Don’t Miss our next Ask ALLi and ALLi Insights

Mark your calendars for our upcoming FREE LIVE EVENTS brought to you by the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Our Ask ALLi events put Orna Ross and Joanna Penn on the spot to answer ALLi Members' self-publishing questions. Our first ALLi Insights event of 2016 has moved to a new date of February 2nd, and provides topical self-publishing advice and options available to indie authors.

Ask ALLi Member Q&A: Your Self-Publishing Questions answered by Joanna Penn and Orna Ross

Tuesday January 26th at 8pm

Our monthly Member Q&A is part of our “Ask ALLi” Campaign: in which ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors) commits to answering any question about self-publishing.

If you are an ALLi member, click here to submit your questions

Only ALLi members can submit questions to Orna and Joanna but everyone is welcome to watch the event live.

Click this link to join the Ask ALLi Google+ Hangout Event and watch it live

• Date: 26th January 2016
• Event starts at 8:00pm BST/London

Global Dates and Times: 

• Time: 12noon PST (Vancouver) / 3pm EST  (New York City / 6pm BRST (Sao Paolo) / 8pm GMT (London) / 10pm SAST (Johannesburg) /and +1 day at: 1.30am IST (Dehli) and 7am AEDT (Sydney)

Meet the Ask ALLi Hosts

Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author, as well as writing non-fiction for authors. She is also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013.

She spent 13 years as a business IT consultant in large corporations across the globe before becoming a full-time author-entrepreneur in September 2011.

Connect with Joanna on Twitter @thecreativepenn

Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”.

She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing.

Connect with Orna on Twitter @OrnaRoss

ALLi Insights: NaNoWriMo Is Over: Now What? How To Self-Publish Fiction

Tuesday February 2nd 8pm

Orna Ross is hosting a live Google+ Q&A event with Grant Faulkner

Each month Orna chats with experts and entrepreneurs from her indie author network to provide self-publishing insights. These free live events help authors make informed decisions about their individual self-publishing path. If you want to know what options are available to indie authors like yourself, our monthly ALLi Insights can prepare you for your self-publishing journey.

This month Orna Ross & Grant Faulkner will discuss:

• The journey of NaNoWriMo so far and what's in store
• The new collaboration between NaNoWriMo and ALLi
• Why fiction is so important in our society
• What to do with all those unfinished drafts that are lying around
• How to knock your manuscript into shape and turn it into a published book
• Now that NaNoWriMo Is Over: Now What? Upcoming blog posts and guidebooks

Click this link to join the ALLi Insights Google+ Hangout Event and watch it live

• Date: 2nd February 2016
• Event starts at 8:00pm BST/London

Global Dates and Times:

• Time: 12noon PST (Vancouver) / 3pm EST  (New York City / 6pm BRST (Sao Paolo) / 8pm GMT (London) / 10pm SAST (Johannesburg) /and +1 day at: 1.30am IST (Dehli) and 7am AEDT (Sydney)

Meet Grant Faulkner

American writer, Grant Faulkner, is Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month, Co-founder of the lit journal 100 Word Story, Co-founder of the Flash Fiction Collective, and a member of the Oakland Book Festival’s Literary Council.

He has presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Associated Writing Programs Conference, Book Expo America, the Oakland Book Festival, the Bay Area Book Festival, the San Francisco Writers Conference, the Commonwealth Club, the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit, Writers Digest West, the Porchlight storytelling series, Litquake, and Lit Crawl.

Connect with Grant on Twitter @grantfaulkner

Catch up on Past Events

If you missed our any of our Ask ALLi or ALLi Insights events you can catch a summary in the round-up articles published on this blog, or by visiting our YouTube or SoundCloud channel:

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