Self-publishing News: When the News becomes the News
Facebook has changed the way it decides what shows up in your newsfeed to avoid content from businesses, but what does that mean for indies? And Amazon has been tinkering with KDP.
Self-publishing News: Smashwords in Action, Piracy, Amazon Reviews & Facebook Ads
This week's essential self-publishing news round-up from ALLi includes positive developments at Smashwords, perspectives on piracy, and a new survey about Facebook ads for authors.
Opinion: How Effective Is Facebook Advertising for Indie Authors and Self-published Books?
Here's a chance for you to take part in an important new survey about the effectiveness of Facebook advertising for indie authors - don't miss out!
Opinion: 1000+ Reasons to Love the ALLi Facebook Forum
Why partnership for authors doesn't always mean parting with cash - how you can benefit from the hive's wisdom and generosity via our Facebook group
1 Simple Marketing Tip to Boost the Reach of Author Facebook Pages
Reports of the death of Facebook author pages are greatly exaggerated - although their reach doesn't match the potential of paid FB ads, here's one easy way to make yours more effective
Self-publishing News: Collectives
It is a week since my office burned down as I write this, and our whole faculty is currently working from a basement, which makes us feel rather like MI6 in Skyfall. One of the things that has amazed me…
Self-publishing News: truly original books are what indies do best
Well, that was a week. Apologies if any of this is incoherent at all - just as I was sitting down to write this, the building where I do my day job decided to burn down. Well, it didn't decide,…
Book Promotion: 10 Ways to Build Your Author Mailing List without Paying for Facebook Advertising
One of the hottest topics in book promotion right now is the use of strategic Facebook advertising to build your author mailing list. While this has proven a hugely successful technique for some self-published authors, such as Mark Dawson, whose highly-regarded course…
How to Host a Facebook Launch of Your Self-published Book
Historical crime writer Angela Buckley explains why it's a great idea to hold an online launch for an indie book, and shares her top tips on successful Facebook launches, based on her own experience with her new non-fiction title, Amelia…
Facebook Ads: One Author’s Experience
British indie author David Penny shares a case study of his own Facebook advertising campaign, which he's using to promote the first in his historical crime thriller series, The Red Hill, set in medieval Moorish Spain. There’s a saying only…
Does Paid Marketing Work for Authors? #AuthorALLiChat with Orna Ross
Orna posed the question "Does Paid Marketing Work For Authors?" and our Twitter followers didn't hold back in their responses. Each month we host a monthly Twitter Chat using #AuthorALLiChat, and discuss different self-publishing topics to help indie authors achieve their goals. If…
4 Top Social Media Rules for Indie Authors
Using social media successfully is a bit like Alice travelling through Looking-Glass World - to reach your goal, you shouldn't aim for the most obvious target. Instead, taking what might seem a less direct, more circuitous route might be more…