by Ali | May 22, 2014 | Publishing
Why Writers Should Fear Obscurity, Not Piracy Image from Flickr by pasukaru76. There’s one question that seems to crop up more than any other in my email inbox, and when I’m talking about self-publishing. And that’s: How do I stop people stealing my book? A lot of new...
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by Ali | May 6, 2014 | Old post
Memoir: Truth or Fiction? [Guest Post] This is a guest post by Tracy Wilson. Tracy and I have been friends for several years (she’s one of Kitty’s godmothers, too) and I asked her to write a post for Aliventures about memoir … something that I...
by Ali | Mar 18, 2014 | Creativity
Can You Call Yourself a “Writer” if You’re Not Currently Writing? A couple of weeks ago, I sent out a newsletter titled – like this post – “Can you call yourself a writer if you’re not currently writing?” It got a great response … and I realised I’d hit on a...
by Ali | Feb 25, 2014 | Freelancing
Image from Flickr by Inha Leex Hale. One of the big writing ambitions I hear about from a lot of people is: I want to make money writing. They – quite reasonably! – want to be rewarded for their talent and their work. Yet many writers think that there’s something...
by Ali | Feb 4, 2014 | Fiction
Take the Plunge: How to (Finally) Start Your Novel Image from sxc.hu by tatlin. You want to write a novel. It’s been your New Year’s resolution more times than you want to admit. And you might well have been day-dreaming about it or scribbling notes about it for...
