While we’re headed to a big family gathering in South Carolina, I thought I’d alert you to another resource for Indie published writing. Some months ago the Alliance of Independent Authors set up their own bookstore. There’s already well over 7000 books listed and growing fast. You can search the site by genre, including non-fiction.
Of course, I took a quick scroll through the historical fiction listings and immediately saw at least a dozen of interest to my picky self.
Each title brings you to a detailed description page for that book. The buy link will take you to a retail page. Many go directly to Amazon or bookshop.org. Some use universal book links and take you to books2read.com or the like where all the retail options are available.
Pretty nifty. Very impressive.
Here’s a July posting from ALLi’s own Substack explaining the benefits and recommendations for indie authors who would like to be included in their lisings.
Were you aware of this new resource? Have a look. I bet you can find some stories set off the beaten path—books that would be buried by the millions on Amazon. Let me know what you think!
When I return from SC, writing Book II jumps from “on hold” to priority. For the last eight months my life has been consumed by moving: packing the house, unpacking at the temp location, packing that up, moving it all to the new home. All but the pictures and mirrors are now unpacked. Whew. Our livingroom has a few places to sit. All other rooms are at least functioning, including my “new” garage studio. Everything else can happen when I get to it.
I’ve recently found the braincells to get reading again, so I’ll have some books to report on soon.
The one thing I managed to do during this big shuffle—preparing Farewell, O Syria for publication. Covers, interiors, Wordpress site revamps…
The KDP paperback is here and approved:
Okay, yeah. Pretty strange to hold this thing in my hand. I think it hasn’t hit me yet. Also, it’s not really as strange as walking on to a stage set that started in my brain. I guess that’s a matter of scale. Maybe I’m used to this manifestation of my imagination. But none of those ever took so much time, research, pre-dawn scribbles, grappling with hard things. I think this will finally become real once people completely unknown/unconnected to me read it. Then it will be out of my control once and for all.
Meanwhile, I’ve order the BookVault hardback proof. Can’t wait to hold that one…
Until then, y’all take care of yourselves.
~ Lausanne
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