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Amazon Improves the Integrity of the Customer Review System
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Image from ShutterStock. AMAZON IMPROVES CUSTOMER REVIEWS What makes customer reviews helpful to other customers, and thereby also helpful for sellers, businesses, authors, and even Amazon? It’s when other customers can trust the review system. Without that trust, reviews become utterly useless. BOOK REVIEW CHANGES IN 2012 Amazon made its first…
How to Make a Partially Transparent Layer in PhotoShop
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Background image from ShutterStock. TRANSPARENT IMAGE IN PHOTOSHOP I will show you how to make a partially transparent image in PhotoShop. Specifically, I will show this for Adobe PhotoShop CC 2015 (since I have the Creative Cloud), but it works similarly in other versions, too. You can see in the image…
Do You Make These Six Errors in Formatting
Originally posted on Plaisted Formatting & Genealogy:
Mistakes on formatting are one of the most common irritations for readers when they buy self published books, be they eBooks or Print. There is a lot of bad formatting out there, never mind the grammar and editorial errors abounding from one English speaking country to the next.…
3 Ways to Fire Up Your Writing Career Today
Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
My impression of writers on social media…. #tinfoilhat I am an “Old Dog” of the digital publishing paradigm. When I started out on social media, I did not want to be a social media expert. I enjoyed editing and teaching and longed to write fiction. But every a$$clown…
Do we overdo some words?
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
Are we using words correctly? We all know about waste words, but what about over doing the descriptive words? Has the definition changed? Research, research, research, now I’ve got to research my words. Sigh. Pixabay Image No one wants their writing to be boring. But in our quest to use different words and…
An 8 Point Guide to Creating The Perfect Writer’s CV
Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I had to update my CV this week and then for one reason or another I had to create a writers CV as well. This stumped me. I mean, what does that even look like? I’d never written a CV just for my writing stuff before. What is it meant…
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