How My Indie Book Came Back From The Dead
Indie author Christopher Shevlin gives an inspiring account of how he reversed falling sales of his self-published novel and turned…
Opinion posts on a topical, controversial or interesting self-publishing issue. By ALLi Director, Orna Ross, on the first Monday of each month and other ALLi members on the other Mondays.
Indie author Christopher Shevlin gives an inspiring account of how he reversed falling sales of his self-published novel and turned…
Canadian novelist Maia Sepp takes the Writer's Union of Canada to task over its attitude to independent authors. I'm disappointed…
Novelist and Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, Orna Ross, considers the sometimes confusing question of what exactly distinguishes…
What's going on with John Green and his Why I'll Never Self Publish (and Sue Grafton's Self-Publishing is a Short-cut, a…
OK, first, when I say literature should be more like art I know I’m saying something fundamentally wrong. Because I’m…
Mad old Manhattan. It’s good to be back, walking small between its skyscrapers; stepping aside to let a scurrying New…
Online Groups are little microcosms with their own energy and hierarchies. The longer they exist the more entrenched these power…
An author is an artist -- and artists tend to be sensitive creatures, full of drama and impatience (yes, moi…
I was impressed by Dan Holloway's recent interview with Debbie Young in which he talked about what success means to…
It's never nice to be criticised but the great thing about keeping on writing and publishing is that, over time,…
Thanks to the joys of self-publishing, and of working for The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), 2012 has been an amazing year…
Is the new business model for publishers to be selling over-priced and under-performing services to writers? That's the question that…