Business & Planning Archives

Why Indie Authors Need Literary Executors & How to Appoint One

How to safeguard your rights for your heirs by appointing literary executors - because even if you're not yet making a fortune, you may become a posthumous bestseller! Maggie Lynch shares her own experience of planning her literary estate.

Estate Planning for Your Indie Author Business

As indie authors, we may plan never to retire or to stop writing - but what will happen to our work when we die? To our royalties? To our rights? Micro-publisher Karen Myers offers some pointers on estate planning for indie authors.

Writing: Does an Indie Author Ever Really Retire?

Does retirement feature in your plans for your writing and self-publishing career? Find out what the ALLi hive mind has to say on the topic - and grab some inspiration!

Why & How to Build a Book Project Plan

Here's a smart businesslike way to manage the production of your self-published books: devise and follow a book project plan, as outlined here by John Wagner-Stafford of Ingenium Books.

December 20, 2018
John Wagner-Stafford
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

Opinion: Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet as an Indie Author

To help you concentrate your thoughts for a successful new year of self-publishing, here's a chance to revisit the most relevant opinion posts from the AskALLi blog in 2018. Here's to our best year yet as indie authors!

December 10, 2018
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Business & Planning, Opinion, Process 1. Editorial, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion

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Self-publishing 3.0 Part 2: Government Action on Independent Author Earnings

Please read this important statement from Orna Ross, calling for greater and more appropriate government support for indie authors and recognition of our enormous socio-economic contributions - not reflected in traditional author earnings research.

December 3, 2018
Orna Ross
Business & Planning, Campaigns, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

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

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Book Marketing: How to Create a Book Catalog of Your Self-published Books & Why

Ever thought of creating an official reading guide in the form of a self-published book catalog to help readers discover your complete works? Thriller writer Rachel Amphlett explains why and how, drawing on her own elegant case study.

November 2, 2018
Rachel Amphlett
Business & Planning, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion

Cover Of Richard Lowe's Book About Being A Professional Writer

How to Make a Living as a Professional Self-published Author

Drawing on his experience of moving from hobbyist to professional indie author, Richard G Lowe Jr, author of over 60 self-published books, provides a useful list of all that this status entails - and the skills you'll need to master

Conference Report: Digital Book World 2018 – The Top Takeaways For Independent Authors at DBW

ALLi Director Orna Ross shares the key takeaways from the groundbreaking Digital Book World conference 2018, including exciting opportunities and calls to action for indie authors who want to be a part of selfpublishing 3.0.

October 18, 2018
Orna Ross
Business & Planning, Campaigns, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

How to Track Sales of Self-published Books

Expert advice to help indie authors with tracking book sales to help them improve the success of their author business - from US fantasy writer Karen Myers.

October 4, 2018
Karen Myers
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

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1 Easy Way to Up Your Amazon Skills: Attend an Amazon Academy

If you ever receive an invitation to attend an Amazon Academy conference, snap it up! Three ALLi authors share their verdict on the latest. Plus a reminder of an exclusive tour opportunity at IngramSpark next month.

September 14, 2018
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Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution