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The Future of Publishing: ALLi Out and About with Orna Ross
Two recent publishing events took as their focus the changes currently happening in the publishing sector and how they will affect the future of publishing. A small, curated ‘Mastermind' organized by two authors, Monica Leonelle and Russell Nohelty, gathered US indie authors around the theme in New Orleans. Two weeks later saw the annual outing of the global publishing industry in the UK capital, The London Book Fair, this year themed ‘The Future of Creative Content'.
Publishing Frameworks for Authors
Independent authors need to know about the three publishing frameworks, the three kinds of structure within which books are written, produced and promoted. Formed around our values as a person and as a writer, the publishing framework we choose gives us our top priority as a publisher and affects how we set up our writing and book production processes, our marketing and promotion campaigns, our communications with readers and influencers.
What Kind of Publisher Are You? Indie Author Publishing Values
Contrary to what you might think, if you listen to the loudest voices in the indie community, rapid release isn't the only way to succeed at self-publishing, creatively or commercially. Today, Alliance of Independent Authors founder and director Orna Ross asks: What are your publishing values and, most importantly, are you choosing the production and promotion methods that align with them? Because your publishing values, she says, are the foundation of your success as a publisher.
How Indie Authors Can Protect Themselves
The shocking but unsurprising attack on Salman Rushdie has raised questions about the safety of authors and led the Alliance of Independent Authors to bring forward a planned Member Handbook. ALLi Director Orna Ross explores the issue of author safety. Everyone at the Alliance of Independent Authors extends our very best wishes to Salman Rushdie and we are all greatly relieved that he is on the way to recovery.
Part 2 of the 2012 CIBA Lists
Listen to or download this article: We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2021 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) with our second of three official postings. The winners were recognized at the CIBA ceremony held on June 25th, 2022 In-Person and broadcast live via ZOOM at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash. The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians flying in and watching from around the globe and North America.
How to Write a Winning Ten-word Story: Ten Tips
As part of the Alliance of Independent Authors' tenth-anniversary celebrations, we're running a mini-SelfPubCon and a Ten -word Story Competition. Entry couldn't be easier (see below) and there is no entry fee. The closing date is Midnight Pacific Time on April 10th 2022.
Indie Authors and the Creator Economy: Earnings Beyond the Books
Orna Ross, Director of ALLi These days, the creative industries, including publishing, are all abuzz about “the creator economy”. In today’s post, Alliance of Independent Authors founder Orna Ross takes a closer look at what the creator economy means for indie authors. PLUS: some of the ALLi team predict what other self-publishing trends we can expect in 2022. The creator economy is the part of the creative economy in which consumers directly fund the work of creators.
AI for Authors. Practical and Ethical Guidelines.
After an open and assessed conversation with our members, advisors and other interested parties, the Alliance of Independent Authors has developed some practical and ethical guidelines to AI for authors, answering questions like: How can AI help me become a better writer, a better publisher? And what are the ethical boundaries for authors?
Alliance of Independent Authors Call for Comments
Are you concerned about what AI–artificial and augmented intelligence–might mean for writers and publishers? Or perhaps you’re excited by its potential? Either way, if you’re an independent author or self-publishing service, ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors, wants to hear your ideas, insights and recommendations. This is our call for comments on the topic of AI for Indie Authors.
How To Stay Creative In Difficult Times With Mark McGuinness
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:39 — 53.4MB) Subscribe: | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More How do you deal with fear and uncertainty during these difficult times? How can you craft a new creative routine when life is so disrupted? How can you make the most of an online business now and build for the future? I discuss all this and more with Mark McGuinness on today's show.
How To Sell More Books With Reader Funnels With Mark Dawson
Podcast: Download (Duration: 56:11 — 45.8MB) Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More We all want to sell more books — but it's time we started to treat readers differently at the various stages of the marketing process. In this interview, Mark Dawson explains the reader funnel, as well as how he developed confidence in his writing craft and indie business skills.
