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Can you dumb down text so your writing is suitable for an 11-year-old to read and understand? If your writing isn’t scoring a reading grade down at that level, then perhaps you might want to read on. There’s a fine line between dumbing down and opening up your writing to a wider online readership. But…
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Your manuscript is finished. It is off to your editor, line editor, proofreader, or beta readers, so you wait? No way. You’ve got a lot of work to do. Here are seven essential tasks you can work on while your finished manuscript is in the hands of others. You will be so busy that you…
Your Manuscript Is Finished, Now What Do You Need To Do? Read More »
If you’re an aspiring or published author, you probably know that building an author platform helps you reach more readers and sell more books. But what exactly is an author platform, and how do you build one? The starting point is creating a blog or website, but there many more parts to it than that.…
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Today’s book market gives power to readers – even the not-so-nice ones who post mean book reviews. Less than ten years ago, readers had little opportunity to review books. You could only find book reviews in newspapers and the back blurb of books. But times have changed. Nowadays, every reader can have their say about…
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We live in a world of streams of data. You would think it should be easy to access book sales data to find out where your book sales come from. But the truth is that it is next to impossible. No, I’ll rephrase that. It is impossible to access book sales data apart from raw…
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Ebooks are price-sensitive, so what is your Kindle ebook pricing strategy? If you have set your ebook selling price and not changed it since you first published it, perhaps it’s time to take another look at your list price. If book sales are not rolling in the door for you, it’s probably a good time…
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Writing is akin to being naked in the street, baring yourself to the world. This paraphrases the thought expressed to me by a friend recently when we discussed publishing one’s writing. The analogy of writing naked is very good. We write our thoughts hidden from public view and safe from prying eyes and ears. A…
Writing Naked – You Are Always Baring Your Soul To Your Readers Read More »
Here are ten humorous writing tips to help you improve your writing accuracy. We all spend so much time writing online. It is always a good idea to make sure that your writing skills are up to an acceptable and readable standard. There’s nothing worse than reading a tweet, a LinkedIn or Facebook entry, or…
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The Amazon Instant Kindle Previewer tool is a fantastic free Kindle book promotion tool to encourage fast ebook preview reading. But it’s not so obvious to find. If you are promoting your books, you will know it takes a potential reader some clicks to get from a book link on your author’s website or blog…
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This article is a short step-by-step guide on how to format an ebook in Microsoft Word. One of the common questions authors ask me is how to get the correct formatting for an ebook for Kindle, Smashwords, or Draft2Digital. While many authors might think that it is sometimes difficult to get a manuscript passed by…
