Opinion: Promote Your Self-Published Books Your Way
In this week’s Bookseller magazine, the trade paper of the British publishing industry, Sarah Shaffi writes: “Authors should feel comfortable with any digital activity they are asked to undertake,...
View ArticleOpinion: Now Is The Worst Time To Be An Author?
“Authors’ incomes Are ‘At Breaking Point’!” [The BBC] “Publishing Is Broken, We’re Drowning In Indie Books!” [Forbes] And the most recent contribution: “There has never been a worse time to be an...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Indie Authors Need to Stick by Facebook’s Rules
One of the many joys of being a self-published author is the facility to run your business your way – but there are times when you just have to play by the rules, and using Facebook to raise awareness...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Literary Fiction and Poetry Should be Protected
To kick off this week on the blog with an impassioned call to arms from Rohan Quine on why he thinks we need to protect less commercial forms of writing from being banished from our culture by market...
View ArticleOpinion: Indie Authors Need to Talk about Selling
Today’s succinct Opinion post comes from a man with a reputation for handselling his books wherever he is on his extensive travels as a professional salesman, e.g. while refuelling his car on the way...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Indie Authors Need Bookshops
To celebrate the UK’s Independent Booksellers’ Week that launched this weekend, ALLi Author Advice blog editor Debbie Young explains why she thinks bricks-and-mortar bookshops are of value to all indie...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Authors Need to Step Away from the Internet
Author and ALLi Advice blog editor Debbie Young makes the case for self-published authors to occasionally turn their backs on the ever-hungry beast that is the world wide web. As indie authors, we sell...
View ArticleDoes Amazon Love Authors?
Revised payment methods for Kindle Owners Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited, like other Amazon services, are author and reader friendly, argues Orna Ross “Now will you admit that Amazon is no...
View ArticleWhy Indie Authors Should Support the Call for Fairer Publishing Contracts
It’s easy for indie authors to assume that trade publishing issues don’t affect them, given that they’ve made the decision to ply their trade outside the traditional sector. English author Jane Steen,...
View ArticleIndie Authors: Go Set a Watchman’s Publishing History Matters To You: An...
The publishing history of Harper Lee’s novel raises important questions about author care, creative control and the power dynamics of trade publishing, says NYT bestselling author and editor, Joni...
View ArticleOpinion: Online Etiquette for the Indie Author Community
As indie authors, we’re all used to dealing with people online, whether or not we’ve ever met our correspondents in real life. With the digital environment at our disposal, there’s never been a better...
View ArticleHow Indie Authors Should Approach Change in the Publishing industry
Samantha Warren, US author of speculative fiction, highlights one of the many benefits of being a self-published author: the ease with which we may accommodate changes in the publishing industry....
View ArticleOpinion: What’s the point of an author website?
With so many opportunities to reach readers provided by social media, is it really worth going to the time, trouble, and expense of setting up and maintaining a dedicated author website? Not only is it...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Indie Authors Should Start Talking About Pbooks and Abooks
ALLi’s founder and director Orna Ross considers the tricky issue of terminology when talking about self-published books in their many different forms. “What do we think about ‘pbook’?” asked Andy Lowe,...
View ArticleOpinion: Writers Need Conferences
Writers are social animals, says Irish author Laurence O’Bryan, founder of BooksGoSocial, who advocates attending writers’ conferences to keep the potential isolation of being an indie author at bay. I...
View ArticleFive Self-publishing Lessons Learned Between Debut and Second Book
In the run-up to self-publishing her second book, Irish indie author Lorna Sixsmith, who self-published her first book on 29th November 2013, reflects on some mistakes she made first time around – so...
View ArticleOpinion: Indie Author Imprints Can Ensure High Quality – So Why Did Readers...
Scottish indie author Fiona Cameron takes exception to a reading group’s assumption that self-publishing her books under her own imprint diminished their worth. I was very pleased to find that my...
View ArticleInspiration for Indie Authors Going Global at NINC2015
From somewhere over the Atlantic, ALLi’s founder Orna Ross takes for ALLi’s Going Global campaign from the NINC 2015 Publishing Conference in Florida, USA. As this post goes live, I am on my way back...
View ArticleOpinion: Authors, Please Leave Your Sense of Entitlement at the Door
British thriller writer Alison Morton, lets off steam about her frustration with indie authors with the wrong attitude to self-publishing: a sense of entitlement. You’re not. Entitled, I mean. To...
View ArticleOpinion: When Being an Indie Author Gets All Too Much…
ALLi’s blog editor Debbie Young starts the writing week with a light-hearted list of antidotes to the classic indie author’s problem of feeling overwhelmed. Indie authors often mention to me that...
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