Author Diary Entries
The Author Diary Entries podcast (formerly known as Indie Author Weekly) is hosted by Sagan Morrow, a Kamloops-based writer with 15+ years of experience as a small business owner. She is also a hobbyist burlesque dancer and performs on stage as Babe Maverick.
In this podcast, you'll learn more about the books Sagan writes, her insights and stories of being an author and a multipassionate creative, and a peek behind the curtain of the writer's life. Sagan also shares diary-style personal stories of life as an indie author and her behind-the-scenes journey of writing and self-publishing novellas.
Sagan started out as a blogger and freelance writer (and editor) around 2008. In 2016, she began teaching other solopreneurs how to improve productivity and time management, using anti-hustle methods. Nowadays — when she's not writing novellas — she works as an internationally board-certified Life Coach who specializes in personal fulfillment for self-aware individuals.
Sagan writes the Polyamorous Passions chick lit/romantic comedy series, and has published several business books in addition to her work as a romance novelist. She published her first work of fiction in 2018.
The first 12 episodes of this podcast were originally published on a “secret” platform only for email subscribers, but you can tune in to all of those original episodes right here. This podcast was rebranded from "Indie Author Weekly" to "Author Diary Entries" in April 2025.
Learn more about Sagan’s published works and upcoming novels at SaganMorrow.com/books. Connect with Sagan on Instagram & Threads: @Saganlives
Author Diary Entries
050: What made me start writing the Polyamorous Passions series (my polyamory background)
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Find out what made your host Sagan Morrow start writing her Polyamorous Passions series in the first place, and a peek behind the curtain of her polyamory lifestyle, in this episode of Indie Author Weekly.
Today is Episode 50! I’m so happy to be releasing this milestone episode, and it seems like the perfect episode to answer a question I get all the time from different people, when they start reading my books.
The question they ask again and again is, “why did you start writing this Polyamorous Passions series?”
Variations of this question include inquiries about whether I also have a polyamorous lifestyle, where the idea for this series came from, and what made me want to tell these stories.
I don’t typically talk much about that here on Indie Author Weekly, so again, it feels like Episode 50 is a great milestone to provide some background on it!
This is actually going to be a two-part series: today, I want to share more about the background of polyamory and what led to me writing the books, and in our next episode, I’ll talk more about the stories themselves.
Questions addressed in this episode of Indie Author Weekly include...
- Are you polyamorous?
- What is polyamory, anyway?
- How does polyamory affect your relationships, with your spouse and with the people in your life and with your business?
- What made you want to write fictional stories about polyamory?
This episode also features...
- What makes non-monogamy ethical vs non-ethical.
- The difference between polyamory and other types of non-monogamy.
- My polyamory manifesto (the guiding principles of my polyamorous lifestyle).
- What my spouse and I do for ensuring our polyamorous relationship is very loving and supportive.
Resources & links mentioned in this episode:
- Learn more about all of Sagan's books at SaganMorrow.com/books .
- The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton .
- Opening Up by Tristan Taormino .
- Polyamory Weekly podcast .
- MoreThanTwo.com .
- Tune into Indie Author Weekly on your favourite podcast platform at SaganMorrow.com/podcast .
- Rate & review this podcast on iTunes .
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- @Saganlives on Twitter and Instagram .
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- Email hello@saganmorrow.com .
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