Opinion: It’s not Creative or Commercial, It’s Both
For maximum impact, suggests ALLi Director, Orna Ross, indie authors should marry the creative and the commercial. And she reveals what she sees as the creative key to commercial success.
Sunday Success Stories: P.J. Boox – the All-Indie Bookstore
The first in this autumn's Sunday Success Stories on the ALLi blog shares the exciting tale of P..J.Boox, the world's first indie-only bookstore, set up and run by indie author Patti Brossard Jefferson
Opinion: How (and How Not to) Involve Your Family in Your Self-publishing Career
Advice Centre Editor Debbie Young shares thoughts from the ALLi hive on how indie authors can mobilize their families to…
Book Marketing: A Case Study of the Benefits of Reading in Public – at Novel London
Online interaction and social media networking is all very well, but you can't beat real life. Reading your work in…
Self-publishing News: Collectives
It is a week since my office burned down as I write this, and our whole faculty is currently working…
Sunday Success Stories: M. Louisa Locke
In our new occasional series on how ALLi members have achieved success here an interview Debbie Young undertook with M. Louisa Locke, author of the successful Victorian San Fransisco Mysteries.
Self-publishing News: truly original books are what indies do best
Well, that was a week. Apologies if any of this is incoherent at all - just as I was sitting…
New Universal Links from Draft2Digital
On 2 August, Draft2Digital, ALLi Partner Member and one of ALLi's favorite book distributors, introduced a new service called “Universal Book Links,” or UBL. We asked Kevin Tumlinson, Draft2Digital's new Director of Marketing, to tell us more about it.