Reflections On A Decade Of Self-Publishing With Joanna Penn And Orna Ross
Podcast: Download (Duration: 41:56 — 34.4MB) Subscribe: | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Joe Konrath, one of the early US indies, said that “2009 will go down in publishing history as Year Zero for the upcoming ebook revolution.” [JA Konrath's blog]. Back then, I had a couple of books available and still worked my consulting day job, but the eco-system we have now is almost unrecognizable from a decade ago.
What is a vanity press?
The advent of print-on-demand and ebook production means that the self-publishing sector is growing rapidly, boosted by the extraordinary successes of some bestselling self-published authors – such as E L James , Rachel Abbot and L J Ross, to name but a few. But there’s a world of difference between a reputable self-publishing company and a vanity press. The definition of a vanity press has changed.
The Indie Author Guide to Finding Followers, True Fans and Superfans — Alliance of Independent Authors: Self-Publishing Advice Center
Everyone knows they need to find readers, but once you identify where they are, how do you capture them? How do you turn them into super fans? In today’s post, Alliance Independent Authors Director Orna Ross takes the main stage to explain everything you need to know about true fans and super fans. The below is an extract from the following ALLi publication.
How to avoid Libel and Defamation as an Author — Alliance of Independent Authors: Self-Publishing Advice Center
Most authors don’t need to worry about libel. It’s rare for a novelist to be sued for libel. But there are occasions when libel can cause problems for authors. This post examines how to avoid libel and defamation as an author.
Woodbine by Alex Martin
Struggling with their love for the same man, sisters Lottie and Isobel are drawn down separate paths during World War II. With Lottie trapped in occupied France and Isobel working as a land girl, can they find their way back to one another? featured on BookBub on July 29, 2020 Lottie, her sister Isobel and Al, the man they both love, are on the brink of adulthood and the Second World War in Woodbine, the fifth book in The Katherine Wheel Series.
How To Get Your First 50 Book Reviews: A Quick & Easy Guide for Indie Authors
Encouraging people to publish and share reviews of your book is a key book-marketing activity, possibly the single most important of marketing task for a publisher. ALLi’s latest Quick & Easy Guidebook (now available in the Member Zone) focusses on how to get your first 50 book reviews. Reviews provide the social proof that is the bedrock of the purchasing-decision process for today’s consumer. Think about your own behaviour: ready to book a trip?
What Is Publishing? The Seven Processes of Book Publishing — Alliance of Independent Authors: Self-Publishing Advice Center
Anyone who sets out to publish a book needs to understand the seven processes of publishing. If you’re scratching your head or you’ve never heard of them, don’t worry. ALLi Director, Orna Ross is here to explain each of the process and why they should matter to you. Tell someone you’re an author and the next question they’ll ask is “are you published”?
Indie Authors and Creative Self-Publishing
FOMO, aka fear of missing out, has been around forever but it feels more acute the more connected our world becomes. Technology and social media have eradicated barriers to communicating so that we’re all up on each other’s business, knowing what everyone is doing, what advertising they’re using, how many books they’re selling. But is that sometimes as disheartening as it is helpful?
Self-Publishing is the Best Solution to Low Author Earnings
Self-Publishing is the best solution to low author earnings and it’s time this was more widely recognized in the literary and publishing industries. These days, authorship is a business, not a career a point that Orna Ross, ALLi director discusses today. Literary and publishing industries are failing to recognize this, to the detriment of authors’ ability to make a living from their writing. Best Solution to Low Author Earnings: Follow The Money Money. Picture by Jp Valery on Unsplash.
#AskALLi Advanced Salon
From audiobooks to readings to podcasts, audio has never been a hotter topic in publishing. But how do you use audio to market and sell books? In search of the answers, Joanna is off to the Podcast Movement Conference in Orlando and Orna is preparing an advance summary of the audio sessions at Digital Book World. The podcast will also focus on how you monetize audio.
9 Ways That Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Disrupt Authors And The Publishing Industry
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06:34 — 54.1MB) Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Some people say that publishing has already been disrupted, that this current state is the new model. But I don’t think the disruption has even started yet.
