From the monthly archives:

January 2012

Author Blogging 101: Blogging Platforms & Why I Love WordPress

January 31, 2012 24 comments
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I had a book design website once. It was one of those “web 1.0″ websites that you put up because you know you need one, or at least everyone says you do. It was built with a nifty Mac tool called Rapidweaver and for what it was, it was okay. It took a lot of [...]

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Playing Tag the Self-Publisher Way

January 30, 2012 15 comments
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Playing Tag the Self-Publisher Way by Judy Croome talks about how to run a tagging campaign on Amazon.com

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Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #16

January 29, 2012 3 comments
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Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #16 including Mark Coker, David Gaughran and Piotr Kowalczyk

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Real eBooks: Are We Still in the Stone Age?

January 27, 2012 51 comments
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Real eBooks: Are We Still in the Stone Age? by James Moushon looks at the importance of links, covers and frontmatter in ebooks

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Upcoming West Coast Book Publishing Events for Indie Authors

January 26, 2012 0 comments
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One of the staples of an author website or blog is the Calendar page. Fans can find out the next stop on your blog tour, where you might be speaking at a live event, or other notable happenings. The problem is, in practice, these Calendar pages rarely get updated. It’s quite common to go to [...]

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