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
050: What made me start writing the Polyamorous Passions series (my polyamory background)
Find out what made your host Sagan Morrow start writing her Polyamorous Passions series in the first place, and a peek behind the curtain of her polyamory lifestyle, in this episode of Indie Author Weekly.
Today is Episode 50! I’m so happy to be releasing this milestone episode, and it seems like the perfect episode to answer a question I get all the time from different people, when they start reading my books.
The question they ask again and again is, “why did you start writing this Polyamorous Passions series?”
Variations of this question include inquiries about whether I also have a polyamorous lifestyle, where the idea for this series came from, and what made me want to tell these stories.
I don’t typically talk much about that here on Indie Author Weekly, so again, it feels like Episode 50 is a great milestone to provide some background on it!
This is actually going to be a two-part series: today, I want to share more about the background of polyamory and what led to me writing the books, and in our next episode, I’ll talk more about the stories themselves.
Questions addressed in this episode of Indie Author Weekly include...
- Are you polyamorous?
- What is polyamory, anyway?
- How does polyamory affect your relationships, with your spouse and with the people in your life and with your business?
- What made you want to write fictional stories about polyamory?
This episode also features...
- What makes non-monogamy ethical vs non-ethical.
- The difference between polyamory and other types of non-monogamy.
- My polyamory manifesto (the guiding principles of my polyamorous lifestyle).
- What my spouse and I do for ensuring our polyamorous relationship is very loving and supportive.
Resources & links mentioned in this episode:
- Learn more about all of Sagan's books at SaganMorrow.com/books .
- The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton .
- Opening Up by Tristan Taormino .
- Polyamory Weekly podcast .
- MoreThanTwo.com .
- Tune into Indie Author Weekly on your favourite podcast platform at SaganMorrow.com/podcast .
- Rate & review this podcast on iTunes .
Let's chat about this episode:
- @Saganlives on Twitter and Instagram .
- Hashtag: #IndieAuthorWeekly .
- Email hello@saganmorrow.com .
- Share your thoughts (or submit requests for future episode topics) in this survey at SaganMorrow.com/question
