ALLi Book Launch: Opening Up To Indie Authors
A post to celebrate the successful launch of ALLi's new guidebook, Opening Up To Indie Authors, written to help self-publishing…
A post to celebrate the successful launch of ALLi's new guidebook, Opening Up To Indie Authors, written to help self-publishing…
During 2013, we've run a series of interviews with high-achieving self-published authors who have kindly agreed to share their top…
Author and performance poet Dan Holloway explains why steering clear of third-party validation is the key to true success as…
Indie author and poet Dan Holloway considers whether it's possible to implement quality control standards in the world of self-publishing…
The conversation around successful self-publishing too often revolves around sales. Today's super-successful indie is Dan Holloway, a beacon for literary…
OK, first, when I say literature should be more like art I know I’m saying something fundamentally wrong. Because I’m…
As self-publishing becomes more common, and increasing numbers of indie authors achieve both commercial and critical success, literary festivals urgently…
Steena Holmes recently wrote a post for this blog explaining how the great thing about being indie, for her, was having the freedom to have it both ways: to self-publish or trade publish, as it suits her. Here Dan Holloway explains why the step into trade publishing is one he won't be taking — ever.
We are increasingly hearing about the hybrid model, with authors deciding for which books and in what ways to engage publishers and/or agents, who then become partners, singing to the author’s tune.
Whilst I have to say a part of me wonders if there aren’t some elements of utopianism creeping in, it is certainly true that many agents and publishers are starting to change the way they view their relationships with authors. And I certainly think what writers are doing, taking the reins – or at least setting out to – in these relationships, is fabulous, and definitely in the indie spirit.
Self publishing is at the cutting edge of the most interesting, radical and provocative writing that's happening right now. Dan…