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Genre-Bonding: What It Is and Why It's the Indie Author's Best Marketing Move Writing is solitary. Publishing doesn't have to be. That's the thinking behind what we at the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) are calling genre-bonding: getting to know…

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There's a new portmanteau in town, and it's ready to pick a fight with Romantasy. So says the Bookseller with a fascinating insight into the latest trending tags on BookTok. That portmanteau is Dystomance. The word derives, of course, from "dystopian romance." It marks a resurgence in interest in dystopian books.

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On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, host Howard Lovy talks to Pablo Yáñez González, founder of BeYourCover, about how artificial intelligence is changing book cover design. A professional book cover photographer for more than fifteen years before building AI tools, Yáñez explains where AI can help authors create marketable covers, where it still falls short, and why gen...


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Earlier this month saw the annual meeting of the American Library Association (ALA). Long-time indie supporter Guy LeCharles Gonzalez was there and reported back some invaluable insights. It follows a number of items featuring libraries and the issue of pricing, specifically the way librarians believe e-books should be priced for library usage. This time, the main point of in...


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If you’re a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors, you must have heard about the Indie Author Bookstore: I know how many reminders I’ve sent out! And if you’re like me, you may have initially thought, “That sounds nice… I…

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