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The Importance of High-Quality Editing: Book Award Update July 2024

In this regular series from the Alliance of Independent Authors, our Book Awards Advisor, Hannah Jacobson from Book Award Pro shares her tips for entering your indie books into awards and competitions. This month, Hannah details her view on perhaps the most important investment you can make if you want to produce an award-worthy book... editing.

Submitting Your Book Series to Literary Awards: Book Award Update for Indie Authors April 2024

In this Alliance of Independent Authors post, we'll share updated guidelines to be aware of when submitting your series for an award. Welcome to the Book Award Update April 2024 with Hannah Jacobson from Book Award Pro.

April 27, 2024
AskALLi Team
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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Book Awards Update For Indie Authors: November 2023

As an indie author, you can use your writing and your author platform to positively impact people: individuals, communities, and society as a whole. Today we look at how authors writing with a message can use book awards to raise the profile of their story or cause.

November 10, 2023
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Enter the “Art of the Title” Free Indie-Author Competition

Attention indie authors and writers! ALLi are thrilled to announce our first-ever ‘Art of the Title’ Free Indie-Author Competition, with fantastic prizes to be won.

September 17, 2023
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Opinion: The BookLife Prize for Indie Authors

As independent authors, one of the biggest challenges we face is “discoverability.” In the vast ocean of new books being uploaded onto Amazon every day, launching our own may feel a bit like casting a tiny message in a bottle into titanic waves. In order for our readers to find us, we need reviews—a lot of them—and preferably great ones from well-known and respected sources. With this in mind, Kristan Julius, ALLi author member checked out the Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize. This is her review and experience.