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April 5, 2015
Are You Using Pinned Tweets?
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Twitter recently rolled out a new feature for profile pages that allows you to keep your vital content visible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This feature is known asPinned Tweets, and it’s an important part of your content delivery strategy. Andyou’re notusing it. You read that correctly. It’s one of the single greatest content delivery features Twitter has graced us with, and you’re completely ignoring it! How do I...
March 31, 2015
Whiskey, Wine, & Writing (& Me!)
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Hello friends and readers! I had the great privilege of being interviewed by the beautiful people at Whiskey, Wine, & Writing last night on Google Hangouts. We covered everything from Self-Publishing to…MORE SELF-PUBLISHING! [What else did you think I’d be talking about? ] If you get the chance, head on over to the link above and give it a watch. And since they took the time to make this awesome graphic (below), I...
March 22, 2015
Link Globalization
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Did you knowthere is more than one Amazon.com store? Don’t worry. If you didn’t know there is anamazon.co.uk, or anamazon.de, or even anamazon.co.jp, you’re not alone. In fact, many are unaware there are at least 13 international Amazon storefronts. But until you’re aware of this (and do something about it) youmay be sending potential customers to the wrong store, losing untold sales in the process! Link globalization is someth...
March 10, 2015
Out of Office
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Hello friends! If I’m slow to respond to comments through my various media outlets over the next 10 days, it’s because I’m out of office with limited access. I promise I’ll get caught up around the 18th-ish of March. Cheers!
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February 18, 2015
Self-Published Book Awards
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Based on the email I received this morning from Writer’s Digest, it’s that time of year again. No, I’m not talking about Christmas! I’m talking about thetime of year to decide whether you’re entering the annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. I want to offer my perspective, since I participated inthe 2014 award cycle. Frankly, I was rather disappointed with the result last year, and it wound up being a $100 (...
February 7, 2015
Violence Vs. Sex In American Culture
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I hope you don’t mind me taking an uncharacteristic journey into self-indulgence for a moment. This will be short, I promise. The title of the article is probably far more lofty than it deserves. Earlier this evening on Facebook, I spotted the following image: This rustled my jimmies enough to share the image on my page with a bit of a rant. I know many of you will disagree with what I said, and that’s ok! No,...
January 25, 2015
As You Know, Bob…
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Psst. Yeah you. I’ve talked to Bob, and you’re pissing him off. He thinks you’re a pretentious know-it-all, and peopleare leaving the cocktail party in droves. They didn’t come here to listen to the same old stories. Oh bloody hell.That literary agent just walked out. You have any idea how hard it was to get herhere in the first place?! Wait. You look confused. Ok, I’ll back up. If you’re a new writer, it’s possible you have abso...
December 7, 2014
So You Want To Start A Blog
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You know you want to. You’ve considered doing it for a while now, but something always stops you. Maybe you’ve alreadydone itonce or twice, but it didn’t feel right, so you swore you’d never do it again. It made you feel uncomfortable. Or worse, it turned you into a slave and you couldn’t handleit. All your friends do it, and they look at you funny when you say “I’m not judging, but I just don’t get it.” You’re tempted,...
November 2, 2014
Review: Quirky Claus by Sebastian White
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I’m not going to lie. My first reaction whenever a writerasks me to read and review his/herbook is usually “I don’t wanna do this…I don’t wanna do this…I don’t wanna do this!” And I really need to get my attitude in check, because I’ve been blessed, lately, with a slew of awesome independently-published books. Quirky Claus is one such book. It’s not often that I’mdelightedwhile reading a book I’m reviewing,...
October 15, 2014
Serve the Story
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Many of you who follow me on Twitter have seen this tweet that I send out periodically: It’s all about the story. When deciding what to cut, ask yourself: does it serve the story? #writetip Those of us who have been writing for a while have this ingrained in our DNA. Make no mistake about it, though. We didn’t start our writing career that way. Like any other element of the craft, this is something we had to learn over time.Writing...
