Production Advice: 5 Top Tips for Indie Authors on How to Outsource Anything Like a Pro
Most indie authors will at some point commission third-party services to help them make their books the best they can…
Opinion: If You Want to Sell More Books, Skill Up
Wondering how to sell more books? Read how US fantasy author Karen Myers sold more books in the first two weeks of 2018 than the whole of 2015, by stopping writing for a year in order to improve her marketing skills
How Collaboration with Other Indie Authors Helped Me Return to Writing
How one indie author, E S Moxon, found collaboration with fellow writers helped her regain her creative momentum after unexpected challenges in her personal life that scuppered her regular writing habits.
Beginners’ Self-Publishing Salon Podcast: Setting 2018 Writing goals with Michael La Ronn & Jay Artale
It's the start of the new year and a great time to look at the year ahead to determine what writing goals you'd like to achieve. Listen in as Michael and I talk about our writing goals, and the challenges that stand in our way to achieving success and how to overcome them.
How to Format Dashes Correctly
Did you know there are three kinds of dash in punctuation? Not sure how to use them all correctly? Help is at hand here with a succinct and helpful summary by editor Richard Bradburn.
Amazon’s Secret 50% Royalty Slips Out
A glitch on KDP's site revealed a surprise: an option for an as-yet-unimplemented 50% royalty rate. What does this mean for indie authors?
Opinion: Why Bother with Local Bookshops? Suzy Howlett’s Success Story
Wondering whether it's worth the effort to try to get your books into local bookstores? Only you can decide - but Suzy Howlett's post here offers a best-case scenario that you may find inspiring - and we've given a link for further reading to help you make an informed choice about the bricks-and-mortar bookstore route at the end.
AskALLi Members’ Self-Publishing Q&A with David Penny & Debbie Young (January 2018)
Each month David Penny and Debbie Young are in the indie author hot seat to answer the most pressing self-publishing questions from our ALLi Members.
Book Production Top Tip: How and Why to Use Both CreateSpace (KDPPrint) and IngramSpark to Self-publish Print Books – and A Special Free Offer for ALLi Members
Whether you're new to self-publishing paperbacks or an established user of print-on-demand, this post provides a handy reminder of how to use CreateSpace and IngramSpark together to maximise your reach - and how ALLi members can make substantial cost savings
Why Indie Authors Should Seek Further Collaboration Opportunities in 2018 (and a Call for Case Studies)
Why you should consider ways of collaborating with other authors to build your self-publishing success in 2018 - and ideas for how to do that
Writing Advice from the Indie Author Fringe (IAF) 2017
Improve your craft in 2018 by revisiting the expert advice shared about writing by top indie authors from around the world in our March Indie Author Fringe conference - all still available to view for free here.
Choosing The Best Self-Publishing Services: New Edition for 2018
Book 2 in our Successful Self-Publishing series "Choosing the Best Self-Publishing Companies and Services 2018" was compiled by the Watchdog team at The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). It tells you all you need to know in order to choose the self-publishing pathway that’s right for you.