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Tips for Writers

Writer’s Tips – Amazon Pages Update, Gutenberg Editor, Maximizing Blog Traffic

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Writer’s Tips. I’ve curated some informative articles I came across in my blog reading that all bloggers will find useful. From how to update your Amazon author pages to working with the Gutenberg editor and how to maximize your blog traffic and a great instructional on how to back up your blogs, this post has a bounty of invaluable tips!

 

Harmony Kent over at the Story Empire has an informative post on how to update our Amazon author pages

https://storyempirecom.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/how-to-get-your-book-sales-page-looking-good-on-amazon/

 

Natalie Ducey has a new episode of instructional on how to increase our blog traffic with our sharing buttons

https://natalieducey.com/2019/10/08/adding-and-customizing-social-media-sharing-options/#comment-3027

 

Colleen Chesebro has been running a series on how to effectively use the Gutenberg editor in WordPress.

https://colleenchesebro.com/2019/10/09/the-basics-of-using-the-gutenberg-editor-part-two/

 

Hugh Roberts has a new post out with complete instructional on How to Back Up our Blogs

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2019/11/04/how-to-backup-your-wordpress-blog-to-prevent-losing-all-its-contents/

 

Navigating Twitter for Readers and Authors by James Cudney

https://thisismytruthnow.com/2019/11/08/tips-advice-11-8-twitter/

 

Thanks to all our blogging friends who take the time to put these invaluable posts together.

 

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Tips for Writers

Writer’s Tips – Fantastic Ideas for Creating Videos, Booktrailers, Instagram Stories and More!

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Welcome to another edition of my curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Natalie Ducey demonstrates how we can use Instagram stories to showcase our work, Nicholas Rossis is showing us how we can create free videos using Lumen, Diana Peach shares how to create a book trailer with Powerpoint, ad design tools from Bookbub, and how to re-purpose our blogs moving them to a podcasting platform, and Colleen Chesebro has an instructional for using Gutenberg editor.

 

Natalie Ducey has created another fabulous tutorial on how to create and use Instagram stories for our writing.

https://natalieducey.com/2019/09/19/how-to-use-instagram-stories/?fbclid=IwAR2xici-13_IMpQJbGaTq2xgudBJUaGzKC94hWhYNemfIDMbgU1ixKW3Zp4

 

Have you thought of converting blog posts to audio for Podcasting?

5 Easy Steps To Repurposing Your Blog Post Into An Audio Podcast

Source: 5 Easy Steps To Repurposing Your Blog Post Into An Audio Podcast |

 

Colleen Chesebro has a great instructional series on using the Gutenberg editor

https://colleenchesebro.com/2019/10/02/the-basics-of-using-the-gutenberg-editor-part-one/#comment-71174

 

 

Nicholas Rossis has a helpful post to help us create videos using Lumen.

http://nicholasrossis.me/2019/09/09/lumen-5-make-a-video-the-ai-way/

 

 

Helpful Design Tools to create great book ads

6 Book Ad Design Tools Authors Can Use

 

 

Diana Peach is sharing how easy it is to create book trailers using Power Point.

https://mythsofthemirror.com/2019/09/10/book-trailers-with-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-55955

 

 

Chris Syme guesting at Anne R. Allen’s blog on how to avoid author crisis and management.

Source: The Five Myths of Crisis Management for Authors by Chris Syme

 

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Tips for Writers

Writer’s Tips – Gutenberg How To, 89 Instagram Secrets You Need to Know, Free Logos

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I’ve picked a few articles to share for today’s edition of Writer’s Tips after visiting fellow blogger’s pages. Nicholas Rossis shares some great info on where to pick up some free fonts and a site for 3D mockups for our books. I have to great informational  articles from blogging guru Hugh Roberts on how to add images and slideshows to our blogs. A complete step by step guide to using Gutenberg editor by Natalie Ducey. And some useful information for authors on using Instagram and social media by Anne R. Allen. Something for everyone!

 

I recently posted about free fonts and free 3D mockups. This latest resource rounds up nicely these two design-related posts by throwing some great images into the mix. PNGkey has a stunning number…

http://nicholasrossis.me/2019/03/27/free-transparent-logos-and-images/

 

 

Hugh Roberts with some helpful information for bloggers on embedding slideshows on your blogs.

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2019/04/17/how-to-add-a-slideshow-to-your-wordpress-blog-post-using-gutenberg/

 

 

More helpful hints from Hugh Roberts on how to add images in the comment section of a blog – make sure you have permission first!

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2019/04/25/how-to-add-an-image-to-a-comment-on-a-wordpress-blog/

 

 

Block by block – A step by step guide to using Gutenberg editor by Natalie Ducey

https://natalieducey.com/2019/04/26/embracing-gutenberg-a-bloggers-journey-one-block-at-a-time-%EF%BB%BF/

 

 

 

89 Helpful tips to use Instagram as an author’s tool

Source: Instagram Online: 89 Instagram Secrets You Need to Know

 

 

 

 

And another informative post from Anne R. Allen – How to use social media effectively for authors

Authors, Don’t Run From Social Media: 10 Tips to use it Efficiently and Avoid the “Cesspool.”