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News You Can Use – March 19, 2013

By Steve Laubeon March 19, 2013

MyBookTable WordPress Plugin – Do not wait another minute. Go right now and sign up for this KickStarter program by Thomas Umstattd and Author Media. It will make your web site so much more efficient when it comes to selling your books via your web site. At least watch the four minute video.

Care for a little debate about blogging? Read these two entries and decide:

Author Blogging: What’s Stopping You? – Joel Frielander leave little room for excuses.
It’s Time for (Many) Experienced Writers to Stop Blogging – LL Barkat leaves little room for excuses.

E-books are Not Really Books – Care to weigh in on another controversial claim?

Have You Backed Up All Your E-mail Lately? – One crash of your hard drive or a service shutdown by your email service and you’ve lost all your email. Back it up today.

How to Use Evernote as an Author’s Tool – Juli Monroe makes a great case for making this amazing tool a part of your work-flow. I use it every day.

Fun Fridays – March 15, 2013

By Steve Laubeon March 15, 2013

A visual demonstration of what a multi-tasking agent seems to do every day.

And then someone comes along and yanks all support.

Category: Fun Fridays, Steve

Why Your Agent May Slow You Down

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon March 14, 2013

Your agent may slow you down.

And this is good!

And, why is that?

I've been a writer myself, so I understand the frustration you must be feeling as you read my words. Who wants to slow down? Believe me, when I was waiting for my first book to be published, I only half-joked that it would be released posthumously. So I understand that writers don't want to wait another ten minutes to see …

Category: Agents, Book Proposals, Career, Get Published, TamelaTag: Agents, Get Published, Writing Craft

Get Focused

By Karen Ballon March 13, 2013

Listen.

Do you hear it?

Voices… all around you…thoughts and opinions on the state of publishing, on what sells and what doesn’t, on good ideas and bad…words zipping back and forth in the ether. Write this. Write that. This is how you market. This is the key to platform. Buzz words. Marketing. Blogging. Craft. Deep POV. Are you Pinning? Tweeting? Linked-in? Google plussed? Skilled in …

Category: Craft, Karen, Writing CraftTag: Focus, Writing Craft

News You Can Use – March 12, 2013

By Steve Laubeon March 12, 2013

Plagiarism and the Link - How one author got sued when his publisher forgot to include the proper hyperlinks in his article. Read this article before write another thing.

Legal Issues for Authors - Particularly Those Who Self-Publish - An interview with Paul Rapp and attorney who specializes in intellectual property law. (Click here for his many articles on various topics in this area.)

How …

Category: Copyright, Legal Issues, Steve

Fun Fridays – March 8, 2013

By Steve Laubeon March 8, 2013

The "feel good" story of the month.
I want to go to this place for lunch!

Category: Fun Fridays, Steve

Florida Christian Writers Conference Report

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon March 7, 2013

This past week I was privileged to be on faculty at the Florida Christian Writers Conference. This conference is now being run by the lovely Eva Marie Everson and the wonderful Mark Hancock. I like to joke with Mark that he is my long lost relative. If our hosts had not agreed to take over, last year's conference would have been the final Florida conference after 25 consecutive years. Instead, we …

Category: Conferences, Get Published, TamelaTag: Get Published, Writers Conference

News You Can Use – March 5, 2013

By Steve Laubeon March 5, 2013

Happy National Grammar Day! - Yesterday was the day. But in honor of it click here and read some silly grammar jokes. Mark your calendar for next year.

Malcolm Gladwell on Literary Genius - Best-selling author looks at the nature of artistic genius and when it blooms. Be on the lookout this Fall for his new book called David and Goliath.

7 Tips for Writing Great Copy - read this when …

Category: News You Can Use, Steve