publishing partnerships

We're ‘indies', right? Indie authors?

Most of us have embraced the term and have some idea what we mean by the concept. But there's a lot of confusion out there, with people using the term ‘indie' interchangeably with ‘self-publisher', and people meaning wildly different things when they use those words.

Here at The Alliance of Independent Authors we gave great thought to terminology when we were setting up. Were we going to be an alliance of self-publishers or independent authors? What was the difference, anyway?

Here are the conclusions we came to:

• Indie authorship and self-publishing are not quite synonymous but an independent author will have self-published at least one book.
• Going ‘indie' is, more than anything, an