by Joel Friedlander | Mar 16, 2014 | Social Media
Site Issues: Due to the huge number and intensity of attacks we’ve been experiencing against the blog, we’ve instituted a lot of new security measures. Some of these measures may inadvertently limit your access to content on TheBookDesigner. If you...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 10, 2014 | Social Media
“How often should I blog?” is one of the questions I get asked most frequently by authors starting a blog. While many bloggers have a casual relationship to exactly when they publish new content, I think you’ll do better for yourself and your readers if...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 9, 2014 | Social Media
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the changing place of self-publishing in the larger book publishing world. That’s all well and good, but we also need to focus on our own individual publishing goals, and that’s where your reading today is...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 3, 2014 | Author Blogging 101, Self-Publishing
A long time ago Jill and I started our own publishing company. It was something I had wanted to do for quite a while. Because I had spent quite a bit of time developing direct mail and other direct-sales campaigns, I thought I could sell books, too. The publishing...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 20, 2014 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
I remember when I first started blogging, full of enthusiasm but missing a few of the important details. Maybe I had no email list signup (big mistake there) and no idea what the mysterious “trackback” was, but I could punch out copy. One of the pieces of...
