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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

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/

 

©DGKaye2021

 

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#Writers Tips – #Publishing Scams, Future of Self-Publishing, #Bookbub Profitability?

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Welcome to a new edition of Writers Tips. In this collection, I’ve curated some helpful articles particularly geared to authors – Best sites for authors to promote their books on, publishing scams to beware of, predictions for the publishing future and a comprehensive lowdown on the profitability of paying for a Bookbub ad.

 

Agent, Laurie McLean, guest feature at the blog of Anne R. Allen, sharing her predictions for the publishing industry in 2021.

Agent Laurie McLean Gives 10 Publishing Predictions for 2021

 

Also, on the blog of Anne R. Allen, Anne shares the new 2021 publishing scams going on – including phishing scammers stealing manuscripts!

Publishing Scammers to Watch Out for in 2021

 

Author Deborah Jay, generously shares her advertising endeavor with Bookbub and shares why the exorbitant ad costs are worth it.

https://deborahjayauthor.com/2021/01/11/bookbub-featured-deal-final-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-32696

 

Pioneer Indie Author David Gaughran shares a comprehensive list of the best book sites to advertise our books on. (check this isn’t in last edition)

https://davidgaughran.com/best-promo-sites-books/

 

Six different bios every author needs by Nate Hoffleder guesting at the blog of Anne R. Allen.

The Six Online Bios Every Author Needs

 

Nicholas Rossis with 5 tips to improve our Linkedin profiles.

https://nicholasrossis.me/2021/02/03/5-tips-to-improve-your-linkedin-profile/

 

I hope you enjoy these excellent helpful articles, and don’t forget to file them away for those days they are relevant to your work, for easy access.

 

9 Year Anniversary Achievement

 

WordPress let me know today is my 9th year blogging anniversary. Where did the years go?

 

Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com!
You registered on WordPress.com 9 years ago.
Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging.

©DGKaye2021

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Tips for Writers

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)