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Writer’s Tips – January Edition – #Writing Solo Life, Fonts, Writing the End, Author Bio, #Blogging Tips

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Welcome to my new year of Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Ruth Harris talks about 13 Ways to Drive a Writer Crazy; Anne R. Allen’s blog, guest writer, Jessica Bell, talks about Choosing Proper Fonts for Book Covers; Sally Cronin is rewinding her Public Relations for Authors series, – the importance of an Author picture. Hugh Roberts with a great list of 7 Ways to Clean up our Blogs for the New Year; Diana Peach, writing for the Story Empire has a helpful post for writers – Writing the End; Ruth Harris shares 6 Writing Tips from Famous Authors; Diana Urban at Bookbub shares various examples of Writing Your Author Bio.

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Entertaining post from Ruth Harris at the blog of Anne R. Allen about the concept of writing, and how many outsiders have no clue what goes into writing – including friends and family.

Revenge of the Clueless: 13 Ways Guaranteed to Drive a Writer Crazy

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Jessica Bell guest writer at the blog of Anne R. Allen’s blog – Using the right Fonts on your Book Covers

Are You Using the Right Font(s) On Your Book Cover?

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Sally Cronin’s, Smorgasbord Public Relations for Authors Series – The importance of an Author Profile Picture and How to Create one

https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2023/01/07/smorgasbord-public-relations-for-authors-recycled-part-one-people-buy-people-first-profile-photo-by-sally-cronin/comment-page-1/#comment-656566

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Hugh Roberts with 7 ideas to clean up our blogs

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2022/12/13/7-things-you-can-do-to-help-your-blogging-during-december/

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Diana Peach featured at the Story Empire, shares a post about different types of endings for books, Part II

https://storyempire.com/2022/12/16/writing-the-end-part-ii/

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Ruth Harris at the Blog of Anne R. Allen, shares 6 great tips on Writing from Professional Authors

6 Inspiring Writing Tips From Professional Authors

From Bookbub Insights, Diana Urban shares 20 Examples on how to Write Your Author Bio

Writing Your Author Bio? Here Are 20 Great Examples. (Plus a Checklist!)

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Writer’s Tips, December Edition – Books, Blogging and Writing Tips, Scams

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Welcome to my December curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, once again blogger Hugh Roberts has another in-depth post on tips for bloggers – Seven things that scare bloggers. Author Ruth Harris writes about The importance of writing first lines for our books. A.C. Flory has some Amazon news for authors. Promoting your book later, after a launch, by Book Buzz, and Printing Scams on Amazon – authors beware by The Kindlepreneur, Anne R. Allen on Critiquing 101 – Ten Best Tips.

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Hugh Roberts with helpful tips for bloggers

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2022/10/29/are-you-terrified-of-any-of-these-7-scary-things-in-the-blogging-world/

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Ruth Harris at the blog of Anne R. Allen on tips for writing best first lines in books

How to Write an Absolutely Great First Sentence

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A.C Flory has an informative post about what Amazon is up to with author’s books not showing up

https://acflory.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/why-is-amazon-hiding-books-from-readers/

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Five Ways to Promote your book again after a launch, by Book Buzz

5 ways to promote your book long after the launch

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Amazon Printing Press and Pricing Scams – what authors need to know by The Kindlepreneur

Amazon Printing Press and Pricing Scams: What Authors Need to Know

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Anne R. Allen with 10 Tips to being a good critiquer

Critiquing 101: Ten Do’s and Don’ts for Giving Helpful Critiques

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Writer’s Tips November Edition – WordPress Hacks, Writing Timelines, Creating Audio Books, Editing Tips, and Social Media

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Welcome to November edition of my collaborated Writer’s Tips. Each month I share some of the blog posts I come across with helpful writing or blogging tips. This month, I found quite a few goodies most worthy to share to help bloggers. Hugh Roberts shares three helpful posts again for those of us using the block editor – how to center images and how to look for blocks you’ve previously used, and how to find common Gallery blocks in the WordPress editor. From the Story Empire, Joan Hall gives us tips for writing differing timelines in our books, and Beem Weeks explain the procedure for turning books into audio books. Editor, Anneli Purchase shares misused expressions that writers can get caught in. Natalie Ducey has a new tutorial on how to add a Subscribe Button to your WordPress blogs. Last, but not least, Sue Coletta gives an in-depth explanation for the value of authors using Tik Tok platform.

