Alliance of Independent Authors
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
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ALLi is pronounced “ally” (al-eye not al-ee), and we aim to be an ally to self-publishers everywhere. Our name is spelt with a big ALL and small i because our members are like the three musketeers in Dumas’s eponymous novel: ALL working for each individual “i”, and each for ALL. Our mission is ethics and excellence in self-publishing. ALLi is headquartered in London and unites thousands of beginner, emerging and experienced indie authors from all over the world behind this mission. Most of our members are in the US and Canada, followed closely by Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa. We are a Community Interest Company (CIC) and all profits are invested back in for the benefit of our members and the wider indie author community.
Alliance of Independent Authors' books
Genres: Business, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
With expert advice by the foremost organization in self-publishing, the Alliance of Independent Authors, Sell More Books distills advice from the AskALLi Team into this definitive guide. Promoting a book can often feel like an uphill battle for authors, but it doesn’t have to be. In Sell More Books, the AskALLi team breaks down the complex world of book promotion into simple, effective strategies that any author can implement. This guide shows you how to develop promotional plans that work for you, aligning with your strengths and needs as a publisher and book marketeer. From building momentum at launch to sustaining sales over time, this book covers everything from social media campaigns to working with influencers and leveraging paid ads. If you’re looking to sell more books and increase your reach, this guide will show you how to take control of your promotional strategy and find the readers who are...
Genres: Business, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
As always with our ALLi Definitive Guide series, we’ve harnessed the collective experience and insight of the ALLi team, and drawn on the wisdom of thousands of successful indie authors worldwide, to bring you this definitive edition. Reach More Readers is an up-to-date look at what it really means to market yourself and your books successfully in 2026. Inside, you’ll find practical, field-tested advice on: ✔️ Applying the Seven Principles of Successful Book Marketing to attract and retain readers ✔️ Building an authentic author platform rooted in your values and creative voice ✔️ Understanding the Known, Liked, and Trusted framework for long-term reader relationships ✔️ Making smart decisions about paid marketing, tools, and technologies ✔️ Using AI ethically and effectively to support your marketing and creativity Whether you’re launching your first book or scaling your author business, this guide gives you the clarity, confidence, and systems to reach more readers,...
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
As always with our ALLi Definitive Guide series, we’ve harnessed the collective insight of the ALLi team, and the experience of rights experts and successful indie authors worldwide, to bring you this definitive edition. How Authors Sell Publishing Rights is an up-to-date guide to turning your existing books into multiple revenue streams, without writing another word. Inside, you’ll find practical, field-tested advice on: ✔️ Understanding and protecting the rights you hold ✔️ Applying selective rights licensing to stay in control ✔️ Selling translation, audio, film, and other subsidiary rights ✔️ Preparing professional rights packages and negotiating fair deals ✔️ Working confidently with publishers, producers, and agents Whether you’re exploring your first rights deal or scaling your author business internationally, this guide gives you the clarity, confidence, and systems to sell your rights wisely, and build a thriving creative enterprise.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
Drawing on the expertise of members of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), particularly ALLi’s Children’s Publishing Advisor, the highly successful children’s author Karen Inglis, this book provides everything you need to know to publish and sell children’s books in ebook, audio, and print editions, and promote them in person, and online. ✔️How to work with professional children’s editors, illustrators and designers, and how ALLi can help you to find them ✔️Why in-person events like school visits matter and how to do them successfully ✔️How to manage the business of being a children’s author Everything you need to create beautiful books and reach the young readers who’ll most enjoy them.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book
Opening Doors is part of ALLi’s Open Up to Indie Authors campaign which encourages and aids literary events, festivals, prizes, reviewers, booksellers, government bodies, and other interested parties to find ways to include self-publishing authors in their programs, events, listings and reviews. This guide is directed towards indie authors encouraging them to enter awards and joining literary associations, to approaching festivals, bookshops and making the most of your publication rights. In this proactive book, you’ll receive tips, insights and inspiring case studies along with: ✔️Insights into the current self-publishing industry ✔️Curating your publishing goals ✔️Being professional with your presentation ✔️Distribution to library platforms, bookstores ✔️And reaching out to reviewers, commissions, festivals, awards ✔️Joining publishers and author associations To reach out to partners successfully in the self-publishing world, download this book now.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book
This short guide from the AskALLi team at the Alliance of Independent Authors offers all the key facts you need to know to make informed decisions about ISBNs when self-publishing your books. ISBNs are an essential component of the publishing process, acting as a unique product identifier for the benefit of distributors, wholesalers, retailers and readers. Understanding how ISBNs work, why they matter, and how to source and use them will help you distribute your self-published books efficiently and professionally. Yet misinformation about ISBNs abounds online, and they are the topic of some of the most frequently asked questions within the indie author community.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Are you an indie author who wants to win an award for your writing and publishing? You can. Indie authors have long been excluded from the most prestigious book prizes, awards, and competitions, but the awards scene is changing. According to Hannah Jacobson, founder of BookAwardPro.com, “Over 92% of all book awards are available to indie and self-published authors,” including many that are for indie authors only. This short guide provides the latest updates and shares with you: ✔️ Types of awards and prizes ✔️ Awards open to indie authors ✔️ How to enter book awards If you’d like to get your foot in the awards scene door, Book Prizes & Awards for Indie Authors will show you the way.
