by Ali | Aug 2, 2016 | Freelancing
Fully updated and republished in August 2016. This week, the start of August 2016, marks the eight year mark since I left my day job. Ever since then, I’ve been supporting myself through writing. It’s my dream career – and I love being able to set my own hours, work...
by Ali | Jul 25, 2016 | Fiction
When Dialogue Gets Weird: Representing Unorthodox Forms of Speech on the Page (Text Conversations, Psychic Communication, etc) Whether you’ve written any fiction yet or not, you’re probably extremely familiar with how dialogue appears on the page: it’s surrounded by...
by Ali | Jul 18, 2016 | Creativity
Should You Write Faster? Here’s What Four Indie Authors Do (Plus My Take) By a lot of people’s standards, I’m a pretty fast writer. For the last 12 years or so, I’ve been able to comfortably produce 1,000 words an hour (sometimes to the envy of writing group...
by Ali | Jun 27, 2016 | Marketing
Marketing Your (Self-Published) Novel: Five Books Reviewed Long-time Aliventures readers might remember that the first half of 2012 was a little hectic for me. I’d just launched my first novel, Lycopolis, and started Writers’ Huddle … and I had five months to...
by Ali | Jun 20, 2016 | Publishing
What Should You Pay for When You Self-Publish a Novel? One reader asked me to write about, “Self-publishing, whether to use editors, cover designers etc and how much is a reasonable amount to pay them.” This is a big and important question, and one I wanted to tackle...