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Hugh Roberts on How to Center Captions and Images in the block editor

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2022/10/03/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-centre-captions-underneath-images-and-photos-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/?unapproved=153953&moderation-hash=f3b609055221090146edd67724317c46#comment-153953

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Hugh Roberts shares how to access our most used blocks for easy setup

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2022/10/10/how-to-access-the-blocks-you-use-the-most-on-the-wordpress-block-editor/comment-page-1/?unapproved=154188&moderation-hash=4cbe15aa2291fa15934392d20d973388#comment-154188

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How to find secret Gallery Blocks on WordPress

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2022/10/17/these-secret-gallery-blocks-on-wordpress-are-easy-to-find-how-to-use-them/

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From the Story Empire, Joan hall has a great article on writing Timelines

https://storyempire.com/2022/10/24/using-timelines/comment-page-1/#comment-164812

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From the Story Empire, Beem Weeks on Audio Books

https://storyempire.com/2022/10/21/a-few-words-about-audiobooks/comment-page-1/#comment-164813

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Anneli Purchase, Ten Misused Expressions for writers

https://annelisplace.wordpress.com/2022/10/23/ten-misused-expressions/

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Natalie Ducey has a tutorial on How to Add A Subscribe button on WordPress

https://natalieducey.com/2022/10/18/how-to-add-include-a-subscribe-button-option-to-blog-posts-and-pages-in-wordpress/

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Sue Coletta as Anne R. Allen’s guest writer on Tik Tok and why it’s beneficial for authors

How TikTok Works for All Authors and Genres

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Writer’s Tips – October Edition – Cleaning up our Blogs, When to use Capitals, #Blogging Tips, #Writing Opening Chapters, #Amazon Glitches and More!

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Welcome to October edition of collaborated Writer’s Tips. This month, author/blogger, Hugh Roberts is sharing how to clean up our blogs to get better SEO as well at 5 tips to get our blogs noticed. Author/blogger/editor, Anneli Purchase has an informative post with good reminders on when to capitalize words, author/blogger Anne R. Allen writes about toxic people who can stall our writing careers as well as another informative article on how to write great opening chapters. Also, thanks to Colleen Chesebro for finding and sharing another informative article from the Kindlepreneur about Amazon’s many glitches and why there are ‘price games’ going on with some author’s books.

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Hugh Roberts with tips on improving our blog visibility and reducing spam

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2022/09/05/4-tips-for-housekeeping-your-blog-and-improving-its-seo-rating/comment-page-1/?unapproved=152330&moderation-hash=c6433461e772e3b3de0afe8b1cb6e3f2#comment-152330

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5 Powerful Blogging Tips from Hugh Roberts

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2022/09/15/5-powerful-blogging-tools-that-will-get-your-blog-noticed/comment-page-1/?unapproved=153212&moderation-hash=282ef8169a565a2b281d3b1baa56f9aa#comment-153212

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Anneli Purchase with a succinct post on which words need capitalizing and which don’t

https://annelisplace.wordpress.com/2022/09/09/capital-or-lower-case/

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Anne R. Allen talks about Toxic People who can stall our writing careers

10 Types of Toxic People Who Can Stall Your Writing Career and Literally Make You Sick

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Anne R. Allen on How to Write a Great Opening Chapter

https://annerallen.com/2022/10/write-great-opening-chapter/

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Jason Hamilton writing at the Kindlepreneur about Amazon book glitches

Amazon Bugs: Price Increases, Categories and Terminations

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June Writer’s Tips – Tools for #Writers

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Welcome to my June edition great collaborated helpful tips for Writers. In this post we have tools for editing, creating QR codes in WordPress, a re-phrasing tool, how to promote our writing using Youtube, getting back to bookwriting after a timeout, tips for making book trailers, and how to create 3D book covers.

Kathy Steinemann, featuring guest writer, Lori Wade with some great tools to aid in writing, editing, with tracking word count and more:

https://kathysteinemann.com/Musings/ten-tools/#comment-11570

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Natalie Ducey with a great tutorial on how to access and create a QR code in WordPress

https://natalieducey.com/2022/05/03/how-to-access-and-create-a-qr-code-in-wordpress/

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Janice Wald of Mostlyblogging.com has some helpful tools for rephrasing content, improving SEO in content for better internet exposure to articles, checking for plagiarism and more in this article:

https://www.mostlyblogging.com/best-article-rewriter-tool/#comment-92535

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Try this now – One of Janice’s recommended tools – the ‘rephraser’ – type in a bit of content and let it rephrase for you:

https://www.rephrase.info/

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How to use Youtube to promote your writing, from Authors Publish:

How to Use YouTube to Promote Your Writing

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Ruth Harris at the blog of Anne R. Allen with some valuable tips on getting back to writing a book you may have abandoned.

