Opinion: What’s the point of an author website?
With so many opportunities to reach readers provided by social media, is it really worth going to the time, trouble,…
How Indie Authors Should Approach Change in the Publishing industry
Samantha Warren, US author of speculative fiction, highlights one of the many benefits of being a self-published author: the ease with which…
Opinion: Online Etiquette for the Indie Author Community
As indie authors, we're all used to dealing with people online, whether or not we've ever met our correspondents in…
Indie Authors: Go Set a Watchman’s Publishing History Matters To You: An Editor’s Opinion
The publishing history of Harper Lee’s novel raises important questions about author care, creative control and the power dynamics of trade…
Why Indie Authors Should Support the Call for Fairer Publishing Contracts
It's easy for indie authors to assume that trade publishing issues don't affect them, given that they've made the decision…
Does Amazon Love Authors?
Revised payment methods for Kindle Owners Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited, like other Amazon services, are author and reader friendly,…
Opinion: Why Authors Need to Step Away from the Internet
Author and ALLi Advice blog editor Debbie Young makes the case for self-published authors to occasionally turn their backs on…
Opinion: Why Indie Authors Need Bookshops
To celebrate the UK's Independent Booksellers' Week that launched this weekend, ALLi Author Advice blog editor Debbie Young explains why…
Opinion: Indie Authors Need to Talk about Selling
Today's succinct Opinion post comes from a man with a reputation for handselling his books wherever he is on his…
Opinion: Why Literary Fiction and Poetry Should be Protected
To kick off this week on the blog with an impassioned call to arms from Rohan Quine on why…
Opinion: Why Indie Authors Need to Stick by Facebook’s Rules
One of the many joys of being a self-published author is the facility to run your business your way -…
Opinion: Now Is The Worst Time To Be An Author?
"Authors' incomes Are 'At Breaking Point'!" [The BBC] "Publishing Is Broken, We're Drowning In Indie Books!" [Forbes] And the most…