The Intuitive Author

How to Grow & Sustain a Happier Writing Career

By: Tiffany Yates Martin

Narrated by: Tiffany Yates Martin

What does it really take to build a successful, sustainable, and fulfilling writing career in today's publishing landscape?

Writing a book is only part of the author's journey. The greater challenge lies in building a creative life that can sustain you through the uncertainties, ambitions, setbacks, and triumphs of a writing career.

In The Intuitive Author, veteran editor and author Tiffany Yates Martin offers a practical, compassionate guide for writers who want more than publishing success—they want a rewarding creative life. Drawing on more than three decades of experience working with bestselling, award-winning, and emerging authors, Martin helps writers navigate the emotional, professional, and creative challenges that can derail even the most talented storytellers, and explores what helps authors not only succeed, but thrive.

The Intuitive Author addresses the questions that shape a writer's life long after the craft has been learned and provides actionable strategies for the most common writing challenges: overcoming rejection, managing impostor syndrome, staying motivated, balancing creativity with business demands, and maintaining long-term resilience in a competitive publishing industry. Listeners will learn how to:

•Develop a healthy and sustainable writing career

•Navigate the emotional realities of publishing

•Overcome self-doubt, perfectionism, and comparison

•Maintain creativity and motivation over the long term

•Define personal and professional success

•Balance artistic goals with career ambitions

•Create a writing practice that supports both productivity and well-being

This comprehensive writing career guide serves as both a practical handbook and an encouraging companion for every stage of the writing journey. With warmth, insight, and hard-won wisdom, Martin helps writers achieve greater resilience, confidence, and success in building a lasting, meaningful writing life.

©2024 Tiffany Yates Martin (P)2025 Tiffany Yates Martin

A wealth of insight.

Tiffany’s intuitive series (Intuitive Editing and The Intuitive Author) are thoughtful, relatable, and fully embody her spirit of sharing her vast experience in the literary industry. Highly recommend to new authors in the honeymoon phase as well as seasoned and slightly jaded professionals.

It felt like a friend giving me advice.

Plethora of wisdom but also heart and unflapping support of writers at any stage of the creative process.