By: Jeff Schuman
There are so many internet tools that you can use in promoting your website and your products online. However, if you are looking for something that will effectively help you drive quality traffic to your website and improve your page ranking at the same time without shelling out a single dime, I would [...]
If you want to make money by writing articles, get your hands on editorial calendars.
Also known as ‘Advertisers Packs’ or ‘Media Kits’, editorial calendars and advertisers’ guidelines often have information on proposed themes for the year and deadlines for submissions. This is a huge opportunity for you to get the jump on other authors who [...]
By now you’ve heard the term “platform” numerous times. What is a writer’s platform and why is it a necessity for successful writers?
Your platform is the total of your methods of promoting your book. You better have a good writing platform today, or editors and agents may throw your manuscript into the round file. Let’s [...]
What can you learn by walking through a bookstore? Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned writer, an author needs to constantly update his knowledge of the book industry.
I have met authors who had no idea that audio books existed or who didn’t know the best format for their books. The knowledge gleaned from strolling [...]
Have you set your writing goals for the new year? Often the question is not “What are my goals?” but “How do I determine my goals?” Where do you even begin? Use these guidelines to set up your 2010 goals.
* Set a daily (yes, I said daily) writing goal by number of words, paragraphs or [...]
Whether you write magazine articles, essays, or how-to books, you need a good publicity photo.
As a professional writer, you need a publicity photo for:
Your web site
Promotional materials
Your press kit
Your book cover
To accompany press releases
In our excitement to create our book covers or websites, we tend to grab the first photo we [...]
Where do you get fresh article ideas? We read the publications we’re drooling to write for and wonder how to get our bylines in. Let’s do a quick review of the usual ways to come up with ideas.
Write about what you know (your interests and hobbies).
Write about things you want to know (learn while you [...]
More and more people tend to earn at home nowadays. However, the catch is that stay-at-home jobs don’t work with many fields. If you are a good writer, then you are among the lucky lot and we are about to discover how it is so.
Usually freelance writing work is available through various resources through freelance [...]
Most people in the writing world talk about the three levels of rejection–form, personal, rewrite–but I’ve discovered seven types (after over 200 rejections before being published and about hundred after, I should know). Learning how to analyze rejection is a helpful skill for any writer because you’ll learn what to ignore, what to consider, and [...]
So you’ve finished your novel. Now it’s time to publish it. Here are a few things to do in preparation to publish your book.
Hire an editor; don’t edit your own work. You’ll see what should be on the page, not what is really on the page.
Study other [...]