Self-publishing News: Amazon and the Emails
Amazon remains tight-lipped after leaking many of its customers emails, but opens up its US store to Australian customers once again.
Opinion: Why Indie Authors Need to Broaden Their Business
If you're now in a comfortable groove of writing and publishing your own books, it's time to step up your indie author operation and diversify - here's why and how, by authorpreneur Karen Myers, drawing on her own experience
Book Marketing: 15 Practical Ways to Get More Book Reviews
Are you worried that book reviews aren't coming in as quickly as you'd like? Read this checklist of 15 things you can do to build up reviews and see if you are missing any tricks! Compiled from the ALLi Hive wisdom.
Production & Distribution: A Visit to Gardners – UK & International Book Wholesaler
We talk a lot about each end of the distribution chain - POD production and sales in bookstores - so Clare Flynn's post profiling book wholesaler Gardners provides valuable insights into the bit in between!
Writing: The Planning Tool for Pantsers: Plottr
Whether you're a planner or a pantser, you'll find John Lynch's review of the Plottr plotting tool may help you turn out more flowing, flawless stories faster.
Self-publishing News: KDP’s New Look
KDP introduces a new sales report. Mailchimp and Square team up to offer shoppable landing pages, & Lightning Source is 20.
Opinion: Why Indie Authors Should Dare to be Different – by Kyle Waller
Debut novelist Kyle Waller, survivor of severe depression, writes with passion about how the freedom of his status as an indie author allows him to write from the heart about mental illness in his dystopian novel
Self-publishing Success Stories: Jane Steen
If you are a longstanding reader of the ALLi blog, Jane Steen will be familiar to you as a contributor of thoughtful guest posts on different aspects of indiedom. Today we're delighted to focus on her own success story as an indie author.
How Do I Market My First Book? AskALLi Members’ Q&A November 2018
Welcome to AskALLi, the Self-Publishing Advice Podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it’s our monthly Member Q&A…
A Heartwarming Way to Promote Your Author Name: Sponsor a School Desk in Uganda
We're pleased to share news of the opportunity for indie authors to sponsor children's school desks in Uganda, branded with your author name for extra inspiration for eager young learners who have so little of their own.
The Emotional Pressures of Writing & Self-publishing a Book
We talk and think a lot about writing craft, but what about the emotional strain of writing and self-publishing a book? New novelist Jan Petrie explains why the cliche of comparing it to childbirth is justified!
Self-publishing News: Booksellers Square Up to Amazon (Again)
Booksellers stand up to Amazon and force a backdown over the withdrawal of the Abebooks website from several countries. Smashwords celebrates its half millionth title with a radical site overhaul.