Amazon Reviews #2: Answers To Indie Authors’ Questions About Customer Reviews Policy
ALLi has been closely watching Amazon's removal of reviews as part of their effort to clean up the customer review system…
ALLi has been closely watching Amazon's removal of reviews as part of their effort to clean up the customer review system…
Members of the Alliance of Independent Authors are getting together on Goodreads to do exciting giveaways and other events in…
At the Alliance of Independent Authors, we largely support Amazon's work to clean up the customer review system for books,…
As authors building our author brands and promoting our books, social media can be a great tool for us. If we know how to use it effectively, that is!
So what constitutes using it effectively?
To boil it down, there is one simple rule for self-published authors to live by…
Interacting and responding to online conversation is what puts the social in social media!
But how can we possibly find the time to reply and comment to every social media mention we get, every blog post comment that we receive and to continue the conversation in other places online?
Especially when you consider all of the other writing and marketing activities we’re expected to do?
We all have certain time constraints, but there is a not-so-difficult answer.
Go deep or go home!
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We like to bring your attention to some of the wonderful people who have recently stepped up to help make…
If you are a non-US author, your royalties from your US book sales will be subject to a 30% withholding…
Imagine Indie authors and readers connecting inside their e-books – sounds like something way in the future? Well as we…
The Commonwealth Foundation has made its annual call for entries for their Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The…
As self-publishing becomes more common, and increasing numbers of indie authors achieve both commercial and critical success, literary festivals urgently…
ALLi Newsletter Nov/Dec 2012 The big news in the Nov/Dec issue of The Alliance of Independent Authors' newsletter is that…
Are you finding that your Facebook Author Page generates less response than before? ALLi's social media manager, Karen Lotter, knows…