Self-Publishing with ALLi

Ep#34: Self-Publishing Advice Podcast: Indie Author Fringe Highlight with Bryan Cohen & Orna Ross In this live 20 minute presentation from BEA, author and copywriter Bryan Cohen explains how you can optimize your sales pages to get more readers to buy your book.  Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Indie Author Fringe Hig...

Ep#35: Self-Publishing Advice Podcast: Indie Author Fringe Highlight with Kinga Jentetics & Orna Ross In this live 20 minute presentation from BEA, Orna Ross and talks with Kinga Jentetics of PublishDrive about book distribution world wide. Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Indie Author Fringe Highlight  is one of four...

Ep#36: Self-Publishing Advice Podcast: Indie Author Fringe Highlight with Penny Sansevieri & Orna Ross The secret to sustaining a successful author career is the connection you make to your fans. Join Penny C. Sansevieri, Founder and CEO Author Marketing Experts and Orna Ross, Director, Alliance of Independent Authors — both bestselling authors and publishing experts, learn how to identify and rea...

Ep#29 : Self-Publishing Advice Podcast: Indie Author Fringe Highlight with Orna Ross Want to boost your sales? Who doesn't? In a panel session recorded live in the Author HQ at London Book Fair, ALLi Director Orna Ross interviews two bestselling indie authors and sales gurus, Mark Dawson and Joanna Penn, together with ALLi's literary agent Toby Mundy about how to go beyond selling ebooks in your h...

Ep#28: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's a summary of the questions in this month's Ask ALLi with Orna and Joanna: Q: What should you do when you feel badly served by a self-publishing service provider? And do you have a list of book formatters? Q: How do you create front matter and chapter headings, so that they look good on Kin...

Ep#27: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Here's the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: I write Fantasy. How can I show my character's mind-speak (i.e. what they're thinking)? Q. I've released my first non-fiction e-book, and I'm struggling with reads let alone sale...

Ep#26: Orna Ross presents a new episode of ALLI Insights: NaNoWriMo is Over, Now Publish Your Novel Did you take part in NaNoWriMo last year, and now have a finished draft in front of you, and are thinking "Now What?" You're not alone. Did you know that nearly half a million writers signed up for NaNo in 2015? That's quite a jump from 1999, when Chris (the founder of National Novel Writing Month)...

Ep#25: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: Is ALLi continuing to work with Ingram Spark this year and are they offering a self-publishing discount to ALLi Members? Q: Do you have Insights about iUniverse Services? Q: What are the legal issues about setting up your publisher impr...

Ep#24: Orna Ross chats with Toby Mundy about How Authors Sell rights. The writer's path to publication has grown more complex, as new choices emerge. What once was a one-track pathway to print in now a maze of formats, platforms, apps, films, broadcast, foreign, translation, audio and more. Each of these markets offers different opportunities and operates by different rules. How are writers to fin...

Ep#23: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: If I get a Bookbub, what other promotional activity should I be doing? Q: Has anyone had experience with Kirkus Reviews or other paid review sites? Q: Is 2 books enough for a box set? Q: "Translating is the new black" but how do you ass...

Ep#22: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: I'm writing my first book and I'm overwhelmed by all the other self-publishing and indie author tasks I should be doing like blogging and marketing. What should I focus on? Q: I've never written a book before, and wanted to know if I ne...

Ep#21: Orna Ross chats with mystery writer Elizabeth Spann Craig to discover how she's using Wattpad to expand her reader demographic. If you're looking for an uncomplicated and free way of reaching more readers, Wattpad could be the option you're looking for. This month's ALLi Insights event was full of information and inspiration about why and how you can leverage your existing content to reach...

Ep#20: Joanna Penn and David Penny answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's the questions posed to David and Joanna this month: Q: Is there an Indie Book Fair event planned in Australia? Q: The Legal Deposits Library has requested 5 copies of my book, do I need to send them? Q: I've written 5 short stories, how many should I have in a Collection? Q: What is the...

Ep#19: Orna Ross chats with Katie Donelan from BookBub to reveal how to increase your chances of getting your book selected for a BookBub Promotion. Competition to be included in the daily BookBub email is fierce, especially in popular categories like Romance, so if you want to increase your chances of being "BookBubbed" it's best to familiarise yourself with the selection criteria process used by...

Ep#18: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: How should authors deal with lines from songs… what is fair use? Q: For a 1st time self-publishers, how many months out should you advertise your first release Q: How can I boost my sales? Releasing a new book in January with a preorder...

Ep#17: Orna Ross chats with Helen Sedwick discuss copyright to add clarity around what a writer owns vs. what they don't. Other topics being discussed are: How authors can protect their work. How to keep others from taking more than their fair share by understanding the nuances between licenses vs. assignments, exclusive vs. non-exclusives and termination clauses. Author scams and what red flags i...

Ep#16: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here's the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: I'm toying with the idea of using Facebook ads for 1) collecting email subscribers by offering some free content and 2) promoting my books directly. I've been through Mark Dawson's 3 free videos and probably have enough information to t...

Ep#15: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books.  Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon and a special guest highlight presentation from the Indie Author Fring...

Ep#14: Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) Director Orna Ross and Joanna Penn, of The Creative Penn, answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books.  Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon...

Ep#13: Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) Director Orna Ross and Joanna Penn, of The Creative Penn, answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books.  Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon...

Ep#3: Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) Director Orna Ross and Joanna Penn, of The Creative Penn, answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books.  Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon...