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Register Now: Annual Planning Workshop 2024 With Orna Ross

Register Now: Annual Go Creative! Planning Workshop for Authors and Poets 2024 with Orna Ross

If you'd like to focus on book sales, growth and profit in 2023, join Orna Ross, founder-director of the Alliance of Independent Authors and a group of dedicated indie authors for the Annual Planning Workshop for Authors and Poets: live at 5pm (UK time) on January 6th 2024, or in replay.

The SelfPub3 Author Business Campaign: ALLi Campaigns Podcast with Orna Ross and Melissa Addey

This week Orna Ross and Campaigns Manager Melissa Addey discuss the second campaign in their roundup of ALLi's advocacy work: SelfPub3. This author business campaign aims to raise the average income for authors and poets through good publishing practices and lobbies and supports the literary and creative industries in providing more publishing skills support and education for authors. You can support this campaign by spreading the truth about self-publishing, and our research surveys and data roundups give you the facts you need to spread pride in being an indie author.

November 26, 2023
Howard Lovy
Podcast
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Financial Management for Authorpreneurs (Part 3): How to Measure Return on Investment

In the third and final instalment of our really useful, clear guide to managing the profitability of your indie author business, authorpreneur Karen Myers talks about net income and how to calculate it.

What Is An Authorpreneur? Advice on Running An Indie Author Business

Gear up for being a more successful authorpreneur in 2018 by revisiting these top talks about running an author business, first shared at ALLi's third Indie Author Fringe event of 2017,

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Why Indie Authors Who Want To Make An Ongoing Living From Writing Must Learn To Be Entrepreneurs

Do you have what it takes to be a creative entrepreneur? And what exactly does it take, anyway? Read ALLi Director Orna Ross's clear definition to help you achieve that status.

Indie Author Fringe: Help us spread the word

We're three weeks away from our free online Indie Author Fringe event, which has a focus of running an indie author business. Find out how to help us spread the word.

September 23, 2017
Admin
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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The Self-Publishing Advice Center: from the Alliance of Independent Authors

Welcome to ALLi's Self-publishing Advice Center, a community outreach service from the Alliance of Independent Authors, offering advice and guidance you can trust, across the seven processes of publishing:Editorial Design Production Distribution Marketing Promotion Publishing rights management

July 1, 2012
Orna Ross
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution