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In this episode, Rosie Danan discusses her new vampire romance 'Villain Edit,' her inspiration from reality TV, and her thoughts on romance tropes, character complexity, and writing process. A must-listen for fans of genre blending and character-driven stories.

Before you set your publishing goals for 2027, there's something every indie author should do: look at what's already working!

Are you spending money on tools you don't use? Are your author website and newsletter links up to date? Do you know what your readers actually love about your books?

In this short solo episode of The Author Next Door, Angela Haas walks through five practical year-end tasks to help indie authors evaluate their businesses, simplify their marketing, and build a realistic plan for the new year.

Whether you're publishing your first book or your tenth, these steps can help you make smarter decisions about your author career.

📚 Your 5-Step Indie Author Year-End Checklist:

1. Audit your author business.

2. Give your author platform a 30-minute checkup.

3. Build a realistic publishing and marketing calendar.

4. Find out who your readers really are.

5. Make a stop-doing list.

Angela also shares lessons from her own publishing experience, including the dangers of comparing your author business to someone else's and why constantly adding new marketing activities isn't always the answer.

Remember: Being busy isn't the same as building a profitable author business!

❓ Question of the Week:

What's your biggest priority for your author career in 2027? Publishing another book? Growing your readership? Finishing a series? Tell us in the comments!

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Jaime Parker Stickle -

Writer, Actor, Storyteller, & Podcaster

I’m from a small suburb of Detroit, Michigan and after 20 years in Los Angeles I can confirm I have not lost my Michigan dialect.

After working at local Detroit TV news stations, I decided that I wanted to pursue bigger, and often funnier, stories. I wanted to write and tell stories that made people laugh and cry—and I wanted to reach a larger audience so, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue TV and film writing and acting.

After writing for groups like Boom Chick Boom, attending programs at UCB and Groundlings, and graduating from the Second City writing program, I knew I wanted to go back to school and focus on writing. I received my MFA from the University of California, Riverside under the mentorship of Tod Goldberg.

During and after grad school I began creating space for other writers and artists to explore their own writing journeys through Storytelling workshops, live shows that I produced and hosted, and by creating the Make That Paper podcast, where we talk about all the side-hustles and day jobs artists work to support themselves while being, well, artists.

Through it all I continue to write novels with strong female protagonists, who are authentically human. My current heroine is Corey Tracy-Lieberman, loosely based on myself. So loosely (I decided she couldn’t have all the fun investigating cold cases) that I created a new investigative true crime podcast, The Girl with the Same Name, in her honor.

As I continue to write stories about Corey, I am also working to write and tell the stories of real women who were victims of heinous crimes. These are often stories with no ending, so sadly I usually find that satisfaction only when writing fiction.

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A dash of mystery, a sparkle of magic, and all things cozy! Elle interviews fellow cozy authors in this bookish podcast from Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

Today on the podcast, meet Emily Krempholtz–for the second time! Elle and Emily talk about hiking, heists, the coziness that can come with camping, and much more. Happy listening!

Emily’s Bio:

Emily Krempholtz is the USA Today bestselling author of Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore and the upcoming Prudence Marsh Is Not a Nobody Anymore (November 2026). Her debut novel was a Book of the Month selection, Indie Next pick, OwlCrate adult fantasy selection, and the Library Journal Sci-Fi Fantasy Debut of the Month for November 2025.

With over a decade of experience as an editor, book coach, and bestselling ghostwriter, and many more as a voracious bookworm, Emily writes cozy fantasy romances full of heart, whimsy, wordplay, and stabby sentient houseplants.

When she’s not writing, you can find Emily baking, playing board games, planning her next Ren Faire costume, adopting yet another arts-and-crafts-related hobby, hiking, or advocating for the freedom to read as a state co-leader of Authors Against Book Bans. She lives in Colorado with her partner and a forest of houseplants, including a pothos named Bartleby.

Find Emily and Her Books Online:

https://emilykrempholtz.com/

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Elle’s Bio:

Elle writes the award-winning Alchemical Tales series, a blend of cozy mystery and cozy fantasy. She has also published spin-off series including Pomegranate Cafe Romance and Marine Magic, as well as numerous short mysteries in anthologies. When not writing, Elle is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. As a historian and educator, she believes in the value of stories as a mirror for complicated realities. She currently lives in New Jersey with a grumpy tortoise and a three-legged cat. Find free stories and more at ellehartford.com, and back episodes of Cozy Alchemy at ellehartford.substack.com.

