ALLi News: Gift Vouchers, Members Catchup and the Bookseller Hot 100

ALLi Vouchers – the gift that keeps on giving. Fresh from Cyber Monday, a quick note on ALLi’s gift vouchers,…

Publishing: Boston Book Festival, Opening Up To Indies – But Not Enough

Indie author Christine Frost shares her disappointment on a major book festival's attitude to self-published writers and makes some constructive…

JJ Marsh tells the story of the launch and development of the authors' collective Triskele Books, drawing on their new…

Author and creative writing tutor Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn shares the dilemma facing a growing number of authors who have been both…

Indie author and poet Dan Holloway considers whether it's possible to implement quality control standards in the world of self-publishing…

Fantasty writer Chele Cooke makes a great case for aspiring self-published authors to use NaNoWriMo as a stepping-stone to publishing a…

I recently wrote an article for The Guardian’s blog about how the rise of the Creative Writing course had killed…

The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) and I have been quoted and, yes, even misquoted, about the removal of author-published…

Normally on a Sunday, we run a feature called "How I Do It" that focusses on super-successful indies. Today, in…

Amy Edelman of Indie Reader (IR) recently posted a story, “Why Do Indie Authors Pay for Consumer Reviews?” on the…

Today we are giving the blog floor over to somebody who has worked for years to help indies succeed: Mark…

Another once-venerable publishing brand, Writers & Artists, an imprint of the Bloomsbury group, is showing little regard for writers as…