Archive - The Indie Lab

A plot hole from Earth to the Hyades

How I added a new chapter to the middle of a novel in progress, and why the part that mattered came after the writing.

15 hrs ago • Marcin Pilarczyk

I Don’t Want AI to Write My Books. I Want It to Run My Business

The writing is only one part of being an indie author.

Oct 12 • Marcin Pilarczyk

The Best Novel-Writing Tool Isn’t for Novelists

A coding agent found 23 continuity problems in the opening of my new novel.

Oct 5 • Marcin Pilarczyk

September 2026

How to sell thousands of books with Marcin Pilarczyk

A recording from Marcin Pilarczyk and Natasha Tynes's live video

Sep 30 • Marcin Pilarczyk and Natasha Tynes

43:46

Don’t Leave Self-Publishing for 50% of Net

Simon & Schuster’s new indie-friendly imprint pays half of what KDP does. Its star author seems to know that.

Sep 28 • Marcin Pilarczyk

The One Thing That Was Missing From My Autopsy Prompt

A few months ago I published my KDP Dashboard Autopsy Prompt.

Sep 21 • Marcin Pilarczyk

The 4-Pass AI Edit: I Rebuilt My Editing System

My original three-pass workflow held up. Using it showed me what to build next.

Sep 17 • Marcin Pilarczyk

Author’s Republic vs. Voices by INaudio: Which One Wins When ACX Won’t Take You?

If ACX won’t take you, the real decision isn’t whether to use an aggregator.

Sep 14 • Marcin Pilarczyk

Why success is sometimes worse than a failure

Sep 7 • Marcin Pilarczyk

I hired an AI coworker. It caught three things I'd missed.

I hired an AI coworker in May.

Sep 3 • Marcin Pilarczyk

August 2026

Your Daughter Can’t Ride a Bike. Buy a Trailer.

A literary agent I read, Abigail Fenton, published a piece called “No, You Can’t Write Your Novel With AI.” It is well argued, it is honest about being…

Aug 31 • Marcin Pilarczyk

I rebuilt both my author websites in a night, and the research says most of what I’d built before was wrong

My author websites were named after books, which sounds harmless, and meant that eighteen months of publishing built nothing I could carry forward.

Aug 27 • Marcin Pilarczyk

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