There’s a new book on the Stories Rule Press shelves today, and this one is for the writers.
The Indie Author Survival Guide: How to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Sane in a Tougher Market by Tracy Cooper-Posey is now available.
Indie publishing has changed.
The industry that offered explosive opportunities to independent authors a decade ago has matured, fragmented, and become considerably tougher. Discoverability is harder. Costs are rising. Platforms and algorithms are increasingly unreliable. AI has changed the landscape. Strategies that worked dependably only a few years ago are weakening, disappearing, or becoming too expensive to sustain.
For working indie authors, the question is no longer simply How do I sell more books?
It’s also:
How do I build an author career sturdy enough to survive all this?
That is the question at the heart of The Indie Author Survival Guide.
Drawing upon more than a decade of indie publishing experience and years of writing about the business at The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, Tracy looks beyond short-term tactics and publishing hacks to the things authors can still control.
The book is divided into three parts: Staying Profitable, Staying Productive, and Staying Sane.
Along the way, it explores how authors can protect their margins, maintain sustainable output, build and control their own platforms, increase their opportunities without trying to be everywhere at once, simplify increasingly complicated publishing businesses, and make decisions for the long game instead of reacting to every market twitch.
This is not a beginner’s guide to self-publishing. It assumes readers already know their way around the industry. Instead, it is for indie fiction authors who look at publishing in 2026 and think: Okay. Things have changed. What do I do now?
The answer isn’t to panic. It’s to build better.
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The Indie Author Survival Guide is available now from Stories Rule Press.
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Happy reading—and, more importantly, happy surviving.
—The Authors at Stories Rule Press