While no one is ever going to find a formula to guarantee your book those all important word of mouth recommendations, there are things that you can do to give readers the best possible chance of discovering it. One of these that has stood the test of time is to use BookCrossing. BookCrossing is a brilliantly […]
How much of what a novelist writes is autobiographical? Conversely, if a non-fiction writer changes the names and circumstantial detail in a true story, is it permissible to pass the resulting tale off as fiction to avoid causing offence (and law suits)? Canadian writer Francis Guenette considers the issues here from a novelist’s perspective. Inspired […]
So many people have been asking for hashtags (#) on Facebook for so long, now the billion plus Facebook users will be able to see the larger view of what’s happening or what people are talking about I have to confess that one of those people who never really got into hashtags but yesterday this […]
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. Ingrid Ricks I found out yesterday that my memoir, Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story made the New York Times eBook Bestseller List! It reached #20 You can […]
What’s going on with John Green and his Why I’ll Never Self Publish (and Sue Grafton’s Self-Publishing is a Short-cut, a while back, for which she made a gracious apology), and all the rest? Both authors expressed opinions that sent shockwaves of anger and activity across the blogosphere as indie authors fumed. I live in Hollywood (more […]
Orna was at BEA’s UPublishU last week and really enjoyed the presentation by Goodreads’s Director of Marketing, Patrick Brown, with romance indie-author supremo Bella Andre, on how authors can get the most out of Goodreads. Bella, who keeps an astounding writing routine (25 pages a day, anyone?) spoke of how she has to be […]
The good news for us, as indie authors, is that rights issues are greatly simplified. We own our rights and we can decide what we want to do with them. We are not bound by a publisher’s overall policy and loyalties to other titles. The bad news is too often we don’t know how to deal […]
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. Jessica Bell What if it were illegal to wear clothes? What if it were the law to wear a temperature-controlled body suit made of fetus membrane … […]
OK, first, when I say literature should be more like art I know I’m saying something fundamentally wrong. Because I’m setting up a false distinction. Art and literature are both part of the gloriously diverse edifice of culture. I should say rather that the literary world should be more like the art world. It’s hard […]
Here’s some news straight from the buzzing stalls of Book Expo America. There are some big changes afoot at Ingram, affecting authors who use Ingram’s POD wing, Lightning Source. Lightning Source, from my point of view as an author/user, is one of the finest providers in the industry at the moment. They produce books of […]
