Unless you’ve been living in a rural cabin, pounding away on a manual typewriter, you know that technology and social media have been rapidly evolving over the past five years. Facebook alone has changed dozens of times since it graduated from Harvard and launched...
You’re so excited about your upcoming vacation that you can hardly contain yourself! Finally, you’ll be the writer posting photos of umbrella drinks and tweeting about glorious sunsets, or blogging on your website about amazing Mayan ruins. Authors are always in...
In today’s competitive publishing environment, having a presence online is not optional—it’s vital. And we’ve brought you some of the best insider info about building your online author platform—from creating a solid, functional author website to engaging potential...
It never fails: You promised yourself you would update your Facebook author page three times a week...or possibly twice...maybe just once a week. Now, while juggling a hectic schedule and looming deadlines, you find yourself in a race against the clock to post...
Tumblr, meet Writer. Writer, meet Tumblr. While you might think that a short-form blog like Tumblr would be counterintuitive for writers, this photo-centric platform is quickly becoming a viable marketing tool for promoting your writing. If you're ready to shake up...
As you’re setting up the layout of your author website—or working with a Web developer who’s doing it for you—you will have to decide if you want to include a sidebar. A sidebar is a secondary source of information and navigation to the left or right of a...
You're in luck! This month's installment of our Links Roundup includes great tips on blogging, social media, and fonts. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build an effective online author...
You’re ready to take the plunge into the vast sea of social media, but how do you know which platform is right for you? With a variety of social networks to choose from, it can be difficult to determine which will make you float and which will make you sink. Here’s a...
UPDATE: As of October 2018, Google+ is no longer a viable social media platform. So you’ve got an author website and you’ve begun to establish your presence on one or more social media sites. Now all of the traffic should start flooding in and a bunch of people are...
Do you shun Facebook? Does the thought of people following you on Twitter make your palms sweat? As prevalent as social networking through social media has become, you can certainly choose to avoid it in your personal life. After all, not everyone needs to know what...
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