Each month I run a Go Creative! business workshop for creative entrepreneurs. Authors, yes, but also artists, educators, healers, those who run passion, mission and purpose powered businesses or n […]

This week, among other things, ALLi Watchdog John Doppler discusses eBook discovery sites and asks, ‘Are Online Catalogs Worth the Money?’
Our February AskALLi Member’s Q&A Podcast is now available […]

Here are seven reasons why you may not be creating what you want… and how to fix them:

1. YOU’RE LACKING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE:
By this, I mean the information you need about the creative process and how t […]

So what are your creative intentions for Week 8 2019?

In our Go Creative! in Business group, each Monday we outline our creative intentions to each other. And then we follow up on a Saturday with what we’ve […]

It’s Valentine’s week, so how about a love poem?

I wrote a version of this poem ten years ago, so it’s an anniversary poem too, revived and revised as the days grow ever more golden.

I run a Patreon page for my […]

LOGGING CREATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS WEEK 7, Q1, 2019. ENDS FEB 16:

Each week, a group of us sets our intentions and accomplishments together in a closed Facebook group, the Go Creative! in Business group.

I h […]

This is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy.  It is narrated by a working-class Irish Parisienne, Rosie.

Iseult Gonne has been dispatched to London by her mother, Maud Go […]

Have you been keeping up with changes to the ALLi podcast and Facebook Live videos? I’m now running a weekly self-publishing advice session, followed by a Twitter chat–with a variety of co-hosts.
Changes To The […]

This week, we’re delighted to bring you the 2019 edition of ALLi’s Self-Publishing Services Directory, our showcase of ALLi Partner Members’ approved author services.

Our Watchdog Desk, headed by John D […]

How does a creative entrepreneur balance passion and profit?

Conventional business holds that putting emphasis on creativity and passion, mission and purpose is so many businesses fail. It suggests that those […]

So what are your creative intentions: Week 7 2019?

In our Go Creative! in Business group, each Monday we outline our creative intentions to each other. And then we follow up on a Saturday with what we’ve […]

Our online Open Mic is Tuesday Next at 8pm.
More details and register here.
Today, I’ll be Open Mic-ing too but at a live Open Mic event with Spoken Word London.

This group is now very popular. It’s one of […]

Time to note creative accomplishments Week Six 2019. A group of us set intentions and accomplishments each week together in a closed Facebook group, the Go Creative! in Business group.

You are invited to s […]

Writing a trilogy is a massive undertaking and I’m at work on Book 2 of my Yeats trilogy, Dancing in the Wind (while continuing the incubation work on the final novel of my Irish trilogy, In the Hour.) That’s the […]

I do a weekly podcast over at the Alliance of Independent Authors, offering self-publishing advice at various levels. This month it was the AskALLi Beginners Self-Publishing Salon where I chatted with Tim Lewis […]

This week, among other things, Debbie Young shares ALLi authors’ eight pet hates about book cover design.
 
Other Self-Publishing Advice
In Why I Moved from Word to Scrivener, Indie author Alison Clifford sha […]

In the third and final part of our series about the three hats a creative entrepreneur must wear, today we’re looking at the Creative Promoter, what we call the Maximizer.  For creative entrepreneurs are Max […]

So what are your creative intentions: Week 6 2019? Can you believe we are in Week 6 already? Does time go more quickly for creatives, I wonder?

In our Go Creative! in Business group, each Monday we outline our […]

I wrote this poem a few years ago but am taking out for a replay today, as part of my Sunday Inspirational Poetry: A Poem for St Brigid’s Day.

St Brigid was quite a woman, if the old tales are to be believed. […]

What makes the perfect workspace? I’m in the middle of creating mine. I used to have a traditional study lined with print books but for a long while now it’s not really fitting my needs. It’s made me think: what […]