Author Diary Entries
Author Diary Entries (formerly known as the Indie Author Weekly podcast) features your host, Sagan Morrow, as she shares diary-style personal stories of life as an indie author and her behind-the-scenes journey of writing and publishing books as an authorpreneur.
You’ll learn more about the books Sagan writes, her insights and stories of being an author and a multipassionate creative, and a peek behind the curtain of a writer's life.
The Author Diary Entries podcast is hosted by Sagan Morrow, a Kamloops-based writer with more than a decade of experience as a small business owner. She is also a hobbyist burlesque dancer and performs on stage as Babe Maverick.
Sagan started out as a blogger and freelance writer (and editor) around 2008. In 2016, she began teaching other freelancers how to improve productivity and time management through her online courses. She is an internationally board-certified Success & Life Coach who specializes in personal fulfillment, solopreneurship, and anti-hustle productivity.
Sagan writes the Polyamorous Passions romantic comedy series, and has published several business books in addition to her work as a romance novelist. She published her first work of fiction in 2018.
RECOMMENDED STARTING POINT: "Ep 179: Author Update (one year later)" AND "Ep 140: Welcome back to the podcast!" AND "Ep 50: What made me start writing the Polyamorous Passions series" AND "Ep 53: Top 5 episodes from the first year of podcasting on Indie Author Weekly (and why I started this podcast)".
The first 12 episodes of this podcast were originally published on a “secret” platform only for email subscribers, but you can tune into all of those original episodes right here. Access bonus materials to go along with podcast (including cheatsheets and spreadsheets relevant to the episode topics), plus full episode transcripts, sample chapters of her novels, and additional resources, at https://saganmorrow.com/secretpodcast. This podcast was rebranded from "Indie Author Weekly" to "Author Diary Entries" in April 2025.
Learn more about Sagan’s published works and upcoming novels at https://saganmorrow.com/books/. Connect with Sagan on Instagram & Threads: @Saganlives
Author Diary Entries
035: Excerpt from "Out of Control" (Book 6 in Polyamorous Passions)
This episode of Indie Author Weekly features a reading from Sagan's upcoming release, "Out of Control" (Book 6 in the Polyamorous Passions series).
Polyamorous Passions will include 9 books in total. Basically, there are three “trilogies” within the entire series, and each trilogy follows a different main character, all of whom are best friends: Emma is the main character in Books 1 - 3, Helen is the main event in Books 4 - 6, and Scarlett will be featured in Books 7 - 9.
Each of the books in Polyamorous Passions can be enjoyed as stand-alones, but you’ll get much more out of it if you read all of the stories in the series, since the characters show up again and again across the books and the storylines continue from one to the next. In this book, Book 6, you also get a glimpse of what’s going to happen for Scarlett’s story—so for those of you who are fans of Scarlett, you’re really going to like that.
Some background on Helen's story: Book 4 shares the story of how Helen is planning her wedding with her fiance, Ben… but when she finds herself falling for their wedding photographer, she starts to wonder if maybe monogamy isn’t something she wants for her life, after all. Book 5 features the wedding and honeymoon between Helen and Ben, and their experience in trying out a non-monogamous lifestyle for the first time.
Book 6, Out of Control, which will be released on December 10, is all about what happens next. As Helen’s career takes off and as she and Ben begin practicing an ethically non-monogamous lifestyle, we get to see some of the pitfalls that they run into, and whether Helen can can handle it when she lets someone else take control of a situation for a while.
As with the other books in the Polyamorous Passions series, Out of Control is a contemporary new adult romantic comedy. It includes plenty of sexual tension in the workplace, a cute homage to When Harry Met Sally, and a pretty funny conversation on the proper etiquette of sexting.
Learn more at SaganMorrow.com/books, or visit Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, or your favourite e-bookstore.
With that background on the book out of the way, let’s get into the excerpt. The excerpt today is from Chapter 4. Helen is at the workplace after hours with her boss, Jack, as they prepare for her new job. Unbeknownst to Jack, Helen is secretly sexting with her boyfriend, Grant, in between working. What could possibly go wrong?
Tune into this episode to find out what happens!
Resources & links mentioned in this episode:
- Learn more about all of Sagan's books .
- Grab your copy of Out of Control .
- Rate & review this podcast on iTunes
- Access sample chapters of Sagan's novels, transcripts of each episode, cheatsheets and spreadsheets relevant to the episode topics, and additional resources, at SaganMorrow.com/secretpodcast.
- Submit your questions for future episode topics at SaganMorrow.com/question
Connect with Sagan (@Saganlives) on Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to use the hashtag #IndieAuthorWeekly to chat about this episode.
