Pinterest popped up in March 2010 and has become the third most popular social media site. Check that! Pinterest is ahead of Google+, StumbleUpon, and all other social media save Twitter and Facebook — and Pinterest is gaining on them. A 30 year-old ex-Google employee from West Des Moines, Iowa spawned this wonder. Ben Silbermann is his name and now he’s a guru. I went over to …(there’s more) Continue reading
I guess analogy sort of makes publishing like the mafia. I don’t know if I would draw that connection too broadly, but there is this one similarity: If you sit on the sidelines and call yourself a writer for too long, eventually you’re going to be called upon to prove yourself worthy of the title. Eventually, you have to make your move. I set out …(there’s more) Continue reading
If you’re going to write books (or write articles) and sell your writing or publish your books, you have to know your industry and stay one step ahead of the competition. Choose your weapons. Do you want to pursue traditional New York style publishers and book agents, or is self-publishing going to work better for you? Maybe your bailiwick is ebooks and digital publishing. Whatever you decide, …(there’s more) Continue reading
Are you an author who sells writings? Then you should follow the debate between PayPal and Smashwords. Smashwords is one of the key players in the development of our burgeoning epublishing industry and PayPal is, of course, the way to exchange money online. Why should you care about a face off between these two juggernauts? There may be precedent set here as the drama plays …(there’s more) Continue reading
Two weeks ago friend and fellow ghostwriter, Grant McDuling, suggested I look into an extremely robust wordprocessor for fiction and non-fiction writers. Always up for a book writing related adventure I jumped in and found Scrivener authoring software immensely worth my time. There is a learning curve involved with Scrivener, but an hour or two will have you writing and formatting all kinds of manuscripts …(there’s more) Continue reading
