Thinking Ahead With Publishing Your Book
When you choose to publish a book, you need to plan for the long term. Unlike writing a blog, where everything is ‘now’ you have to think about your audience, and how you come across long before you have your…
Book Review: The Eye of Minds by James Dashner
Book Two of the Teen Book Challenge takes me into the world of virtual gaming. The Eye of Minds by James Dashner, is like the popular video game The Sims, and the movie the Matrix, together. The book mostly takes place…
The Now of Social Networking and Blogging
Do you think about social media and how to network? For lack of a better term- publishing a blog post is “now”, because once you have spent a good hour doing the research and writing it up, you can get…
Book Review: The Selection by Kiera Cass
The first of the Teen Reads Challenge titles takes me into the future. It doesn’t say the year but the mention of World Wars that haven’t occurred and the name changes of the States leads me to believe that this…
Tips on Publishing a Book
Although rules can and do change, if you are writing and publishing something you want it to be the best. In the spirit of this idea, over the years I have learned a few publishing points. First, it’s not impossible…
Writing and Making Money With a Blog
Any writer can understand that there is a risk when you write and publish online, you might not earn as much income, or traffic isn’t increasing quickly. We’d like to make money on our blogs. If you believe that writing is…
The Money Issue
“In theory should I not be able to make more money the more I publish?” The money issue. The writing about anything and wanting to make money with it.The thing which drives every writer mad. Unfortunately, many people in their…
From Numbers to Publishing a Blog
Do you want to publish a great blog? Step one is easy: gather as much information as you can find before beginning to publish more on your blog. Write it down. Use Google Analytics as a starting point. Step…