How to Use BookBub to Boost Sales of Self-Published Books
Award-winning English author Jane Davis shares her successful case study of using book promotion service BookBub to market her literary…
Amazon Sales Rank: Taming the Algorithm
Confused by the behavior of Amazon's sales rank? John Doppler takes the mystery out of this frequently misunderstood feature. We're…
Writing: Using Initials in Your Writing Name
A practical post today for anyone thinking of using initials in their author name. This may seem like a minor…
How to Choose the Best Keywords When Publishing Fiction on Amazon
You've written your novel and polished it to a shine, composed the perfect blurb to excite readers who alight upon your…
Reaching Readers: How Readers Discover Books
It's all very well for self-published authors to talk about reaching readers, but how do you find the readers you…
Opinion: Empowered by Self-Publishing, Still Seeking Self-Worth
What really counts as success in self-publishing? Prolific Irish author David Rory O'Neill considers the factors that validate the indie…
A Year of Opinions about Self-Publishing
Once a week, the ALLi blog serves as a soapbox for one of our members to speak out about an…
Opinion: Every Author Should Be Easily Discoverable Online
Finding it difficult to make contact online with certain indie authors, the highly successful historical novelist Helen Hollick, now self-published,…
Authors: How to Reach Readers in the Age of the Algorithm
"It's a marathon, not a sprint," says ALLi's US Advisor Jane Friedman, in this comprehensive article on how online search…
Reaching Readers: Case Study of a Blog Tour with Gregory Delaurentis
Indie author Gregory Delaurentis' account of organising a blog tour for his debut novel Cover of Darkness provides a useful…
How Wattpad Gained My Self-Published Novel 500,000 Reads
Drawing on her own success story, indie author Dianne Greenlay explains why she thinks all self-published writers should try using…