Creativity is always in season. ~ WriterKat

This is a long update which may be truncated by your email provider. Visit indieauthors.substack.com to view the complete newsletter.

WELCOME

We crossed the 500 subscriber mark! That’s a growing community of indie authors and book lovers. Thank you for subscribing and supporting indie authors. Let’s welcome new subscribers by checking out their books, newsletters, or other creative projects:

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .

Welcome to Indie Author Insights! We are looking forward to getting to know you and your writing journey. Please share your book launches, signings, and other events by posting info in the comments or emailing kathy@indieauthorsassociation.com.

Special thanks to Wendy Mayhew for becoming a paid subscriber. I appreciate your support and hope your investment multiplies abundantly for you. I’m looking forward to reading your book and becoming WISER!

Happy October, Indie Authors, Book Lovers, and Curious Creatives

October is National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM) which provides a golden opportunity to share your stories as humanity keepers—whether it’s fiction, poetry, or memoir, show how your work helps preserve voices, histories, and ideas. This positions your books as part of the cultural conversation.

October 5-11 is Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week provides the perfect opportunity to talk about your favorite books, support your local library, indie bookstore, or banned book author, and show how you stand for the freedom to read!

Special thanks to for providing suggestions to improve my Substack About page. She proves what happens in every profession which is that we are often too close to our own work to see the shortfalls. It took me years to accept criticism, but after I realized how much content can improve from an external perspective, I toughened up!

Kristina also recommended adding testimonials and recommendations on the About page. Thanks to Jill Ebstein () and Leland P. Gamson for their testimonials and new subscriber for her recommendation!

Guerrilla Marketing (aka FREE) Opportunity

Speaking of Kristina. She and her husband created a tool called StackBuddy to help us creators collaborate!

The Online Writing Club

Finally! We Built a Tool to Find Other Substack Writers Who Actually Want to Collaborate (in 2 Minutes)

If you’ve ever opened up Substack and thought…

Read