It’s amazing how many great writers have such awful blogs. From poor design to ill-conceived content, some writers’ blogs look like little more than an afterthoughts because someone told them they needed to have a blog. Blogging may seem easy, especially to writers who are naturally gifted at creating content. But blogging it its own [...] Read more »
How To Rock Your Author Blog!
If you’re writing today, you need a blog. But just putting a blog up on the web is not the way to go. You need to have a strategy, creating content which readers care about, and creating relationships with your community. Joel Friedlander has another excellent post at The Book Designer outlining some great tips [...] Read more »
7 Ways Craig Ferguson Can Make Your Blog Awesome
Do you find yourself envying some of the Big Name Bloggers with their pretty Web sites, zillions of followers and endless support from bloggers and advertisers alike? You might even find yourself tempted to copy those other blogs, trying to find the same success. Don’t. Let’s talk a bit about Jimmy Fallon. For those that [...] Read more »
The Zen of New Ideas
Iwrite full time. Ghostwriting, blog posts, comments, emails, tweets. You name it and my fingers might have made it happen. When I first started to write, I had no aspirations for a writing career. Weaving words was merely salve to sooth an aching heart, dulled by my daughter leaving the nest for Kindergarten. I spent [...] Read more »
7 Steps to Squeaky Clean Copy
I have a confession to make. Though I love reading blogs, I sometimes read them from behind the eyes of someone who makes their living with language. Writing great copy is important, and much like a special effects artist who has a difficult time losing themselves in a film, it is sometimes hard for me [...] Read more »
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