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 whatever is causing...
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Tag: authors
Here’s a selection of helpful posts we’ve written for our author audience.
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 at the same...
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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 like to share...
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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 be immensely useful...
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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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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 over print, I...
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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 topic of authors...
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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 say to be...
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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 annotation tools, and...
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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 them in the...
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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 Store, and also...
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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 need to launch...
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Google Site Kit Will Make It Easier to Integrate Google’s Services Into WordPress Sites
Between its SEO, traffic analysis, and performance optimization tools (Search Console, Analytics, and PageSpeed Insights, respectively), Google supplies a number of key tools used by just about everyone who...
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What’s the Best Option for Rescuing Your Content From Tumblr?
Tumblr's announcement this week that all adult content will be deleted on 17 December has many users running for the exits, and that really should include you (even if...
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Are Email Verification/Validation Services Worth the Cost?
If you hang around where business people (this includes authors) talk about marketing, the topic of mailing lists will come up a lot, and every so often someone will...
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