As the world begins to tentatively unlock from social cocooning and quarantine, indie authors and others are reassessing what’s most important to them as writers and publishers.
Both Orna and Joanna have used this as a time for reflection and reassessment, and they share what they’ve been doing to reshape their author brands.
You are invited to reflect and reassess too in the light of their insights. And to take away some practical advice on how to make the most of any author business today.
Our advanced salon is brought to you by specialist sponsor IngramSpark.
Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, [ Ссылка ]. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at [ Ссылка ].
Now, go write and publish!
About the Hosts
Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author, as well as writing non-fiction for authors. She is also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013. She spent 13 years as a business IT consultant in large corporations across the globe before becoming a full-time author-entrepreneur in September 2011. For more information about Joanna, visit her website: [ Ссылка ]
Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. For more information about Orna, visit her website: [ Ссылка ]
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