How to Set and Meet Effective Creative Intentions for your Writing and Self-publishing in 2017
A handy guide for the start of the new year on setting and meeting creative intentions for your writing and self-publishing processes
10 Inspirational Posts for Successful Writing and Self-publishing in 2017
10 inspirational and practical posts from our 2016 blog archive to help you achieve your writing goals in 2017
Our round-up of Indie Author Podcasts for your Holiday Listening
Jay Artale our ALLi communications manager has put together a roundup of our Ask ALLi and Indie Author Fringe podcasts, and coaxes us to take time for ourselves over the festive season to listen and be inspired.
Writing: What is LIterary Fiction Anyway?
Why wouldn't Shakespeare's royal plays count as literary fiction if written today? Theo Rogers asks provocative questions - and suggests some answers - about the nature of literary fiction.
Sunday Self-publishing Success Stories: How I Do It – with Keith Dixon
An inspiring interview with British thriller writer Keith Dixon who lives and writes in France, self-publishing thrillers and other contemporary novels.
How the Age of Digital Books is Fostering the Writing and Self-Publishing of Mid-length Books
How the age of digital publishing brings new opportunities for midform writing - and how to take advantage of them - by author and journalist Alex Klaushofer.
Writing: How to Find Inspiration from Readers
Where do you find inspiration for your writing? Sci-fi and steampunk author explains how he's gleaned ideas for sequels and prequels from his readers' reactions to his books
OPINION: What’s Not to Love about Writing Full-time? Er, Lots of Things…
What would you do if you had the opportunity to write full-time, rent-free for year? Would you take it? Should you take it? Or are their traps along the way? ALLi members discuss the pros and cons.
Why I Write What I Write: Francis Mandewah Shares His Story of an Extraordinary Friendship
An inspiring account of how a friendship between a poor African boy and an affluent American helicopter pilot inspired a moving memoir
Podcast: Don’t Think, Just Do! from Orna Ross’s Go Creative! Show
Once a month Orna Ross’s Go Creative! Show focuses on Creative Writing, and in this week's episode Orna and Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of NaNoWriMo, talked about the approach of Don’t Think, Just Do to achieve your writing goals.
Writing: How Being a Beta Reader Improves an Indie Author’s Own Work
Want to make your work the best it can be without costing the earth? The answer's beta reading - both reading other's manuscripts and having them read your own. Award-winning novelist Lucienne Boyce shows you how and why.
Writing: Sharing Stories of Special Needs Children Through Non-Fiction
Interesting and inspiring case study of an indie author who has applied her career experience to write non-fiction books for and about children with special needs.