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How Zines Can Boost Creativity and Build Reader Connections: The Self-Publishing with ALLi Podcast Featuring Anna Featherstone
In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Podcast, Anna Featherstone speaks with Rebekah Lambert, a poet, playwright, content strategist, and founder of the Freelance Jungle, about how authors can produce and distribute zines. They discuss how zines give writers permission not to be perfect, offer a low-pressure way to spark creativity, and help both fiction and nonfiction authors deepen connections with readers.
Spotify Audiobooks for Authors Earn Industry Innovator Award: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway
It won’t have escaped your notice that Spotify audiobooks for authors have become a growing focus lately. Having started their audiobook journey quietly, they are now not only making audiobooks central to their listening offer, they are building more and more tools for authors to work with them directly.
How Indie Authors Are Embracing Short-Form Audio
Short-form audio is becoming a meaningful new outlet for authors. As listening habits shift—and as tools for production become more accessible through human and AI narration—short audiobooks are gaining ground with both readers and platforms. From Spotify’s recent launch of a short-form program for independent authors to new experiments among ALLi members, this format is quickly finding its place in the indie publishing toolkit.

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