Writing Novels: How to Get the Balance Right Between Fact & Fiction
Lucy McCarraher's personal experience of writing novels challenges the old adage that fiction authors should simply write about what they…
How I Do It: Kristen James Shares The Secrets of Her Self-Publishing Success
100,000 books sold, 1,000 reviews on Amazon, 20 books in two and half years - that's self-publishing superstardom by any…
Top Tips for Self-Published Authors from our Sunday Superstars
Each Sunday we interview a super-successful indie author who provides an inspiring role model to self-published writers everywhere. They share…
Writing: A Round-Up of ALLi’s Best Writing Advice from 2013
As regular readers of this blog of self-publishing advice will know, each Thursday we host a guest post about a…
How They Did It In 2013 – A Round-Up Of Our Sunday Features
During 2013, we've run a series of interviews with high-achieving self-published authors who have kindly agreed to share their top…
Writing Memoirs: Telling The Ugly Truth in a Beautiful Way
Self-publishing a memoir provided Elaine Pereira with an instinctive way of coping with the loss of her mother to Alzheimer's-related…
How I Do It: Successful Indie Authors Share Their Secrets. This week: Orna Ross
This week, as she launches a poetry anthology for Christmas and celebrates being dubbed "One of The 100 Most Influential…
Writing: How Poetry Helped My Prose
Self-published writer of novels, poetry, short stories and more, Michael La Ronn describes how his early ventures of writing poetry…
How To Make Money from Your Writing
Writing for the love of writing is all very well, but love won't pay the rent. ALLi Director Orna Ross…
How I Do It: Super Successful Indie Authors Share Their Secrets. This Week: Diane Capri
"Face time is like spinach - good for us!" advises thriller writer Diane Capri, who lists meeting other writers and…
Writing: Should The Self-published Author Use A Pen-Name (Pseudonym)?
Trade publishers are notoriously wary of using the same author name across different genres, or of using a name that…
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…