Orna Ross Daily
www.brainpickings.org "One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated," poet Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936-February 13, 2010) told Poets & Writers Magazine in 1992. And celebrate she did - for more th...
The Indie Author Q2 2019 PAGES
Share Like 3 Read later Add this to your Read Later list? Add this to your Read Later list? Remove this from your Read Later list? Orna Ross Published on June 29, 2019 The Indie Author is the self-publishing quarterly member magazine for the Alliance of Independent Authors. This is the Q2 2019 edition. followed 2 Want to follow this profile? Unfollow this profile?
Business Models for Indie Authors from the Alliance of Independent Authors
This post outlines the ten business models for indie authors that are working right now, those most widely used by members of the Alliance of Independent Authors. The first four of these business models for indie authors are those most typically employed in the first few years of the self-publishing journey. Models five through ten are employed by more established authors, once they have amassed a following and have a high-traffic author website.
Indie Authors: Are We Ready for Self-Publishing 3.0? Part 1.
Digital text, books and media are currently being re-imagined in ways that are likely to have a big impact on authors and author earnings, says Orna Ross, Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors. It’s Self-Publishing 3.0 and we need to understand what’s coming if we are to have a say in how it develops and ensure authors don’t lose out. In the tech world, Ted Nelson is a living legend.
Do You Think Self-Publishing is Second Best?
Is there a psychology of success for authors? Orna Ross, founder and director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, thinks having a growth mindset is the single biggest predictor of success for an author. Is there a psychology of success for authors? I found myself recently, as I often do, at a writers’ conference, and it left me pondering this question.
Alliance of Independent Authors: Self-Publishing Advice Center
This is the self-publishing advice blog, written by members of the Alliance of Independent Authors. We cover the seven processes of publishing - editorial, design, production, distribution, marketing, promotion and licensing publishing rights - here week on week, together with writing advice and how to run an indie author business. Bookselling chain Barnes and Noble has found a buyewr and will be run by James Daunt, who is also the CEO of Waterstones in the UK.
Authors Transforming Publishing
By Orna Ross on April 13, 2015 in Book Production & Distribution, Debate & Opinion Authors helping authors is the driver of the self-publishing revolution “Where there is no gift there is no art,” says Lewis Hyde, in The Gift: How The Creative Spirit Transforms The World.
Writing: ALLi Members Win & Place in Inaugural Award for Self-published Authors
By Orna Ross on March 13, 2019 in Campaigns and Community, Self-Publishing News, Writing A Book Orna Ross reports exciting news from the London Book Fair about the first Selfies awards (pictured here setting up ALLi’s stand the night before the Fair opened) Fresh from the London Book Fair, ALLi Director Orna Ross shares exciting news about the results of The Selfies, a new award that celebrates the quality of self-published authors.
indieLAB: The Rise of Self-Publishing 3.0
What is Self-Publishing 3.0? Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) founder Orna Ross explains the shift from the earliest iterations of self-publishing to today’s landscape with Self-Publishing 3.0. We are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in publishing—an era in which independent authors can work with greater agency than ever before.
Campaign: Governments Must Support Indie Author Earnings Through Encouraging Financial Independence | Alliance of Independent Authors: Self-Publishing Advice Center
It’s time for governments to recognise what it means to be a modern indie author, says ALLi director Orna Ross, and to provide appropriate support and encouragement.
Opinion: Author Earnings through Author Business
ALLi Director Orna Ross reports in from Digital Book World on a pressing issue likely to be front of mind for conference delegates: – author earnings, and the need to treat a writing career as an author business in order to thrive. Something that indie authors are uniquely well placed to do… Writers used to think of our job as a career but the coming of digital technology changed that.
Self-publishing 3.0 - Direct Sales
In the final part of her series on Self-Publishing 3.0, ALLi director Orna Ross, named by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in publishing, encourages authors to set up for a new phase in self-publishing: attract direct buyers and patrons, without any intermediary but a payment cart process.
The Agony and Ecstasy of Becoming a Self-Publisher: How to Make It Fun and Profitable.
