This Week’s Self-Publishing News
An untrodden path only stretches before you once. Or some other metaphorical way of saying hello, it’s my first time…
Opinion: Why Less is More When Reading or Performing Your Work in Public
An invitation to read your self-published book before an audience at literary festivals and other events provides a great opportunity…
Could You Be the Next Young Writer of the Year?
English indie author, poet and journalist Dan Holloway turns the spotlight on a great opportunity for UK and Irish authors…
Writing Competition Welcomes UK Self-publishing Authors
English author, poet and campaigner Dan Holloway shares the good news of the revival of a major literary prize that…
Opinion: We Need Greater Social Diversity in Publishing
At last week's IndieReCon conference, author, poet and campaigner Dan Holloway performed his new poem calling for social diversity in…
Opinion: Self-Censorship & Self-Expression in Self-Publishing
As he launches "No Exit", a dark novelette about suicide and murder, indie author and campaigner Dan Holloway considers the…
Opinion: Never Take Yes For An Answer
Author and performance poet Dan Holloway explains why steering clear of third-party validation is the key to true success as…
Opinion: If Indieland Must Have Gatekeepers… by Dan Holloway
Indie author and poet Dan Holloway considers whether it's possible to implement quality control standards in the world of self-publishing…
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…
Indie Authors Take Note: Prestigious UK Folio Prize Is Open To Self-Publishers.
The Alliance of Independent Authors's Open Up To Indies Campaign welcomes the news that the newly established Folio Prize, with…
Literary Festivals, Book Events and the Self-published Author. By ALLi Community Builder Dan Holloway
As self-publishing becomes more common, and increasing numbers of indie authors achieve both commercial and critical success, literary festivals urgently…
Why Indie (For Me) Means NOT Having A Publisher
Steena Holmes recently wrote a post for this blog explaining how the great thing about being indie, for her, was having the freedom to have it both ways: to self-publish or trade publish, as it suits her. Here Dan Holloway explains why the step into trade publishing is one he won't be taking — ever.
We are increasingly hearing about the hybrid model, with authors deciding for which books and in what ways to engage publishers and/or agents, who then become partners, singing to the author’s tune.
Whilst I have to say a part of me wonders if there aren’t some elements of utopianism creeping in, it is certainly true that many agents and publishers are starting to change the way they view their relationships with authors. And I certainly think what writers are doing, taking the reins – or at least setting out to – in these relationships, is fabulous, and definitely in the indie spirit.