your host, Sagan, has been doing lately to get into the right mood to write scenes of her upcoming romantic comedy, Her Bad Idea , which is Book 7 in the Polyamorous Passions series... and how you can apply these ideas to your own writing!  My ability to focus has been a little bit compromised over the past few weeks, because I’ve had a flare-up of anxiety. It’s been mont...

Learn 3 tips for how to write books when you are getting to the end of a series in this episode of Indie Author Weekly.   ... Because that is where I’m at right now! My Polyamorous Passions series will have 9 books in total, and each of the three trilogies within this series follows a different main character. In other words, this means that every three books, I begin a new story arc. Books 1 - 3...

Learn how 4 different authors outline their books and get started with writing a new story on this episode of Indie Author Weekly...  Today we have a slightly different take on our usual format! One of the most popular episodes here on Indie Author Weekly is an episode I did way back, all about my process for how to outline a book. If you want to hear about that, you can tune into Episode 3.  Sinc...