Indie Writers Club
Cara Clare and James Blatch host a weekly light-hearted chat about all things self publishing.
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Podcasting since 2024 • 69 episodes
Indie Writers Club
Latest Episodes
068 - Direct Selling with Etsy
In this week's episode Cara and James are joined by Robin Bennett-Freebairn whose non-fiction gift books are flying off the virtual Etsy shelves. This has big implications for special editions and box sets, especially at this time of year.<...
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Episode 68
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067 - AI Acceptance & Direct Selling
In part two of a look back at 2025, Cara and James discuss where we are with AI acceptance (spoiler, a dwindling band of holdouts very much exist). We also discuss direct selling as one of the big expansion areas for indies.USEFUL LINKS:...
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Episode 67
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066 - AI Translations, A10 Algorithm and other stuff
In this episode Jame & Cara start to look back on a fast moving year for indie publishing. They touch on AI Translations, one of the big breakthrough areas, the mythical A10 Amazon Algorithm and plenty of other chat!USEFUL LINKS:...
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Episode 66
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065 - Building a Direct Empire (with AP Beswick)
We are joined by the multi-talented Adam Beswick (AP Beswick) to talk empire building.Adam has used TikTok to build a loyal following of readers and he now focuses on selling direct to them, using TikTok Shop and TikTok Lives. He's an ev...
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Episode 65
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