professionalism

Does Your Site Welcome Disabled Readers? — Guest: Linda Adams

March 26, 2013 Writing Stuff
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I wanted to give us a break from the all-website-all-the-time posts I’ve had here lately, but then an idea hit me that was too good to ignore. More accurately, Linda Adams left a comment on my post from two weeks ago that struck me as something we don’t talk about enough: accommodating disabled readers in [...]

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What Should an Author Website Include?

March 21, 2013 Writing Stuff
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Some writers—understandably—don’t want to blog. Blogging can take away from our writing time. Thinking of post topics can be difficult. And if we don’t gain a readership (or our blog readership doesn’t cross over into the target audience for our books), it can feel like a waste of time and effort. However as I mentioned [...]

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Switching from Blogger to WordPress — Guest: Natalie C. Markey

March 19, 2013 Writing Stuff
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Last week, I announced my two workshops on WordPress for beginners. One workshop is geared toward those ready to invest in a paid website/blog, and one workshop sticks to free resources. Some might wonder why that second workshop focuses only on WordPress. After all, Blogger (also known as Blogspot) is free too. Does it really [...]

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Do Authors Need a Website and Blog?

March 14, 2013 Writing Stuff
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Today I’m opening two workshops to help beginners set up websites and blogs. With that in mind, I want to go back to “step one” and review why authors might need a website and blog. Years ago, authors could get away with pounding on their typewriter in seclusion and never interacting with the public. Now the [...]

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Facebook: Should We Use a Profile or a Page? — Guest: Lisa Hall-Wilson

March 7, 2013 Over-Achieving Perfectionist
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To those who know me, it’s no secret I enjoy Twitter more than Facebook. Currently, I use just a Facebook profile (the normal accounts for individuals). But if one was necessary, I didn’t want my inability to love Facebook holding me back from utilizing a page (the accounts for businesses). Luckily, I knew just who to [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, branding, giveaway, guest blogs, Jami Gold, Lisa Hall-Wilson, paranormal author, professionalism, social media

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9 Tips for Making Online Friends

February 28, 2013 Random Musings
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In my last post, I talked about the online opportunities for writers, including fully interactive writing conferences. So now is a good time to rerun this post about about how to reach out to other writers online and make friends. I’ve updated this post with notes about what I currently find difficult. Thanks to Laurie [...]

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Where’s the Line between Spamming and Sharing?

February 14, 2013 Writing Stuff
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Anyone reading this post probably doesn’t intend to be a spammer, but it’s possible to cross the line and not realize it. If we’re lucky, a friend will let us know. However, how we react to that observation is yet another minefield in the impression we leave behind in social media. A strange thing happens sometimes when [...]

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Self-Publishing: Prioritizing Fast, Cheap, and Good

February 7, 2013 Writing Stuff
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All writers, especially those who self-publish, have to decide: Are we writing and publishing just for ourselves? Or are we writing and publishing to get customers (readers)? If we’re doing it for ourselves, things like editing and those nice covers we talked about last time don’t matter. Those who write for themselves can self-publish with [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, ebooks, editors, Jami Gold, paranormal author, perfectionism, print on demand, professionalism, self-publishing

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Do You Judge Books by Their Covers?

February 5, 2013 Writing Stuff
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I’ll admit it. I do judge books by their covers, especially in this age of self-publishing. If authors don’t care about the quality of their book cover, it’s easy to assume they also didn’t care about the quality of their writing. Besides, we all have too many reading choices now, and just like agents and editors, we’re [...]

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Branding 101: Who Do You Want to Be?

January 29, 2013 Writing Stuff
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In the comments of my last post about watching our online behavior, some people worried about the bigger picture. Can we still be true to ourselves? Should we not express opinions at all? Would it be safer to stay offline? Let’s work through those questions in reverse order. Locking ourselves in a closet and just [...]

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