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
Don’t panic. You wrote your ebook, had the ebook professionally edited, polished the ebook to a gloss and you feel ready to publish that ebook to Kindle’s self publishing site for Kindle readers and Amazon customers. Don’t panic. There’s a learning curve to self-publishing electronically via Amazon’s Kindle, but Kindle has the largest market share of ebook sales. If you can only publish one format …(there’s more) Continue reading
I’d like to share one of the most valuable pieces of writing advice I ever got. It helped me sell more writing and get more readers. Then, I’d like you to tell me, in the comments, what advice really moved your writing, authoring, or freelance career along. Into My Writing Wayback Machine In college, I had a fantastic writing professor, Jack Dodd. After reading …(there’s more) Continue reading
What writer hasn’t struggled with writers’ block, sometimes every time she sits down to write? Deadlines loom. Editors gnash their teeth. Words don’t come. Oh! The pain of it! But no more, writers. You can power-up your writing career and meet those deadlines, publish those ebooks, learn how to make money as a writer even when your brain is in low gear. You must put …(there’s more) Continue reading
