540 | Jack MacTavish | Indie Author | ROYAL DIAMONDS

We dig into Royal Diamonds , the real mechanics of self-publishing, and what it takes to build a writing career from scratch. Jack's a retired Army colonel who treats writing like discipline — wide reading (Clancy, Griffin, Cussler, Carr, Taylor), professional editing, repeatable process. Then we open the hood on indie publishing as a business: LLCs, cover design, Amazon, marketing. Writing the…