Update to Indie Author Lab: Orna Ross's New Program Now Online on Substack
About this episode
Orna Ross discusses the Indie Author Lab program designed to support indie authors in navigating their challenges.
Orna Ross, founder and director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, discusses the development and purpose of Indie Author Lab, explaining how it was created in response to changes in the indie author community—particularly the rise of AI. An ongoing monthly program designed to help serious authors address their specific challenges, it is based on Orna's Alliance of Independent Authors guidebook, Creative Self-Publishing , and focuses on four measures of success: productivity, platform, profit, and pleasure. With live monthly sessions, a community chat room, and access to resources and tools, the program is flexible enough to work for authors at any stage of their development—and will feature at AuthorNation 2026. Show Notes Indie Author Lab on Substack AuthorNation 2026 Sponsor Our Creative Self-Publishing stream is brought to you by Orna Ross's Go Creative! program —helping authors harness the power of creative flow in writing and publishing. About the Host Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller's "100 top people in publishing". She also publishes poetry, fiction…
People in this episode
Host: Orna Ross
Topics covered
- indie authors
- AI in publishing
- author development
- self-publishing
- community support
Keywords
- Indie Author Lab
- self-publishing
- AI
- author community
- productivity
- profit
- pleasure
Sponsors
Go Creative!
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Alliance of Independent Authors
Products: Creative Self-Publishing
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