Profile of Word Weaver Writing Contest: The First of Two 4th PLACE WINNERS, “The Bloody Dogwood Tree” by Dabney Farmer
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KDP, CreateSpace, Fate and Me
I know the title sounds a bit pretentious, but as I begin yet another round of editing on the KDP how-to, I can’t help feeling that Fate is looking out for me. How else to explain the fact that the IngramSpark review result came back just one day after KDP swallowed CreateSpace whole?
To give you an idea of the timeline, I approved the KDP how-to for publishing by CreateSpace just one day before the announcement of the merger.
On the day of the announcement, I logged back into the KDP website and discovered that I could no longer migrate my CreateSpace books over to KDP manually. The option to do so was gone, completely. The before and after screenshots below highlight the change in the KDP interface.
This is how the KDP interface looked before the merger:
If you clicked the button for ‘No’, you’d be shown the options…
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#HistFic Rosie’s #Bookreview of A Woman’s Lot by Carolyn Hughes set in #Hampshire
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Interview with Authors Robbie Cheadle and Michael Cheadle!
INTERVIEW WITH AUTHORS ROBBIE CHEADLE AND MICHAEL CHEADLE!
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It’s a pleasure to have you here, Robbie and Michael. The soap box is all yours.
1. Please tell us something about yourself.
I am a qualified chartered accountant and have worked in corporate finance and capital markets for 19 years. I started writing poetry as a young teenager but stopped when I was 16 years old. I started writing poetry again in 2014. I was watching my children and niece playing one morning when a poem came into my head, virtually fully formed.
I started writing publications in 2014 for work. I wrote a series of seven non-fiction publications about the African capital markets. This gave me a lot of insight into the formatting, editing and publication process.
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4 Useful Tips to Promote a Book on YouTube More Effectively
I recently shared 7 Reasons for Using Videos in Your Social Marketing Campaigns. Many commented that it’s hard using YouTube effectively–a statement I agree with, as I’m pretty inexperienced in its use myself. Which is why I hope you find today’s guest post by Edward Parker useful!
4 Useful Tips to Promote a Book on YouTube More Effectively
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Many authors don’t focus enough on using YouTube to promote their books. That is unfortunate, seeing as it is the second largest search engine on the planet, and there are lots of reasons why you should be publishing videos to promote your book on its platform.
While promoting a book on YouTube effectively can be tricky, there are a few useful tips that will help you to get started:
1. Create a professional YouTube channel
Before you start to publish any videos promoting your book on YouTube you should first…
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A Thousand Miles of History XXXIII: The chapel in the grove …
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Identity Crisis #writing #lifehacks #mgtab
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Lately, I’ve been questioning my ability as a writer and it’s left me feeling lost and depressed.
Do you ever doubt yourself?
I think it began with the big change in our lives this summer. As many of you know, my daughter and grandson have moved over six thousand km away so she can continue with her dream to become a marine biologist.
While I’m incredibly proud of her, it’s also left a big gap in my days. I’m used to being there for my grandson, often picking him up for lacrosse or hockey or swimming practice.
He’s a key part of our lives and we are lost without him.
I’m empty inside and find it increasingly hard to put words on the page. I hope this is a short term thing, I mean it’s not like I can’t text or FaceTime him whenever I…
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Vendetta by Dreda Say Mitchell @DredaMitchell
Book Description:
Two murders. Two different crime scenes. One killer?
Mac wakes in a smashed-up hotel room with no recollection of what has happened. With his lover’s corpse in the bathroom and the evidence suggesting that he killed her, Mac is on a mission to uncover the truth and find the real killer.
But he’s in a race against time with less than a day to unravel the mystery. Still reeling from a personal tragedy Mac isn’t afraid of pain. Hot on his heels is tenacious Detective Inspector Rio Wray. Double-crossed and in the line of fire, Mac has to swim through a sea of lies to get to the truth.
But only Mac knows he’s been living a double life. Can he be sure he doesn’t have the blood of a dead woman on his hands?
My Thoughts:
I’ve had this book sat on my kindle for way too…
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Angel Messages August 31 2018
Your DAILY MESSAGE from Angels
YOUMUST BEIMPORTANT to YOU!
We love you
I do understand this, Angels!!!
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For Indie Publishers: When and Why to Work with a Trade Book Distributor – by Joe Biel…
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As a small and new indie publisher, it’s hard to sell even 100 copies of a book in a month, let alone every month. Bookstores will give you the runaround of why they can’t stock your book because of such-and-such ordering policy. If a book is not published with advance notice and it’s by an unknown author and an unknown publisher, that’s three strikes for most major accounts and you’re not even considered.
Many new publishers thus believe that gaining access to trade distribution would be the holy grail of their publishing quest. But like all things that we think we want, the results are not exactly what you might expect.
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