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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Go Creative! Workshop: The Sequence of Creative Success Step Four: Produce 16 hours, 41 minutes ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Self-Publishing News and Advice: 2019 Week 8: eBook Discovery Sites 1 day, 16 hours ago
This week, among other things, ALLi Watchdog John Doppler discusses eBook discovery sites and asks, ‘Are Online Catalogs Worth the Money?’
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Seven Reasons You’re Not Creating What You Want 2 days, 14 hours ago
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 […] -
Orna Ross wrote a new post, What Are You Making In Your Creative Business This Week? Creative Intentions Week 8 2019 3 days, 16 hours ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Spinning Still 4 days, 16 hours ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Creative Accomplishments Week 7 2019. Concluding Feb 16th 5 days, 16 hours ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Friday Fiction: A Historical Literary Dinner with Ezra and Dorothy Pound, WB Yeats, Iseult Gonne and Georgie Hyde Lees 6 days, 16 hours ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Indie Author & Creativepreneur Events Not To Be Missed 1 week ago
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.
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Creative Self-Publishing: Latest News and Advice: Self-Publishing Services Directory 1 week, 1 day ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Making Money Your Measure: How A Creative Entrepreneur Balances Passion and Profit 1 week, 2 days ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, What Are You Making In Your Creative Business This Week? Creative Intentions Week 7 2019 1 week, 3 days ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Spoken Word London 1 week, 4 days ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Creative Accomplishments Week 6 2019. Concluding Feb 9th. 1 week, 5 days ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Friday Fiction: How To Self-Edit Book 1 of A Trilogy While Planning Book 2 1 week, 6 days ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, This Month’s AskALLi Beginners’ Self-Publishing Salon: How To Self-Edit A Book 2 weeks ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Self-Publishing News and Advice: 2019 Week 6: Book Cover Design 2 weeks, 1 day ago
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 […] -
Orna Ross wrote a new post, The Creative Entrepreneur’s Three Hats, Hat 3: Creative Entrepreneurs are Maximizers 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, What Are You Making In Your Creative Business This Week? Creative Intentions Week 6 2019 2 weeks, 3 days ago
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 […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Sunday Inspirational Poetry: A Poem for St Brigid’s Day 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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. […]
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Orna Ross wrote a new post, Create Date: From Study To Studio: The Perfect Workspace For Authors Today 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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 […]
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