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Gus Krieger tells us all about his debut novel, The Seventh Ribbon, in a deep and wide-ranging conversation that will make you want to run out and pick up the book!

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In Episode 61 of High Stakes, Tracey Devlyn sits down with #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton to discuss A GLIMMER OF DEATH, her long-awaited return to the Merry Gentry series and the first book in an epic two-part finale filled with faerie politics, ancient curses, dangerous magic, and complicated love.

Author’s Website:

https://LaurellKHamilton.com

Show Notes:

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We had lively chat with the delightful Ally Carter whose holiday rom-com murder mystery, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder” released on October 13th. We asked her our burning question: Does she know who the murderer is in advance? What's ties in both Christmas mysteries? How do you get your work in front of Netflix? Check out what she told us!

BLURB: Ella Chambers didn’t kill Liam Montgomery.

If she had, she certainly wouldn’t have done it outside his family’s mansion during the Christmas party of the year. She definitely wouldn’t have loaded his body into the trunk of her car. And she absolutely would not have announced to the town that the boy who ruined her life ten years ago was “so dead to her.”

But now Liam is missing—nothing but a bloody spot on the drive and a host of unanswered questions—and Ella is the only person who knows he’s still alive.

So it’s up to her to prove it.

Liam Montgomery didn’t want to die.

But, it turns out, when you’re the sole heir to a billionaire, someone might want you dead. Luckily for Liam, being dead works for him.

Now he’s on the hunt for a killer. Unfortunately, Ella is on the hunt for him.

She’ll have to prove he’s still alive to clear her name, but that’s easier said than done in a quaint mountain town where everyone knows your story but no one knows the truth. Can the billionaire’s grandson and the housekeeper’s daughter join forces to catch a killer? Or is their past too steeped in secrets and lies?

As the storm of the century blows in, every step will bring these two childhood rivals closer to a killer—and each other.

Because, this Christmas, only one thing is certain: it’s beginning to look a lot like murder.

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Ally Carter writes books about people who fall in love (while trying to stay alive). After more than a decade of writing beloved YA titles like I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You and Heist Society, she launched onto the adult scene with The Blonde Identity, The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold, and The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year.

A longtime lover of the holiday rom-com, Ally is also the writer of the Netflix original movie “A Castle for Christmas”.

Website: AllyCarter.com.

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What if a serial killer sent you a riddle? Would you try to solve it? USA Today bestselling author, Bruce Borgos, discusses his new release, THE RIDDLE MAKER. When the riddle Sheriff Beck receives leads to a long dead murder victim, his world is turned upside down. As more riddles arrive, Beck must figure out who is behind them because the killer isn’t done, and those closest to Beck may just be his next target. "A superior mystery that manages to be both cerebral and action-packed." ―Kirkus Review

Listen in as we chat about a special mailbox that will blow your mind, how challenging it was for Bruce to write riddles, and what people and asphalt have in common.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Bruce Borgos lives in Nevada, where the wild horses roam—and where he occasionally manages to sit down and write. The Blue Horse (now a USA Today bestseller and a Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Mystery) is his fifth novel and the third installment in the Porter Beck Mystery series, which means he’s getting pretty comfortable putting poor Porter through the wringer.

Bruce has been married to Pam for forty-one years, and together they share their home with their golden retriever, Charlie Blue Horse, which if you don’t already know it, is also the name of one of Bruce’s characters. Armed with a political science degree from the University of Nevada-Reno (a surprisingly useful qualification for crafting mysteries, apparently), Bruce spends his non-writing hours in deep contemplation… at the local wine store.

John Winn Miller is an award-winning author whose background as an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent infuses his fiction with gripping authenticity. He has also worked as a screenwriter and producer on four independent feature films, including projects starring Bruce Dern and the Arkin family. A two-time Pulitzer Prize juror, Miller brings a lifetime of storytelling expertise to the page, crafting historical thrillers that are as credible as they are cinematic. Visit his website: https://www.johnwinnmiller.com/

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In this episode, Emily Krimpolts discusses her new fantasy book, Prudence Marsh Is Not a Nobody Anymore, exploring her writing process, world-building, and the integration of music and crime elements into her story. She shares insights on plotting, character development, and the joys of community in writing.

Learn More About Bethany: https://bethanymaines.com/

Learn More About Emily: https://emilykrempholtz.com/