A. D. Lombardo

How Readers Help Stories Travel Indie authors build their worlds from the ground up. We write the stories, research the lore, check the facts, dig into history and magic systems, investigate spellings, study foreign languages and sword-fighting techniques...and we test the limits of a Google query against being put on government watch lists for our questionable wording... LOL, and make sure every detail feels real. We design our own content, manage social media, write newslet

There’s something about the indie author community that goes beyond books, beyond algorithms, beyond the constant push to market yourself. It’s the people and connection. The way we lift each other when the creative well runs dry or when the overwhelm hits harder than expected. As an indie author, I know the struggle of marketing my work. I know the heart and soul that goes into story development, websites, newsletters, and social media. Some days it feels like I’m carrying t

A birthday month full of change, creativity, and deep writing This July has been all about DBI, and writing this book has pushed me into some intense emotional places. If you have read Trial by Starlight, you already know Faber’s story begins on Earth, where he is labeled Unwanted and brought to Polaris anyway. He is a young man searching for the family he never had and the life he was meant to live. In the end, he almost gets it, until a piece of information he was never mea