How to Design and Use Business Cards to Market Your Self-published Books
Top tips on why you should produce business cards for your self-published books and authorpreneur business, and what you should include on them.
Book Marketing: How to Lighten the Load with a Checklist
US indie author Glenn Ashton shares his system for making sure you get all your book marketing tasks done without every feeling overwhelmed.
Book Marketing Shots in the Dark
Our monthly post on unusual ways to market your self-published books, drawing on our members' successful case studies.
Why Print Rules When Self-publishing Children’s Books
Why print is so important for self-published authors of children's books - useful tips and figures from ALLi's Children's Advisor, Karen Inglis.
Should Indie Authors Go KDP Exclusive Or Go Wide?: Susan Kaye Quinn & Pippa DaCosta
Should Indie Authors Go KDP Exclusive Or Go Wide?: Susan Kaye Quinn & Pippa DaCosta
Book Marketing: How to Use Bookmarks to Market Self-published Books
Here's an easy way to market your books - and a refreshingly low-tech one! Top tips on producing and using great bookmarks from US indie author Karen Myers.
Book Marketing: How to Create An Author Brand – Case Study with Jessica Bell
An informative and inspiring case study of how one indie author, Jessica Bell, devised a new author brand to cover her diverse collection of fiction and poetry.
SCARE: A New Automated Service to Help Indie Authors to Compare their Writing to the Content of Bestsellers
A fascinating introduction to a new writing analysis service that helps you match your manuscript to the bestsellers in its intended genre. New Zealand novelist Katherine Hayton plays guinea pig with the chillingly named SCARE system.
How to ignite your email list with Joel Friedlander and Nick Stephenson
As authors, we all know the role that social media plays in our ability to connect with readers, but the most beneficial ways of building a 1:1 relationship with your potential customers is via your email list. Listen to the actionable tips and sound advice from Joel Friedlander and Nick Stephenson about how to ignite your email list.
Podcast: Stop! Don’t launch your book without following these 6 crucial steps from Kathy Meis
Today’s book marketplace is highly competitive. You need to bring you’re A-game not only on the craft side, but on the business side.
In our latest Indie Author Fringe podcast, Kathy Meis from Bublish delves into the six crucial steps that authors need to take before launching their book.
Book Marketing Shots in the Dark: Outside-the-Box Ways to Sell Your Self-published Books
With so many conventional ways to market your self-published book, we step outside of the box to look at some wackier ideas that have worked for some of our author members - and there's not a Facebook ad or a Twitter campaign in sight!
Sunday Success Stories: My Indie Author Adventure – with Laurence O’Bryan
Irish novelist Laurence O'Bryan describes his journey from trade-published thriller writer to indie author and professional book promoter, in the first of a new series profiling the many different routes and adventures available to the indie author.