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Podcast Novels: Yet Another Route To An Audience

by Tom Colvin - 8 Jan 2009 - posted in 09-Podcasts & Teleconferencing - Tags: New media, Podcast - 9 Comments - Read the post

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    New Directions

    New Directions

    When I set out on this blog journey in December 2007, I had two primarily objectives for myself. First, I wanted to learn about all the software applications -- both desktop and online -- that might help writers in their task. Second, I wanted to learn how to shepherd a book into ...

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    Watch the Unfolding Future World of Writers

    Watch the Unfolding Future World of Writers

    Image by BenSpark via Flickr We writers should be delirious over the new opportunities opening up for us.  The steep, narrow, winding path to a book deal has almost overnight become a multi-lane superhighway.  Writers can nowadays afford to go almost anywhere with their work.  But we do ...

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    2009:  Products I Can't Live Without as a Writer

    2009: Products I Can't Live Without as a Writer

    Image via Wikipedia Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch was the inspiration for this post.  For the past four years, he's been publishing his own list of must-have products from his viewpoint as a tech blogger.  His recently posted list for 2009 set me to thinking:  what hardware, software ...

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    Smashwords - The Essential Piece of the Puzzle

    Smashwords - The Essential Piece of the Puzzle

    Image via CrunchBase When I started my five-part "Most Important Post" series, I knew I would conclude with this post about Smashwords, after first covering recent developments in the e-book world.  Finally, someone has figured out how to bring all of the pieces of the puzzle together into a publishing platform ...

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    Our 13+ Best  Reviews of Word Processing Software

    Our 13+ Best Reviews of Word Processing Software

    Image via Wikipedia Consider this your own holiday Easter Egg hunt, OK?  With our readership hitting 6000 unique visitors in March [well, 5999 actually], an increase of over 700 since January 1, I thought it would be appropriate to bring all of you up-to-date with our best reviews of word processing ...

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    Almost Everything You Need -- In One Post

    Almost Everything You Need -- In One Post

    Image via Wikipedia As an online resource center, Becoming A Writer Seriously sometimes passes on links to posts on other blogs that contribute significantly to discussion about how writers can become more productive and successful.  You'll find some important software links here too.  There's so much good stuff here that I ...

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    My Most Important Post:  The Pieces Are Beginning To Fit

    My Most Important Post: The Pieces Are Beginning To Fit

    Image by Getty Images via Daylife During the two-plus years I've been blogging about productivity for writers, significant developments and changes affecting us writers have been cascading in a dizzying torrent.  In fact, there's so much of it that many writers have more-or-less stopped following it all.  It's ...

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    The Future of Publishing:  A Round Up from Experts

    The Future of Publishing: A Round Up from Experts

    Image by Getty Images via Daylife At the start of a new decade and the culmination of a Consumer Electronics Show dominated by a host of new e-book readers, many are asking, what is the future of publishing.  CBS Sunday Morning aired one of the best.  While the ...

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  • FOUR CORNERSTONES of PRODUCTIVITY 4 WRITERS

    After more than two years of blogging, I've come to realize that there are four areas writers must address to improve their productivity: Thinking, Organizing, Writing, Promoting. Below are some of the best books to help you master these challenges.
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