Self-Publishing Tips, Tutorials and Guides
Gravatar.com Who and what are they? And why every author needs it. Globally Recognized Avatar Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help … [Continue reading]
Creating paragraphs you want to highlight with colored backgrounds are rendered using the <div> tag with border and background color attributes. By default, text is displayed as black in ebooks. If the background color is dark, consider … [Continue reading]
Murder on the Orient Espresso, Available Now It’s November and Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, is in South Florida at an annual crime-writers’ conference with her beau, local sheriff Jake Pavlik, … [Continue reading]
Kindle Countdown Deals are a great way to draw attention to your book without giving it away for free. KCD allows publishers (authors) to run limited-time promotions which, in turn, can help earn more royalties, boost your "paid" rankings as well as … [Continue reading]
UPDATED POST 12/2013 (originally posted Dec 2011) We're on Day 7 of our 25 Days to ePublishing, Marketing and Promotion. Today I will show you by example a sample ebook cover layout that you can download (JPG, PDF) to use as a … [Continue reading]
When you're wrong, you are wrong... but it still hurts. When I make a mistake, I own up to it, and if you have been reading my blog for awhile, then you know I also will post about it. Not to rant, or whine, but to share how easy it is to make a … [Continue reading]
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