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…
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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Session: Welcome to SelfPubCon23! Audience: All Levels SelfPubCon Manager, Kayleigh Brindley is joined by Carissa Andrews to open up the 2023 'Success Mindset for Indie Authors' Self-Publishing Advice Conference. Together, they look at upcoming sessions, highlights, and remind you how…
Session: Your Mindset Changes Everything Audience: All Levels Join Becca Syme for a keynote presentation that will give you a comprehensive understanding of how mindset plays a foundational role in every aspect of an indie author's business, from the writing…
Session: How To Cultivate a Success Mindset with Amazon KDP Audience: All Levels In this session presented by Amazon KDP, a panel of accomplished indie authors detail the challenges they faced on their way to success, and how they overcame…
Session: Levelling Up Your Author Mindset Audience: All Levels Dive into a candid discussion with author Michael La Ronn as he unveils essential mindset strategies for fostering a lifelong writing habit and a rewarding self-publishing business. Unlock your true potential…
Session: Mastering the Crowdfunding Success Mindset Audience: All Levels In this empowering session, ALLi member Nick Kotar, who recently ran his first successful crowdfunder interviews USA Today bestselling author and ALLi’s crowdfunding advisor Russell Nohelty, about the world of crowdfunding…
Session: Pen to Prosperity: Money Mindset, Manifestation, and Management Audience: All Levels Nurture a positive money mindset, master the art of manifestation, and take away lots of money management tips for authors. We’ll explore how shifts in your money beliefs…
Session: Mindset Matters: Unlocking Indie Author Success with Ingram Spark Audience: All Levels In this engaging session presented by IngramSpark, a panel of accomplished indie authors, each from distinct genres and territories, will delve into the transformative power of mindset…
Session: How to Win Awards: A Mindset Workshop + Q&A Audience: All Levels In this marketing mindset workshop, Book Award Pro founder Hannah Jacobson demonstrates the reasons self-published authors fail to enter for awards, and brings you through exercises that…
Session: ALLi Town Hall: Meet the Alliance of Independent Authors Team Audience: All Levels Join us for an engaging live session where you'll have the opportunity to meet members of the Alliance of Independent Authors team! Bring your burning self-publishing…
Session: Develop A Scaling Mindset: How Efficiency Generates Success Audience: All Levels For an indie author, "scaling" is the process of expanding and amplifying your reach, influence, and booksales while improving the quality and integrity of your work. Becoming more…
Session: Art of the Title Results & Prize-Giving Audience: All Levels Join Book Award Pro founder, Hannah Jacobson, as she announces the winners of the #SelfPubCon23 'Art of the Title Competition' and presents the prizes. The Art of the Title…
Session: Direct Sales Mindset: The Advantages of Personal Sales Audience: All Levels Throughout this enlightening presentation, Joe Solari unravels the myriad advantages of a direct sales mindset for authors, in which you gain unprecedented control over your book's pricing and…
Session: How an Inclusive Mindset Can Grow Your Readership Audience: All Levels An inclusive mindset can significantly boost readership for indie authors in a variety of ways. In this session we focus on strategies for incorporating inclusivity into your writing…
Session: Accessibility and Diversity Panel: Better Processes for Writers, Better Books for Readers Audience: All Levels Join Dan Holloway, Cat Mitchell and Michael Johnson in this enlightening panel as they explore how fostering accessibility and diversity mindsets can unlock success…
Session: Building a Growth Mindset: How Online Platforms Help Authors Build Global Audiences Audience: All Levels What would happen to your production and promotion if you moved from writing prose for yourself to writing posts for others? This session, chaired…
Session: Developing A Global Mindset Audience: All Levels Discover how to reach a world of readers thanks to this inspirational international panel. No matter where you write from, you can tackle mindset, marketing, creative and logistics blocks to spirit your…
Session: Mindset Mistakes: What Do Indie Authors Do Wrong? And How to Get it Right Audience: All Levels Novelist, poet and director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, Orna Ross, leads this session on the mindset mistakes that indie authors…
Session: Tools and Team for a Productivity Mindset: Ghostwriters or AI? Audience: All Levels Many indie authors face the challenge of balancing their desire for creative control with the need for professional support in the form of a ghostwriter. In…
Session: The Marketing Forever Mindset Audience: All Levels One of the most interesting pieces of data to come from the Big Indie Author Data Drop was that even when indie authors are very successful, they don't stop doing their own marketing. They…
Session: Are You Afraid of Audiobooks? Audience: All Levels Think they're too costly or that readers don’t care? Would love to have an audiobook but don’t know where to start? Got audiobooks in place but don't know how to market?…
Session: Develop a Comedic Mindset: Finding Your Funny Bone Audience: All Levels What's holding you back from writing comic fiction? Or adding humour to your books? Join Brad Gosse and Dave Cohen, two self-publishing funny guys in an uncensored session…
Session: Giving and Receiving: How a Campaigning Mindset Benefits Authors Audience: All Levels Campaigns, at their core, are about connecting with people--understanding an audience, reaching out to them, and creating a dialogue. When indie authors campaign effectively, they are not…
Session: Mastering Self-Publishing Success: Think Like a Publisher from the Start Audience: All Levels One of the biggest mindset shifts for indie authors is realising that they're not just writers, they're publishers too. Join Matty Dalrymple and Michele DeFilippo in…
Session: From Procrastination to Production Audience: All Levels All independent authors, like all creatives, are familiar with procrastination and how difficult it can be to overcome, sometimes. In this talk, psychologist, writing coach, and U.S.A. Today bestselling author Anne Bartolucci,…
Session: Cultivating A Collaboration Mindset Audience: All Levels As self-publishing grows in impact, the power of author community becomes more crucial than ever. This session will delve into the benefits of collaborative efforts: beta exchanges, co-writing, box-sets, shared promotions, joint…
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