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Book Writing, Updates

Sharing Your Creative Side

Part of the Creative Ways with Money philosophy is knowing your own strengths, skills and resources and then finding creative new ways to share them with others. In the book, we do this through finding our life’s purpose (our Ikigai), knowing what’s real and what’s not, and applying our strengths to business or online income streams. It seems everything is changing at the moment and many of us can’t figure out what to do with our time. Remember that we don’t just create in a vacuum. We must look at what is real right now and set an intention for ourselves. Here is one personal development author’s take on it: “Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to…
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How to Use Insta and Twitter Hashtags for Authors

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 10 hashtags on an Insta Story. Thinking that would be hard and admitting to sheer laziness, I was glad when someone emailed me this automated tool (87% safe rating on scamadvisor): https://Autogramtags.com What’s an Instagram Story? It’s a visual spectacle of 15 seconds (video) that you create right in the app. If you don’t have a teen nearby, find out how the kids are doing it here: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/1/15889750/instagram-stories-how-to-tips-features-tricks Canva Quote to Instagram Post Another trick for the not-so-young… I made a Canva picture quote (nice!) but how to put it on Instagram?  Here’s a Mac tip: Just drag the downloaded…
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Self-Publishing News and Surveys Dec 2013

I’m doing a wrap-up of November/December publishing news and research pertinent to the Self-Publisher. Much of this helpful info (and more) will also be tweeted – so please do follow me on Twitter —> Bowker Ranks SmashWords the #1 Producer of Indie Books SmashWords publishes only self-published eBooks. You can see by this US-based 2013 report, the explosion in numbers of self-published titles since 2007. How do Super-Successful Indie Authors Do It? Don’t believe what Joanna says, the woman has sold like 85,000 books on Amazon and other outlets and has published titles about:  book marketing, career change, as well as bestselling fiction titles. Now London newspaper The Guardian has selected Joanna for running creative entrepreneur courses. Her commitment to excellence is obvious! Book Cover Design Secrets This blog posting covers what not to do on a self-published cover (crowding),…
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