Orna Ross
Orna Ross is an award-winning historical novelist, poet, and founder-director of the global non-profit for self-publishing writers, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi).
An international bestseller, she enjoys book sales in 120+ countries worldwide and her awards include the Goethe Historical Fiction Grand Prize Award for fiction, Gold Literary Titan award for poetry, the Romantic Novelists Association's Indie Champion Award, The Writers' Digest's Top Websites for Writers, and The Bookseller's Top 100 people in publishing.
In what she describes as “the best move of my writing life”, Orna took her book rights back from her publishers in 2011. The experience has made her a passionate advocate for the commercial and creative empowerment of authors through self-publishing and selective rights licensing.
“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”
“If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.”
“You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.”
“It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
“Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.”