I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #15: Don’t you think it’s more interesting to ask why a chronically ill or disabled character might not want a magical cure?? 👀 #Books #YaFantasy #ChronicIllness #ChronicPainRep #DisabilityRep

New Blog Post: #12 Why Isn’t Trad Publishing Marketing Books with #DisabilityRep as Such??👀 Maisiemmeyers.com/indie-publishing-while-chronically-ill/12-marketing-disability-rep#DisabilityRep I'm genuinely asking. If you have an answer, please let me know! #AmPublishing #BookMarketing #BlogPost

New Blog Post: #11 The Reason I Think #Querying Didn’t Work Out For Me 😭 Okay, I Promised I’d Get Into It. Here Goes... Did you have the same experience?? 👀 #QueryFail #WritingCommunity #SpoonieAuthor Maisiemmeyers.com/indie-publishing-while-chronically-ill/11-querying

#14: The global numbers are harder to find, but I know there are teens, just like I was, in every country in the world who are #ChronicallyIll and want to see someone like them represented in #YaFantasy. Even if it’s not exactly the same, some experiences are shared, right?? #RepresentationMatters

New Blog Post: #10 What To Do When Someone Else Has Your Pen Name 😭 Setting Up Google Alerts Led to a Pen Name Crisis, So What’s An Author To Do?? Here’s What I Did... Maisiemmeyers.com/indie-publishing-while-chronically-ill/10-pen-name

I'm Indie Publishing Because #13: According to the CDC, approximately 27% of children in the U.S. have a chronic condition, and 1 in 15 have multiple chronic conditions. And I’ve never seen a #YaFantasy where the main character has multiple chronic conditions like I do 🥺. Have you?? #ChronicIllness

I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #12: Sometimes disabilities are dynamic. They change day to day. And when you're being hunted by the fae they change HOURLY. 😬 #YAFantasy #Dis #SpoonieLife #OwnVoices

New Blog Post: #9 Google Alerts: My Secret Weapon for Spying on (Uhh I Mean… Researching) the Competition How you can stay up-to-date with real-time alerts on other authors in your genres... #AmPublishing #AuthorStrategy #WorkSmarterNotHarder [Link in thread]

I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #11: Grieving who you were and the hobbies you've lost is a totally normal part of being chronically ill, and I wish it was represented in books more 🥺. #YAFantasy #RepresentationMatters #ChronicIllness #Disability

New Blog Post: #8 Back to Social Media. Picking the Platforms that Make the Most Sense (For Me) How to choose which social media platforms to invest time and energy in... #AuthorStrategy #AuthorSocialMedia #BookMarketing #WritingCommunity [Link in thread]

I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #10: Chronic illness symptoms don’t stop just because the fae are hunting you. In fact they might just get WORSE! (Who am I kidding?? They’re definitely gonna get worse 😬). #YAFantasy #Spoonie #ChronicIllness #Books

New Blog Post: #7 You Know What Else My Indie Pub Research Revealed? Interesting Author Website Finds Subtitle: Do any of these finds surprise you?? I definitely didn’t know you could do some of these things... #PublishingJourney #WritingCommunity #WritersHelpingWriters #AuthorPlatform [Link 👇]

I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #9: Some people's bodies can't tell the difference between having a guidance counselor appointment and being chased by a wild animal. And where is that rep in #YaFantasy?? 😅 #ChronicIllnessRep #Books #DisabilityRep

I'm Indie Publishing Because #8: I read another YA fantasy book where the only #ChronicallyIll person is the villain and they do terrible things to force the magic-wielding hero to heal them (I won't say which book but 😭). Whyyyyy??? And I used to love this book too. 😭x 10000 #RepresentationMatters

New Blog Post: #6 Do You Know What Social Media Strategies Successful Indie Authors Are Using?? How to take your list of successful indie authors and research what social media strategies are working for them... #WritingCommunity #AuthorStrategy #WritersHelpingWriters [Link in thread]

#7: Because sometimes it takes YEARS to get diagnosed and I’ve never seen that struggle represented in the #YaFantasy space 🤔 (And I’m not talking some mysterious fantasy illness. I’m talking about a very real, absolutely-happens-in-real-life illness). Have you?? #ChronicIllness #SpoonieRep

New Blog Post: #5 Who I Want to Be When I Grow Up (AKA #MarketResearch & Social Media Chaos) Ever wonder how some indie-published authors seem to magically break into the market?? Yeah, same. This post is about finding authors in your genre who are doing things right... #WritingCommunity [Link 👇]

#6: According to the National Library of Medicine, around 1 in 5 kids in the U.S. have a #ChronicIllness or condition but despite some (really amazing!) books with chronically ill main characters being trad published, there’s not nearly enough out there represent all conditions or 20% of U.S. kids 🥺

New Blog Post: #4 Can I Pull Off a TikTok Strategy? (A.K.A. Studying the Big Names in Indie Publishing) This week, I studied self-published authors who made it big. The common theme? Many got there via TikTok/BookTok. That… might be a problem for me...😬 #AuthorStrategy #WritingCommunity [Link below]

I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #5: When the cute new boy looks at you like that–all frazzled and slightly annoyed–and you thought the heart palpitations were bad before 😅. I want to see more #SpoonieProblems in books #AmWriting #YAContemporaryFantasy #ChronicIllnessRep

I'm Indie Publishing Because #4: When I was in high school, I'd have traded every book I owned in a back-alley fae bargain for one with cursed, unremovable sticker goo in the middle of the cover to find a chronically ill main character in a YA fantasy series like me. #NotKidding #StillMight 😬

New Blog Post: #3 Do you Have an Author Platform?? Something every author needs: How to build your Author Platform (and not panic about it) Maisiemmeyers.com/indie-publishing-while-chronically-ill/3-do-you-have-an-author-platform

I'm Indie Publishing Because #3: Sometimes, it's hard to tell if you’re feeling regular, chronically ill out of breath, or dang that boy is cute & making eye contact out of breath, or if it’s more like you need to lie down and/or consult a hospital out of breath 😅 Why doesn't that happen in books??

New Blog Post: #2 My Indie Publishing Disclaimer (AKA Dreaded Timelines & My Evil Plan) Want to know how I’m planning to indie publish my debut while chronically ill? Check out this post to find out my evil plan! Maisiemmeyers.com/indie-publishing-while-chronically-ill/2

I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #2: I'd never seen a chronically ill and homebound main character (like I was in high school) in a YA fantasy series and I NEEDED it in my life. #WritingCommunity #YAFantasy #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness

I'm Indie Publishing A Little Less Invisible Because #1: Even if your body feels like it’s getting rotisserie chicken roasted from the inside out every day doesn’t mean you can’t have your fairytale too. 🍗 #IndiePublishingBecause#IndiePublishing#IndiePublishing

As you (hopefully!) heard, I’m #IndiePublishing my #YA #ContemporaryFantasy, A Little Less Invisible! 🥳 To have some fun, I’m going to post one “I’m Indie Publishing Because…” bite every even-numbered day until it releases. Some deep, some funny, some chaotic, all real. So here goes!

New Blog Post: #1 I’m Indie Publishing Because… I’m testing out a format for new blog post announcements, but in case you missed it... 👀 Maisiemmeyers.com/indie-publishing-while-chronically-ill/1

🧵1/17 📢Hey! Hi! Hello there! Stepping out of my comfort zone to announce that I’m officially indie publishing my YA Contemporary Fantasy debut, A Little Less Invisible! 🥳🎉 And here’s why: I’m #IndiePublishing Because…