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Tapping Your Muse: How to Find Ideas for Writing

June 28, 2010

[Editor's note: Where do you find your muse? Where do you get inspiration for writing? How can you create your author platform, build your blog, and continually create new content? Today's guest, Tessa Shepperson, has some great ideas about finding ideas for new things to write about]. When I first set up my blog in [...]

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Building Your Author Platform

June 23, 2010

I was interviewing Chris McLaughlin, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting earlier this week at Ecosystem Gardening to talk about how easy it is to begin your compost pile and what a difference it can make to a healthy environment. While we were dishing the dirt about all things compost, Chris began to [...]

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How to Design Your Ebook, Part Two

June 14, 2010

Welcome to Part Two of my interview with Pamela Wilson, award winning designer, about how to design your book. Part One of How to Design Your Ebook is here. Here’s what you’ll learn: What you need to know to hire a designer How you can learn to design your ebook yourself Best tools to use to design [...]

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How to Design Your Ebook

June 10, 2010

I’m so honored today to be speaking with Pamela Wilson, an award winning designer, about how to design your book, whether traditional book or ebook. Make sure to check out Pamela’s new project Ebook Evolution, teaching you to effectively write, design, and market your ebook, a joint production with Sticky Ebook author, Kelly Kingman. This is [...]

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How to Create Sticky Ebooks

May 30, 2010

I had the pleasure of speaking with Kelly Kingman, author of the Sticky Ebook Formula. Publishing is in a transitional phase right now with the rise of self-publishing and the rise of ebooks. Kelly discusses this transition and shares her insight on the process of writing an ebook, finding a designer, hiring an editor, and [...]

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Four Big Ways Authors Can Use Twitter

May 27, 2010

Hi. Grandma Mary here. Thanks Carole, for letting me do a guest post on this lovely blog. It’s nice to get out and about once in awhile! For those of you who don’t know me, I have a social media blog over at www.GrandmaMaryShow.com and I try to spice up my social media tutorials a [...]

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Marketing Your Book: You are Not Alone

May 25, 2010

Sometimes being an author can feel very lonely. There you are, locked away in your favorite writing space, and isolated from your friends and community. But marketing your book and building your author platform need not be a lonely experience. In fact, you can speed your process and expand your reach by palling around with [...]

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Marketing the Werewolf and Breaking the Rules

May 18, 2010

We’ve already talked about the importance of building your author platform before you even start writing your book. But how does a new author get any attention in a crowded market place? Today Christine Johnson’s Claire de Lune hits the stands, and also today, the Big Non-Book Blog Tour kicks into high gear. Brain-child of [...]

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World Changing Writing

May 14, 2010

Is it really possible to change the world with your writing? Yes! And I’ve met some wonderful folks who believe this so much that they’ve put together an amazing World Changing Writing Workshop. They’ve lined up a rockin’ all star cast for this seven week writing workshop: Chris Guillebeau, Building a Writing Career From Anywhere Jonathan [...]

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Stop Making Yourself Crazy With Your Stats

May 4, 2010

You’ve sent your book off to the printer. You’ve started your blog to start building awareness. You’re on the right track. But it’s easy to fall into one trap that can suck away a lot of your time as well as your enthusiasm. What’s this trap you ask? Looking at your blog stats. It’s very [...]