Indie Authors: How Do You Create A Brand? By EM Tippetts.
Branding is a buzzword these days. A friend of mine who’s a linguistic anthropologist went to a job hunt workshop, and was there told to develop a “brand” for herself as she wrote ...
Art or Commerce? Natalie Buske Thomas on The Double Life of the Indie Author
An author is an artist -- and artists tend to be sensitive creatures, full of drama and impatience (yes, moi included). But an indie author also publishes, which is a business -- and ...
The Alliance of Independent Authors Welcomes Legal Action Against Author Solutions and Penguin
The Alliance of Independent Authors welcomes the news that three authors have filed suit against self-publishing service provider Author Solutions (ASI), and its parent company Penguin.
Law ...
Indie Authors: 50 Ways To Reach Your Reader # 9: Online Contests
There are many ways an indie author can reach readers. Sometimes it just requires a slow and steady slog, sometimes it takes a bit of thinking out of the box.
One way to generate excitement ...
Indie Authors, How Do You Define Self-Publishing Success?
I was impressed by Dan Holloway's recent interview with Debbie Young in which he talked about what success means to him. "I’d like to change the world and win artistic prizes... ...
Indie Authors Take Note: Prestigious UK Folio Prize Is Open To Self-Publishers.
The Alliance of Independent Authors's Open Up To Indies Campaign welcomes the news that the newly established Folio Prize, with a top award of £40,000, will be accepting self-published ...
ALLi Watchdog: Agent Assisted Self Publishing.
Agent-assisted SP takes many different forms. At one end of the scale, it mean an agency encouraging one of their authors to upload their backlist, and showing them how, without taking ...
Alliance of Independent Authors Member News. Bulletin #16
Every Wednesday ALLi will tell the world about our members' latest book launches, news, awards, freebies, workshops and updates on the writing life -- our #WriterWednesday (#WW) update.
Sarah ...
Alliance of Independent Authors Member News. Bulletin #14
Every Wednesday ALLi will tell the world about our members' latest book launches, news, awards, freebies, workshops and updates on the writing life -- our #WriterWednesday (#WW) update.
Cynthia ...
Indie Authors And The Vanity Publishing Question
The vanity publishing question used to be easily answered. On the one hand, you had trade publishers and they paid you. On the other, you had vanity publishers, and you paid them.
If ...
