For this Writers' Wednesday, we have a second helping of ALLi members' favourite wise words about writing to inspire indie authors to aim high and achieve their self-publishing goals. On Quality "The first draft of anything is shit!" - Ernest…
This Writers' Wednesday, Pauline Baird Jones, an award-winning novelist who writes romance, action-adventure, suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery, as well as several short story collections, offers a timely reminder not to lose track of the sheer joy of writing as…
Do you have a favourite saying or quote that drives your writing? I asked that question of ALLi members on our Facebook discussion forum (a members'-only benefit) and was overwhelmed by the smart, succinct responses. Some shared famous authors' aphorisms,…
For #WritersWednesday, here's a question that's a starting point for a conversation, rather than defining an answer: when writing and promoting your work, should you compare yourself to other authors? Indie authors are sometimes advised to drop another better known…
American psychologist Deborah Cox shares her extraordinary story of how writing liberated her from her own past, shaped by her upbringing within a fundamentalist church. In the mid-1990s, I was an academic psychologist, studying women’s anger. The ideas electrified me, but…
Sometimes, when indie authors are sharing their experiences about producing and marketing their self-published books, and comparing notes about sales figures, it can be all too easy to lose sight of the most important part of the process that surely…
Estonian author Tina Tamman describes how her BBC career inspired her to write and ultimately self-publish biographies of key players associated with her native country. I have published two biographies over the past four years and I am working on…