Genres: Advice & How To, Manuals and Workbooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Assess, plan and achieve your creative and commercial aspirations with Orna A Ross's Go Creative! Quarterly Review & Forecast. Tailored for the discerning indie author and poet, this planner empowers you to reflect on your past accomplishments while setting highly meaningful intentions for the future. Creative Self-Publishing and the Planning Workbook helped you integrate your passion, mission, and values with your author business, and set the goals that fulfill you the most. Now, the Quarterly planner empowers you to: ✔️Set creative intentions and realistic goals that you can achieve within three months ✔️Set up a review and pre-planning process ✔️Set up maps and logs for your creative work under three hats: maker, manager and marketeer ✔️Allocate time for creative rest and play ✔️Break quarterly intentions into holistic monthly and weekly plans Each season, set off on an exciting literary adventure, assessing your progress and aligning your creative vision as you...
Genres: Advice & How To, Manuals and Workbooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Stay on the path to literary and publishing success with the Go Creative! Monthly Mapper for Indie Authors & Poets by Orna A. Ross. Designed for the dedicated author and poet, this monthly planner is your roadmap to consistent creative output. With structured yet flexible templates for everything from managing your money to sending pitches to literary influencers, you can outline your monthly intentions, track your progress, and hone your approach to your writing and publishing to match your own personal definition of success. This Monthly planner brings it all into perspective, helping you to map out: ✔️Your intentions for each week and each day of the month ✔️What has to happen today and what’s coming down the track ✔️A calendar that balances your creative work, rest, and play ✔️Where money meets meaning: f-r-e-e-writing exercises that enable you to pay yourself first ✔️Your top tasks under three hats: Maker, Marketeer,...
Genres: Advice & How To, Manuals and Workbooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Unlock your writing and publishing potential with the Go Creative! Workbook for Authors & Poets. This innovative workbook from Orna Ross, director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, is specifically designed for authors and poets to fuel your creative journey and streamline your publishing process. Writing and publishing are two big creative challenges. It doesn’t help that most business planning structures are rigid and mechanical, a misfit for most creatives. This workbook brings together strategic planning with a deep knowledge of the ups and downs of being an indie author. It offers: ✔️Creative planning principles and practices for authors ✔️A process that moves you from desire to done, through visioning, drafting and revisioning. ✔️Ways to integrate your mission, passion into a sense of creative purpose that fuels your creative intentions ✔️A “three hat” (maker, manager, and marketeer) system to integrate your whole business: writing and publishing, passion and profits, influence...
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Copyright law, policy, and practice underwrite the publication and sale of books. The income that every author and publisher receives derives from copyright law. Independent authors, who are both writers and publishers, and who actively manage their own publishing rights, need to understand the importance of copyright and how to assert their rights in the digital age. How can we ensure that copyright law remains robust and flexible enough to offer the incentive, protection, and reward it promises for indie authors? How can we ensure that authors understand and avail of their economic and moral rights in the rapidly changing, technologized, and digitized publishing environment? We present our answers to these important questions in the form of a Copyright Bill of Rights that builds on the work of previous copyright activists to take into account the experience of self-publishing authors.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Large print
SelfPub3 allows authors like us to create our own books, hire our own teams, choose our own platforms, and generally become the creative director and owners of our own publishing micro-businesses. This short campaigns guidebook, written by the Alliance of Independent Authors, explains how becoming a SelfPub3 author offers true independence. It elucidates: ✔️The history of self-publishing ✔️The concept and campaign of SelfPub3 ✔️Intellectual Property and Copyright ✔️The Four Drivers of SelfPub3 ✔️Author Business Models To become a savvier Authorpreneur, give SelfPub3 a go.
