Missed your writing goals this year? Maybe you can still make it if you follow one of these 3 proven ways. In April 2023, I set a goal of writing 1,000,000 words before the end of the year. Easy peasy, I figured. After all… I had nine months. Even taking one day off per week, […]
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You’re celebrating two opposing holidays tomorrow, right? Tomorrow is Columbus Day in the US. It’s also Indigenous People’s Day. So some people celebrate this as progress. Here was the first man (since the Vikings) who discovered the US.
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You’re a self-published author. You need to take care of everything, at least handling the outsourcing of tasks. You write your books, you write your descriptions in the hope of selling your books. You create or order your covers. You advertise and use social media to spread the word about your books. Do You Really
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What if you had plenty of Kindle books on your reader, but you switched to a Nook? What if you wanted and bought Google ebooks, but you would have loved to read them on your Kindle Fire? What if you wanted to keep a backup of all your ebooks?
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I’ve found two books on Amazon about writing stories with a twist. I’ve read the first one, and it was good. I just spotted the second one now, and it looks great, too. And the “new” one:
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This shocked me. In one of the writer’s groups I’m in, a woman told us how she’d been excited about her plans. She wanted to write four books that year. And she said that to her daughter. The daughter’s reaction? “Ha! You’ve not even been able to write ONE book the last four years.”
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I don’t know about you… …but when I see that something is "free," I automatically think "it must be junk." Why else would they give it away for free? Luckily there are exceptions. Like this one: ==> http://malka.im/goodriter <== It’s a huge giveaway, available right now, with resources for writers. They are normally products you
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Two months ago, I told you about a plugin to Firefox and Chrome called Kindle Spy. ==> http://malka.im/kdspy Since then, I haven’t used it much. Not because it’s bad – on the contrary. But if you remember what I wrote back then, then you’ll know that I found a gold nugget – a hidden gem
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