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1 Easy Way to Up Your Amazon Skills: Attend an Amazon Academy

If you ever receive an invitation to attend an Amazon Academy conference, snap it up! Three ALLi authors share their verdict on the latest. Plus a reminder of an exclusive tour opportunity at IngramSpark next month.

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Author Coaches: How They Can Help Both Beginners and Experienced Writers

Have you ever considered engaging an author coach? Do you know how one might help you at the current stage of your writing career? Read Boni Wagner-Stafford's post to find out.

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Opinion: Why Authors Need to Budget for Book Marketing

Ever wondered about outsourcing your book marketing so you can get on with writing your books instead? Belinda Griffin of Smart Authors Lab shares her view on how to get the balance right.

Writing: Is it Worth Doing a Creative Writing MA?

Ever thought of doing a Creative Writing MA? With the wisdom of hindsight, novelist Kate Frost shares the pros and cons, and offers caution about this investment.

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Opinion: What Should Indie Authors Do with their Back Catalogue of Early Self-published Books?

What should you do with your backlist? Suppress it? Improve it? Promote it? Find out what other ALLi authors are doing with theirs, and why.

Opinion: Just Write – But What If You Can’t?

ALLi partner member Ellie Stevenson, strategic coach and author, considers a different kind of teaching that will encourage "stuck" self-published writers to keep going: strategic intervention. Her imagined conversation with a client explains how this works.

Writing: How to Gain Inspiration from Writers’ Retreats Abroad

Indie author and poet Jessica Bell makes the case for investing in writers' retreats abroad to gain fresh inspiration and…