A Meme for Readers…
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Your words are as important to an author, as an authorโs words are to you.
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This Floating Life
By D. Avery
If you havenโt stopped by the Annecdotistโs blog lately you should. In addition to thoughtfully thorough book reviews, Anne Goodwin will also treat you to her thinking on matters related to writing, recently on how to deal with โwriterly disappointmentsโ, to, as she says, โfeel the disappointment without wallowing in despairโ. Anne notes in this post that the cure for disappointment is success and says that, โalongside mourning lost dreams, a writer must work to celebrate any success, however smallโ. She has promised a post on celebrating success and I am looking forward to it; the discussion has already begun in her comments. Initially Iโm thinking it might be a greater challenge for most to celebrate our own successes than to admit our failures even. Writers have to balance the seesaw of setbacks and successes, walk the beam between self-indulgence andโฆ
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Top Five DIY Book Layout Mistakes – by Joel Friedlander…
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On The Book Designer:
Book designer and author Joel Friedlander takes a look at pitfalls self-publishers face when doing their own book formatting, and explains how to avoid these mistakes in the first place.
How indie authors can avoid book design pitfalls
Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates With Google Keywords. You Never Know – by Derek Haines…
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on Just Publishing Advice:

Sometimes, Google keywords really are like a box of chocolates
To quote Forrest Gumpย played by Tom Hanks.
My momma always said, โLife was like a box of chocolates. You never know what youโre gonna get.โ
So what has it got to do with Google?
I am sometimes disappointed after agonising over keyword ideas for a new blog post.
Google very often ignores my keyword choices, but then, from time to time, gives me a pleasant surprise.
It is not always by an exact match that it helps get you organic traffic.
Sometimes I spend as long doing my keyword research as I do writing an article, which is quite common now if you are into content marketing.


