Do you have unanswered questions about book marketing for self-published authors? If so, Shannon O’Neil, the author half of the Duolit team, has great news for you. Whether you’re struggling with a specific part of the process (finding fans, blog tours, book launches), a publishing tool (KDP select, Smashwords, GoodReads), or just don’t know what […]
A number of ALLi advisors and members, including Joanna Penn, Alison Baverstock, and Jane Dixon-Smith are making their way to Manchester in August, to take part in The Guardian Masterclass in Self-publishing (August 4th). I’m going to be talking about Writing Creative Fiction and Nonfiction. The title of that workshop always leads somebody to ask first, what is […]
Every Wednesday ALLi will tell the world about our members’ latest book launches, news, awards, freebies, workshops and updates on the writing life — our #WriterWednesday (#WW) update. Kathryn Guare Author Kathryn Guare is making digital copies of her novel Deceptive Cadence: The Virtuosic Spy available to bloggers and reviewers. All interested should message her […]
Polish-born British author James Calbraith condenses his experience of his first year as an indie author into five top tips that worked for him. A year ago, I published my first novel, The Shadow of Black Wings. Since then, I have published a few more books; I have now sold 8000 copies of all my books put […]
ALLi is hosting David Gaughran again tomorrow, Tuesday 9th July (4:00pm – 5:00pm EDT; 9pm – 10pm GMT), to reprise our advice Q&A. If you registered last time, you don’t need to do anything, you’ll get an email reminder from Shindig tomorrow. If it’s all new to you: David is the bestselling author of Let’s Get […]
In her previous post, Roz Morris described how she got her novels stocked by independent bookstores. Drawing on that experience, she has put together some practical pointers to help you do the same, without sacrificing your profit margin. Visiblity For bookstores to be able to order your books, you need to make them available via […]
David Taylor, President of Lightning Source (LSI) UK, spoke to ALLi member, JJMarsh, recently about how LSI works with indie authors, the lowdown on Ingram Spark and what it all means for the future of self-publishing. Ingram took great care when developing our Lightning Source business. Our operation has been completely scalable from the very beginning. We […]
In a presentation hailed as “inspirational” at a recent Edinburgh publishing conference, self-published writer Linda Gillard described how going indie brought her commercial success. Below she shares the key points of her speech and her conclusions from attending the conference. There’s no doubt about it – the publishing world is gradually opening up to indies. […]
Every Wednesday ALLi will tell the world about our members’ latest book launches, news, awards, freebies, workshops and updates on the writing life — our #WriterWednesday (#WW) update. Nancy Fraser We just had an official launch party here in Lausanne Switzerland for the novel RAPESEED by Nancy Freund coming out in September AND for new […]
Indie author Christopher Shevlin gives an inspiring account of how he reversed falling sales of his self-published novel and turned it into an Amazon bestseller. At midnight on Wednesday, March 13th, I solemnly pronounced my book dead. No vital signs had been detected in ten days. That’s a long time to go without selling a […]
