This post is about how you cut your book success off at the knees when you don’t commit to the publishing process. It’s also about ensuring professional quality in all books you write. Freight Train truth coming… Publishing an eBook…
Learning Instagram and Twitter for authors? In making a new account for Business Author Academy, I came across some helpful information, which I’d like to share with you. Apparently, you can use up to 30 hashtags on Instagram posts and…
Even though I’ve been writing books for ten years, a distinct lack of planning has held me back. What about you? Can you discipline yourself to research, plan and write a nonfiction book series? I’m a non-expert who writes—and self-publishes—how-to…
Don’t look, I’m changing my positioning! Weird! Some people don’t think of themselves as a ‘brand’… but really we are talking of ‘brand positioning’. While I have been setting up Power of Words for business copywriting and content marketing, I did…
Amplify is a book where you start reading and nodding along and soon find yourself down a rabbit hole. But a good one. You’ll be podcast listening — and perhaps hosting one — in no time. Having become intrigued, I…
WordPress has now become the most popular self-hosted CMS, beating out Drupal, Expression Engine and Blogger. (A CMS is a Content Management System). Here, we’ll discuss how to log in once to WordPress and measure website visitors, quickly and easily….
You may be an author, a blogger, or a copywriter, whichever, we all need to learn to write copy that doesn’t make a reader wince with distaste and that’s persuasive. It doesn’t just apply to book blurbs, but on the…
Have the desire to create and share your ideas but not the know-how of writing a book? Take a peek over my shoulder as I step through the process in this four part series. Starting out Mulling Over Ideas…. There are…
by Laurie Lewis Outskirts Press, 2011, 2nd edition. In What to Charge: Pricing Strategies for Freelancers & Consultants, there is ample advice which will stop your flight into lassez-faire freelancing (or consulting) in its tracks. By the end of chapter…
Edited 8/11/18. I’m normally ‘cautiously optimistic’. But several niggles with distribution to Australian book retailers for those using Print on Demand (IngramSpark) have recently come to light. It’s time we authors said: this is ridiculous! In fact, I have just put in…