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Episode 326: 6 Lessons For Indie Authors From STAR TREK

Episode 326: 6 Lessons For Indie Authors From STAR TREK

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 In this week's episode, we examine six business lessons indie writers can learn from the long-running STAR TREK science fiction franchise. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Exile series at my Payhip store: FALLEXILE The coupon code is valid through November 16, 2026. So if you need a new ebook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 326 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 22nd, 2026 and today I'm discussing six things that indie writers can learn from the long-running Star Trek science fiction franchise. Before we get into that, we will have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. First up, it is time for Coupon of the Week, and this week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Exile series at my Payhip store. That coupon code is FALLEXILE. As always, you can get the coupon code and the links to my Payhip store in the show notes for this episode. This coupon code will be valid through November 16th, 2026, so if you need a new ebook to read as we exit fall and head into winter, we have got you covered. Now let's have an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. I am very pleased to report that Elven-Warlock, the seventh book in the Rivah Half-Elven Thief series, is now available and you can get it at Amazon. It's also available for Kindle Unlimited, (excuse me, Kindle Plus subscribers because one of the indie publishing news items this week is that Kindle Unlimited has been renamed to Kindle Plus and contains some audiobooks. So you can read more about that in the news.). But for me, Elven-Warlock is now out in Amazon and Kindle Plus and it is doing well. So thank you all for that and thank you all for enjoying the Rivah series. Now that Elven-Warlock is out, my next main project will be Blade of Rifts. I'm pleased to report I reached the 30,000 word mark just before I started recording this episode. I think the book will be about 100,000 words long, so I am about 30% through the rough draft. If all goes well, I'm very much hoping to have it out before American Thanksgiving at the end of November, if all goes well. We'll see if I can pull that off or not. My secondary project is now Cloak of Silver, which will be the 16th book in the Cloak Mage series. I am 1,000 words into it as I record this. It will be my new main project once Blade of Rifts is done and it will probably end up being the first book I publish in 2027, but we'll see how the next two and a half months go. In audiobook news, Brad Wills is still working on Blade of Visions and we should have some more updates on that before too much longer. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:32 Main Topic: Lessons From Star Trek Now let's move on to our main topic, which has been part of a series, which has been six things indie writers can learn from large media companies. We did Disney two weeks ago. Last week we did Nintendo. This week we're doing something slightly different, a long running science fiction franchise, specifically the Star Trek franchise. I'm not going to talk about specific plot points for the most part or the creative highs and lows of the franchise. I think everyone can agree that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Inner Light was among the best of the series along with Deep Space Nine's In The Pale Moonlight and the episode in Voyager where Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant lizards may have been among the low points. However, once you have 60 years of Star Trek movies and TV shows, some of them are going to be really good and some of them will be less good, but we're not going to focus on that. We're going to instead focus more on the overall business decisions that Star Trek as an intellectual property has made in its 60 years, which are applicable to indie authors in many ways. #1: Continuity Lockout One of the most common criticisms of modern Star Trek is that it's too difficult for new fans to find a good entry point and that even new series rely heavily on references to older ones in a way that make new viewers feel confused or left out. A good example of this would be how The Doctor from Voyager returned in Starfleet Academy on Netflix. While The Doctor is a great character, to fully understand his character in Starfleet Academy, you need to remember him from Voyager in the '90s, which was a long time ago. Another example would be Strange New Worlds, which is considered to be among the best of modern Star Trek, but it calls back to Kirk and Spock and Captain Pike and a lot of other characters from the original series. This can make new viewers feel confused or left out. I talk about the idea of continuity lockout more in Episode 274 of this podcast, which is entitled Avoiding Marvel Continuity Lockout Syndrome...
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