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The numbers behind direct book sales—and why more indie authors are choosing to own the customer relationship.

Fake agents. Real publisher names. More than $164,000 lost before the truth came out.

When Your Book's Biggest Competition Is a Fake Written About It

The future of indie publishing may be less about how you publish—and more about staying in control of what comes next.

Direct-to-reader sales have been a growing trend in indie publishing for a while now, but the setup has always come with a real cost: building a website, integrating an e-commerce platform, handling p...

Every self-published author eventually hits the same fork in the road: stay exclusive to Amazon through KDP Select, or go wide and put your ebook everywhere else too. It comes up constantly in author ...

A video made the rounds recently with a pretty direct title: "I'm an Editor. Please Don't Take Freida McFadden's Writing Advice." It's a pushback on McFadden's now-famous stance, the one she's repeate...

The conversation around AI and publishing has been loud, and much of it has centered on fear, flooded marketplaces, disclosure fights, and bans on award eligibility. But a quieter, more measured narra...

Walk into any online book community, and you'll notice it: readers picking up a beloved decades-old classic and bouncing off it hard, while a book published six months ago gets devoured in a weekend. ...

There's a reason morally gray main characters keep dominating the bestseller lists for dark romance, fantasy, and thrillers. Readers aren't just tolerating them; they're actively seeking them out, som...

Okay. I need to talk about Lights Out because I finished it, and I have been thinking about Josh and Aly ever since, in a way that is probably not entirely healthy, but here we are.If you haven't read...

Publishing has traditionally offered authors two well-worn paths: land a traditional deal or self-publish. In the last few years, a third option has grown into something authors at every level, from b...

A recent episode of The Indy Author Podcast tackled a topic that eventually touches almost every indie author: what happens to a book after its launch window closes. Host Matty Dalrymple sat down with...

The Nebula Awards spent one very chaotic day at the end of last year proving just how unresolved the question of AI still is in publishing. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association briefly ...

There's a shift happening in how indie authors talk about social media, and it's a healthy one. For years, the assumption was "just be everywhere." In 2026, the conversation has matured into something...