I don’t normally swipe content for this blog, but in this case will make an exception. The following is from the excellent (free) e-zine for writers by Randy Ingermanson (“the Snowflake guy”) and you can get more content like this in your in-box by subscribing (link at the bottom). In the meantime, I have an [...]
Continue reading...17. April 2009
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This is the final part of a brief series of posts on hosting a blog book tour, from the blog host’s perspective. In Part 1 I looked at my own experiences, and the benefits of hosting such virtual book tours. In Part 2 I provided some steps for planning and hosting the event. In Part 3, [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2009
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This is the third part of a brief series of posts on hosting a blog book tour, from the blog host’s perspective. In Part 1 I looked at my own experiences, and the benefits of hosting such virtual book tours. In Part 2 I provided some steps for planning and hosting the event. In this post [...]
Continue reading...15. April 2009
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This is the second part of a brief series of posts on hosting a blog book tour, from the blog host’s perspective. In Part 1 I looked at my own experiences, and the benefits of hosting such virtual book tours. In this post I will provide a list of methods to plan and host the [...]
Continue reading...14. April 2009
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Promoting your book though a blog book tour is one of the latest trends in book marketing. Tom Colvin, in Becoming a Writer – Seriously, has lately posted an excellent article giving some resources for those authors looking into using such a marketing device for their own book. As he rightly points out, any author [...]
Continue reading...18. February 2009
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Holly Lisle is in the start-up process of creating a subscription Fiction E-Zine called Rebel Tales. Here are some rudimentary details and links to get you started into Rebel Tales, which may offer something for both readers and writers alike. I hope to see Rebel Tales take flight soon, given the concept and thought put [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2008
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The eBook is the future and they’ve been saying this for quite a few years now. Even if you don’t agree, it’s become relevant that although the “printed word on paper and bound into books” method used to be the only way information was given and received, this is no longer the case – certainly [...]
Continue reading...26. September 2008
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Cory Doctorow has an ebook out – on the subject of ebooks at Book Glutton. This was the first time I have encountered the Book Glutton beta site. And it’s a very interesting concept. Sign in – registration is free – and you have access to an online reader which has chat and annotation functions [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2008
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I was recently spurred on to clean up my Facebook profile – it is, unfortunately, still far too full of application widgets, which – with the new Facebook site redesign, now are thankfully more hidden and therefore forgotten on Facebook. But as with other networking groups, Facebook and other social networking sites have some benefits [...]
Continue reading...13. September 2008
As the UK Times Newspaper introduced this topic (which is where I just learnt of it), some writers write for a particular set period of time per day, others write for a certain amount of pages per day. But in Twiller, Matt Richtel is providing a thriller novel, written and published in the median of [...]
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12. May 2009
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