The Agony and Ecstasy of Becoming a Self-Publisher: How to Make It Fun and Profitable. Add to calendar Add to favourites The Agony and Ecstasy of Becoming a Self-Publisher: How to Make It Fun and Profitable. 11 Apr 2018, 16:45 - 17:30 Author HQ Language: English The largest growth segment in the book industry today is that of authors who are publishing their own work(s).
Ebook Sales Are Growing
Another day, another story delightedly announcing the downfall of digital. The Canadian and (as far as I can see without a subscription) the London stories touted their conclusions while blithely ignoring the existence of indie-penned ebooks. The NYT article did mention Amazon and self-publishing authors at the end, but made no attempt to enumerate their sales. Or come up with any data of their own.
Balancing Ambition And Contentment. Lessons Learned From Thrillerfest 2017
Podcast: Download (Duration: 54:08 — 43.4MB) Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More In today's show, I talk about my lessons learned from Thrillerfest 2017 on balancing ambition and contentment, the current publishing and book marketing environment, writing craft tips, the ethos of the working writer, and more.
Five Indie Author Tips For A Successful Live ebook Launch
We going to be launching ALLi’s Choosing A Self-Publishing Service 2013 at London Book Fair as an ebook. Here’s the top five so far: 1. Don’t make a signing the focus of the event. Ebooks can be “autographed” using Authorgraph, which sends personalized inscriptions and signatures to the customer’s ebook reader but it’s not quite the same. All book launches should be entertaining and fun (though most aren’t). Without the physical presence of the book this becomes even more important. So get creative.
Is self-publishing vanity? | Self-Publishing Advice Center
Before turning to this topic (which I’d thought I’d never write about again) I must explain the background. I wrote about vanity and self-publishing, back in the early days of ALLi. So many years on, I thought this question had been answered, not by argument but by the obvious achievements of those in the self-publishing sector. This post, therefore, was not planned.
The Indie Authors Daily
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Happy Holidays! Free Writing and Publishing GIfts For Authors
It's the season of giving, and we're spreading good cheer and good news for ALLi members and friends, with lots of writing and publishing discounts and free gifts. We run many offers through the year which our partner (service) members make available exclusively to author members. For example, as a follow up to their Indie Author Fringe Session, Reedsy hosted an exclusive editorial and design giveaway for ALLi members (lucky winners below).
AskALLi Self-Publishing Advice Podcast
Are you new to self-publishing? Or a seasoned indie author who wants to cut through the noise to get only the most up-to-date and important self-publishing advice? The “AskALLi Self-Publishing Advice Podcast" is brought to you by the most trusted name in self-publishing, the non-profit Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). All interviews, advice and recommended services are vetted by ALLi’s Watchdog Desk.
Why Every Author Should Self-Publish Once: Creative Freedom, Empowerment and Opportunity
As we will hear from the other speakers today, winds of change are blowing through the publishing community and today I'd like to speak personally first, about where they are taking me as an author and poet and also draw on my experience and observations as Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors–ALLi, “ally” with an i. I first self-published very much as an experiment. I was wary for all sorts of reasons.
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Short story collections can be hit and miss. Is there a unifying theme or idea, such as in The Bloody Chamber and other Stories in which Carter adapts fairy tales, or is simply a random collection? What happens when you love one story but dislike the next? It makes reviewing collections quite difficult at times.
Should You Self-Publish? 15 Questions
Today’s guest post is by Orna Ross (@OrnaRoss), director of the Alliance of Independent Authors. Self-publishing is not for every writer. In order to succeed, you need to have or develop specific traits, along with certain ways of approaching the publication of a book. Consider the following questions. 1. Are you positive and proactive? Many writers wait for permission from an agent or publisher to say they are fit for publication—or for a PR campaign to explain why somebody should buy their book.
The Creative Condition book
‘I can’t draw to save my life.’ That’s what most people say when you ask them if they’re creative. Creativity is a defining human quality. It can't be boiled down to a single skill or ability. I grew up in a small town, in a working-class family. It was only through sheer luck that I discovered that I was creative and ended up working in the creative industry. That doesn’t happen to many people in my position. But I’m determined to change that.
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