One of the best ways to promote a book and to make money as an author involves speaking. That’s 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 “Mr. Half Dome,” author of the best selling guide book “One Best Hike: Yosemite’s…
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It’s 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 help—from 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,“According to a recent survey, 81 percent of people feel that they have a book in them…and should write it.” 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. “What if my work gets stolen?” I’m asked all the time. Mostly, I don’t see content getting stolen from websites or blogs, but…but…sometimes it does get “scraped.” This can be prevented, however, and shouldn’t stop writers from publishing their work on the Internet often and freely. I wouldn’t call scraping stealing…
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