Putting Your Purpose on the Page
Guest Author Megan Haskell Offers Her Advice on Strategizing Better Reader Relationships Seasoned indie authors understand: for your business’s long-term growth, quality often outranks quantity when it comes to reader relationships. But how do you ensure you’re connecting with the right audience? In the second part of her series on finding your ideal author business […]
From the Editor
Blame it on how invested I am in superhero movies, but I am paranoid about spoilers. If I’m worried about encountering a leaked plot twist from a movie, book, or game, I will take a social media hiatus and resort to childhood playground levels of avoidance: plugging my ears and shouting “la, la, la” until […]
From the Stacks
Book: An Author’s Legacy Craig Martelle and Audrey Hughey https://tinyurl.com/3a3sfuz8 One of the smartest financial decisions a creative can make isn’t one that will affect anything during their lifetime. An Author’s Legacy: A Planner to Ensure An Author Lives On, Long After Death, a newly released workbook by 20BooksTo50K® co-founder Craig Martelle and Author Transformation […]
ALLi Exclusive: What’s Your Mindset around Money?
There is a common belief that artists, including authors, make very little money. To explore that assumption, in 2023, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) commissioned the world’s first Indie Author Income Survey, focused specifically on self-published authors. We found that indie authors earn more than those who are traditionally published, and this data was […]
IAM’s 2024 Indie Author Gift Guide
The holiday shopping season is just around the corner, and whether you’re shopping for the caffeine-fueled novelist who hasn’t seen sunlight in weeks or the writer in the middle of their worst block, we’ve got you covered with the author’s ideal gift guide for 2024. Prepare to discover gifts that will make any indie author’s […]