Join Us for Our Online “Ask Amazon” Event
Thom Kephart, Amazon's Community Outreach Product Manager (right) will drop by on Tuesday, 28th January 2014, to answer ALLi…
ALLi’s Top Posts on Publishing in 2013
As followers of this blog will know, every Friday we run a post on aspects of publishing particularly relevant to…
Publishing: New Free Service from BookBaby
Earlier this week digital book distribution service Bookbaby launched BookBaby Free, the first of its services to be available without…
ALLi News: Gift Vouchers, Members Catchup and the Bookseller Hot 100
ALLi Vouchers – the gift that keeps on giving. Fresh from Cyber Monday, a quick note on ALLi’s gift vouchers,…
The Story of an Authors’ Collective: Triskele Books
JJ Marsh tells the story of the launch and development of the authors' collective Triskele Books, drawing on their new…
10 Tips To Make Your Self-Published Book Look Professional
Sarah Juckes of ALLi Partner Member Completely Novel offers 10 tips to make your self-published book look at home alongside…
The Dilemma of the Hybrid Author: Which Publishing Route to Choose Next?
Author and creative writing tutor Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn shares the dilemma facing a growing number of authors who have been both…
Read An Indie Author: ALLi Book of The Month Awards
Since ALLi (The Alliance of Independent Authors) began, back at London Book Fair 2012, we have used a reading panel…
Will NaNoWriMo Help You Publish A Novel? Why This Self-Published Author Thinks It Will
Fantasty writer Chele Cooke makes a great case for aspiring self-published authors to use NaNoWriMo as a stepping-stone to publishing a…
Alliance of Independent Authors on Erotica Controversy & Removal of Author-Published Books
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) and I have been quoted and, yes, even misquoted, about the removal of author-published…
How to Index A Self-Published Non-Fiction Book – A Beginner’s Guide by Joanne Phillips
Professional indexer and successful self-published novelist Joanne Phillips provides an easy-to-follow guide to compiling an index for a self-published non-fiction…
Mark Coker’s Smart Self-publishing Strategies. Part Two: Merchandising For Apple iBooks.
Normally on a Sunday, we run a feature called "How I Do It" that focusses on super-successful indies. Today, in…