Encore Month: Why Book Marketing Doesn’t Trump Writing Craft
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Writing: How Poetry Helped My Prose
Self-published writer of novels, poetry, short stories and more, Michael La Ronn describes how his early ventures of writing poetry…
What Is An Indie Author?
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
Guest Post: How Author Collectives Boost Self-Publishing
Triskele Books is a team of six, three of whom are publishing books this summer. We all have day jobs and different skill sets but what we share is that we’re all writers.
Together, we make one hell of a team.
The motivation behind the birth of Triskele came after a series of online conversations over a few months, culminating in a meeting in a posh London hotel to decide if this idea really had legs. We'd known each other online for about six years and although we lived in different countries, we were