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Nov.20.2011
Every writer needs a website. And they need that website long before their book is released and they want an Internet location from which to promote and sell it. They need a website prior to ever approaching an agent or publisher or releasing a self-published book. It’s the place where you...
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Oct.25.2011
Is this driving anyone else nuts? I love - I live - to write. I've been reasonably successful in writing forums and in competitions - OK. But now I have to do Face book and and I have to tweet.? Tweet?
I just started writing for e-book publication and I've had some nice reviews. Now I'm advised...
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Aug.23.2011
Congratulations to Red Room for a great new look. I haven't visited lately but now that you've modernized, hey! Love the idea of integrating with WordPress, Twitter, et. al.
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Apr.03.2011
A huge denial of service strike hit Wordpress.com last week. The belief of the WordPress team is the strike was motivated by arguments with a political blog hosted on the site. Though WordPress.com was impacted by the strike, the thousands of sites running a WordPress.org platform were not affected...
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Nov.11.2010
What are the big things expected of an author prior to hitting the bricks, once the book comes out? To my mind it used to be building a quality website and pulling off a good launch event. But an informational website? That feels pretty static these days; if you’re good you work to optimize content...
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Jan.27.2010
Blog is the abbreviation for weblog (you can have a blog inside a website or as a stand-alone blog)
Verb: To blog = to write posts (entries) in, add material to, or maintain a weblog. Noun: A blog = a shared on-line journal where you can publish your posts (entries about your experiences,...
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Apr.22.2009
futureproof author N. Frank Daniels has decided to share his love of some people, and his hatred of others, on his blog.
I'm one of the hated.
As he won't allow my defense to show up in the comments section of his blog, I posted them (along with his original post) on my own blog.
Yeah, this is a...
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Apr.16.2009
I have wikied.
In broad daylight, once. But mostly under cover of night.
My new skill for the week *insert fanfare of trumpets here* is that I have become one of the thousands–nay, MILLIONS– of authors of Wikipedia.
A few posts ago, I referenced Maquis Universal, a science fiction RPG of which I’...
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Jan.28.2009
Back in the day, I had a diary. (No, children, we did not carve words into stone tablets in those days. Really.) So my original understanding of a blog was that it was just like a diary. Except on the computer, and open to anyone to read.
In the past year, I've found that a blog is very different....
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Jan.26.2009
When you're an author, rejection in some form is inevitable. The question is: do you speed along to your destination, never looking in your rearview; or do you gauge your mileage, and use your turn signals so others on the road get a sense of your direction. I started a new blog this past week...
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