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Writer’s Tips May Edition – Copyright Page, Italics, Web Content, Amazon, Canva

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Welcome to May edition of my curated Writer’s Tips. This month I’m sharing some informative articles on, when to use Italics by author/editor, Anneli Purchase, how to create a proper Copyright page by Kindlepreneur, Dave Chesson, as well as info on reducing Amazon Download Fees, how to write Web content by Anne R. Allen, how to Translate Text into another Language in Canva by Natalie Ducey, Word Conversion with Harmony Kent.

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Author/Editor, Anneli Purchase on how and when to use Italics

https://annelisplace.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/italics-when-to-use-them/comment-page-1/#comment-9115

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Kindlepreneur – Dave Chesson on What Goes into a Book’s Copyright Page

Guide to Writing a Book Copyright Page [With 6 Templates]

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Dave Chesson shows us how to minimize KDP Download Fees when downloading our books

How to Reduce KDP Download Fees and Instantly Improve Your Royalties

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Anne R. Allen explains why it’s important for authors to learn how to write Web Content

How to Write for the Web: All Writers Need to be Web Content Providers Now

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Natalie Ducey has another helpful tutorial – How to Translate Text into other Languages using Canva

https://natalieducey.com/2023/03/27/how-to-translate-text-in-canva-into-over-100-languages/

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Harmony Kent at the Story Empire talking about writing conventions – American, British, English

https://storyempire.com/2023/04/26/homonyms-with-harmony-part-2-american-and-british-english-conventions/comment-page-1/#comment-171244

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Writer’s Tips, April Edition – Book Blurbs, Trailers, BookBub, Canva, Formatting, More!

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Welcome to my first post of the year of my collaborated Writer’s Tips. I’ve collected and saved a few of these posts as I came across them while I was away, and I know many of you will find something helpful here for writing, publishing, and/or marketing. From advice on writing the blurb, through some wonderful Canva tutorials to publshing updates and more, there’s something helpful for all writers here.

D.L. Finn at the Story Empire on Writing the Blurb Source:

WRITING BOOK BLURBS | Story Empire

Creating an Instagram story, How to Edit PDF docs in Canva, and how to Creat Page Turn Animation by Natalie Ducey Smith

https://natalieducey.com/2022/02/15/social-media-marketing-tip-instagram/

How to edit PDF documents in Canva

https://natalieducey.com/2022/03/22/how-to-edit-a-pdf-document-for-free/

Page turn animation in Canva

https://natalieducey.com/2022/03/15/how-to-market-an-ebook-with-a-page-turn-animation-effect/

The Bookdesigner on making Book Trailers

How to Make a Book Trailer: 4 Must Haves

Four ways the publishing business is changing on Amazon

Amazon Kindle: 4 Big Ways Publishing Your Book Is Changing

7 Steps to formatting your books by Deborah Jay

https://deborahjayauthor.com/2022/03/14/7-steps-to-formatting-your-paperback-book-indieauthor-kdp/comment-page-1/#comment-49293

Jan Sikes shares some great Marketing with BookBub Ads info

https://storyempirecom.wordpress.com/2022/04/06/mktg-13-bookbub-ads/

Great Punctuation Guide by The Bookdesigner

Punctuation Guide – Your Comprehensive Guide to English Grammar

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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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Writer’s Tips October – #Memoir Writing, #Canva, #Scamalert, Createspace, Google, Blogging, and Free Promotion Offer

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Welcome to October edition of Writer’s Tips. In today’s post I’m sharing a new author scam alert, Seven S’s of writing Memoir, problems for authors who didn’t move their books themselves to Amazon, a tutorial on how to add video to Canva, marketing with Google, reusable block making on the Gutenberg editor, and two invitations where you can promote your books.

 

 

First one is a brand new author Scam Alert. Anne R. Allen keeps us abreast the latest scams and book steals. Today she shares the danger of Facebook, and advice on choosing an Editor who won’t scam.

