It’s so easy to create a children’s ebook with online tools available now. I’m certainly not a children’s book author or illustrator. But for this post, I had no problems at all in creating a simple ebook for kids. It took me around five minutes to design a ten-page PDF ebook. Once I decided on…
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Every day, I seem to spend more and more time monitoring and blocking spam and bad bot traffic. It doesn’t matter if your blog or website is big or small; bots are hitting it all the time. When I check a couple of my smaller sites that receive very few visitors per day, there is…
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Is it continually or continuously? While both describe something that happens over time, the difference is in the “stops.” Use continually for something that happens frequently but with starts and stops (like a recurring meeting). Use continuously for something that happens without any interruption at all (like a flowing river). The difference between continually and…
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I often read posts by self-publishing authors complaining about Amazon’s Kindle ebook refund policy. Yes, it seems a little unfair that readers can buy an ebook, read it, and then return it for a full refund. But how long do readers have to claim a refund? If you have read a few articles on this…
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When you publish your writing online, there is very little chance that you will ever be able to delete it entirely. You might write articles, blog posts, or submit your short stories or poetry to posting sites. Whatever form of writing you publish online, you need to know how permanent it can be. Even if…
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What are sticky sentences and glue words in writing? They are sentences that use too many unnecessary words, especially transition words and conjunctions. When this happens, it can dilute your writing, making it difficult to read and understand and weakening the overall impact. While transition words and conjunctions are essential for connecting ideas and creating…
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If you have ever struggled with unexpected formatting or weird line breaks in your Kindle ebooks, a plain text editor might be your new best friend. While most authors write with word processors like Microsoft Word or Apple Pages, these programs always embed hidden code that can play havoc with your final manuscript. A plain…
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Yes, double negatives are usually a big mistake in writing, but there are certain situations when you can use them effectively. In school, you probably learned that double negatives are always wrong. But that’s not entirely true. Surprisingly, there are particular situations when you can use them for emphasis, politeness, or to express a lack…
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The best way to sell your new title is to have it appear in Amazon search results for books. However, it can be challenging for new authors to figure out how to do it. With so many new books appearing on Amazon every day, you need to work hard to be competitive. But if you…
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You know you need to check your writing before publishing an article, a blog post, or a book. However, effective checking involves much more than grammar and spelling checking. You want to make sure that your text reads well and keeps a reader’s attention. To achieve this, the flow or order of your content is…
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