One of the best ways to promote a book and to make money as an author involves speaking. Thatās right. No writing. Get the words off the paper and out of your mouth. Today my guest blogger is a friend and client, Rick Deutsch, known as āMr. Half Dome,ā author of the best selling guide book āOne Best Hike: Yosemiteās…
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Itās almost Tax Day. If you are an author, a self-publisher, a freelance writer or professional blogger and you derive income from your writing, that means you must get ready to file your taxes. If that seems daunting, this guest post from Georganna Hancock, author of IRS & Writers, will offer you a bit of helpāfrom a fellow writer no…
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For the last few days I’ve been working on whittling down the transcript of an interview I conducted with bestselling author T. Harv Eker. When the magazine asked me to do this interview, I jumped at the chance despite my busy schedule. Why? One of the best parts of my job as a journalist involves getting to talk to interesting…
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Back in 2002, The New York Times reported,āAccording to a recent survey, 81 percent of people feel that they have a book in themā¦and should write it.ā At that time, that meant over 200 million people in the U.S. wanted to write a book in their lifetime. As of today, March, 5, 2012, with the US population at 313,131,455,254, 254…
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Writers tend to worry about putting their content online. āWhat if my work gets stolen?ā Iām asked all the time. Mostly, I donāt see content getting stolen from websites or blogs, butā¦butā¦sometimes it does get āscraped.ā This can be prevented, however, and shouldn’t stop writers from publishing their work on the Internet often and freely. I wouldnāt call scraping stealing…
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