#Writing Tips – 595 Power Words for #Writers, Book Cover Elements, Downloadable Fonts
This week’s edition of my Writer’s Tips are jam-packed full of goodies for writers and authors. You’ll find excellent tips from Anne R. Allen’s blog, free font downloads courtesy of Natalie Ducey, everything you want to know about choosing and making book covers, and more. There’s a ton of great info here I’ve bookmarked to include in this post. Of course, we can’t remember everything so do yourselves a favor and bookmark to file these articles because you will wish you had them to refer back to at some point. 😊
Wonderful post from Anne R. Allen and Ruth Harris with some wise advice from some of the greats- The Secret Power of the Delete Button
An informative post from Anne R. Allen with some helpful tips on how to make your blogs stand out with great content with how to’s on highlighting, fonts, headings and more! https://annerallen.com/2019/03/how-to-write-web-content/
A handy PDF free to download with a huge list of words to extend your vocabulary
Source: 595 Power Words That’ll Instantly Make You a Better Writer • Smart Blogger
Free Fonts to download to beautify your blog, shared by Natalie Ducey-Smith https://designbundles.net/free-design-resources/flourish-dividers-and-text-frames/rel=7cbuor
Part 2 from Natalie Ducey-Smith – How to download those fonts
How to create your D2D Author page by Doris Heilmann of Savvy Bookwriters
Great tips from the Kindlepreneur – Dave Chesson on how to create the right elements and fonts for your book covers.
https://www.bookworks.com/2019/01/book-cover-design-author-name/
Nicholas Rossis shares a great 3D Mockup bookcover site to help you create your promos
A Free Mockup Book Cover Maker
And last for this edition is a worthy article to bookmark with a wealth of information for authors – 50+ Publishing resources on everything from editing services to distribution and book cover design services to marketing tools plus more!
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D.G. Kaye is a nonfiction/memoir writer, who writes from her own life experiences and self-medicates with a daily dose of humor.
36 Comments
Miriam Hurdle
Wow, Debby, this post is loaded. I’ll leave it open and read it tomorrow or the following day. I’m in Portland, OR, watch my granddaughter tomorrow because the Daycare is closed tomorrow.
Thank you very much, <3
dgkaye
Thanks Miriam. Glad I’ve left you with material to keep you busy, lol. Enjoy your time with the wee one. <3
Nicholas Rossis
Many thanks for the great links–and the kind mention! Bookmarking and sharing 🙂
dgkaye
Thanks Nicholas. You always make a point of sharing the goods with us writers, just helping to spread around. 🙂
Stevie Turner
Great tips. Thanks Debby and of course thanks also to all the bloggers/authors involved.
dgkaye
Thanks Stevie. And sooooooooo glad to see you managed to be able to finally comment. Did you find it easier or did you sweat, determined to keep trying? Lol 🙂 xx
John Maberry
Great stuff!!!!
dgkaye
Thanks John 🙂
Natalie Ducey
Fantastic share, Debby! Thanks so much for sharing my post, too. You rock! 🙂
dgkaye
Thanks Natalie. Happy to share your links <3
Jacqui Murray
Good grief it is jam-packed. You’ve come back energized, Deb!
dgkaye
Lol, I’d been collecting 🙂
Diana Peach
Thanks for the links, Debby. I’m downloading the power words. I just love words!
dgkaye
So glad you found something useful here Diana <3
Amy M Reade
Great post, Debby! I’ve already bookmarked several of these to read this weekend!
dgkaye
Fab Amy. Glad you found them helpful 🙂
Vashti Q
Hi Debby! Thanks for the wonderful links. I’m going to pin your post to my Writing board on Pinterest. 😀 xo
dgkaye
Thank you my Lovely. And you are most welcome <3
lisa thomson
Wow, thanks for all the resources, Deb! Anne’s blog is wonderful. I will be checking out the links!
dgkaye
My pleasure Lis. I love to share things I find useful myself. 🙂 xx
Colleen
OK… I had to read this post twice! So much fun stuff. I still can’t see where to use the fonts, other than photoshop or a similar program. Of course, on the WordPress.com blogs, we’re restricted to the fonts they provide us. However, if you subscribe to Canva at Work, you can upload 100 different fonts, which is pretty nice. I’m still hunting for a book cover program I can use on the Mac. In that case, those fonts would work as long as you can import them into whatever program you’re using. I’ve put this post in “Pocket.” Thanks, Sis. <3
dgkaye
Thanks so much Sis. Glad you found some helpful articles here and I appreciate you sharing your own experience with fonts. As far as Natalie’s downloads go, perhaps you should ask her how she works with them. Now you have me curious to learn how we can download those fonts from Canva? <3
Christy B
There’s always so much to read that it’s helpful to come across posts like this one that point us to the “must read” content. Thanks for sharing these links to writing tips! I had read Natalie’s already but the others are new to me. Happy weekend, Debby!
dgkaye
Thanks so much Christy. I know there’s so much information out in cyber world but I do collect posts I think are essential for other writers to have in their arsenal and once or twice a month I share them in one post. 🙂 xx
Carol Balawyder
Great tips and you’re right about bookmarking this post. Particularly liked Anne R. Allen and Ruth Harris The Secret Power of the Delete Button. Less is more. Have a wonderful Sunday, Debby. 🙂
dgkaye
Thanks Carol. Anne always has great info on her blog. 🙂 Happy Sunday! xx
Pamela
LOTS of good stuff here, Debby. You just made my Sunday even busier. 🙂 Many thanks…
dgkaye
Lol thanks Pam. If you have a file with Pocket or Evernote, that’s a great place to file articles to go back to when we actually need them. 🙂 So glad you managed to comment here without the gremlin gate guards LOL <3
Olga Núñez Miret
Thanks for the recommendations, Debby!
dgkaye
My pleasure Olga ) x
Terri Webster Schrandt
Such great resources, Deb, thanks for sharing! Pinned and saved to my Wunderlist 🙂
dgkaye
Thanks Ter, glad you enjoyed. Great links to keep for publishing mode. 🙂
Liesbet
Yep! I’m definitely bookmarking these. Thanks for the research, work, and posting, Debby!
dgkaye
I have no doubts you will find some of these links handy. I read a lot of articles and newsletters then compile the ones I feel will be beneficial to my writing friends. I’m sure you will find yourself referring back to them at some point. <3
Julie Holmes, author
These are great link, Debby! Thank you for sharing them!
dgkaye
So glad you found them useful Julie. I hope you find something in them for you. 🙂