Business & Planning Archives

Opinion: Choosing the Right Audiobook Narrator

It's perhaps no surprise that just like a reader has a preference for one author's voice over another, listeners will have a preference for one narrator over the another. Rosalind Minett, ALLi author member debates whether the author's spoken voice is the best choice for narration or whether we should leave it up to the professionals. One thing's for certain, choosing the right audiobook narrator is a difficult task.

How to Create a Business Plan for Your Indie Author Business

The beginning of the year is a perfect time to set goals and plan actions, especially if you're an author. While most businesses write a business plan, it's not always a consideration writers make. Tetania Bak, from ALLi partner member MiblArt is here to explain how to create one and as well as the goals in it.

PODCAST: How to Sustain a Creative Business for a Lifetime

January 8, 2020
Sarah Begley
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LIVE: How to Sustain a Creative Business for a Lifetime

January 8, 2020
Sarah Begley
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How to Write a Book Proposal to Yourself

You'd be forgiven for thinking book proposals are reserved for the traditional publishing world. But Michele DeFilippo, ALLi Partner member from 1106 Designs, thinks we should all be writing a book proposal to ourselves to save time, effort and money in the long run.

January 6, 2020
Michele DeFilippo
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Writing

How to Identify Your Writing Goals

It’s a new year! Which (for those who love to plan) means it’s time to start planning for 2020. ALLi Author member, Rachel McCollin shows you how to identify your writing goals so you can plan the best writing year you've had.

January 4, 2020
Rachel McCollin
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Top 100

Your Book in Libraries Worldwide Quick and Easy Guide

All ALLi members can download the ALLi guidebook publications for free in the member area (once you've logged in) over at www.allianceindependentauthors.org. Recently, we've published a number of Quick and Easy Guides alongside the guidebooks. Today we've taken an extract from the 'Your Book in Libraries Worldwide' guide.

January 3, 2020
ALLi Editorial
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 7. Rights Licensing, Top 100

The Pros and Cons of Being a Hybrid Author

There are ten key business models that are working for writers right now. Being a hybrid author (both traditionally and self-published) is just one of them. Authorpreneur member Sara Rosett discusses the pros and cons of being hybrid.

January 2, 2020
Sara Rosett
Business & Planning, Process 7. Rights Licensing

AskALLi Member Q&A Podcast Review of 2019

December sees the ALLi team look back at the year and review the highs and lows. Today is the AskALLi Member Q&A Podcast review of 2019. ALLi team member Michael LaRonn, is here with his round up of the best moments this year.

Review of the #IndieAuthorChat Twitter Chat in 2019

In April this year, ALLi's new Twitter chat #indieAuthorChat was born. Today, Twitter chat host, Tim Lewis, is looking back at the year in review and highlighting some of our best chat questions.

December 15, 2019
Timothy Lewis
Business & Planning, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion

Five Tips for Creating Audiobooks

Audiobooks have been a hot topic this year and the boom in popularity shows no signs of slowing down. Partner member Karen Williams The Book Mentor, has been busy producing audiobooks this year. Today, she give us her top five tips for creating audiobooks.

December 9, 2019
Karen Williams
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

The Best Writing Books of 2019

As the year draws to a close, in ALLi we've been busy looking at the year's highlights. Today, we're celebrating some of our favorite books published in 2019 for writers. We've purposefully not included any of the books mentioned in yesterday's best audiobooks of the year post so we celebrate a range of book. So if you'd like a comprehensive list of the best writing books of 2019 have a look at both post.