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Author Marketing Tip: Easy and Free way to promote and brand yourself
Gravatar.com What are they? Globally Recognized Avatar Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site? What this means for the…
Author Branding using Author Central Account
Yippie! Your ebook is published. Now, you need to set up your Author Central Account. When you received notification from Amazon on your publishing success, they included several links to where you can set up an Author Page. Below is how you can set up the page for Amazon.com (US), and then you can simply…
Le JOOLA: Africa’s Titanic, non-fiction narrative on martime accident
Bestseller in West African History This non-fiction narrative recounts one of the worst maritime disasters in history, the sinking of Le Joola – which tore at the soul of a country. Patrick Wiley’s interviews with survivors and extensive in-country research revealed the shameful loss of life and incredible accounts of survival that form the heart…
Embedding YouTube Videos in your blog
How to link to a Youtube video or embed the actual video on your WordPress / Blog site. OPTION ONE – CREATING A LINK TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO Go to the Youtube video you want to embed Choose “Share” Copy the http://…. Link in the field Go to your post where you want the video…
“The Lost Sigil Ebook Editor Manual” by Suzanne Fyhrie Parrott
What is Sigil Sigil is a free, open-source ebook editing program. This step-by-step manual will show you the incredible capabilities and functions of the Sigil Ebook Editor program so you can create ebooks for epub and mobi. ~ ~ ~ I created this manual as a Basic User Guide for authors wanting to use the…
eBook Formatting Checklist: Preparing for ebook conversion
To create an e-book requires converting your manuscript into an HTML format. And to make the process as painless as possible, there are certain Do’s and Don’ts you should be aware of when preparing your manuscript. NOTICE: In the following, I refer to Microsoft Word, but you can use any word processing program you prefer,…
