This week’s edition of Writer’s Tips features some great info on creating book trailers, how to protect your blogs, writing tips, instructional on downloading fabulous fonts, Writers Beware, and knowing and breaking writing rules.
Fantastic How To on creating videos for our books with Canva
Fast and Easy Book Trailer Videos Using Canva: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to make the most of your writing time
Another informative site with tips on how to protect our blogs from being stolen
http://www.blogtipsntricks.com/2014/07/protect-your-blog-from-being-copied.html
Natalie Ducey is generous with her sharing of Free Fonts, and she has a great video to demonstrate how to download and activate the fonts.
Victoria Strauss from Writers Beware has a post out on a list of scamming sites for publishers
https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2019/08/from-philippines-not-with-love-plague.html?m=1
Knowing the writing rules before you can break them
Source: Writing Rules: When Can You Break Them? (Rules 1-6)
DGKayewriter.com 
Victoria Strauss is extremely helpful where scammers, money-grabbers and bogus publishers are concerned.
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She absolutely is on top of all the current scams. 🙂
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Thanks for your timely tips, Debby!
I just got a notification from WordPress that my PHP is outdated and my security maybe breached. Always something!
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Oye! It’s always something. WP is giving so many grief! You have to check with your webhost. They are responsible for the PHP, 🙂
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Good tips, especially on scams. Hate them!
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Thanks Jacqui. Ditto!
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Thank you so much, Deb. I will be checking all of these links. I’m particularly interested in the create a video trailer. My new book is almost ready to publish and I would feel pretty proud to be able to create a video trailer for it. I’m hoping September pub. All of these articles look fantastic.
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Oh fabulous Lis. I look forward to your new book! I’ll have to have you over for a feature too! ❤
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You’ve covered a lot of great topics here, Debby. I’ll come back to check some of them out later. Thanks.
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Thanks Norah. At your leisure. 🙂
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Very useful links Debby, thanks for bringing them together for us… hugs ♥
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My pleasure Sal ❤
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Debby – thanks for these … I’ll be looking at the Fonts … while notice about security is useful … Victoria Strauss is great to be tapped into …
Jenny Pearson has let a few of us know about our security … she emailed me personally yesterday -haven’t got to do what she suggested just yet … but will do so shortly …
https://pearsonreport.blogspot.com/2019/08/your-blog-is-not-secure-find-out-why.html
Hope you don’t mind this link … cheers Hilary
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Thanks so much Hilary. No problem. I appreciate the share. 🙂
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Oh, some month soon (I AM determined!) I will make use of some of these great tips. 🙂
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Happy to enlighten you. 🙂
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You’re a gem, Debby! Thanks for sharing these informative posts with us, and for including my blog post, as well. You rock! XO
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My pleasure Natalie. Thank you for sharing the link to this video and showing us how to download these beautiful fonts. ❤
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Some excellent links here Debby I have save your page to my browser for future reference.. Thank you for sharing! ❤
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My pleasure Sue. One never knows when they want to refer back. 🙂 ❤
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Gosh, the publishing and marketing scams are scary! Thanks for these tips, Debby. All interesting and pertinent. 🙂
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Happy to enlighten you Carol 🙂
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I actually started making a trailer yesterday on powerpoint. Finished the images and the text but haven’t added the transitions, music and animation. I didn’t know Canva was an option!! Great tip. If my powerpoint trailer sucks, I’ll try Canva out. Lol. Thanks!
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Thanks for sharing that Diana. I am looking forward to trying it out on Canva too! Let me know how it goes if you do, I’ll do the same. 🙂 xx
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