The Decline and Fall of the Vanity Press
Vanity presses — predatory companies that sell authors worthless or overpriced services — profited mightily with the rise of indie publishing. The growth of that industry (or perhaps more accurately,...
View ArticleHow My Indie Book Came Back From The Dead
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...
View ArticleHow To Sell More Books: Take Two
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,...
View ArticleHow Wattpad Gained My Self-Published Novel 500,000 Reads
Drawing on her own success story, indie author Dianne Greenlay explains why she thinks all self-published writers should try using Wattpad to increase the discoverability of their books. Last weekend,...
View ArticlePublishing: Why Author Advocacy Works
How effective author advocacy by campaigners David Gaughran and Victoria Strauss have influenced The Bookseller‘s decision to no longer accept advertisements from Author Solutions – a report by ALLi’s...
View ArticleChanges To ALLi Team: Watchdog
It’s all change here at ALLi at the moment. We’re sorry to announce that Karen Lotter, who has been with ALLi from the start, and who is familiar to so many of you for her great work on Members...
View ArticleThis Week’s Self-publishing News
There’s no getting away from that word ‘new’ as just one week into 2016 and already a lot is happening in self-publishing related news. Whether it’s initiatives from the London Book Fair 2016, a global...
View ArticleOpinion: Why I’m Paying It Forward in Self-publishing
Yesterday on our blog, bestselling indie author Marie Force, already with a successful career as a trade-published author, said that deciding to self-publish a book for the first time in 2010 (which...
View ArticleSelf-publishing News: Flying High
Last weekend I had the privilege of talking about editing at the Triskele Lit Fest, a wonderful event that brought indies, hybrids, and our traditionally-published colleagues, and sat us down together...
View ArticleThe Decline and Fall of the Vanity Press
Vanity presses — predatory companies that sell authors worthless or overpriced services — profited mightily with the rise of indie publishing. The growth of that industry (or perhaps more accurately,...
View ArticleHow My Indie Book Came Back From The Dead
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...
View ArticleHow To Sell More Books: Take Two
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,...
View ArticleHow Wattpad Gained My Self-Published Novel 500,000 Reads
Drawing on her own success story, indie author Dianne Greenlay explains why she thinks all self-published writers should try using Wattpad to increase the discoverability of their books. Last weekend,...
View ArticlePublishing: Why Author Advocacy Works
How effective author advocacy by campaigners David Gaughran and Victoria Strauss have influenced The Bookseller‘s decision to no longer accept advertisements from Author Solutions – a report by ALLi's...
View ArticleChanges To ALLi Team: Watchdog
It's all change here at ALLi at the moment. We're sorry to announce that Karen Lotter, who has been with ALLi from the start, and who is familiar to so many of you for her great work on Members...
View ArticleThis Week’s Self-publishing News
There's no getting away from that word ‘new' as just one week into 2016 and already a lot is happening in self-publishing related news. Whether it's initiatives from the London Book Fair 2016, a global...
View ArticleOpinion: Why I’m Paying It Forward in Self-publishing
Yesterday on our blog, bestselling indie author Marie Force, already with a successful career as a trade-published author, said that deciding to self-publish a book for the first time in 2010 (which...
View ArticleSelf-publishing News: Flying High
Last weekend I had the privilege of talking about editing at the Triskele Lit Fest, a wonderful event that brought indies, hybrids, and our traditionally-published colleagues, and sat us down together...
View ArticleThe Decline and Fall of the Vanity Press
Vanity presses — predatory companies that sell authors worthless or overpriced services — profited mightily with the rise of indie publishing. The growth of that industry (or perhaps more accurately,...
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