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Here’s a selection of helpful posts we’ve written for our author audience.
Infographic: Top Ten Book Titles, As Recommended by Librarians
Names are important. Choose the wrong name for a book or series and you can kill its sales before it even reaches the market. This is why it is...
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My Site is Loading Twice As Fast Today As It Was Last Week. How About Yours?
Earlier today I did some behind the scenes work to speed up my site, and I thought it might be helpful if I walked you through the process and...
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Gutenberg Will be Released with WordPress 5.0 on 19 November – Here’s What You Need to Do
We have known for the past 18 months that Gutenberg was going to one day change just about every aspect of running a WordPress site from publishing posts to designing...
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Five Tips for Authors Going to Their First Book Fair
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 at the same...
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The Four Bios Every Author Needs
If you Google author bios you will find a million different articles, each with their own recommendation. Be short and too the point. Use the third person. Simply say...
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Nate’s Big List of Free Courses for Authors
Between marketing, social media, ads, writing, and book formatting, there are a million and one skills authors and other creators need to learn over the course of their career....
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Nate’s Big List of Writing, Marketing, and Publishing Podcasts
What do you call a group of 3 or more adults under 40? (a podcast) Podcasts are now so widespread that they inspired me to write the above joke,...
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Making Your First Infographic Is Easier Than You Think
A reader left a comment on last night's infographic post, and I thought it deserved its own post. Mark Williams asked: The possibilities are endless, but can you point...
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Infographic: How Authors can use Infographics to Connect with Readers
Infographics are a popular marketing tool in the business world because they are a great way to get a company's name out in front of potential customers. A popular infographic...
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Gutenberg, WordPress, & You: the What, the Why, and the How
If you have a WordPress site, chances are you have heard of something called Gutenberg. You could have seen one of the posts written about it over the past...
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How to Upload a PDF to the Kindle Store, and Sell It
In my morning coffee link post this morning I included a post on The Book Designer where a so-called "expert" made various claims about PDFs, including that PDFs aren't...
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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 read ebooks; I...
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Five Ways Authors Can Use Alexa
Amazon has been shipping the Echo smart speakers for several years now, but the tech is still new to some of us. For example, I just got my first...
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Five Tools for Better World-Building For Your Next Book
When it comes to world-building, some authors just make up a world as they write the story, while others take the time to invent cultural rules defining gremlin marriages and...
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