BRIGHTON
Donate Five – Brighton Book Festival
Welcome to Brighton Book Festival, where literature thrives at the grassroots level. Our commitment to accessibility drives us to maintain low ticket prices, ensuring that everyone, regardless of income, can participate in this vibrant celebration of books. However, maintaining the festival solely through ticket sales is not feasible if we aim to keep ticket prices affordable for those who may otherwise be unable to attend. That's why we rely on generous contributions from supporters like you.
INDEPENDENT
How Zines Can Boost Creativity and Build Reader Connections
In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Podcast, Anna Featherstone speaks with Rebekah Lambert, a poet, playwright, content strategist, and founder of the Freelance Jungle, about how authors can produce and distribute zines. They discuss how zines give writers permission not to be perfect, offer a low-pressure way to spark creativity, and help both fiction and nonfiction authors deepen connections with readers.
Reddit for Self-Published Authors: Building Trust Before Selling Books
Reddit isn’t like other platforms. It’s not a marketplace, a feed, or a digital stage—it’s more like a friendly chat. And if you’re a self-published author trying to promote and sell your book on Reddit without first understanding the culture, you’ll be ignored at best—banned at worst. But that doesn’t mean Reddit isn’t a valuable tool for you. In fact, when approached genuinely and with patience, it can become a terrific way for you to build trust, credibility, and yes—eventually gain readers. Here’s how to use Reddit as a self-published author the right way…
Expanding Audiobook Revenue Through YouTube And Podcasting With Derek Slaton |
How can you shift your writing and publishing process to focus on YouTube and podcasting as a primary audiobook focus? […] Derek Slaton goes into his indie author process.
How Indie Authors Are Embracing Short-Form Audio
Short-form audio is becoming a meaningful new outlet for authors. As listening habits shift—and as tools for production become more accessible through human and AI narration—short audiobooks are gaining ground with both readers and platforms. From Spotify’s recent launch of a short-form program for independent authors to new experiments among ALLi members, this format is quickly finding its place in the indie publishing toolkit.
Spotify Audiobooks for Authors Earn Industry Innovator Award
It won’t have escaped your notice that Spotify audiobooks for authors have become a growing focus lately. Having started their audiobook journey quietly, they are now not only making audiobooks central to their listening offer, they are building more and more tools for authors to work with them directly. This has made them one of the most indie-centric platforms, with the most opportunities for indie writers of pretty much any platform out there. In that journey, the footsteps they are probably following most closely are those of Wattpad, with its desire to create a fully end-to-end experience (from opening sentence through finished book to on-screen adaptation) for writers.
SOFTWARE
Grammarly Authorship: Ensure Authentic Writing in the Age of AI
Writing in the age of AI shouldn’t be complicated. Grammarly Authorship automatically labels your text as written by you, created with AI, or edited with Grammarly so you can show your work is original. Authorship makes it easy to demonstrate your work's originality with a suite of features that show you—and your audience—where your words came from. Whether you want a high-level or detailed look at the origin of your text, Authorship has you covered.
Facebook marketing in 2025: A VERY complete guide
Splashy video-first platforms like TikTok get talked about more than old-timer Facebook, but Facebook marketing is critical for businesses in 2025. With over three billion active monthly users, Facebook is still the world’s most-used social platform. And don’t let clickbait news headlines sway you: Gen Z and Millennials are using Facebook. People ages 25-34 are Facebook’s largest audience, closely followed by those 18-24.
The importance of your author website Kobo Writing Life
Everyone – authors and non-authors alike – know the importance of having a presence on social media. But having an author website – a more permanent place for you to call home online – is, perhaps, more important! Your author website is your space to do what you want, without the need to rely on the limitations of social media platforms and some blogging websites. It’s also a space you can design with everything you prefer, right down the typography of your font if you want to get very fancy… whereas social media has more limiting elements regarding look and overall feel of the space. Whether you hire a web designer or work on your site yourself, you will always have more control over the appearance when you take charge.
METADATA
Hurry! If You Don't Know About the EAA, You Need To! - Inclusive Publishing
The European Accessibility Act is a directive that aims to improve the functioning of accessible products and services and it comes into force on June 28 2025. If your organization sells into the European market then your products and services will need to comply with the directive and you need to ensure that your content is accessible by this date. If you are new to accessible publishing then now is the time to start learning. This is a process and there is no on and off compliance switch. It requires dedication but if you can integrate accessibility into the beginning of your workflow then it will become part of the building blocks of content creation.