{"id":208611,"date":"2024-09-19T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.draft2digital.com\/blog\/?p=208611"},"modified":"2024-09-19T05:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T10:21:57","slug":"best-practices-of-successful-indie-authors-ep193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/blog\/best-practices-of-successful-indie-authors-ep193\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices of Successful Indie Authors \/\/ EP193"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What separates the authors searching for their success and the authors who've found it? 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That's the best kind of business plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Get started now:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/\">https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Learn the ins, the outs, and the all-arounds of indie publishing from the industry experts on the D2D Blog:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/Draft2Digital.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Promote your books with our Universal Book Links from Books2Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/books2read.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure you bookmark&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/d2dlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/D2DLive.com<\/a>&nbsp;for links to live events, and to catch back episodes of the Self Publishing Insiders Podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>TBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode Summary What separates the authors searching for their success and the authors who&#8217;ve found it? 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