Do Genre Categories Work for Indie Authors? We Need to Talk About… Genre
ALLi member Steve Shahbazian has questions to raise about genre categories. Have we got it right? Are they too restrictive? Hear his views...
Book Metadata, Keywords and Amazon Category Changes: Help Readers Find Your Book
In today's post we'll give you an overview of the Amazon category changes that impact all indie authors, then run through a reminder of the metadata you need to prepare and keep on top of, including your keywords and that all important book description.
Use Your Creative Passion to Discover Your Niche: Creative Self-Publishing Podcast with Orna Ross and Howard Lovy
On the Creative Self-Publishing Podcast, ALLi Director Orna Ross and News and Podcast Producer Howard Lovy discuss using your creative passion to discover your genre, niche, and micro-niche. We all have something specific that inspires us. But we need to translate that inspiration into defining our specific categories so readers can find us. That, in turn, can fire up our creativity.
The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Your Book Genre for Indie Authors
Understanding the genre you want to write in is one of the most important elements of being an author. It helps you craft books closer to what your readers want, it helps you be more marketable and hopefully sell more books. But what do you need to know and where do you go looking for that market information? Today, the Alliance of Independent Authors AskALLi team welcomes partner member Nat Connors from Kindletrends to explain how to understand your book genre.
Changing Genres: A Case Study
Ever wondered whether it's possible to change from one genre to another without losing your audience? Science writer turned historical novelist Tom Imerito explains how he managed the switch and got the best of both world
Writing to Match Genres & Categories – or in Defiance of Them (the Indie Author’s Prerogative!)
Should indie authors comply with genre expectations or defy them? Kicking off a new series about the role of genre in self-publishing authors' success.
Opinion: Are Readers’ Expectations of Genre in Self-published Books Unfair to Indie Authors?
Rules for genre writing - are they a useful guide or a constraint? As indies, to what extent should we follow the rules, or steer our own course? Thriller writer Philip Hilton considers.
Writing Magical Realism
Freedom to write in the genre of your choice, and to swap and to blend genres, is one of the…
Writing: Choosing Theme and Genre
In a reprise of recent lectures he has given on the subject of Theme and Genre, Irish hybrid author Laurence…
Not Playing by the Rules: Genre Mash-Ups in a New Age by Alicia Kat Vancil
Mash What’s?Steampunk adventure. Paranormal romance. Alternative history. We don’t bat an eye at these genres now, but at one point…
Writing: How Poetry Helped My Prose
Self-published writer of novels, poetry, short stories and more, Michael La Ronn describes how his early ventures of writing poetry…