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For self-published authors, book promotion is always a challenge, so you need a few essential book promotion tools. It takes time to plan your book marketing ideas before your book launch. Then you need to keep the buzz going after you publish a book. There are many ways to market a book, yet for an…
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I originally wrote a positive review of LivingWriter, but I am no longer able to recommend it to authors. While the app was a fine tool for writing a book initially, recent changes to the web and desktop versions have caused issues. In addition, my own experience with the program’s support in recent months has…
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You see sharing buttons on many sites you visit. But do readers use social share buttons today, or have they become blind to them? Perhaps you have a set of buttons on your site or blog. If you do, how effective are they? How many of your site visitors click to share? When you visit…
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There are many reasons why you might want to start a publishing company. If you have a passion for writing, books, and readers, it could be a business opportunity for you in the book market. While traditional publishers naturally dominate, there are niche areas of the market where independent publishers can succeed. The key to…
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Do you want to know how to self-publish a book or an ebook? It’s quite easy to do once you learn the basics. Can you succeed in self-publishing books and ebooks? Yes, many self-published authors and writers are achieving success by taking control of their work and becoming author-publishers. Become a self-published author Some indie authors…
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A premium or free Amazon keyword tool is a must for all self-publishing authors. Search keywords on Amazon help customers find your book when they use search terms to find a new book to read. But discovering relevant keywords for your book is not a quick and easy process. To uncover what search queries Amazon…
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The first tip for starting to write a new book is to have a plan. A snowflake outline can help you develop this plan, especially for fiction books. An outline for nonfiction books, such as memoirs and biographies, is relatively straightforward. You usually list the events in chronological order. Other nonfiction books, such as Self-help…
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The past perfect tense is very useful in writing. We use it to show that an action occurred before another action in the past. It is a tense that concisely creates order without using time clause expressions like, and then or afterward. Although it is a perfect tense because it uses the auxiliary, had, it…
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Before you publish anything online, it’s a good idea to choose from a range of free plagiarism checkers to check your text. You’re writing original content. But some parts of what you write might be duplicate content or accidental plagiarism. It isn’t the same as copied content, though. If you use a plagiarism detector, you can…
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Question tags in dialogue are not always a good idea. They are often called tag questions in American English and are very common in spoken English. They are easy to form using a positive or negative auxiliary verb to turn a statement into a question. You live in San Francisco, don’t you? By using rising…
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