Tag Archive | How-to
Hard-core Manuscript Formatting
Originally posted on Lara Willard:
Or, Making your Typesetter Love You. This is Part Two on my series of MS Formatting. For the basics of MS formatting, read Part One here. Get a template here in Part Three. Remove all double spaces. First, find and replace all double spaces with single spaces. Each period should be followed…
Author Presence: Your Brand Name
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
Author Presence: Your Brand Name In my previous Author Presence article I discussed About.me, it’s importance, it’s various categories and some advice about what to do when setting your account up. Choosing Your Brand Name Your name is the best thing to use across all of your social media…
Author Presence: About.me-What and How To.
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
Authors: Let’s get started setting up your web presence. Each day this week I will have an article about another piece to setup. I am not into doing everything at once in one article. We’re not in a hurry. Doing everything in one article makes people feel overwhelmed when…
How to Write a Book Review.
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
How to Write a Book Review One of my Mottos here at Lit World Interviews is ‘Read a Book, Write a Review’. Nice idea, huh? How do you write a review? Scary thought, isn’t it? Trust me, it wasn’t easy my first time, and not my best. I was…
500 and Counting…
Originally posted on How to be a great Store Manager:
Yesterday I reached a bit of a milestone. I was sitting having lunch with my wife and my parents. My iPhone bleeped, notifying me of a new alert. The alert was from the WordPress App, ‘Congratulations, you’ve reached 500 likes!’ Everyday, my blog that I…
The Terrifying World of Author’s Social Media Mistakes and Tips To Stop Them Happening
Originally posted on Madeleine Swann:
At the moment I and everyone else is surrounded by heart stopping stories of bizarrely ranting authors, such as the cases of ‘The Author Who Trolled Himself For Four Goddamn Months‘ Stephen J Harper and ‘I Am Not Your Bitch You Are Mine‘ Chelsea Cain. I say heart stopping rather than…
Top 5 Tips from Fellow Bloggers
Originally posted on Reading Page by Paige:
Yes, I think it is time that I jump into the all-known cliche of blogging and at least write ONE tip post. I have compiled a list of some websites that I feel could be helpful in more ways then one to many people. Whether you are a…
Breaking into book marketing. Well, almost.
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
So, I’ve been doing some research, trying to find out how it is possible to write great books, get tremendous reviews and not manage to sell any of them. The answer lies obviously somewhere in the murky zone of marketing and promotion. There was a time when publishers dealt…
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Submitting Short Stories to Magazines
Originally posted on Self-Published Authors Helping Other Authors:
Have you ever written a short story and tried to get it published in a magazine? Chances are you have. Many authors, both traditional and indie, write short stories and try to get them published in print magazines, on e-mags, or in anthologies. I’ve been published in…