This list of Twitter tips may actually help me to organize my Twitter! Thanks, Serins.
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Change Your Reading Habits, Improve Your Health
Support for my reading habit. Yay!
Adults Who Read Report More Life Satisfaction
By Michael Grothaus via Fast Company
My favorite book is War and Peace.
And I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, another writer wanting people to think he’s all intellectual and highbrow.”
But it really is my favorite book, only not because it has 1,500 pages of unforgettable characters or a generational plot that is more compelling than that of any other book I’ve read. It’s because right before I started reading it, my life was in a rut. I had recently been passed over for a promotion at Apple and I had just been rejected by a graduate school I applied to. This double whammy left me doubting myself, my abilities, and my future. So when I came across the massive tome that is War and Peace, I thought, “Why not? I’m not doing anything else.”
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THE TWELVE THINGS YOU ARE NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOL ABOUT CREATIVE THINKING
This article is a bit long, but the ideas are great. Keep that creativity going!
Blog Advice 4: Tips For Your ‘About’ Page
Here are some ways to step up your ‘About’ page. Good advice. Thanks!
Pin Crazy!
Love Pinterest!
Editing Backwards
Sarah has given some great editing tips and ways to organize edits. Thanks, Sarah!
The 8 most annoying ways to loose you tweeps
Twitter tips. Things to think about when you are setting up your Twitter account. And remember, play nice!
Editorial Tips: What If You Really Mess Up?
This is exactly true. You need a fresh set of eyes to look at your work. I just did this with a manuscript, two people who had not seen it before went through it with a fine comb. Lots of red marks and questions. It was perfect to help me polish my work.
Just this weekend I posted a blog with a misspelled word in the heading–“dos” instead of “does”. Well, my Spanish isn’t good enough to pawn it off as the number two, which didn’t make sense anyway, so there I was with the only line showing on the link broadcasting my error. A delightful friend immediately sent me a comment on Facebook, “Is this an editor’s test? lol” Why didn’t I just go with it and say, “Yes!”? I caught it and fixed it right after I hit “Publish” on WordPress, but since I have automatic share for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, it was out there for all to see. In my haste to remedy this, I sent the whole post to trash. It was a rather lengthy poem with visually descriptive words, now lost and gone forever, except for the heading postings everywhere which now link to nothing.
A Magic…
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The Makings of a Good Author Interview
For those of you who love to do author interviews, here are some great tips! Happy interviewing! Thanks!
When I posted my interview with Sarah Solmonson earlier this morning, it reminded me that a couple of people have asked me to put up a post on the finer points of doing an author interview. I’m not sure I would call me an expert on this topic, but I try to answer those who ask me a question, so this post is for them.
I will share my opinion here, not saying that anyone should take my words as gold, but here is what I think:
A successful author interview begins with an interesting author. I am not pointing fingers and calling anyone boring, but if you want your interview to shine, choose authors that have something to bring to the party. I like it very much when the authors I interview have a very personal interest in their story. This doesn’t mean it can’t be fiction, just…
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Read My Book: How to Find Readers on Twitter
Excellent tips to find those readers. Thanks!
The Simple Method for Finding New Readers on Social Media
All authors, whether self-published or traditionally published, are in search of new readers for their books. But if you’ve been marketing your book for any length of time, you know that sourcing new readers isn’t easy. In a saturated market, writers and publishers are competing for readers’ attention, and simply blasting a link to your book on Twitter or other social media isn’t necessarily your best option. How do you know who you’re reaching? How do you find readers who will actually be interested in your book?
Target Readers Who are Already Interested in Your Book
By using Twitter’s search tool, you can easily find readers who are already interested in your book – even if they don’t know it yet! Specifically, the search function allows authors to pinpoint readers who are interested in the same type of book as…
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Love, Laughter, and Life 