The Minimum Viable Author

Finding Readers on Four Good Hours a Week

For the author with a full calendar, limited energy, and bad days — which is to say, most of us.

The Minimum Viable Author is a book in the Indie Author Guide Line: short, source-checked guides for independent authors who have finished writing and now have to be found. Nearly every marketing book is written for an author with unlimited executive function and no bad days. This one is written for everyone else — replacing motivation with permission, and building a system so that on a terrible week, only one small task has to run and the machine keeps working anyway.

There are no productivity fantasies here and no guilt attached to the tasks you delete. What you get instead is an honest system built on the argument that consistency beats intensity by such a wide margin that a low-energy author with a good system outperforms a high-energy author without one.

What's inside:

• What to automate, what to batch, and what to hand off entirely
• What to delete forever without guilt, and why deleting it is a strategy, not a failure
• A system designed explicitly around the bad week, not the good one
• Why consistency beats intensity, with the reasoning laid out plainly
• How four genuinely good hours a week compares to the "always-on" platform most authors are told they need
• What "minimum viable" actually protects you from, and what it doesn't

This is not a hustle book, and it will not promise you a bigger platform. What it will do is give you a system built to survive your worst week, because your worst week is the one every other plan forgets to plan for.

From the Indie Author Guide Line, from Novel Concepts Publishing.