ALLi Campaigns Archives

Who Are ALLi’s Ambassadors and What Do They Do? ALLi Campaigns Podcast with Melissa Addey and Holly Greenland

This week, Campaigns Manager Melissa Addey and Blog Editor Holly Greenland explore the role of ALLi’s ambassadors: who they are and what they do. From opening up awards to speaking at events and gathering facts and figures all around the world, the ambassadors are part of ALLi’s outreach, amplifying ALLi’s voice to authors everywhere. Ambassadors work with our campaigning efforts to understand what needs to be done to support indie authors and make it happen.

February 25, 2024
Howard Lovy
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Inclusive Authorship, Banned Books, and New Ambassadors: 2024 ALLi Campaigns Update

One of our roles here at the Alliance of Independent Authors is to run our own campaigns to inform or support developments in the self-publishing community, as well as collaborate on the great campaigns run by others that share our values and goals. This week AskALLi gives you a rundown of all the current campaigns and how you can help with this 2024 ALLI Campaigns update.

Campaigns and Collaboration: ALLi Campaigns Podcast with Orna Ross and Melissa Addey

Today on the ALLi Campaigns Podcast: Collaboration. The Alliance of Independent Authors runs certain core campaigns on an ongoing basis, as well as supporting other campaigns that reach out to us. A campaign doesn’t always have to be "yours" to be able to help. Collaboration is everything in campaign work, so here are some recent examples of how we are collaborating.

January 28, 2024
Howard Lovy
Podcast
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ALLi Out & About Australia: Melissa Addey Reports From Queensland

In our regular ALLi Out & About posts, the ALLi team and wider membership share their takeaways from conferences, events and other travels. This week ALLi’s Campaigns Manager, Melissa Addey, shares her reflections from a trip to Queensland in this Out & About Australia Special.

The SelfPub3 Author Business Campaign: ALLi Campaigns Podcast with Orna Ross and Melissa Addey

This week Orna Ross and Campaigns Manager Melissa Addey discuss the second campaign in their roundup of ALLi's advocacy work: SelfPub3. This author business campaign aims to raise the average income for authors and poets through good publishing practices and lobbies and supports the literary and creative industries in providing more publishing skills support and education for authors. You can support this campaign by spreading the truth about self-publishing, and our research surveys and data roundups give you the facts you need to spread pride in being an indie author.

November 26, 2023
Howard Lovy
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ALLi Team Updates

If you've spent any time with the Alliance of Independent Authors you'll see particular faces either in the forum or on in posts more than others. Behind the scenes, the team does a huge amount of work that we don't always talk about. So today, we wanted to share some highlights and ALLi team updates from our recent meeting.

Self-publishing Authors Earn More says ALLi Income Survey

A recent survey of more than 2000 authors commissioned by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors, has found that self-publishing authors earn more than writers with publishers. And that independent (indie) author incomes are rising, year on year. This contradicts information from earlier author income research and is good news for authors choosing the self-publishing route.

#Audiblegate: ALLi Campaign Update

If you're a regular reader of this blog or a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), you'll be aware of the campaign called "Audiblegate". This post by ALLi Director Orna Ross explains the nature of that campaign, how it began, the latest developments--and why it matters to all authors and publishers.

Do Indie Authors Want Their Books in Libraries, Literary Festivals and Awards Programs?

The Alliance of Independent Authors is encouraging the reading industry - libraries, festivals, bookstores, events, review organs, prizes - to open up to indie authors. But it also requires self-publishing authors to step forward if interested.