Indie Authors: Start Spreading the London Book Fair/IndieReCon News!
‘April is the cruellest month’ said T.S. Eliot. Not if you’re an indie author, we say. Because April is IndieReCon and…
Book Marketing: Why Self-Published Authors Should Enter Competitions
Heather Painter, author of literary short stories and poems, considers writing competition options for indie authors, and draws attention to…
Writing: How to Fend Off Indie Author Burnout
With the heady empowerment of being one's own publisher comes a potentially crippling burden of all those essential tasks that…
Writing: How I Became An Indie Author
The road to becoming a self-publishing author isn't always obvious. Scottish writer Kerry Harper, who writes as Helen Harper, describes…
Opinion: “She Needs a Website of Her Own” – on Women, Writing and Self-Publishing
Echoing Virginia Woolf's seminal feminist essay, A Room of One's (first published 1929), indie author and scholar Mohana Rajakumar considers the…
Opinion: Why You Should Run Your Author Career Like a Business
British indie author David Penny makes the case for treating being a self-published author like running a business, drawing on…
Book Marketing & Promotion: Dressing Up for Authors – Historical Reenactments
Bestselling indie writer Piers Alexander, author of the award-winning historical novel The Bitter Trade, takes to a whole new level the idea…
Writing: What Author-Publishers Can Learn from Their Mistakes
In a brave post to kick off our Writing posts for 2015, US indie author Samantha Warren recounts her experience…