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Orna Ross

Creative Publishing & Creative Living

Orna Ross is a novelist, poet and founder-director of the Alliance of Independent Authors. She offers books, courses, conference, and community to indie authors and other creatives

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Creative Planning for Authors: How's your Email Energy?

Hello Reader, Kayleigh here, I hope you had a great Easter / Oestre / Passover / Chocofest. This is an email to let you know that Orna Ross's next live creative planning workshop is set to take place tomorrow, Thursday 4th April at 5pm (UTC). These workshops are run through Patreon and are Orna's way of offering more personal attention than she can offer through ALLi. Across the quarter to come, the planning workshops' focus is on email marketing. Q2 2024 Go Creative! Planning Workshops:...

24 days ago • 3 min read

Hello Reader, Welcome to your monthly self-publishing round-up, bringing you the latest from the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), the Self-Publishing Advice Center, and the Go Creative! planning programs for authors. A slight delay in transmission this month, as the ALLi team were out and about more than usual, and set back with some illness and family issues. We decided to hold your newsletter over until after Easter, in case it got lots among the resurrection rituals or chocolate...

25 days ago • 5 min read

Hello Reader, I hope you had an enjoyable long weekend, whether you were in creative work, rest or play mode. I wanted to thank you again for backing my Creative Planning program in Kickstarter, to tell you how to receive your certificate, and to let you know how to continue the Go Creative! planning program, if that's something you'd like to do. Certification: Pro Planner Please let me know once you have completed all three workshops and three monthly planners and I will send you a short...

25 days ago • 2 min read

Issue #1 New Kickstart with Me! launches on Thursday next Hello Reader Towards the end of last year, I ran my first Kickstarter campaign, to help me to create new new Go Creative! planners and programs for authors. The campaign was a huge surprise, with 348 backers funding it by more than 1000%, raising an incredible £25,429 and enabling me to go way beyond my original creative intentions for the project. I learned a lot--about the Kickstarter platform, and about crowdfunding in general--and...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Hello Reader, The replay of the BIG annual planning workshop is now here for those of you who were unable to attend live or those who would like to go through things again. If you're a newcomer, or need a recap, please know that you can drop into creative planning at any point of the process. It takes a while to absorb all the implications of the method, but once understood and implemented, everything--writing, book production, marketing and promotion becomes easier. Please let me know if you...

4 months ago • 2 min read

Hello Reader, It's the end of November, which means that 2023 is almost over--but don't put your feet up just yet! You still have time to put some key actions in place to help you sell more books in this final month of the year. What should those actions be? That's the topic of the creative planning workshop this coming Thursday, where I'll be bringing authors through a process that answers that question for each, individually. Join us to answer that key question for yourself and walk away...

5 months ago • 1 min read
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Hello Reader, This is your monthly round-up bulletin, bringing you the latest from the Self-Publishing Advice Center, my Go Creative! planning programs for authors, and updates and events from the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). This month we're looking back at The Self-publishing Advice Conference and looking forward to January 2024 planning, with my Kickstarter: Creative Planning for Indie Authors Latest self-publishing news (More below): Spotify Premium Rolls Out Audiobooks in the...

5 months ago • 6 min read

Reader It's official ... a lot of authors are interested in creative planning! The Creative Planning for Authors & Poets campaign on Kickstarter reached base funding in 12 hours and is continuing to grow. It's just passed its first stretch goal, which means I'm now sending free bonus awards to all backers, including a copy of my Creative Self-Publishing book, in ebook format. If we reach the next stretch goal, I'll be making that a signed paperback. And in this email, I'd like to offer an...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Hello Reader It's Orna here. I hope this email finds you well and brimming with creative energy! This is a one-off reach out with two updates about the Go Creative! planning program I devised for indie authors--designed to optimize our creative energies, so we can go from dream to done! The planners, and the associated programs, underwrite my own busy life as a writer, publisher and founder-director of ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. For a while now I've been offering the program...

6 months ago • 2 min read

Hello Reader, How is your writing and publishing going? If you need a boost, I have three exciting updates for you today. 1) Book Update Launch First up, there's a new edition of Creative Self-Publishing out, and I wanted to have a free copy. It has an expanded and improved planning section. You can download at my BookFunnel Link on: https://selfpublishingadvice.org/SelfPubGuidebook ALLi member: please note this book and all ALLi guides are freely available to you already through the member...

6 months ago • 2 min read
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