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ALLi Members' Self-Publishing Questions Answered By David Penny & Debbie Young July 2017
Episode 58

ALLi Members' Self-Publishing Questions Answered By David Penny & Debbie Young July 2017

Self-Publishing with ALLi · Orna Ross

June 30, 201746m 35s

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Show Notes

Ep#58: Welcome to Ask ALLi, the Self-Publishing Advice Podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it's our monthly Member Q&A where ALLi Members' have their most pressing self-publishing questions analyzed and answered. Join your regular hosts for the Member Q&A: indie author's David Penny & Debbie Young.

Summary of our Ask ALLi Self-Publishing Member Q&A Topics:

  • Q: What are the recent changes to Amazon Reviews
  • Q: What are the benefits of publishing on Amazon
  • News about our new ALLi guidebook "How to get your Self-publishing book into bookstores"
  • Q: How to expand your product line from ebooks into POD (Print-on-Demand) books
  • Q: What issues is Amazon's new reporting dashboard having
  • Q: How and why to publish in a series
  • Q: Why should authors buy their own ISBNs
  • Q: How to publish via aggregators like Draft2Digital and Smashwords
  • Q: What are the financial benefits of ALLi Membership.

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 Fringe, ALLi's free online author conference.

Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, www.selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven't already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at www.allianceindependentauthors.org.

Now, go write and publish.

About your hosts

ALLi's Technical Manager David Penny is the author of the best selling Thomas Berrington Historical Mystery series set in the final years of Moorish Spain, and before returning to writing full time he worked in education, printing and publishing, and for 25 years ran his own software company. Connect with David on Twitter @DavidPenny_

ALLi's Publications Manger Debbie Young enjoys sharing best practice with our members around the world, as well as running two local authors' groups and the Hawkesbury Upton Lit Fest on her home turf. Small wonder, then, that her cosy mystery series, the Sophie Syers Village Mysteries, is set in a small English village populated with authors and booksellers. Connect with Debbie on Twitter @DebbieYoungBN