Tools and Trade Secrets for Aspiring Writers
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Ever heard of Podcast Novels? I’ve only had a brief brush with them — and was pleased for another exposure when a “tweet” led me to Steve Saylor and his New Media site.
Steve is a Canadian college student, studying Broadcasting. I’m guessing that he’s not yet tied down to a paying [...]
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Freelancers rejoice! Zoho has added a new facility to its remarkable array of online applications. Now you can handle all of your free-lance invoicing via Zoho Invoicing.
I have not tried it out, to be honest, since I do not myself invoice anybody. However, I’ve collected some links below that provide [...]
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Audible has come up with an ingenious offering that writers may enjoy. On each day of January, Audible will offer an excerpt from one of its audio books on some aspect of self-improvement. Today, for example, one can listen to Brian Tracy read an excerpt from his book Flight Plan about goal setting [...]
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Amongst all of your New Year’s Resolutions, do you include one to professionalize the “look” of your writing business? New business cards, perhaps? New stationery? If so, you may wish to visit HP’s Free Logo Maker website.
This site makes it easy to put together your own customized logo, drawing on a large number [...]
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You’ve made your New Year’s Resolution, haven’t you: this year you will set up your own writer’s website. There’s no longer an excuse not to do so.
Following up my post of earlier this month about free websites, I’ve come across a detailed article from the Wall Street Journal about how to create a [...]
If you do any work with PDF documents, the program PDF-to-Word may be very useful to you. It will take any PDF document and translate it into a Rich Text Format file, with all formatting, photos and such perserved. The program is available on Tuesday only for $16.17, a 47-percent discount, at Bits du Jour. [...]
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In further proof that the digital e-book is coming of age, the New York Times today published an online article about the surge in e-Readers since Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Amazon’s Kindle.
The Times notes that several top-drawer novels are getting in line with Kindle editions of their works. The article also reviews the [...]
Jeff Stone, the creator of the newly launched [I hope!] webhost Bkiosk, was good enough to give us forewarning about this exciting new facility by posting a comment to my post earlier this month No More Excuses: Set Up Your Website which offered suggestions about free otpions for writers seeking to establish a blog. I [...]
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I recently received a most interesting email promotion from WOWIO, an online and PDF book publisher. It offered me an opportunity to give a personalized copy of “T’was The Night Before Christmas” as a downloadable PDF book via email. I immediately chose a cover, wrote a personalized message to my adopted “grand-daughter,” and [...]
You don’t have your own website? Well, it’s time that you do something about that. Frankly, it’s very easy to do these days.
The options are many. Too many probably. How do you sort through them?
Well, here are are a few preliminary options, most of them with samples I’ve set up [or tried to set up] [...]
