The Alliance of Independent Authors: Founded in 2012 by Orna Ross, The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is a non-profit association for author-publishers. Their global team of advisors and industry professionals offer a range of benefits, encourage ethics and excellence, advocate and campaign for indie authors and forge relationships with the wider industry. Their mission is to foster the democratisation of publishing through community, partnership and author empowerment.
The Bookseller has been the business magazine of the book industry since 1858; incorporating the even earlier Bent’s Literary Advertiser, established in 1802. It is one of the UK’s longest-standing magazines. The Bookseller has reported on every significant book trade event from the launch of George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss in 1860, Allen Lane’s launch of the paperback, the demise of the Net Book Agreement in 1995 and today’s Amazon-led competitive struggles. It’s based in London.
The Creative Penn: J.F.Penn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author as well as bestselling non-fiction for authors published under Joanna Penn. Joanna’s site for writers, The Creative Penn has been voted one of the Top 10 sites for writers three years running. She is a professional speaker on creative entrepreneurship, digital publishing and internet marketing, and was voted one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013.
Jane Friedman has more than 15 years of experience in the publishing industry, with expertise in digital media strategy for authors and publishers. Jane specializes in educating authors about the publishing industry to help them make the best long-term decisions for their careers. She is known for thought-provoking talks on the future of authorship.
Publishers Weekly, familiarly known in the book world as PW and “the bible of the book business,” is a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business. It is targeted at publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors and the media. It offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestsellers lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics, but its best known service is pre-publication book reviews, publishing some 8,000 per year.
Reedsy is a full ecosystem for authors and publishing professionals and provides a variety of free tools and resources for writers.
Self-Publishing with Dale: Dale L. Roberts is an accomplished indie author and host of Self-Publishing with Dale on YouTube. Since 2014, Dale pursued a full-time career in self-publishing books and now shares his experience on his YouTube channel devoted to building a successful self-publishing business. His specialties include book publishing, video production, public speaking, and networking.
The SPA Girls Podcast: The SPA Girls are Trudi Jaye, Cheryl Phipps, Wendy Vella and Shar Barratt: four New Zealand authors who between them have had more than 140 books published. Continuously publishing weekly for more than 450 episodes, the SPA Girls Podcast is consistently on the Top Podcasts for Writers & Publishers lists.
Writer Beware offers resources to warn writers about a wide variety of literary schemes and scams, along with information on how writers can recognize and avoid them.