“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 – and why fiction writers should also add some non-fiction titles to their work. In […]
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 in self-publishing. This time round, Tom Kephart, Community Outreach Product Manager at Amazon, will be […]
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 pre-festive treat from Jane Friedman on Tuesday 3rd December, as she launches her new magazine […]
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, if you are a serious-minded self-publisher you will probably be relieved at the growth of […]
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 the world’s readers.The industry has changed. A lot. It’s been forced into embracing the digital […]
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 Bookseller, among many others. This blog post is to put the record straight about […]
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 insufficient care for authors as they trade on their brand-names to sell over-priced and under-performing […]
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 big job, and to grow it further will require more manpower – and that’s where […]
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 of editors, the prejudices of marketing departments, or the carping of reviewers who don’t ‘get’ […]
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 a small group of indie writers, is INDIE ReCon – Make Indie Publishing a Mission […]