IAM’s 2024 Indie Author Gift Guide
The holiday shopping season is just around the corner, and whether you’re shopping for the caffeine-fueled novelist who hasn’t seen sunlight in weeks or the writer in the middle of their worst block, we’ve got you covered with the author’s ideal gift guide for 2024. Prepare to discover gifts that will make any indie author’s […]
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Book: An Author’s Legacy Craig Martelle and Audrey Hughey https://tinyurl.com/3a3sfuz8 One of the smartest financial decisions a creative can make isn’t one that will affect anything during their lifetime. An Author’s Legacy: A Planner to Ensure An Author Lives On, Long After Death, a newly released workbook by 20BooksTo50K® co-founder Craig Martelle and Author Transformation […]
Issue 31 Featuring Kevin Tumlinson
Mark Leslie Lefebvre
Website: http://www.markleslie.ca
Social Media:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/markleslielefebvre
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@markleslielefebvre
YouTube: https://youtube.com/markleslielefebvre
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/markleslie
Mark is a writer, editor, professional speaker, and bookseller with more than thirty years of experience in the book industry as a writer and industry professional. A huge advocate for how technology can further empower authors, Mark has been lucky to be at the helm of bookselling as is transitioned from a print-only game to one that embraced digital publishing. He is the author of more than forty books both indie published and traditionally published. But more than all of that he is primarily a passionate storyteller and book nerd.
Dan Wood
Website: https://www.draft2digital.com
Social Media:
https://www.threads.net/@danwoodok
Dan Wood is the Chief Operating Officer at Draft2Digital, where he has spent the last 9 years helping authors publish their books to stores, libraries and subscription services worldwide. During this time, he has had the privilege to present at conferences across the world and speak with thousands of authors at various stages in their careers. With their acquisition of Smashwords, Draft2Digital now distributes over 900,000 books. Dan is also a Co-Host of the Self Publishing Insiders Podcast.
Damon Courtney
Website: https://bookfunnel.com/
I’m the creator and CEO of BookFunnel! And, to a lesser degree, a self-published author of my own Fantasy trilogy as well. So, while I’m mostly a tech guy, I’m also an indie author just like you.
Jonathan Yanez
Website: https://www.jonathan-yanez.com/
Social Media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonathanYanezAuthor/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/author_jonathan_yanez/
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@author_jonathan_yanez
More animal than man, he bleeds caffeine and… Ah, I’m just kidding. It sounded cool though, right? I write because that’s what I was born to do and I freaking love doing it When I’m not writing crazy stories, I’m spending time with my wife and two little space marines getting into mischief.
Theodora Taylor
Website:
https://www.7figurefiction.com
Theodora Taylor is the bestselling author of the 50 Loving States Series. Despite writing within a niche genre (interracial romance), she has earned six KDP All-Star bonuses and grown a fanbase of rabid readers through the power of Universal Fantasy.
Her book, 7 FIGURE FICTION: How to Use Universal Fantasy to SELL Your Books to ANYONE was an instant #1 non-fiction bestseller in the Writing Category on Amazon and has since been certified as Great by the world’s largest online bookseller.
Most importantly, this book has become a valued and treasured resource for writers around the world.
Theodora has been invited to give presentations on Universal Fantasy by NINC (Novelists Inc.) Conference, RAM (Romance Author Mastermind), and Inker’s Con. She’s also a highly sought after podcasts guest. She’s made appearances on The Creative Penn (hosted by Joanna Penn), Six Figure Authors, #AmWriting, Wish I’d Known Then, and SPA Girls.
She adores talking about Universal Fantasy and can’t wait to tell you all about it.
Steve Pieper
Website: https://www.stevepieper.com
Founder of Author Marketing Mastery through Optimization (AMMO). We help authors build and scale a profitable direct-to-reader sales system.
An Updated Look at Canva Pro Features that Give New Meaning to ‘Smart’ Design
Words may be most authors’ medium of choice, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t also testing our skills as visual artists from time to time. Whether it’s book covers or cover mock-ups, marketing material, giveaways, social media posts, or ads, authors—and indie authors especially—do a lot of graphic design. It’s not a problem for those […]