Nice reminder. Dear Writers, do your research. It’s free and easy to upload a file to Amazon. If you must pay, read the contract carefully and know what you’re getting.
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13 Weeks: 13 Quick Blogging Tips: Week 1 – The Search Bar
Blog tips from Hugh. Does your blog have a search bar?
U.S. Blogging Event Details, Poll
Whaaatt?? A blog event in my home town? Yaass!
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20 Ways to Get Yourself Out There as a Writer
This year get on out there! Great list on how.
Guest Post: The 10 Best tools for Bloggers and Freelance writers
Post Quote: “If you are a blogger or a freelance writer churning material for an income, you will likely face a basket load of productivity problems.”
This is a guest post by Benjamin Chiang, an enthusiast of good advertising, deep thinking, labor issues, and chocolate. As a writer, his work has appeared on www.fivestarsandamoon.com, Yahoo, Vulcanpost.com among others. You can find him at www.rangosteen.com or follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/brchiang
The 10 Best tools for Bloggers and Freelance writers
If you are a blogger or a freelance writer churning material for an income, you will likely face a basket load of productivity problems. These include:
- Day-to-day journaling
- Writing productivity
- Organizing research
- Graphic making
- Collaboration
Here are some tools, both free and paid, that will help you meet your deadline!
Day-to-Day Journaling
In the old days, Hemmingway wrote on Moleskins and lugged them all around in heavy trunks (albeit heavy Louis Vuitton trunks). Though romantic to write in, you may find difficulty running a keyword search on notebooks. That’s why most of us…
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Amazon’s New Reviewing Rules – Could it Affect Authors in the Future?
Very interesting.
Sorry re-posting this had an error posting it, sorry if you saw that error 😮
Today Amazon.com has banned all reviews for free and discounted products unless they are done via Amazon’s Vine program. The reasons for this are clear and understandable but what implications will this have for future selling on amazon and while books are currently exempt from this, will they always be?
I’ve been reviewing on amazon UK for nearly two years now. I started out reviewing video games and colouring books. For those who have read more of my blog you’ll know that reviewing items on amazon gave me a way to cope with a traumatic event I suffered. A way to keep my mind off of everything that had happened and to focus on something else. I began by reviewing items I’d bought but once my ranking had reached a certain level I was approached…
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Eight Reasons Why Writers Should Use Twitter
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If you follow me on Twitter, then you know that I have more than 5,000 followers and frequently post throughout the day.
How frequently? Every two hours. But I do take a break between 10 pm and 8 am Eastern Time.
A typical tweet has a two-hour shelf-life. That’s not much. If you want to get your content noticed—whether you’ve written it yourself or you’re retweeting someone else—you need to tweet throughout the day.
But why Twitter?
- If you’re active on Twitter, it will refer a ton of traffic to your blog and website. (Twitter is my #1 source of website traffic.)
- There’s a large community of Indie authors on Twitter who are willing to help you promote your book and form supportive alliances. Endeavor to meet other authors in your genre, share blog posts and promote each other on Twitter.
- Twitter will help you market your books.
- Twitter is where…
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