TwitterChat: Is Blogging worthwhile for authors?
On the ALLi Twitter chat (#indieAuthorChat) this week we asked questions about Is Blogging worthwhile for authors?
Why Do an Indie Author Blog Tour
In an ever-changing industry, lots of marketing tactics go in and out of fashion more often than I have hot dinners. But sometimes marketing isn't about generating sales, but growing awareness and building an audience. ALLi author member Sue Wickstead explains why you should do an indie author blog tour.
Fringe Highlight Podcast: Tips for Marketing and Promoting your Travel Memoir
This month's Indie Author Fringe Highlight podcast features three Travel Memoir authors sharing their tips and advice about how to use your blog content to write and promote your book, the importance of defining your audience, and collaboration and cross-promotion opportunities with other authors in your niche. All with the goal of reaching more readers.
Why Indie Authors’ Websites Need to Evolve Over Time
A gentle reminder to keep refreshing your author website, and some top tips on what to look out for, by ALLi blog editor Debbie Young.
Opinion: Why I Swapped the Traditional Publishing Dream to Self-Publish
With two trade-published books to her name, one fiction, one non-fiction, Emily Benet chose to switch to the path of the…
How to Market & Promote your Travel Memoir – 1:1 Interviews with Travel Writers: Jay Artale
How to Market and Promote your Travel Memoir. A series of 1:1 author interviews hosted by Jay Artale, featuring Jack Scott, Karen McCann, and Joe Cawley, a group of successful travel writing authors who self-publish
Writing: How Often Should Writers Blog?
If you've decided to blog, how much time should you spend and how often should you post? ALLi authors discuss.
Is Blogging Good Use of Your Writing Time?
Why indie authors should keep blogging to boost their author careers - and some practical top tips on how to blog well.
Writing: How Starting A Blog Turned Me into a Self-published Author
British indie author and keen mountaineer Mark Horrell explains how writing a blog improves his writing, how his blog turned into books, and each makes the other more successful. Essential reading for any blogging indie author!
Book Marketing: Should Self-published Authors Bother with Blog Hops?
Way back when, before the internet started to reach saturation point with bloggers, taking part in blog hops and other blog-related events…
Opinion: Technology, Eh? Can’t Live With It…
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde's immortal…
Book Marketing: How to Use Your Blog to Reach Readers for Your Books
As if blogging isn't tricky enough, Turkish author Atulya Bingham faces the additional challenge of running a blog without a proper…
