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Orna Ross is the pen name of Aine McCarthy, [1] born 1960. She is an Irish author, [2] former literary agent, blogger and an advocate for creativism. [3] [4] She is the founder of the Alliance for Independent Authors, [5] [6] a professional association for authors who self-publish their work, and has been named one of the top 100 most influential people in publishing by The Bookseller, the UK ...
The Alliance of Independent Authors (often abbreviated to ALLi, pronounced "ally") is a non-profit organisation of independent (or self-published) authors. The organisation was founded at the London Book Fair in 2012, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] by Orna Ross and Philip Lynch.
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Book of the Year Year Author Title Category Ref. 2008: Tim Winton: Breath: Fiction [2] 2009: Craig Silvey: Jasper Jones: Fiction [2] 2010: Not awarded [2] 2011: Anh Do: The Happiest Refugee: Non-Fiction [2] 2012: Anna Funder: All That I Am: Debut Fiction [2] 2013: M. L. Stedman The Light Between Oceans ...
Shields’ debut novel has been recognized on Indie Bestsellers lists, earned the author a six-figure book deal and is gaining a following in the U.S. and U.K., according to a release from Sheilds ...
7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. [ 3 ] April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, The Cuckoo's Calling , under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books .
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, also known as the Indie Book Awards, is a literary awards program that recognizes and honors authors and publishers of exceptional independently published books in 70 different categories. [1] [2] "Indies" include small presses, larger independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self ...
Mahoney's debut novel Fellow Mortals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. [1]Bell Weather (Henry Holt & Co., 2015) was named an Indie Next Pick official selection [2] and a Boston Globe Pick of the Week.
His 2013 novel Cataract City was named as a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. [8] In addition to his literary fiction, Davidson has also published several works of horror literature using the pseudonyms Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter. In 2014, he released the thriller novel The Troop, with The Deep following in 2015. [9]