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Bare Bones Publishing for Beginner Indie Authors, With Sacha Black and Orna Ross: Foundational Self-Publishing Podcast

Orna Ross and Sacha Black outline the bare bone basics of book production and promotion. Yes, in an ideal world you hire a professional editor, cover designer, and marketing assistant. In reality, when starting out, most indie authors find both time and money are in short supply. So what’s essential, and what can you skip for now?

Book Marketing Glossary, Links and Resources from ALLi, Alliance of Independent Authors

In this Book Marketing Glossary, Jay Artale collaborated with ALLi members to find out what book marketing and promotion jargon or acronyms they didn't know when they started out, which would have helped them demystify their indie author journey.

TwitterChat: Tips for Creating Your First Book

On the ALLi Twitter chat (#indieAuthorChat) this week we asked questions about Tips for Creating Your First Book. This was an open chat with no guest.

August 11, 2020
Timothy Lewis
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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Writing: A Handy Checklist for Self-Editing to Make Your Self-published Book the Best It Can Be & Reduce Your Editor’s Bill

A handy checklist of different ways to self-edit your books more effectively, saving you money on your professional editor's bills (if you use one), and creating a better experience for your readers - a good quick read for beginner writers and experienced self-publishers

Beginners’ Self-Publishing Salon: Writing Tools, Styles and Challenges

Are you a beginning author who needs advice about writing tools, styles and challenges? In their first Beginner's Self-Publishing Salon Broadcast Jay Artale and Michael La Ronn share their different insights about writing from a fiction and non-fiction perspective.

July 21, 2017
Admin
Writing
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3 Top Tips on How to Write or Ghostwrite a Memoir

Ever fancied writing a memoir - or been asked to ghostwrite someone else's? Then read Belinda Pollard 's top tips.

June 21, 2017
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Writing
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Indie Author 101: Book Reviews: Best Practice: Adam Borretz

Adam Borretz will cover the different types of book reviews available to indie authors and offer strategies and best practices to help self-published authors garner review coverage.

How To Self-Publish and Sell Poetry in the Digital Era: Michael La Ronn

Michael La Ronn offers an abundance of tips on using current publishing trends to monetize poetry, whether it be a single poem, an existing collection, or your next manuscript. A must-see presentation for any poet who wants to stand out in this genre.

June 4, 2017
Indie Author Fringe
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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How to Market & Promote your Travel Memoir – 1:1 Interviews with Travel Writers: Jay Artale

How to Market and Promote your Travel Memoir. A series of 1:1 author interviews hosted by Jay Artale, featuring Jack Scott, Karen McCann, and Joe Cawley, a group of successful travel writing authors who self-publish

How to Optimize Your Goodreads Membership: Tips For Best Practice: Barb Drozdowich

Let Barb Drozdowich help you optimize your Goodreads presence, share some tricks to navigating this large site and describe how (and why) to use some of the powerful features.

Opinion: 4 Top Tips to Avoid Indie Author Stress – by the Author of 7 Self-published Books

Stress needn't be inevitable in the lot of an indie author - seasoned self-publisher Dave Sivers explains his stress avoidance tips.

April 3, 2017
Dave Sivers
Business & Planning, Opinion, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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Improve Your Book Descriptions and Audience Targeting: Jane Friedman

Which works best in online stores, a long or short book description? What should go in the first line? How do you research appropriate categories and keywords? Jane reviews principles and great tools to help indie authors master the power of descriptions and reach their target market by getting in their readers’ heads as to how they search for and describe books.

March 18, 2017
Indie Author Fringe