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If you want to be a successful author, you have to treat writing as a business. Businesses have rules to follow in order to pull a profit and maintain viability in a competitive work space. In other words, to translate for the Gen Alpha audience, you have to aura-farm your words to mogg on the other writers and author-max your writing, no cap.

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De-influencing Indie Book Publishing

Literally what are you guys doing spending thousands of dollars on marketing and character art? Stop letting the internet tell you how to manage your writing career. Let me de-influence some of the more common beliefs regarding indie book publishing in 2026 for you.

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I want to write more

Here’s the deal: I want to write more. Writing has always been my life’s passion, or at least it was supposed to be my life’s passion. It’s the act my soul has always yearned to do.

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