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Writing Irresistible Kidlit with Speaker Q&A

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Session: Writing Irresistible Kidlit with Speaker Q&A Audience: All Levels In this session, you will learn all about how to write compelling children's books (from picture books to young adult) to connect directly with a young audience. There are many…

Critique Groups: Finding One That’s Right for You with Speaker Q&A

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Session: Critique Groups: Finding One That's Right for You with Speaker Q&A Audience: All Levels Should I join a critique group? Where can I find one? How do I know if it’s right for me? Not every group, whether in…

The Craft of How-To Non-Fiction Panel

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Session: The Craft of How-To Non-Fiction Panel Audience: All Levels Writing nonfiction is an art, but there’s a science to it too. In this session, Michael La Ronn chats with acclaimed YouTuber and writer Dale L. Roberts as they discuss…

Using Writing Prompts to Animate Your Work-in-Progress with Speaker Q&A

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Session: Using Writing Prompts to Animate Your Work-in-Progress with Speaker Q&A Audience: All Levels Prompt-based writing is popular, with many opportunities to receive prompts by email or in apps, and the resulting writing bursts can be downright exhilarating. But how…

Write Every Day: Motivate Yourself to Success in 10 Easy Steps

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Session: Write Every Day: Motivate Yourself to Success in 10 Easy Steps Audience: All Levels Strange as it may seem, one of the biggest problems indie authors face is how to make time for writing. Writing every day is what…

The Craft of Genre Fiction

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Session: The Craft of Genre Fiction Audience: All Levels If the prime purpose of genre fiction is to entertain, following the expected rules and tropes should help you reach and please readers. But how do you adhere to the guidelines without…

The Writing to Heal Panel

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Session: The Writing to Heal Panel Audience: All Levels The Writing to Heal panel focuses on how you can use writing to process trauma, grief, and the challenges of life. This 3-person panel, composed of Alexa Bigwarfe, Cami Ostman, and…

Writing With AI

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Session: Writing With AI Audience: All Levels Matthew Jockers, PhD, co-author of The Bestseller Code explains how Marlowe from Authors. A.I. helps fiction authors enhance their storytelling, produce manuscripts more efficiently, and sell more books once their titles are published. In…

Publishing through IngramSpark: Setting up your Writing for Success

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Session: Publishing through IngramSpark: Setting up your Writing for Success Audience: All Levels In this session about how to set up your books for success on IngramSpark, authors NGK and Alice Clover pass on their top writing tips, how they…

Writing Craft Conference Closes

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Session: Writing Craft Conference Closes Audience: All Levels Orna Ross closes out the Writing Craft for Indie Authors conference with a look back at the highlights and a reminder of how to enter the giveaways.

Welcome to #SelfPubMiniCon22

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Session: Welcome to #SelfPubMiniCon22 Audience: All Levels Orna Ross and Luutsche Ozinga launch the online celebrations with a sneak-peek at all that’s to come.

Beyond the Bookshop: Authors and the Creator Economy

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Session: Beyond the Bookshop: Authors and the Creator Economy Audience: All Levels In the first of our sessions, brought to you from London Book Fair, Michael Anderlé, Joanna Penn and Orna Ross explain the creator economy for authors, outline the…

London Book Fair

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Session: INTERLUDE - London Book Fair Audience: All Levels Footage from the London Book Fair - April 2022

Finding readers and publishing success through Kindle Direct Publishing

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Session: Finding readers and publishing success through Kindle Direct Publishing Audience: All Levels A panel discussion with authors who have found success independently publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing. This session will cover how to get started, approaches to engaging and…

Digital Tools to Help Authors Reach More Readers

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Session: Digital Tools to Help Authors Reach More Readers Audience: All Levels In this session, Josh Schwartz, CEO of a leading digital publishing agency, guides authors in understanding the latest digital marketing tools and how they work for books. Focussing…

ALLi After-Party

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Session: INTERLUDE - ALLi After-Party Audience: All Levels Footage from the Alliance of Independent Authors After-Party at the London Book Fair - April 2022 Kindly sponsored by Amazon KDP

Finding readers and publishing success through Kindle Direct Publishing

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Session: Finding readers and publishing success through Kindle Direct Publishing Audience: All Levels A panel discussion with authors who have found success independently publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing. This session will cover how to get started, approaches to engaging and…

Smashwords and Draft2Digital Merge: What Does It Mean for Indie Authors?

