2015 – Self-publishing News Review

The rise and fall and rise of e-books, royalty descents, new arrivals, sudden departures, court cases, fake reviews and a…

Why Every Author Should Self-Publish Once: Creative Freedom, Empowerment and Opportunity

Last week, I was invited on behalf of ALLi to present a fifteen-minute speech on the state of publishing for…

I’m grateful to ALLi for the opportunity to publish the full text of my Author Day speech about author unity here. When…

If writers and books help connect a troubled world, then self-publishing increasingly gives more people that voice. Valerie Shanley discovers…

Competing headlines may claim a decline in e-book sales, but indie authors are the ones continuing to thrive in the…

Amazon set the publishing newswires buzzing this week on opening their first physical bookstore in Seattle. Also, how healthy is…

ALLi's blog editor Debbie Young starts the writing week with a light-hearted list of antidotes to the classic indie author's…

Apple opens iBooks in China, new free-to-use eBook platform launched, and what to believe of reports claiming digital books demise. Valerie…

As we head into the book market's biggest season and Super Thursday (8 October), there is news a-plenty, most of…

Latest stats show indie authors setting the pace in the US digital market, a new 'hybrid' publisher, and writing an expert…

The manifesto for indies, securing foreign rights in a trad world, Kindle Scout pitch their tent in the UK, and…

Slowly but surely writing and publishing organisations are opening up to indie authors, not least because of ALLi’s tireless campaigning and…