Genres: Advice & How To, Business, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
As always with our ALLi Definitive Guide series, we’ve harnessed the collective experience and insight of the entire ALLi team, and drawn on the wisdom of thousands of successful indie authors from our global community, to bring you this definitive edition. Creative Self-Publishing is the book for you if you want a comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive overview of self-publishing, what it really takes to publish well and thrive as an independent author in 2026. Inside, you’ll find practical, field-tested advice on how to take creative control of your writing and your publishing business, covering: ✔️ The Seven Processes of Publishing and how to navigate them with confidence and clarity ✔️ How to connect your passion, purpose, and profit to build a sustainable author career ✔️ Proven planning methods to align your creative energy with real publishing results ✔️ The business models successful indie authors are using right now to reach...
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
As always with our ALLi Definitive Guide series, we’ve harnessed the collective expertise of the ALLi team and drawn on the real-world experience of thousands of indie authors to bring you this definitive edition. Choose the Best Self-Publishing Services is an up-to-date look at how to navigate the fast-moving world of author services and assemble your ideal publishing team. Inside, you’ll find practical insights and clear guidance on: ✔️ How to identify trustworthy services and avoid scams and vanity presses ✔️ Understanding contracts and protecting your publishing rights ✔️ Evaluating editors, designers, distributors, and marketers for best value ✔️ Balancing protection and proactivity to build a sustainable author business ✔️ The emerging tools and technologies shaping self-publishing today Whether you’re publishing your first book or scaling a growing career, this guide gives you the clarity and confidence to make smart choices, publish well, and stay in creative control.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
This short guide to podcasting for authors will teach you how to be a good podcast guest and also how to produce your own podcast and grow a following as a broadcasting author. Includes technical and marketing advice that will help you grow your readership through audio. Podcasts provide authors an avenue to connect with their readers. But we’re savvier with words written on the page, how then can authors begin recording their own voice? ALLi’s Podcasts garner thousands of listens with people tuning in from all over the world, on several platforms. In this short guide, the AskALLi team has compiled technical and marketing knowledge for authors looking to grow their readership through audio. You’ll will learn: ✔️Types of podcasts for authors ✔️Setting up and designing a show ✔️Creating high quality audio ✔️Hosting the show ✔️Staying consistent
Genres: Business, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
As always with our ALLi Definitive Guide series, we’ve harnessed the collective knowledge of the ALLi team, drawing on thousands of real author questions, blogs, and podcasts, to bring you this definitive edition. 150 Self-Publishing Questions Answered is an up-to-date guide to the most common (and uncommon) challenges faced by indie authors today. Inside, you’ll find practical, field-tested answers drawn from ALLi’s global community and expert advisors, covering: ✔️ How to publish and sell more books confidently and effectively ✔️ How to design professional covers and master the editing process ✔️ How to market smarter, reach readers, and build long-term sales ✔️ How to overcome creative blocks and stay productive ✔️ 75+ essential resources to keep you learning and growing If you’ve ever wished you had a trusted expert on call, this is your go-to handbook, offering clear, dependable answers for every stage of your self-publishing journey.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
In this quick and easy guide, the AskALLi team at the Alliance of Independent Authors offers guidance regarding the current best practices and ethics while gathering reviews, including a myriad ways to get more book reviews, fast. You’ve published a book, and you know it’s good. But how would a potential reader know how good your book is? Reviews help provide this social proof, encouraging the right readers to purchase your book. Only there are several ways you can gather reviews: from booksellers, bloggers, media, libraries and other influencers. What is harder to determine is whether a method of asking for reviews is ethical or, in some cases, illegal.
Genres: Advice & How To, Guidebooks, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
This quick and short guide by the Alliance of Independent Authors demystifies the world of libraries and helps you get your books in front of avid readers. Do you think libraries don’t buy books from self-published authors? Think again. Libraries are havens for avid readers looking for new titles. In this digital age, libraries are also expanding into the ebook and audiobook space by using apps like BorrowBox, Overdrive, and ULibrary to reach their readers at home. Having your books available on these services–in all formats–is as easy as uploading them to any retailer website. In this short guide, the AskALLi team of the Alliance of Independent Authors demystifies the world of libraries by: ✔️Explaining how libraries and book borrowings work. ✔️How Indie Authors can get their books into libraries ✔️Why appearing on library shelves helps indie authors establish themselves To publish in libraries like a pro, get Your Book...