Encore Month: Why and How to Build a Book Project Plan
Here's a smart businesslike way to manage the production of your self-published books: devise and follow a book project plan, as outlined here by John Wagner-Stafford of Ingenium Books.
The Advantages of Self-Publishing for Non-Fiction
"Today is the best time to be an author, especially of non-fiction," says Amy Shojai, certified animal behaviour consultant and award-winning author of 27 best-selling books. Here she explains why self-publishing is such a good choice for writers of non-fiction…
ALLi News: A Final reminder to Ask Amazon!
As you may be aware from our events calendar, ALLi is running a special members-only event on Tuesday, 7th January at 6.00pm GMT. Our events allow ALLi members to probe the minds of some of the companies and people involved…
ALLi News – ALLi’s Winter Events and Newsletter
ALLi Winter Event Programme: A reminder to check out ALLi’s member events programme for this winter. It's a busy few months event wise, with all at ALLi delighted to offer you plenty of hangouts this winter. We begin with a…
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 without changing the nature of the indie community. Whatever meteorological metaphor you use to describe the proliferation of self-published titles,…
Opinion: How Indie Publishing Compares to the Indie Music Scene
With a foot in both camps, indie author, poet and musician Jessica Bell is in a great position to compare and contrast the worlds of indie publishing and indie music. Indie publishing already allows writers of all stripes access to…
Alliance of Independent Authors on Erotica Controversy & Removal of Author-Published Books
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) and I have been quoted and, yes, even misquoted, about the removal of author-published books from online book retailers in the recent erotica row -- on BBC Radio 4's PM, in The Guardian and…
The Alliance of Independent Authors Watchdog Warning: New Self-Publishing Resource from Writers & Artists
Another once-venerable publishing brand, Writers & Artists, an imprint of the Bloomsbury group, is showing little regard for writers as they move into the self-publishing arena. We've written here before about trade publishers like Penguin and Simon & Schuster showing…
Ambitious Plans In Place for ALLi Blog
Having published an astonishing 157 posts in its first year, the ALLi Self-Publishing Advice blog is gaining a reputation as THE essential reference point for indie authors the world over. Developing and maintaining a blog on this scale is a…
How to Deal with Rejection and Criticism as an Indie Author. A Guest Post by ALLi’s Creative Advisor, Mark McGuiness
The great thing about being an independent author is that you side-step the usual interminable rejections by agents and publishers, and put your work out there for the world to see and buy. No longer constrained by the cautious taste…
Free Online INDIE Revolution Conference 12 – 14 February
The Alliance of Independent Authors is delighted to be sponsoring a fantastic FREE online conference for self-publishing indie authors in Feb 2013. The conference, organised by our YA advisor SR Johannes, author of Untraceable, (known to friends as Shelli) and…
ePublishing Press Release from Kobo
Kobo announced at BEA (Book Expo America) that its self-publishing platform is finally about to be released.
This will be an epub platform and it’s good news for indie authors. Here’s the press release in full.
Read through it and see what you think:
Triple Digit Year-over-Year Growth Strengthens Kobo’s Global Leadership (via PR Newswire)
With continued aggressive expansion Kobo evolves from young ebook upstart to global leader TORONTO, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Kobo Inc. a global leader in eReading, today announced triple digit growth, growing eBook downloads by 400 percent, eReader sales by 160 percent, and eReaders by 280 percent…