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16 Self-Publishing Success Stories to Inspire Your New Year as an Indie Author

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Today in our season of retrospective posts, we revisit the self-publishing success stories that we've featured on the ALLi blog throughout 2017, celebrating remarkable achievements by indie authors around the world across many different genres.

All of these authors have something in common: they were once unpublished beginners, with no books to their name, just starting on their journey to publication.

Wherever you are on your own self-publishing trajectory, we hope their candid answers to our questions will be of practical help and provide inspiration to you for the new writing year.

Where will you be by this time next year? Seize the year, and go for your self-publishing dreams!

Sunday Success Stories: How I Do It – My Indie Author Adventure with J J Toner

Sunday Self-Publishing Success Stories: How I Do It – with Susanne O'Leary

Sunday Self-publishing Success Stories: How I Do It – with Adam Croft

Self-Publishing Success Stories: How I Do It – with Joseph Alexander

Self-Publishing Success Stories: How I Do It – with John Nicholl

Sunday Self-publishing Success Stories: Sue Johnson

Sunday Self-Publishing Success Stories: Jessica Bell

Sunday Self-publishing Success Stories: James P Sumner

Sunday Self-publishing Success Story: Michael La Ronn

Sunday Self-publishing Success Story: John Lynch, Multi-tasking, Multi-Genre Indie Author

Sunday Self-publishing Success Story – Karen Inglis, Children's Author

Sunday Self-publishing Success Story: Rebecca Bradley

Sunday Self-publishing Success Story: Indie Author Giacomo Giammatteo Sets a New Publishing Record

Sunday Success Stories: How I Do It – with Gregg Michaelsen

Sunday Self-publishing Success Story: Michael Alvear

Sunday Self-publishing Success Story: Collette Cameron, USA Today Bestselling Romance Author

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