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Producing an Audiobook: A Quick-Start Guide for Indie Authors

If you’re considering getting started with audiobook production, there are many wonderful sources that can help teach you how. So many sources, in fact, that the vast quantity of info can be overwhelming. Don’t panic! Below you’ll find a big-picture, step-by-step overview of the audio production process from start to finish.

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How to Work with an Audiobook Producer: Advice for Indie Authors

What is an audiobook producer and what can a self-published author expect from working with them? Find out with ALLi Guest Blogger and experienced audiobook producer, Sarah Beth Goer.

An Author’s Guide to Narrating Your Audiobook

An author's guide to narrating your audiobook. If it's fiction, it’s a bad idea. Of course, there are rare exceptions. Would it be right for your audiobooks? Audio professional Gordon Rothman shares his expert advice.

13 Action-Oriented posts to help you reach your self-publishing goals

Need help with determining the best self-publishing path for your book? We've put together this roundup of 13 posts from 2016 to help you with the distribution decisions you need to make to achieve your 2017 indie author goals.

Publishing: Everything the Indie Author Needs to Know about ISBNs for Self-published Books

A terrific and comprehensive post on the topic of ISBNs, the unique international identifier given to every book, from ALLi…

How Authors use Audio to Market and Sell Books: Joanna Penn

Indie Author Fringe: In this podcast, Joanna Penn explains why now is the best time to get into audio and how to self-publish and market audiobooks.

Book Publishing: How to Self-publish an Audiobook on Author’s Republic

Following our post in December introducing Author's Republic as an alternative and relatively affordable way to create audio books, New…

New ALLi Partner Author’s Republic Offers Simple New Audiobook Distribution Option

In the first of an occasional series of posts about ALLi's valued Partner Members, we're profiling the newest of them,…

Ask ALLi Q&A with Joanna Penn & Orna Ross Video and Podcast

Ask ALLi February – Your Self-Publishing Questions answered by Joanna Penn and Orna Ross Each month Joanna and Orna answer Member’s…

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Publishing: How to Make an Audio Book – Interview with Audio Artist Elizabeth Klett

With so much talk about audio books being the Next Big Thing for indie authors, ALLi author member Jane Steen,…

All about Audio by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

Let’s talk Audiobooks! Since the audiobook of Glimpsecame out in August, 2012, I’ve been on a mission to share how…