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Encore Month: Simple Tips for Formatting Your Book Blurb

If you've ever pulled out your hair trying to figure out how to add spaces between paragraphs, or to bold or italicize your font when formatting book blurb on your Amazon KDP dashboard, you'll appreciate these HTML (hypertext markup language) tips from Rob Johnson.

July 12, 2019
Rob Johnson
Business & Planning, Process 2. Design & Formatting, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing
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Encore Month: Bookshop distribution

Like to get your books into bricks-and-mortar bookstores? It'll help if you understand the bookseller's objectives and viewpoint - and this extract from ALLi's guidebook about bookstores will quickly put you in the picture.

July 11, 2019
Admin
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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Encore Presentation: Should Just Anybody Write a Memoir? September 2018

Next up we have Leila Summers an indie author writing and publishing memoir. Leila makes painful topics universal, a podcast well worth listening to if you missed it the first time around.

July 7, 2019
Howard Lovy
Process 1. Editorial, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Writing
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Encore: Case Study of Book Potato, A New Bookshop Supporting Indie Authors

Encore update: Indie-friendly bookshop the BookPotato has issued a new call to indies: join them with your recipe- and food-related…

July 5, 2019
ALLi Editorial
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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Encore IIA Podcast: Jandra Sutton & Ashleigh Gardner

Encore Presentation: Wattpad Author Jandra Sutton June 2018

Welcome to encore month. For the next few Sundays, we'll be sharing some of our most popular podcasts from the last couple of years. First up we have Jandra Sutton, a Wattpad author, and Ashleigh Gardner, from Wattpad Studios.

June 30, 2019
Howard Lovy
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion
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Midyear Author Business Review: AskALLi Advanced Self-Publishing Salon with Orna Ross and Joanna Penn

It’s Week 23 Q2, 2019, halfway through the year. How is your author business doing so far? In this month’s AskALLi Advanced…

June 29, 2019
Howard Lovy
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing
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What is the Best Way to Brand a Self-Help Series? Other Questions Answered: AskALLi Member’s Q&A with Orna Ross and Michael La Ronn

Welcome to AskALLi, the Self-Publishing Advice Podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it’s our monthly Member Q&A…

June 15, 2019
Howard Lovy
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing
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Switching from MailChimp to MailerLite for Budget-Conscious Indie Authors

If you’re running a WordPress author website and you’ve connected it to MailChimp, recent changes at the mail-service-provider-turned-marketing-company likely mean you're facing a price increase. If that's the case, what should you do? After changes at Mailchimp, ALLi author member Rachel McCollin talks us through switching from MailChimp to MailerLite for budget-conscious indie authors.

June 14, 2019
Rachel McCollin
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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7 Game-Changing Tips for KDP Authors

One of the highlights of my day is learning something useful from the indie author community, and passing that along to other authors. With that in mind, here are seven of my favorite tips that permanently changed the way I publish on Amazon's KDP.

June 13, 2019
John Doppler
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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How Indie Authors Set Paperback Prices

Recently on the closed ALLi Member Facebook Forum there've been a couple of active comment threads with questions about how indie authors set paperback prices. Here's a compilation of the responses so you can see for yourself what some of the options are for pricing your own books.

June 12, 2019
ALLi Editorial
Opinion, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion
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Why Do an Indie Author Blog Tour

In an ever-changing industry, lots of marketing tactics go in and out of fashion more often than I have hot dinners. But sometimes marketing isn't about generating sales, but growing awareness and building an audience. ALLi author member Sue Wickstead explains why you should do an indie author blog tour.

June 10, 2019
Sue Wickstead
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion
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How to Organise a Book Signing Event

When we first start writing, many of us dream of having a book signing. We also cower at the prospect of having to talk to 'real people.' But for the most part, meeting readers is what we want. Organizing and delivering a book signing day can be daunting. ALLi Author member Eileen Omosa is explains how to organize a book signing.

June 7, 2019
Eileen Omosa
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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