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Session: Smashwords and Draft2Digital Merge: What Does It Mean for Indie Authors? Audience: All Levels Draft2Digital, one of the largest independent distributors of self-published books, has acquired e-book pioneer Smashwords, uniting two of the industry’s most innovative and author-friendly publishing platforms. So what…

Finding readers and publishing success through Kindle Direct Publishing

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Session: Finding readers and publishing success through Kindle Direct Publishing Audience: All Levels A panel discussion with authors who have found success independently publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing. This session will cover how to get started, approaches to engaging and…

Announcement of new ALLi Organization Membership & updated OUTIA Guidebooks

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Session: Announcement of new ALLi Organization Membership & updated OUTIA Guidebooks Audience: All Levels Join ALLi's Organization Member Manager, Melissa Addey, as she announces ALLi's new membership tier for self-publishing organizations, and shares a sneak peek at the updated Open…

Interview with Selfies Award-Winner (Adult Fiction) – Ivan D Wainewright

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Session: INTERLUDE - Interview with Selfies Award-Winner (Adult Fiction) - Ivan D Wainewright Audience: All Levels Footage from the London Book Fair (April 2022) - An interview with Selfies Award-Winner (Adult Fiction) Ivan D Wainwright Kindly sponsored by Amazon KDP

Ten-word Story Competition Prize-Giving and Reading of the Winning Stories

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Session: Ten-word Story Competition Prize-Giving and Reading of the Winning Stories Audience: All Levels Join Tara Cremin, Director of Kobo Writing Life, live as she announces the winners of ALLi’s Ten-word Story Competition, reads the winning entries and, with the…

#SelfPubMiniCon22 Closes

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Session: #SelfPubMiniCon22 Closes Audience: All Levels Orna Ross and Luutsche Ozinga close out the conference with a look back at the highlights and a reminder of how to enter the giveaways.

Reach More Readers Conference Opens

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Session: Reach More Readers Conference Opens Audience: All Levels Orna Ross launches the October 2022: Reach More Readers Self-Publishing Advice Conference (#SelfPubCon22), with a sneak peek at some of the sessions to watch out for and how to enter this…

Fireside Chat: Author Collaboration and The Reader Journey

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Session: Fireside Chat: Author Collaboration and The Reader Journey Audience: All Levels Orna Ross is founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors and SelfPubCon. Nick Stephenson is founder of The Dream Team Network (DTN) which brings together author with a…

Reaching Readers from A Standing Start

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Session: Reaching Readers from A Standing Start Audience: Newer authors or those yet to build a large following You wrote a book…but how do you sell your book when no one knows who you are? Join me to find out!…

Websites That Reach Readers: How to Create or Update Your Online Home

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Session: Websites That Reach Readers: How to Create or Update Your Online Home Audience: All Levels Your website is the cornerstone of your author platform, but it can be daunting to wrangle both technology and design choices to get the…

How to Emotionally Reach your Readers

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Session: How to Emotionally Reach your Readers Audience: All Levels It's not enough to get a reader to pick up our books. We also have to reach them emotionally in order to keep them reading past the first chapter and…

Social Media for Authors: Build and Keep an Engaged Community

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Session: Social Media for Authors: Build and Keep an Engaged Community Audience: All Levels Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest—oof! Don’t worry. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to choose the best platform for your target market and lifestyle, what to…

Creative Book Marketing: How to Joyfully Connect with More Readers

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Session: Creative Book Marketing: How to Joyfully Connect with More Readers Audience: All Levels Creative book marketing draws on the mission and passion that fires your writing and applies it to your book marketing and promotion. In this session, three…

Four Kinds of Digital Reader: Are you Reaching Them All?

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Session: Four Kinds of Digital Reader: Are you Reaching Them All? Audience: All Levels In this session, you’ll learn about how the digital reader has evolved into four main types of reader: the ‘traditional’, the subscriber, the listener and the…

Building a Sustainable Publishing Business

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Session: Building a Sustainable Publishing Business Audience: All Levels If you want to be in this industry for a long time, you have to start asking sustainability questions of yourself. When you’re not having success yet, how do you prepare…

First Line Competition Awards & Prize-Giving

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Session: First Line Competition Awards & Prize-Giving Audience: All Levels Orna Ross joins Tara Cremin of Kobo Writing Life to announce the winners of the 2022 First Line Competition.

