The Indy Author Podcast

Story Grid-certified editor Anne Hawley discusses what we can learn from masterworks and the importance of meeting a reader's genre-specific expectations.

In this episode, I speak with Julie Duffy, founder and director of StoryADay.org, about creativity, mindset, the importance of community, and the strategies and tools you can use to write today, not someday. 

USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Lisa Regan shares the details of her voyage through the traditional and indy publishing worlds, and shares some great advice for making a success of both.

Wendy Tyson, bestselling author of three mystery series, shares her lessons on "Five Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was Published."

Mark Lefebvre, my co-author on "Taking the Short Tack: Creating Income and Connecting with Readers Using Short Fiction," discuss the collaboration process and the messages of the book.

This episode's topic takes a cue from the name of one of Jane's series—Writing in Time—because the topics of many of Jane's books are closely tied to a specific time and an event of that time. We discuss the research Jane did on those topics, and what she found.

Master Sergeant Chris Grall (U.S. Army, ret.)  has 26 years of military experience and over 15 years of Instructor experience dealing with Law Enforcement topics. Chris has served on a U.S. Army Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha as an Engineer Sergeant, Intelligence Sergeant, and Operations (Team) Sergeant. Before that he served in a Long Range Surveillance Detachment and an Infantry Uni...

Ken Lozito discusses his decision to write full-time, and provides advice to others considering that change.

Matty Dalrymple, The Indy Author, discusses the first Lizzy Ballard Thriller, "Rock Paper Scissors," the evolution of characters across multiple books, and how to juggle writing with a day job.

Tony Conaway has been a published writer since 1990. He has written dozens of nonfiction articles for venues as varied as airline in-flight magazines, business publications, men's magazines, and medical publications. These days, he is concentrating on his fiction writing. At present, he has had over thirty short stories published, some of which have been collected in seven anthologies. His fiction...

Robert Blake Whitehill is the award-winning author of the bestselling Ben Blackshaw series, which is available in English and German. He's the winner of the Hamptons International Film Festival and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship for Unexploded Ordnance and the Hudson Valley Film Festival for Blue Rinse, and was a finalist at the Telluride IndieFest for Blue Rinse. He's a p...

Alexandra Amor is the award-winning author of a memoir about the 10 years she spent in a cult in the 1990s, as well as several mystery novels for both adults and children. She's an Author Mindset Mentor, helping new, nervous, and stuck writers get out of their own way and get their writing out into the world.

Jim Breslin is the author of Shoplandia , a humorous novel about the working lives of show hosts, producers, and crew at a home shopping channel, which was inspired by Jim's seventeen years as a television producer at QVC, and which was called "a raucous novel" by Huffington Post Books. His short story collection, Elephant , came out in 2011. Jim's short fiction has appeared in Schuylkill Valley J...

Andy Schön holds degrees in philosophy and computer science from Columbia University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also a graduate of New York Film Academy, and has studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Andy is the author of Fifteen Times Around the World: A Lion Bit me in Zimbabwe and Other Travel Adventures, and also collaborated with poet Cat Mahony on the book...

Bruce E. Mowday is an award winning author and newspaper reporter. He has authored more than 16 books on history, sports, business and true crime. Mowday was appeared on the Discovery ID channel, C-SPAN, the Pennsylvania Cable Network and Philadelphia and local television shows. He is a contributing editor with Business 2 Business magazine. Mowday has hosted his own radio shows and was chairman of...

Scott Pruden is the author of the satirical near-future science fiction novel "Immaculate Deception" and co-founder of the independent publishing house Codorus Press. He spent nearly 15 years as a newspaper reporter, editor, and newsroom manager before turning to full-time freelance writing. He's now at work on his second novel. In this episode of The Indy Author Podcast, I talk with Scott about s...

Wade Walton is a television producer, photographer, writer, musician and motivational trainer based in Southeast Pennsylvania. He's especially interested in human interaction in the natural world and how each affects the other.

Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, "The Sense of Death" and "The Sense of Reckoning" and the owner of William Kingsfield Publishers LLC. She blogs, podcasts, and consults about independent publishing as The Indy Author. In this episode, she discusses her background, her books, and her commitment to indy publishing.