Warning to Writers: You Won’t See This New Publishing Scam Coming

 

 

Roz Morris from Nail Your Novel with The 7 S’s of Writing Memoir

http://www.nailyournovel.com/

 

Deborah Jay with an eye-opener for authors who didn’t move their books themselves from Createspace to Amazon

https://deborahjayauthor.com/2021/09/13/createspace-to-kdp-how-did-you-transfer-your-paperbacks/comment-page-1/#comment-43568

 

Natalie Ducey Smith has a new tutorial for us on How to Add Custom Video to Canva

https://natalieducey.com/2021/09/09/how-to-add-a-custom-audio-file-to-designs-in-canva/

 

 

Attention authors looking for FREE promotion – the great promoter, Sally Cronin is offering a new series at the Smorgasbord – Lucky Dip – check it out and get featured at the Smorgasbord

https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2021/09/16/smorgasbord-posts-from-your-archives-newseries-october-2021-lucky-dip-and-do-you-trust-me/comment-page-1/#comment-526477

 

 

Tech teacher and author Jacqui Murray shares how to outline and market your stories using Google

https://worddreams.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/authortoolboxbloghop-11/#comment-272613

 

Blogging guru and author, Hugh Roberts is showing us how to make a resuseable block in the Gutenberg editor

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2021/09/13/how-to-create-and-use-a-reusable-block-for-your-book-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/?unapproved=123774&moderation-hash=8402a8fb0c350bb24986ed2a16fad2b6#comment-123774

 

Ingram Spark tells us why we should also publish with them separately, using publishdrive

https://publishdrive.com/ingram-sell-online-print-on-demand-books-2.html

 

Author Stevie Turner also generously offers authors and bloggers Free promotion on her blog on Fridays – share a post or share a book excerpt – check it out

https://steviet3.wordpress.com/2021/09/17/friday-spotlight-17th-september/

 

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Writer’s Tips – #Canva Animation, #BookBub, KDP Tools, Famous Writer Advice, Slash Your #Wordcount

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Welcome to the July issue of Writer’s Tips. In this edition we have tips on animation text for Canva, Lessons for Authors, How to Slash your Wordcount, Why some writers quit writing, and the new KDP tool for authors, and tips for promoting on BookBub.

 

Natalie Ducey is back with another fab tutorial on how to animate text using Canva

https://natalieducey.com/2021/06/29/how-to-create-animated-typewriter-text-in-canva-for-free/

 

How to be an Everyday Star Writer, and advice from famous writers, by Ruth Harris at the blog of Anne R. Allen

How to be an Everyday Star: Lessons From 4 Famous Authors

 

Fantasy author Diana Peach shares her experience with promoting her books on BookBub

https://mythsofthemirror.com/2021/07/14/my-bookbub-experience-and-a-few-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-87956

 

Kathy Steinemann with Part 7 of her Slash Your Word Count series

https://kathysteinemann.com/Musings/word-count-7/#comment-9653

 

Jacqui Murray at Worddreams with some valid examples of writing that may deter readers to continue reading

https://worddreams.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/iwsg-july-4/

 

Just a couple days ago (around July 12 – July 14, 2021), KDP added a new marketing tool to the KDP interface. It’s called A+ Content. It’s NOW available to KDP users. You can access the feature from a couple different places from within your KDP dashboard

KDP Has Added A New Marketing Tool, It’s Called A+ Content!

 

Here is the direct page to Amazon’s KDP new author tool

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G8EP5W6H9CY7T8GS#marketplaces

 

I hope you enjoyed and found something useful from this edition of Writer’s Tips.

 

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Writer’s Tips – Submissions, Website Essentials, Author #Marketing Tools

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October edition of Writer’s Tips. This edition has some great lists on what’s open for submissions, what you need for an effective author website, and apps for authors to help create marketing ads.

 

 

Doris Heilmann of 111 Publishing offers an extensive list for writers to submit

Writers: Lots of Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes for YOU

 

Joan Hall is over at the Story Empire with some helpful tips on the essentials for your author website

https://storyempirecom.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/author-website-essentials/comment-page-1/#comment-96852

 

Author Judith Briles is featured at the Bookdesigner’s blog offering up some helpful apps for authors to use for marketing

A Few of My Favorite Author Marketing Tools

 

Question: Authors, have you used Book Brush? If so, I’m interested in learning how you think it differs from Canva?

 

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Writing Tips – Writing Rules, Protect Your Blogs, Fonts and more!

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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

https://nowastedink.com/2019/08/09/the-race-where-you-cant-afford-a-burn-out-by-kim-dorothy/#comment-31514

 

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.

https://natalieducey.com/2019/04/03/how-to-download-and-install-beautiful-fonts-in-seconds-fonts-tutorial/#comment-2751

 

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)