Authors – Stories Rule Press

The Solar Sail Theory of Indie Publishing

9 May 2026 / Tracy Cooper-Posey

Daily sales are sinking. Organic reach has collapsed. AI-generated sludge is flooding storefronts while retailers tighten their grip on discoverability. Indie authors are being told to do more of everything — more books, more ads, more social media, more platforms — while the systems underneath us become increasingly unstable and hostile.

The Solar Sail Theory of Indie Publishing offers a different approach.

Instead of chasing endless “rocket launch” marketing spikes, authors can build long-term momentum by expanding their discoverable surface area across the internet and in real life, then channeling that attention into owned reader relationships through websites, email lists, and direct sales.

A solar sail doesn’t move through explosive force. It moves by capturing thousands of tiny forces over time.

So can an indie author career.

When “Agentic” Suddenly Became a Thing

8 May 2026 / Cameron Cooper, Science Fiction

Why has “agentic AI” suddenly become the term everyone’s using? What looks like an overnight trend is really the visible edge of a rapid shift—from passive tools to systems that can act, decide, and iterate. For science fiction readers, it’s a familiar moment: the future we’ve long imagined beginning to take shape, with all the promise—and unease—that implies.

EVEN MORE TIME KISSED MOMENTS Is Here!

7 May 2026 / Fantasy Romance, New Release, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Tracy Cooper-Posey

What happens when a ten-year anniversary edition becomes something more? While revisiting the Kiss Across Time series for a special collector release, Tracy Cooper-Posey found herself reflecting not just on the books, but on time itself, storytelling, survival, and the strange roads that lead writers to create the stories readers love. Kiss Across Memories is part memoir, part publishing notebook, and part behind-the-scenes look at one of Tracy’s longest-running series.

The Three Writing Books I Return To Again and Again (And Why You Should, Too)

6 May 2026 / Author Services, Editing, Mark Posey

Some writing books give you tools. Others give you theory. The Writer’s Journey gives you something far more powerful: a map. Not a rigid formula, but a way to understand the emotional rhythms readers instinctively respond to—change, challenge, sacrifice, and transformation. When a story feels off, this framework can help you see what’s missing and why.

Why Shrinking Hit Me Right in the Feels

5 May 2026 / Mark Posey

Mark didn’t expect Shrinking to hit quite so hard—but somewhere between the laughs and the quiet gut-punch moments, it did. A show about grief, friendship, and trying to do better while carrying everything life hands you, it’s exactly the kind of story that lingers—and the kind he’d love to write someday.

The Things We Don’t See

4 May 2026 / Tracy Cooper-Posey

I had to stare at the photo for a while. At first, it didn’t make sense—farmland, maybe, or some kind of industrial grid. Then the scale began to sink in. The repetition. The roads. And then came the realization that stopped me: they’re tents. Hundreds of thousands of them, housing millions of people in a place I barely think about—proof that even now, in a supposedly connected world, vast and important things can exist just outside our awareness.

The Battles We Remember (and the Ones We’re Not Sure Happened)

3 May 2026 / Fantasy, Taylen Carver

May 2nd marks the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts—one of the rare moments in fantasy with a date you can circle on a calendar. But most fictional battles don’t come with anniversaries. Some feel like they should. Others might not have happened at all. And a few… aren’t the sort anyone would want to remember too closely. Which raises an interesting question: in fantasy, what actually makes a battle worth remembering?

When Your Writing System Breaks: How to Rebuild It Better (Without Losing Your Mind)

2 May 2026 / Tracy Cooper-Posey

Your writing system probably won’t fail all at once—it’ll decay, one small glitch at a time, until the tool you rely on starts slowing you down instead of supporting you. When that happens, the real solution isn’t finding a replacement that works the same way—it’s rethinking how your system works entirely. Here’s what OneNote’s decline taught me about rebuilding a writing workflow that’s faster, more flexible, and far more resilient.

Why Star Wars Endures

1 May 2026 / Cameron Cooper, Science Fiction, Space Opera

Star Wars has been part of my life for as long as I can remember—and, in a very real way, it helped shape my career as a writer. But decades on, the question isn’t why it began. It’s why it never seems to end. As new generations discover it and older ones drift away, Star Wars continues to renew itself in ways that are both familiar and puzzling.

Something Big Is Coming to Stories Rule Press

30 April 2026 / Cameron Cooper, Mark Posey, Taylen Carver, Tracy Cooper-Posey

Something ambitious is taking shape behind the scenes at Stories Rule Press. Four authors. Four carefully chosen books. One extraordinary collector’s edition project designed for readers who love beautiful books as much as unforgettable stories. We’re not revealing everything just yet—but this is one announcement you won’t want to miss.