Author Diary Entries Podcast By Sagan Morrow cover art

Author Diary Entries

Author Diary Entries

By: Sagan Morrow
Listen for free

About this listen

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

© 2025 Author Diary Entries Art Literary History & Criticism Social Sciences
Episodes
  • 187: You are hurting YOURSELF when you use AI to "write" your books

    187: You are hurting YOURSELF when you use AI to "write" your books
    Jul 1 2025

    Using generative AI to quote-unquote “write” a book is harmful not only to the artists those people are plagiarizing from, but it’s also harmful to the plagiarizer and to CREATIVITY, itself.

    Let’s talk about that! In this episode, your Author Diary Entries podcast host — romcom novelist and Personal Fulfillment Coach Sagan Morrow — takes the conversation about *AI as art theft* a step further by exploring the self-exploitation that occurs throughout this process, and the way in which we are now living a creative dystopian nightmare/horror story when so many people willingly give up their own voice, their own creativity, their own artistic experience, by outsourcing it to AI.

    Resources you might like and links mentioned in this episode:

    • (Free!) Intuition Activated masterclass to reconnect with yourself and your creative voice: SaganMorrow.com/masterclass
    • Get personal fulfillment life coaching with Sagan: https://saganmorrow.com/coaching/
    • Connect with Sagan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saganlives
    • Connect with Sagan on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@saganlives
    • “The art of creative weirdness” — Author Diary Entries podcast, episode 186
    • Unlearn toxic productivity with Sagan’s weekly Solopreneur Diary Entries newsletter: https://saganmorrow.com/newsletter
    • Small Town Stilettos and the Polyamorous Passions series: SaganMorrow.com/books

    Support the show
    Show more Show less
    11 mins
  • 186: The art of creative weirdness (and an ode to Z Nation, burlesque dancing, and My Lady Jane)

    186: The art of creative weirdness (and an ode to Z Nation, burlesque dancing, and My Lady Jane)
    Jun 17 2025

    What is the art of creative weirdness? What are some great examples of creative weirdness, and how can YOU tap into your own creative weirdness when you are creating art (of any kind)? What is the ONE situation in which creative weirdness is NOT effective? Does art NEED to be “weird” in order to be powerful and incredible? What social commentary and feminist lenses can we view mainstream blockbuster action movies like Die Hard and Top Gun?

    We answer all of these questions and more in this episode of the Author Diary Entries podcast!

    We collectively, as a society, do NOT share our weirdness enough! So let’s talk about that today, through the lens of creative weirdness in TV (this is essentially a rave review of Z Nation), creative weirdness in performance art (burlesque dancing and what makes the burlesque community so special in general), and creative weirdness in novels (My Lady Jane).

    Resources mentioned in this episode:

    • Small Town Stilettos and the Polyamorous Passions series: SaganMorrow.com/books
    • Sagan’s burlesque persona (Babe Maverick) on Instagram: Instagram.com/babemaverick
    • Solopreneur Diary Entries weekly newsletter: SaganMorrow.com/newsletter
    • How to Active Your Intuition (to reconnect with yourself and create space for your creative weirdness to flourish) masterclass: SaganMorrow.com/masterclass
    • Connect with Sagan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saganlives
    • Connect with Sagan on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@saganlives

    Support the show
    Show more Show less
    23 mins
  • 185: "Reader mindset" method for rewrites (book writing update!)

    185: "Reader mindset" method for rewrites (book writing update!)
    Jun 3 2025

    In this episode, your host and indie author Sagan Morrow shares her experience with reviewing her current work-in-progress (Book 8 in the Polyamorous Passions series) using a "reader mindset" prior to doing rewrites!

    She shares her process and results for reviewing her current WIP as a reader:

    Find out a breakdown of the process she’s using, the game-changing book writing method that’s shifted her out of Author mindset and into Reader mindset (plus why this matters), and 5 fascinating things that came up for her throughout this process...

    Resources mentioned in this episode:

    • Small Town Stilettos and the Polyamorous Passions series: SaganMorrow.com/books
    • Connect with Sagan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saganlives
    • Connect with Sagan on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@saganlives

    Support the show
    Show more Show less
    29 mins
No reviews yet