By Grammarly – A fantastic tool for writers! Karen HertzbergUpdated onAugust 13, 2020WRITING Critiques must be handled with a deft touch. I always thought I had a knack for giving useful writing feedback—that is, until a writer friend asked for my thoughts on her novel-in-progress. I gave them, pointing out where her plot seemed to […]
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This You-Tube clip is a very valuable tool for any writer, who wants to advertise his/her books. I have so far paid hundreds of dollars to do what Derek Murphy, a fellow writer and generous coach here so kindly shares! Thanks Derek! Brilliant!
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I just spent an afternoon to finally do some information gathering about website “management”, for lack of a better word! I am a writer, not an IT nerd, so all the nitty gritty “must know and do’s” about managing a personal website are utterly daunting to me! Every now and then I “stumble” over one
What I hadn’t understood about Http and Https websites. An important difference! Read More »
Posted on December 6, 2016 Hi dear readers and followers of my blogs. As I am in the painstaking process of plowing through the truly bewildering offers presented to self-publishing authors and painfully aware of the many pitfalls to avoid in that process, here is an article which I too will have to study carefully. I
As I decided to publish with CreateSpace (Amazon), which is placed in America and which only has printing facilities in the U.S., now that it comes to ordering my finished books, reality has hit! The postage costs are simply horrific! Whereas before, my research as a complete self-publishing novice focussed on HOW TO PUBLISH, i.e.
The time has arrived: distributing my finished books! Read More »
I really like these points listed by “Bookbaby.com” in a recent post, with BlueInk’s permission: Too often, an independent author writing a memoir doesn’t deliver the sort of book readers at large can appreciate. Your task is to tell an interesting story, and you should avoid making these six mistakes. You’ve lived a full and
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One of the dos for “indie” authors (short for independent, I am told) is building your author platform, so it seems. This is one of the many hoops “trendy” self-publishing authors are recommended to jump through, by internet self-publishing gooroos. The list is truly dizzying; first you need to produce a manuscript as close to
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