Connecting with Readers and Driving Sales on Amazon KDP

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Session: Connecting with Readers and Driving Sales on Amazon KDP Audience: All Levels In this session, chaired by Darren Hardy and Michaella Parkes, find out how indie authors can drive more sales and reach more readers via Amazon KDP. ​Topics…

Reach More Readers with Inclusive Writing & Marketing Panel

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Session: Reach More Readers with Inclusive Writing & Marketing Panel Audience: All Levels Sacha Black chairs a panel that digs deep into the complex issues surrounding diversity in publishing and aims to answer a practical question: How can a self-publishing…

Reach More Readers By Having Your Books Translated

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Session: Reach More Readers By Having Your Books Translated Audience: All Levels The traditional way to see your book translated into other languages is to license your translation rights to a third-party publisher overseas. Today's indie authors are commissioning their…

The Dos and Don’ts of Starting an AuthorTube Channel

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Session: The Dos and Don'ts of Starting an AuthorTube Channel Audience: All Levels What is Authortube? Should it be a pillar of your author platform? A fondness for being on camera and some interest in video production is essential, but…

How Joining an Association Can Help You Sell More Books

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Session: How Joining an Association Can Help You Sell More Books Audience: All Levels Pulling together a good team and resources is crucial to self-publishing and so is community. That's where associations like IBPA and ALLi come in. Lee Wind,…

Reaching More Readers in Australia and New Zealand Panel

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Session: Reaching More Readers in Australia and New Zealand Panel Audience: All Levels In this upbeat session with a panel of authors of non-fiction, cosy fiction, rural fiction and children’s books, you’ll learn how to build an enthusiastic audience of…

Fun and Easy Reader Research Tools

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Session: Fun and Easy Reader Research Tools Audience: All Levels Learn about free and paid tools to help you better understand your target readership as well as how to find influencers. These tools can help you stop the frustrating guesswork…

Going Global with Ingram Spark

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Session: Going Global with Ingram Spark Audience: All Levels This session is designed to give authors insights into the opportunities associated with thinking globally. Whether it’s developing a marketing plan that speaks to potential readers in other countries, or setting…

Reaching Younger Readers

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Session: Reaching Younger Readers Audience: All Levels No matter which audience you're writing for in the children's book space, this class is full of considerations you need to really connect with readers. Tune in to learn what today's young readers…

Marketing an Independently Published Children’s Book (and How SCBWI Can Help)

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Session: Marketing an Independently Published Children’s Book (and How SCBWI Can Help) Audience: All Levels Book marketing is a challenge for every self-publisher, but for children's book authors there are extra hurdles. Laurie MIller of SCBWI (the Society of Children’s…

Seven Ways to Build Direct Connection with Readers

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Session: Seven Ways to Build Direct Connection with Readers Audience: All Levels You’ve probably heard the term “super fans” thrown around a lot. But how do you go from having casual readers to activating the super fan connection? By the end…

Reaching More Readers with BookTok: Test Results and Tips

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Session: Reaching More Readers with BookTok: Test Results and Tips Audience: All Levels We have been running tests on TikTok to identify how different genres succeed on TikTok and how to emulate that success. The results, with examples, will be…

Understanding the Market-Driven Reader-Connection

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Session: Understanding the Market-Driven Reader-Connection Audience: All Levels Writing a book is a primarily creative endeavour. While good marketing requires creativity, getting your work of art into the hands of many readers can be a much more mundane and commercially-driven…

Making Book Design Attractive to Your Readers

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Session: Making Book Design Attractive to Your Readers Audience: All Levels Good design is more than just your cover: The interior is just as important. Intelligent tools can turn manuscripts and ebooks into accessible, modern ebooks, well-designed print books, and…

Reaching More Readers with Your Short Fiction

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Session: Reaching More Readers with Your Short Fiction Audience: All Levels In this stimulating and enlightening session, authors and educators Matty Dalrymple and Mark Lefebvre explore ways writers can use their short fiction to connect with more readers, while generating…

Reach More Readers Conference Closes

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Session: Reach More Readers Conference Closes Audience: All Levels ALLi Director, Orna Ross and SelfPubCon Manager, Kayleigh Brindley close out the Reach More Readers conference with a look back at the highlights and a reminder of how to enter the…

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