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FiledBy Offers Entry for Self-Published Authors Into Ingram

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If you’re looking for a way to begin blogging about your new book, to create a website for your book, or to simply have an online presence as an author—all of which equate to promoting your book, a recent announcement by Publisher’s Weekly will interest you. FiledBy, the online directory of author listings and Web sites, has entered into an…
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Passion Helps Bloggers Achieve Success

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I encourage most writers to blog. Most bloggers find themselves concerned with search engine optimization (SEO). Anyone writing for or on the Internet knows they want their writing easily found by search engines—and, therefore, by Internet users looking for the information in their blogs. However, Duane Forrester of Microsoft says most bloggers can use basic SEO skills and find some…
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Someone Needs to Hear Your Story

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Ever wonder if you should write down and publish your personal story (and then go out and speak about it)? Here’s a thought for you that may make you want to run off and begin writing and speaking about your personal experience or writing whatever stories you have running around in your head. A Hasidic teaching says everyone should tell…
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Setting Your Writing Targets For 2011

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On December 31st most people like to go out to parties or do something festive. I like to hunker down and think about the past year and the coming year. I like to set goals and intentions. I think of this as setting targets and figuring out how I’ll hit a bull’s eye in the coming year. I don’t make…
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Promote Your Blog with Links

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Yesterday I wrote about why I thought entering a blog contest in your niche was a good idea. I said it helped increased traffic to your blog and also offered a way to increase your blog’s exposure while building author platform. One more reason exists: Entering a contest affords you an opportunity to create one–or possibly more–links to your blog….
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Using Contests to Generate Interest in Your Blog

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Hopefully most of you are blogging either to promote yourself as writers, to promote your books, to blog a book, or to simply hone your writing. I blog a lot; I have five blogs. Every once in a while my dance-related blog, My Son Can Dance, gets voted “best” in its category. The two times this has happened it has…
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Are Some Books Not Cut Out to Become Ebooks?

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Well, as a writer, author, writing and author coach, I have to get on board with the changes in the publishing world, such as the market’s turn toward ebooks. They represent the future of publishing. However, as a Jewish writer who writes about practical spirituality, when it comes to the world of Jewish sacred texts, I’ve got to be a…
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Great Reasons to Write in Your First Language

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Today I received a call from a writer looking for help writing a book. Although our conversation started out as a discussion of the details of an upcoming Dan Poynter workshop my writing club is hosting, it quickly turned into a laser coaching session about how she should write and market her book. This particular writer is not a native…
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Time to Finish Writing Projects You've Started

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Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started. — David Allen I don’t celebrate Christmas; I celebrate Chanukah. So, I’m already thinking about the New Year. Not that the secular New Year is a Jewish holiday, but I enjoy any holiday that asks me to…
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NEW RELEASE!

Change the World One Book at a Time: How to Make a Positive and Meaningful Difference with Your Words, will teach those who want to write for change how to produce books that serve as potent tools for transformation.

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