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ALLi to celebrate 10th anniversary at LBF
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is to celebrate its 10th anniversary at London Book Fair with the launch of a competition and panel sessions.
ALLi, a non-profit association for self-publishing writers, was inaugurated at LBF a decade ago. This year, its members will congregate at stand ID48 and authors are invited to visit and network.
To celebrate, the organisation will be launching a 10-word flash fiction competition, open to unpublished and published authors. A party and mini conference will feature pre-recorded panel sessions recorded with ALLi founder Orna Ross, Joanna Penn and Michael Anderlé. A special interview with Mark Coker, former c.e.o. of e-book site Smash words and Kris Austin, co-founder of Draft2Digital, which acquired SmashWords will also take place, in addition to interviews with independently published authors.
ALLi is also launching a new membership scheme specifically targeting author organisations, globally. It will be headed by Melissa Addey, ALLi’s new organisation and campaigns manager.
"ALLi has always campaigned for all writing-related organisations to include indie authors," said Addey. "Now that so many important and well-known organisations have indeed welcomed indie authors, we’re focused on working more closely with them to meet those authors’ needs through our organisation membership. And of course, we will still be campaigning for those organisations who have not yet done so to open up. Indie authors, working to high-quality industry standards, can bring a lot to any organisation for mutual benefit."
Recent achievements for ALLi includes winning the Romantic Novelist Association’s Indie Champion Award 2021 and topping the US Writer’s Digest "100 Best Publishing Websites for Authors 2021", with its Self-Publishing Advice Center.
Ross said: “ALLi has grown bigger than we ever could have imagined 10 years ago and that’s because self-publishing has become such an important part of the wider publishing industry and is such an exciting and positive route to publication for so many authors. ALLi exists to foster excellence and ethics in self-publishing and to advocate for author independence and empowerment. Our growth over this past decade shows how much our thousands of members and tens of thousands of subscribers value those aims. We cannot wait to see what the next decade brings for authors, and ALLi."
