by Ali | Mar 23, 2011 | Publishing
Indie Publishing: What I Learned from SXSW I’m back! As you might know, I was in Austin, Texas for the annual South by South West (SXSW) Interactive conference. So what did I get up to? Well, I spent a lot of time hanging out in coffee-shops and at...
by Ali | Mar 8, 2011 | Old post
Everything I Know About Biz, I Learnt From Naomi Dunford This post is in honour of Naomi Dunford’s birthday. Feel free to eat cake while reading it… The IttyBiz front page I buy a fair few ebooks on biz-related matters. And I take online classes. I read...
by Ali | Mar 4, 2011 | Fiction
Why Fiction is So Hard to Write I’ve been blogging for a little over three years. I’ve been writing fiction since … well, pretty much since I could write. My blog posts are read by thousands of people. Only 1% of the fiction I’ve ever written...
by Ali | Feb 28, 2011 | Publishing
Indie Publishing: Self-Publishing Grows Up (A screenshot from Amazon.co.uk front page) I’ve been hanging around in the writing world for twelve years, since I was fourteen. That’s when I bought my first book about writing, and when I first went to a...
by Ali | Feb 16, 2011 | Editing
Are You Over-Editing Your Work? Image from Flickr by pheaber Last week’s post on The Four Essential Stages of Writing got some great comments, including this one from Ainslie: I must admit that I am beginning to enjoy the redrafting and editing phase of my work...
