Why Every Indie Writer Needs a Podcast

I’ve done podcasting for some time now, first with Fanboys on Fiction co-hosted by the amazing Ryan McKinley, and now Three Cylinder Stardrive, co-hosted by the fount of pop culture knowledge, Richard Kutz.

I’m about to embark on a new podcast, a solo podcast of sorts. I say “sorts” because it is going to be a traveling interview podcast coupled with an audio advice column. I’ll interview local writers and artists, asking them hard questions about how they work through the writing process, how they market themselves, and generally bounce ideas off of each other. I’ll also rehash some of my well-trafficked blog posts from “Tolkien’s 10 Tips” to “How to Market Yourself as an Indie Writer”.

I’m also starting up a third podcast which might end up dwarfing the first one (Three Cylinder Stardrive). It will be with my current co-host, Richard Kutz, and it will be called Southern Fried Christianity. In this edgy little podcast Richard and I will put on our Berean hats and talk about all of the extra-biblical things American Christian churches are doing right now, calling them out on their hypocrisy. Topics would include swaying people politically from the pulpit, judging people when it’s scripturally God’s job, and generally anything else that does not jibe with what we read in the Bible.

I say all that to say that if you are an indie writer, you need to get yourself a podcast. Three things to consider when deciding on a niche are:

1. Is the podcast being oversaturated? —…