Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Vanity Presses
How do you explain the dark reality of vanity presses to an author who desperately wants to believe the sales pitch? Show them the proof.
Self-publishing News: Concerns over Internet Archive’s Actions
Internet Archive and its National Emergency Library sparks piracy claims, print sales in crisis while Storytel capitalises on digital boom
How to Survive Your First Year as a Full-Time Author
Quitting your day job to write full-time is a huge achievement. But what happens when you walk away from a salary? How do you survive your first year? Alliance of Independent Authors blog manager, Sacha Black is approaching her one year anniversary and is here to share both the lessons she learned in her first year of full-time writing as well as the lessons some of our members learned. Learn how to survive your first year as a full-time author.
Interview with Jules Horne, Breaking Down Barriers Between Print and Audio: Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast
My guest this week is Jules Horne, a Scottish author who understands that the best way to read a book may not be only through the eyes only. With the rise in audiobooks and podcasts, we're returning back to the age of oral storytelling, and Jules is probing the borders between reading and listening, between the eyes and the ears.
How To Do Successful Book Launches, With Sacha Black and Adam Croft: Self-Publishing Fiction & Nonfiction Podcast
Do you want to perfect your book launches? Do you wonder if book launches are even relevant in 2020? This week’s AskALLi session with Sacha Black and Adam Croft will discuss the conflicting and often confusing subject of launching your book and giving it the greatest chance of success.
Self-publishing News: 2020 Selfies Winners
ALLi members Clare Flynn and Jemma Hatt win the 2020 Selfies Awards, and the Internet Archive gets into trouble over accusations of piracy
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Book Reviews
Arguably, when you publish a new book, gaining reviews is a key book-marketing activity; possibly the most important of all marketing tasks. But it's hard, and the rules about what you can and can't do constantly change. This is the ultimate guide to getting book reviews.
Interview with Sacha Black, Our Expert in Villain-ology: Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast
My guest this week is Sacha Black, who many of you may already know as the cohost of our AskALLi Fiction and Nonfiction podcast and producer of our online self-publishing conferences. What you may not know is that Sacha got her start as a child actress for the BBC and is an expert in how to create a proper villain. There's more to her story, and nobody can tell it like Sacha, herself.
Poetry Content Marketing with Orna Ross and Dalma Szentpály: Self-Publishing Poetry Podcast
This week’s AskALLi session with Orna Ross and Dalma Szentpály focuses on poetry content marketing. Orna shares her strategy and she and Dalma analyze outstanding content marketing by some other indie poets.
Self-publishing News: Writers Respond to Covid 19
How CoVid 19 is changing the way the book industry works from writers helping writers to how we think of books. And questions about Bookstat
The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Right Readers for your Book
As self-publishers, our readers are our greatest asset and our ability to publish directly to them is our greatest opportunity. Finding the right readers is critical to our success. Which is why this week’s #AskALLi Ultimate Guide gives you everything you need to know to find the right readers f0r your book.
Interview with Kris Spisak—The Grammar Doctor Is In: Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast
My guest this week is Kris Spisak, who discovered that her self-publishing niche is to help other self-publishers focus on…