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How Self-Publishing Saved My Writing Life: Thoughts from #LBF2014
Some ALLi members at The London Book Fair What a week! The London Book Fair ended yesterday and it was, in the words of my old neighbour’s daughter, whenever she’s seeking her highest praise for an...
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Self-Publishing History: WB Yeats Goes Crowdfunding
WB Yeats Late in 1888, young Willie Yeats finished his first major book, The Wanderings of Oisin (a Gaelic name, pronounced “Usheen”), at the age of 22. The challenge then, as now, was to get it...
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Talking Publishing and Self-publishing at The Digital Minds Conference at The...
“Everyone in Publishing Lives On Author Generated Income.” Here’s a video of me, indie author Hugh Howey and Director of Author & Publisher relations at Amazon, Jon Fine talking publishing and...
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Talking Self-publishing for The Guardian Books Podcast
Talking Self-publishing for The Guardian Books Podcast Yes, once again I’m out and about talking about the freedom and joy of self-publishing, this time on the Guardian Books Podcast, recorded by...
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Self-Publishing Authors at BEA
I had a fantastic time at Book Expo America. From ALLi’s perspective, we: launched the update of our Choosing A Self-Publishing Service; presented an award to Mark Coker of Smashwords for service to...
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Yeats Anniversary Celebrations 2015
Yeats activity is hotting up in Ireland, as June 13th 2015 will be the 150th anniversary of his birth. Yesterday was the third annual Yeats Day in Sligo and Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts,...
View ArticleInspirations, A New Series. #1: My Father, by Carol Cooper
Carol Cooper is a family doctor, a well known media medic and an indie author whose novel One Night at the Jacaranda has been nominated for the Indie Excellent Awards 2014. Find out more about Carol...
View ArticleHow to Use Kindle Public Notes
One of Amazon Kindle’s least known features allows you to peek over the reader’s shoulder, to follow people of interest to you and see their Public Notes on what they’re reading. And once you enable...
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ALLi Teams Up With Toby Mundy Associates
Toby Mundy, Literary Agent, London. pic: Ben Cawthra. I’m very pleased to have organised foreign right representation for ALLi members again. From January 2015, ALLi will be teaming up with Toby Mundy...
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Self-publishing Literary Fiction In A Boxset
Jane Friedman, one of publishing’s most interesting commentators, is interviewing Roz and Joni about our boxset over on her blog today. “While collaborative efforts like this have been fairly common...
View ArticleAny Authors Headed To Florida or Frankfurt?
(pic) Frankfurt Book Fair 2014, talking creativity and commerce with Porter Anderson (centre) and Marcello Veno (r) Anyone headed for Frankfurt or Florida? At Frankfurt Book Fair 2015, on the...
View ArticleCrazy Creative Challenge: One Year, 11 Books
I’ve so many books close to being finished that need me to push them through and over the line. Truth is, I’ve been struggling with the finishing phase of the writing process and driving myself a...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in Self-publishing News
Indie authors who want to keep ahead with all things happening in the creative world can get the latest ALLi self-publishing news from my partners and friends over at the Alliance of Independent...
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ALLi Members Self Publishing Q&A May 2016
Each month Joanna Penn and I host a self-publishing Q&A live on Google Hangout, which is also available afterwards as a YouTube video and iTunes podcast. This month people want to know … How to set...
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ALLi Members Self Publishing Q&A June 2016
Each month Joanna Penn and I host a self-publishing Q&A live on Google Hangout, which is also available afterwards as a YouTube video and iTunes podcast. This month people want to know … How to go...
View ArticleEpisode 5 of The Go Creative! Show
The Go Creative! Show has now reached episode five and this week I’m introducing publishing and arts commentator, Porter Anderson, who will be our most regular contributor to the creative publishing...
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Latest Self-Publishing News From ALLi: October 14 2016
This week, on ALLi’s Self-Publishing Advice Blog, our news editor Dan Holloway is talking about how the times are indeed a-changing with the thrilling announcement of Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize-winning...
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Latest Self-Publishing News From ALLi: Oct 28 2016
This week, on ALLi’s Self-Publishing Advice Blog, our news editor Dan Holloway is talking about the return of the The Folio Prize. Dan also talks about Barnes and Noble’s severed ties, the eagerly...
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What Winning the Carousel-Aware Prize For Independent Fiction Means To Me
On October 25th, which also happens to be the night the Man-Booker prize winner was announced this year, I won my own first prize as a novelist. It’s not likely that you’ll have heard of that award,...
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Self-Publishing Authors At Amazon Academy
I spent Wednesday at Amazon’s very cool Fashion Studio in Hoxton, speaking about the author journey and the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), for the UK’s first Amazon Academy. Enterprise Nation,...
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