Opinion: The Importance of Informed Independence
Enjoy your independence, but make sure your decisions are well informed, cautions ALLi Author Advice Center editor Debbie Young. As…
Opinion: The Core Problem with Self-Publishing is Quality Assurance
From Australia, Tahlia Newland, author, editor and founder of Awesome Indies Books, shines her spotlight on what she considers to…
Opinion: “She Needs a Website of Her Own” – on Women, Writing and Self-Publishing
Echoing Virginia Woolf's seminal feminist essay, A Room of One's (first published 1929), indie author and scholar Mohana Rajakumar considers the…
Is Crowdfunding Publishing’s New Gatekeeper?
Just when we thought we had kicked the gatekeepers of the traditional publishing industry into touch, along comes another challenge:…
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: If Indieland Must Have Gatekeepers… by Dan Holloway
Indie author and poet Dan Holloway considers whether it's possible to implement quality control standards in the world of self-publishing…
The Psychology of the Put-Down, or Why Being a Self-Published Writer is a Bit Like Being a Bouncer
As an interesting aside to the continuing debate about hostile reviewers, thriller writer James Sheridan finds similarities between his dual…