Tips and Tweaks for Finishing the Half-Baked Book. With Recipes.

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Jacqui Murray has an informative post on tools to help you make book trailers

https://worddreams.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/book-trailer-tool/

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From The Book Designer – How to create 3D book covers

Create 3D Book Covers In A Few Simple Steps

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May Writer’s Tips – #Copyrights, #Plagiarism, Book Matter and More!

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Welcome to my May Writer’s Tips. I have collected some fantastic helpful articles in this past month. So as not to overwhelm, I’m going to break up this post under two different umbrellas. In this edition I’ve tailored this month’s discoveries to tips that specifically pertain to book writing and potential legal snags – how to find your writing voice, what constitutes plagiarism, penalties for using song lyrics in our writing, what to put in front matter of our books, and the importance of designating a social media executor.

The BookDesigner takes us through the definition and meaning of Voice in writing:

What Is Voice in Writing? [Examples Included]

Janice Wald of Mostlyblogging.com talks about the 4 types of Plagiarism and the consequences in 2022

https://www.mostlyblogging.com/ethics-sentence/

Anne R. Allen has an informative article with great detail on why writers cannot use song lyrics in their writing, the permissions required, and the penalties of using them:

Can A Writer Quote Song Lyrics in a Memoir or Novel?

Anne R. Allen with another informative post explaining why writers need to appoint a Social Media Executor:

Why Every Writer Needs a Social Media Executor, NOW!

Bryn Donovan has a concise article on all that’s important and why for front matter of books for publishing:

https://www.bryndonovan.com/2022/05/16/11-things-you-can-put-in-the-front-matter-in-a-book/

Stay tuned for next month’s edition of Writer’s Tips where I’ll be sharing some articles with handy tips and some great tools for writers.

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January 2022 – First Edition of Writer’s Tips

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Welcome to my January Writer’s Tips. In this month’s edition of posts I hand picked from my reading trails, I’ve found some informative articles for writers from authors, Natalie Ducey – how to add weblinks on #Instagram, publishing predictions for 2022 by agent Laurie McLean at the blog of Anne R. Allen, ideas for promoting sequels on #Bookbub, book promotion blunders by Kathy Steinemann, and, how to use dashes in fiction by Louise Harnby.

Natalie Ducey has a helpful tutorial on how to add weblinks on #Instagram

https://natalieducey.com/2021/12/07/how-to-add-a-weblink-to-instagram-stories/

Anne R. Allen, guest writer, agent Laurie McLean shares her predictions for the publishing world 2022

2022 Publishing Predictions from Agent Laurie McLean

12 Clever ideas for promoting sequels on Bookbub

12 Clever Ideas for Promoting Sequels or Later-Series Books

Fiction editor and proofreader, Louise Harnby shares, how to use dashes in fiction for both U.S. and U.K.

https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/blog/how-to-use-dashes-in-fiction-dashes-uk-and-us-style

Ten Book Promotion blunders authors make by Kathy Steinemann

https://kathysteinemann.com/Musings/promotion/#comment-10817

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Writer’s Tips – December Edition – #Twitter Pinned Tweets, #Editing, Kindlepreneur, #Canva

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Welcome to my December edition of Writer’s Tips. In this last edition for 2021, I’m sharing some great information and tools to help with creating social media posts, QR codes for books, Twitter, and editing tips.

Hugh Roberts demonstrates why every blogger should be using the ‘pinned tweet’ option on Twitter, also, how to draft a blog post

Source: Pinned Tweets: Why Every Blogger Should Have One To Help Drive Traffic To Their Blog – Hugh’s Views & News  

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2021/11/08/dont-have-enough-time-to-draft-blog-posts-this-wordpress-feature-helps/

Stevie Turner alerted me to this great share from the Kindlepreneur – Create a QR code for your books!

https://kindlepreneur.com/qr-code-generator-for-authors/

Great detailed post on revisions and editing our books before they go to the editor by Vivian Zabel, guest writing at Nowastedink with Wendy Van Camp

https://nowastedink.com/2021/11/11/revise-revise-revise-by-vivan-zabel/

Natalie Ducie is back with a new tutorial – How to add text into our Canva images

https://natalieducey.com/2021/11/16/how-to-add-a-hyperlink-to-text-and-elements-in-canva/

From the Bookdesigner – How to create an Index for your book and why you need to

What Is an Index and Why Is It Important for Your Book?

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