The Casual Author

Updated: 10 Nov 2025 • 154 episodes
www.dankenner.com/podcast

So many independent authors have tons of commitments in their lives! My unique experience as a busy independent author will hopefully help you gain insight into productivity and learning as an aspiring or new independent author.

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Keywords productivity, sleep, health, writing, time management, authoring, work-life balance Summary In this conversation, Dan Kenner discusses the challenges of balancing productivity with the need for sleep. He highlights how many individuals, including himself, find that their most effective writing times are late a

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In this episode, I talk about the troubles of sleep when you are on night duty with the kids. I continue with progress on The Hidden Heritage series and how I'm right around the corner from publishing another book, and some of the potential expansions happening to our homestead in 2025. With Urmi, we talk about her pas

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In this episode, I share more about life with seven kids and will continue to share more about family life. I dive into more homestead plans for the future, and some of the challenges with cows today. I talk about progress with the six book series, The Hidden Heritage and plans for publishing all the books in the futur

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In this episode, I share more about running a homestead and some of the things you don't consider when you aren't on the inside doing the work. I share that my short story, Between Life & Death, is now available for free to any follower on Ream (https://reamstories.com/dankenner) With Artemis, she shares some sage advi

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In this episode, I talk about the thaw and what kinds of things we'll be dealing with now that the weather is turning around. I discuss the writing of my series, The Hidden Heritage, and some of the exciting things and challenges around that. With Amy, we dive into her vision as an author and mother, and how she strive

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In this episode, I talk about some of the day to day things to consider when dealing with bitter cold weather. I talk about my progress on my authoring and changes I'm making to how I operate, i.e. using Patreon and Ream as a type of personal social media in place of other social media. With Dana, we talk about connect

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