Author Day 2015: Indie Author Feedback
On Monday, The Bookseller, the trade magazine for the UK publishing industry, ran a one-day conference called Author Day ("It's time…
Opinion: Why I Paid for a Publicity Service
When it comes to paid marketing services for books, authors often complain they’re expensive, don’t always lead to sales, or…
Opinion: Asking Takes Courage
Let's start the week with an inspiring tale of perseverance and self-belief leading to success, by indie author and scholar…
Opinion: The Core Problem with Self-Publishing is Quality Assurance
From Australia, Tahlia Newland, author, editor and founder of Awesome Indies Books, shines her spotlight on what she considers to…
Opinion: No, E-book Sales Are Not Falling – The Self-Publishing Author Perspective
Contrary to recent reports, e-book reading is up everywhere, says Orna Ross. From the self-publishing author's perspective, the opportunity is…
Opinion: When Being an Indie Author Gets All Too Much…
ALLi's blog editor Debbie Young starts the writing week with a light-hearted list of antidotes to the classic indie author's…
Opinion: Authors, Please Leave Your Sense of Entitlement at the Door
British thriller writer Alison Morton, lets off steam about her frustration with indie authors with the wrong attitude to self-publishing:…
Inspiration for Indie Authors Going Global at NINC2015
From somewhere over the Atlantic, ALLi's founder Orna Ross takes for ALLi's Going Global campaign from the NINC 2015 Publishing…
Opinion: Indie Author Imprints Can Ensure High Quality – So Why Did Readers Object?
Scottish indie author Fiona Cameron takes exception to a reading group's assumption that self-publishing her books under her own imprint…
Five Self-publishing Lessons Learned Between Debut and Second Book
In the run-up to self-publishing her second book, Irish indie author Lorna Sixsmith, who self-published her first book on 29th…
Opinion: Writers Need Conferences
Writers are social animals, says Irish author Laurence O'Bryan, founder of BooksGoSocial, who advocates attending writers' conferences to keep the potential…
Opinion: Why Indie Authors Should Start Talking About Pbooks and Abooks
ALLi's founder and director Orna Ross considers the tricky issue of terminology when talking about self-published books in their many…