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What’s an Authorpreneur and Why Am I One?

Last week, I was pleased to be a speaker at the London Book Fair as a member of the panel discussing “The Rise & Rise of the Authorpreneur”, chaired by Orna Ross, founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors and champion of indie authors everywhere.

What’s an authorpreneur anyway?

It’s an author who treats their writing like a business – and, crucially, makes money from it!

Orna invited me to be part of the line-up to represent what’s known in the trade as the hybrid author. That means someone who self-publishes some of their books while licensing rights on other books to traditional publishers. Thus, they have a foot in both camps.

Authorpreneur badge
One of three levels of author membership of ALLi – the others are Author and Associate

That’ll be me, then!

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