Why Book Blog Tours Shouldn’t be About Selling Books
We've run posts on here before about book blog tours, including case studies by self-published authors who have considered their…
Opinion posts on a topical, controversial or interesting self-publishing issue. By ALLi Director, Orna Ross, on the first Monday of each month and other ALLi members on the other Mondays.
We've run posts on here before about book blog tours, including case studies by self-published authors who have considered their…
An invitation to read your self-published book before an audience at literary festivals and other events provides a great opportunity…
When Scottish novelist Fiona Cameron shared her new philosophy of self-publishing in the ALLi Facebook forum (one of the many…
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde's…
British novelist Jane Steen, whose wonderful Opinion post last year led to the formation of ALLi's Ethical Author campaign, provides…
Ask any five indie authors what they think of some of the more controversial aspects of self-publishing, such as whether…
Following the latest wave of misleading misinformation about Amazon reviews that has been doing the rounds of Facebook in the…
At The Bookseller's recent Author Day, author and illustrator Sarah McIntyre made an impassioned plea for the campaign that she…
Last week, I was invited on behalf of ALLi to present a fifteen-minute speech on the state of publishing for…
Debbie Young, Commissioning Editor of the ALLi Author Advice Centre blog and advocate of ALLi's #Authors4Bookstores campaign, asks whether it's…
On Monday, The Bookseller, the trade magazine for the UK publishing industry, ran a one-day conference called Author Day ("It's time…
When it comes to paid marketing services for books, authors often complain they’re expensive, don’t always lead to sales, or…