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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 Rubery International Book Award (founded in 2010 by Heather Painter) is the largest cash award for books published by independent publishers and self published authors in Great Britain. [1] The London Review of Books described it as "independent publishing's response to the Booktrust and the Orange Prize . [ 2 ]
The National Literary Awards defines independent or "indie" literature as "books published outside mainstream publishing." [permanent dead link ] Such books are rarely recognized and hard to pin down, but some examples include "Damastor" by Dimitri Iatrou, "Returning Home" by Marcus Blake and "Hope...Joy (and a Few Little Thoughts) for Pregnant Teens" by Rachel Brigoni.
Mark Dawson is a self-published British author. [1] [2] He writes the John Milton series of thriller novels.[1]Dawson runs the "Self Publishing Formula", which calls itself a "one-stop shop for everything you need to know about self-publishing". [3]
Mikel Frans Jollett (born May 21, 1974) [1] is an American musician and author. He is best known as the frontman for American indie rock band the Airborne Toxic Event as well as the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Hollywood Park (2020).
Adelaide Writers' Week, known locally as Writers' Week or WW, is a large and mostly free literary festival held annually in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.It forms part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, where attendees meet, listen, and discuss literature with Australian and international writers in "Meet the Author" sessions, readings and lectures.
The Tucson Festival of Books is a free annual book fair held in Tucson, Arizona during the second weekend in March. It was established in 2009 by Bill Viner, Frank Farias, John M. Humenik, Bruce Beach, and Brenda Viner. The event is primarily sponsored by the University of Arizona, which hosts the festival, and the Arizona Daily Star.
In 2020, TIME named it one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time. [3] A sequel, called The Fires of Vengeance, was published in 2020. [4] Following its initial publication, Orbit Books re-released The Rage of Dragons and signed Winter to a four-book deal. The Rage of Dragons was on the long list of the CBC ' s 2020 Canada Reads. [5]