self-publishing | Alison Morton Author

Age – perception and reality

I will no longer see 20, 30, 40, 50 or even 60, but I don’t see myself as old. In my head, I’m still 28. Okay, possibly 32.

Last week, we hosted our children and grandchildren in the middle of a heatwave – up to 37C. By the end of the week, I felt 100 […]

To DRM or not to DRM?

Now that really is the ‘question du jour’!

Very many authors use Amazon’s KDP platform to publish their books; Kindle e-reader users who buy a book from Amazon can then download their reading choice quickly and easily. Simples, as the meerkats used to say.

But as we know things change quickly in the digital world […]

10 years of indie publishing – why?

When I set out in 2010 to find out what to do with the 90,000 words I’d bashed out in 90 days, I didn’t have a clue about the publishing world. A business friend, Denise Barnes, also a novel writing beginner, guided me towards the Romantic Novelists’ Association who has a mentoring scheme for new […]

Kobo – An alternative to Amazon Kindle

Proud author to have been invited to have INCEPTIO on the Kobo wall, London Book Fair 2014

Six years ago, I wrote a little post about Amazon not being the only way to read ebooks. From the very first novel I published in March 2013 (INCEPTIO), my books have been in the catalogue […]

Helen Hollick – Indie icon

Helen Hollick and her family moved from north-east London in January 2013 after finding an eighteenth-century North Devon farm house through being a ‘victim’ on BBC TV’s popular Escape To The Country show. The thirteen-acre property was the first one she was shown – and it was love at first sight. She enjoys her new […]