The Rebel Author Podcast

The Rebel Author Podcast frames writing as a career made from craft choices, business decisions, and ordinary life interruptions. Its center of gravity is self-publishing, but the show is broader than tactics. Recent episodes move from Kickstarter planning to series writing, from social video experiments to the emotional wobble after sending a manuscript to an editor. It is practical. It is also conversational enough to leave the side roads in. A bonus episode with Petra Taylor breaks Kickstarter experience into mindset, marketing, and logistics, including fulfillment and the setup for another campaign. An interview with Sasha Wosley looks at pivoting from traditional publishing to indie publishing. Another episode brings Christina Stanley and Lucy Cook into a conversation about writing a series. The Black Herron episodes widen the lens, pairing book talk with personal check-ins, genre debate, reading taste, goals, and year-end reflection. Sasha Black appears repeatedly in those conversations, where romance subgenres, escapism, sapphic contemporary books, MM romance, romantasy, and reader expectations all become fair game. The show’s value is its refusal to separate the work from the working person. Deadlines sit beside car trouble, school meetings, admin catch-up, illness, gym routines, and health conversations. That can make the pacing feel spontaneous, but it also gives the advice weight: these are publishing conversations happening inside actual creative lives. The register is frank, affectionate, and sometimes sharp-edged. It is best for writers who like business advice with personality, genre readers who enjoy process talk, and authors who want to hear both the spreadsheet side and the human side of building a book career.