View the #IndieAuthorFringe Agenda and share with your contacts

May 27, 2017

We've unveiled the #IndieAuthorFringe agenda for our 24-hour online conference that starts on June 3rd at 10am (New York), and is Fringe event to BookExpo.

Just click on the image below to see when your favorite speaker is schedule to talk about their book marketing and promotion topic, and the time each sessions will be going live on our blog.

Let your email lists know about our free online Indie Author Conference

There's bound to be sessions on this list that will be of interest to your email contacts or mailing lists, so please feel free to go ahead and share this agenda with them.

We've put together a sample email to make it easy for you:

Have you heard about the Indie Author Fringe, organized by the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)? This is a free, online global conference for authors, run fringe to the major book fairs: London, BookExpo & Frankfurt Bookfairs, broadcasting 24 sessions of author education over 24 continuous hours, so that authors around the world attend some live sessions, no matter where they’re located.
There are also competitions, giveaways and discounts, contributed by sponsors.

The folks at ALLi have pulled together some of the top advisors on the indie author scene to bring you the most up-to-date self-publishing education and information available. Here's the link to the Indie Author Fringe Speaker Page where you can see the speakers and topics we have lined up for our June 3rd event, fringe to the BookExpo, and you can view the full conference agenda here.
Registration couldn’t be simpler, just enter your email address here and you’ll get all the information you need straight to your email inbox. You can also visit the event home page for more information about how to enter our Book Cover Competition.
See you at the Indie Author Fringe on June 3rd!

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