Why You Should Use a Link Shortener/Redirection Plugin on Your Website
Earlier today I got a question over on The Digital Reader's Facebook page that I thought deserved to be answered in a blog post. I had...Continue reading
Tag: authors
Here’s a selection of helpful posts we’ve written for our author audience.
How to Resize/Fix the Image Files on Your Author Website
So I was reading a post over on the Bookworks blog where Carla King explains how to correctly size images before uploading to your site, but...Continue reading
Introducing “Author Website in a Box” (beta)
For the past couple weeks I have been working on a new project, and I think it's gotten to the point where it's ready for public...Continue reading
How to Create a Live Backup of Your Working Files Using Google Drive
My server getting hacked a couple months ago made me deeply appreciative of regularly scheduled backups (sometimes the best solution to a situation is to delete...Continue reading
Nine Tips for Authors Going to Their First Book Fair (updated)
Book fairs and other local events can be a great way for authors to connect with readers and make new fans. They are immensely valuable, but...Continue reading
How to Find Free (and Legal) Images Online
A few weeks back I discovered another nugget of useful info that I picked up while blogging and just assumed everyone knew, and today I would...Continue reading
Fourteen Amazing Google Docs Hacks to Make Writing Your Next Novel Easier
Google Docs is a popular word-processing tool that lets you access your documents and files from any internet-connected device. I for one have found it to...Continue reading
Six Default Amazon Security Settings You Can Change for More Privacy
So as you may know, my mother is on my Amazon account. (There is a point to this anecdote, trust me.) We mainly use it to...Continue reading
How to Sell eBooks at Cons and Book Festivals
Initially published in April 2019, this is a periodically updated reference post on how authors can sell ebooks at in-person events. As someone who prefers ebooks...Continue reading
Press, Page, Media, and Pub – Did You Know You Have More Website Domain Options Than Just DotCom?
Do you know how almost everyone uses a website domain ending in DotCom? Have you ever thought about being more adventurous? The usual advice on the...Continue reading
Four Things I Learned When My Websites Got Hacked
Here’s a post where I learn a little humility, and everyone else gets to see that “it really can happen to anyone” isn’t just something we...Continue reading
A Dozen Tools for Managing Your Kindle Notes and Highlights
Amazon's Kindle is a great reading platform with a number of useful annotation features, but sometimes it's not enough. I recently updated my four-year-old post on Kindle...Continue reading
33 Ornament, Dingbat, and Other Decorative Fonts You Can Use (Legally and For Free) in Your Next eBook
Fonts are cool, and they are probably the biggest reason that this blogger envies authors. Authors are free to embed fonts in their ebooks or use...Continue reading
How to Set Up and Edit Your Amazon.com Author Profile
KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) is widely seen as a self-publishing portal. This is funny both because publishers use it to manage their titles in the Kindle...Continue reading
How to be a Better Podcast Guest
Virtually every marketing expert agrees that if you want to get your message out there in 2018, podcasts are the way to go. We're told we...Continue reading