What Successful Self-Publishers Do Well
Some months ago, ALLi worked with Dr Alison Baverstock on her most recent investigations into self-publishing, the findings from which…
How I Do It: Successful Indie Authors Share Their Secrets. This week: Mel Sherratt.
"Twitter changed my life, it really did." Mel Sherratt talks about the writing and publishing strategies that have made her…
BookCrossing. 50 Ways to Reach Your Readers #13
While no one is ever going to find a formula to guarantee your book those all important word of mouth…
It’s Fiction, People! A Novelist’s View On Reactions To Writing
How much of what a novelist writes is autobiographical? Conversely, if a non-fiction writer changes the names and circumstantial detail…
Hashtags on Facebook at Last
So many people have been asking for hashtags (#) on Facebook for so long, now the billion plus Facebook users…
Ten Lethal Marketing Mistakes Almost Everyone is Making with Penny Sansevieri
People always ask me what’s the single biggest mistake authors make. I’m not sure it’s just one mistake, though the…
Reaching the Teen Market with KP Simmons
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Goodreads, Instagram, Figment, Vine, Wattpad…There are a ton of places in the online world in which…
Indie Authors: The View from Hollywood. By Walt Morton.
What's going on with John Green and his Why I'll Never Self Publish (and Sue Grafton's Self-Publishing is a Short-cut, a…
Marketing ~ The Ever-Present Thing We All Love to Hate to Do with Elana Johnson
I think marketing it one of the hardest things we authors have to do. Isn’t writing the book hard enough?…
Getting Good At Goodreads: An Indie Authors Guide
Orna was at BEA's UPublishU last week and really enjoyed the presentation by Goodreads's Director of Marketing, Patrick Brown,…
How Indie Authors Sell Foreign Rights.
The good news for us, as indie authors, is that rights issues are greatly simplified. We own our rights and we…
Why Literature Should Be More Like Art by Dan Holloway
OK, first, when I say literature should be more like art I know I’m saying something fundamentally wrong. Because I’m…