The Self-Publishing Advice Center

PODCAST DROP: Inspirational Indie Authors interview
2026-07-19 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-12 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) and 1 more date | ALLi Podcast
Dive deep into personal stories of indie authors, understanding their pathways to success, challenges faced, and lessons learned.

PODCAST DROP: Latest Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway
2026-07-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-19 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-29 13:00 - 14:00 and 10 more dates
A breakdown of the week's most significant self-publishing news, providing insights, implications, and in-depth analyses.
The Self-Publishing News Podcast stream is proudly sponsored by PublishMe—helping indie authors succeed globally with expert translation, tailored marketing, and publishing support. From first draft to international launch, PublishMe ensures your book reaches readers everywhere. Visit publishme.me.

PODCAST DROP: Lunar Planning as a Creative Tool for Authors
2026-04-19 13:00 - 14:00
Orna Ross explores lunar planning as a creative framework for authors: a way to set intentions, focus attention, and shape your writing and publishing work across a natural, grounded, and connected cycle of momentum and release.
Drawing on her own lunar planning practice, and offering some simple tools you can use immediately, Orna shows how the moon’s phases can provide an establishing rhythm and routine for sustaining your most essential work, rest and play as an author-publisher—idea-gathering and drafting, editing and finishing, outreach and promotion, release and renewal.
Stop pushing your natural energy and start collaborating with it to build a creative life that’s both productive and sustainable.

PODCAST DROP: Verse, Visuals & Special Edition Decisions — Making a Book with Intention
2026-04-01 13:00 - 14:00
In this episode, Anna Featherstone explores with author Lande Jewels the many decisions that can sit around — and beyond — the writing of a book.
The conversation looks at what happens when authors think carefully about form, illustration, publishing models, and the wider impact of how their work is made and shared.
They talk about writing in verse, working with illustrations, choosing a pen name, publishing special editions with a focus on quality, using Kickstarter and thinking about social responsibility in authorship.
Along the way, Lande reflects on what she's learned by doing — offering practical insights for writers and creators who are curious about publishing choices beyond the manuscript.
The Self-Publishing With ALLi Production & Distribution Podcast Stream is proudly sponsored by Gatekeeper Press – Your partner in premium independent publishing. Empowering authors with expert guidance, 100% rights, 100% royalties, and global distribution. From editing to marketing, their all-inclusive services help you publish professionally and confidently. Gatekeeper Press — Where Authors Are Family.

PODCAST DROP: The Creative Power of Substack for Authors
2026-03-22 13:00 - 14:00
Orna Ross shares her personal experience of using Substack as a creative and commercial home for her writing. What has it changed and clarified, what it has asked of her, and how has publishing serialised fiction has transformed her working methods?
She argues that Substack’s simple but wide-ranging tools—Posts, Notes, Sections, Audio and Live—make it the most creatively enabling platform available to authors today, offering a structure for showing up in whatever way suits you best while strengthening the direct relationship with readers.
