World Book Day – An Opportunity For Self-Publishing Children’s Authors
If you’re an indie author writing for children or young adults in the UK, there’s an annual gift of an…
How to Deal with Rejection and Criticism as an Indie Author. A Guest Post by ALLi’s Creative Advisor, Mark McGuiness
The great thing about being an independent author is that you side-step the usual interminable rejections by agents and publishers,…
Indie Authors ALLi Watchdog Warning: Archway Publishing
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is concerned about the email approach being made by Archway Publishing to a…
50 Ways To Reach Your Reader #6: Newsletters & Mailing Lists for Indie Authors
Indie authors often don't think about building a good e-mail database when they consider their book marketing plans. But the…
Innovative Book Promotion for Indie Authors
How To Be Truly New & Uniquely You. By Natalie Buske Thomas. You're an indie, right? So are you blazing…
Is Exploiting Self-Publishing Authors To Be The New Publishing Model?
Is the new business model for publishers to be selling over-priced and under-performing services to writers? That's the question that…
Find Time for Social Media: 8 Tips For Self-Publishing Indie Authors
As authors building our author brands and promoting our books, social media can be a great tool for us. If we know how to use it effectively, that is!
So what constitutes using it effectively?
To boil it down, there is one simple rule for self-published authors to live by…
Interacting and responding to online conversation is what puts the social in social media!
But how can we possibly find the time to reply and comment to every social media mention we get, every blog post comment that we receive and to continue the conversation in other places online?
Especially when you consider all of the other writing and marketing activities we’re expected to do?
We all have certain time constraints, but there is a not-so-difficult answer.
Go deep or go home!
Self-Publishing From Outside USA: How To Reclaim US Tax on Indie Author Royalties
If you are a non-US author, your royalties from your US book sales will be subject to a 30% withholding…