Monthly e-Book Cover Design Awards aim to help authors create better e-book covers by showing examples submitted by readers.

Joel Friedlander
Independent Publishing: That's Evolution!
Independent Publishing: That’s Evolution! by Thomas Burchfield and how Scribd.com, Smashwords.com, Bookbaby.com and ebookarchitects.com helped
e-Book Cover Design Awards: Do We Need Them?
e-Book Cover Design Awards: Do We Need Them? In which the author proposes a monthly e-book design award with entries from blog readers to improve the art form
How to Make Your Blog Readers Into Rabid Fans
How to Make Your Blog Readers Into Rabid Fans by using these three simple action steps to lead them to more engagement.
This Week in the Blogs, August 14 – 20, 2011
Blogs for Self-Publishers for August 14 – 20, 2011 including Henry Baum, Sue Collier, Girard de Marigny, Steven Lewis, and Passive Guy
How to Check Your Book Proof in 3 Simple Steps
How to Check Your Book Proof in 3 Simple Steps including a step by step process to approve the interior layout, the content, and the cover of your book
Why Your Blog's "About" Page Matters
It's amazing how often this happens: I visit an author blog and, finding something interesting, I go looking for the "About" page. And when I get there, it's a total disappointment. Typically there will be a couple of paragraphs of copy and a photo, but often there's...
This Week in the Blogs, August 7 – 13, 2011
I seem to be getting more and more of my emails bouncing back with vacation autoresponder messages, are you? It's a sure sign August is here and it's time to make the most of summer holidays. But on the way out of the house, grab something to read this week's...
Scrivener: The Ultimate Multitool for Writers
Scrivener: The Ultimate Multitool for Writers by Austin Briggs including screenshots of some of the capabilities of this unusual software for writers
What Self-Publishers Can Learn From Restaurant Impossible
What Self-Publishers Can Learn From Restaurant Impossible and Chef Robert Irvine’s approach to saving failing restaurants.
Authors: Getting Started with Video Blogging
Authors: Getting Started with Video Blogging. Why video blog. Making live action, screen capture and slide show videos, and what software to get started with.
This Week in the Blogs, July 31 – August 6, 2011
Blogs for Self-Publishers for July 31 – August 6, 2011 from Alan Rinzler, M. Louisa Locke, Martin Lastrapes, India Amos, Jon Reed