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Writing: How to Create and Use a Style-sheet to Keep the Details in Your Books Consistent

Lost the plot with your fiction writing? Having trouble keeping track of your characters? You need to start keeping a style-sheet - or at least ask your editor to create one for you. Such a useful writing tool you'll wonder how you ever managed without it! Here's how.

Writing: The Empowerment of Self-publishing – Case Study of a Project for Children and Young People with Autism

A heartwarming case study of how self-publishing empowered a special project that has made a real difference to the life of its autistic young co-author - resulting in books that fill a real gap in the market.

May 9, 2018
Jude Lennon
Writing

Top Tips on Writing a Book – from the Latest Ask ALLi Self-publishing Beginners’ Salon Podcast (May 2018)

Welcome to AskALLi, the self-publishing advice podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it's our monthly beginners' self-publishing…

May 5, 2018
Howard Lovy
Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing

Writing: How Indie Authors Can Use Their Creative Writing Skills to Build an Extra Income Stream through Copywriting to Supplement Sales from Self-published Books

Ever wondered about ways to boost your writing income to supplement what you earn from your self-published books? Read Jules Horne's advice about why freelance copywriting could be just what you're looking for.

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Writing: 10 Top Tips on How to Use Old Newspapers for Non-fiction Research and Fiction Story Ideas

Have you ever investigated old newspaper archives as a source of information, ideas and inspiration either for non-fiction or fiction? True-crime writer Angela Buckley shares her top tips for effective use of archived news - and why she loves it so much.

April 25, 2018
Angela Buckley
Writing

Writing Collaboration Case Study: Romance Author + Rugby Player = Romance Novel in World of Sport – with Jane Harvey-Berrick & Stuart Reardon

An inspiring case study of how romance novelist Jane Harvey-Berrick spotted and acted upon an idea to write a novel in collaboration with professional rugby player and model Stuart Reardon, and it's proven very successful. Read it for ideas for such projects of your own.

Opinion: Why Indie Authors Should Also Be Readers

Do you make time to read for pleasure? If not, you should - it's the easiest way to enrich your writing and hone your craft as an author. Debbie Young explains why and shares a captivating poem on the topic by Julia Donaldson.

April 9, 2018
Admin
Opinion, Writing

5 Top Tips for Successful Author Collaboration

Ever co-authored a book? Thinking of trying collaboration as a means to increase your output of self-published books? Read Brad Borkan's top tips for effective co-writing gained from a project shared with a co-author two continents away!

April 5, 2018
Brad Borkan
Writing

The Creative and Business Mind-Set: March 2018 AskALLi Advanced Self-Publishing Salon

In this month's Advanced Salon for Indie Authors, Orna Ross and Joanna Penn discuss the different mind-sets and skill-sets required to maximise your self-publishing success - the creative and the business mind. Find out whether you're getting the balance right.

March 31, 2018
Howard Lovy
News, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing

March 2018 AskALLI Members’ Q&A with Michael La Ronn and Dan Blank – Answering 9 Key Questions about Self-publishing

ALLi's monthly AskALLi Q&A podcast gives our members the opportunity to put their own queries about the self-publishing process to our resident expert indie authors, who cover a wide range of topics in every show.

Writing: How to Use Colloquialisms and When to Avoid Them – Top Tips for Indie Authors

How much slang can you use in your writing without baffling or upsetting readers? ALLi author members debate the best approach to gaining colour from colloquialisms without obscuring meaning.

March 21, 2018
Admin
Writing

Writing Success – Against All the Odds?

Do you sometimes feel self-publishing success is eluding you? You're not alone - but C Lee McKenzie's post about motivation reminds us why we keep writing, and why the odds aren't as stacked against indie authors as much as we might think

March 7, 2018
Lee McKenzie
Writing