Indie Authors: Get One Link To Your Book In All International Amazon Stores
One of the frustrations for authors when it comes to Amazon is that if your readers are taken to a…
Indie Authors: 50 Ways To Reach Your Reader # 9: Online Contests
There are many ways an indie author can reach readers. Sometimes it just requires a slow and steady slog, sometimes…
Four Things Indie Authors Need to Understand About Google Search
As indie authors, we're always trying to get our book to rank at number one or to appear on a…
Five Indie Author Tips For A Successful Live Ebook Launch
We going to be launching ALLi's Choosing A Self-Publishing Service 2013 at London Book Fair as an ebook. So we're…
“I Wasted $8000 On Kirkus Review Advertising.” An Indie Author’s Story.
This article has been removed by request of Kirkus Reviews, owing to some inaccuracies by the author, and replaced by…
Upcoming Facebook Changes That Will Affect Indie Authors
According to Social Media maven Mari Smith, Facebook is about to make changes that will affect indie authors who use…
World Book Day – An Opportunity For Self-Publishing Children’s Authors
If you’re an indie author writing for children or young adults in the UK, there’s an annual gift of an…
50 Ways To Reach Your Reader #6: Newsletters & Mailing Lists for Indie Authors
Indie authors often don't think about building a good e-mail database when they consider their book marketing plans. But the…
Innovative Book Promotion for Indie Authors
How To Be Truly New & Uniquely You. By Natalie Buske Thomas. You're an indie, right? So are you blazing…
Find Time for Social Media: 8 Tips For Self-Publishing Indie Authors
As authors building our author brands and promoting our books, social media can be a great tool for us. If we know how to use it effectively, that is!
So what constitutes using it effectively?
To boil it down, there is one simple rule for self-published authors to live by…
Interacting and responding to online conversation is what puts the social in social media!
But how can we possibly find the time to reply and comment to every social media mention we get, every blog post comment that we receive and to continue the conversation in other places online?
Especially when you consider all of the other writing and marketing activities we’re expected to do?
We all have certain time constraints, but there is a not-so-difficult answer.
Go deep or go home!
Self-Publishing Authors can Connect with Readers Inside their E-Books. By ALLi Social Media Manager, Karen Lotter
Imagine Indie authors and readers connecting inside their e-books – sounds like something way in the future? Well as we…
50 Ways To Reach Your Reader. # 2: Optimise Your Amazon Author Page
Amazon, the biggest book retailer in the world, was the first company to see the potential in retailing self-published work.…