by bookshepherd_admin | Jul 28, 2015 | Writing Success, Writing Tip
Avoid hyphen, en-dash and em-dash (ndash and mdash, n-dash and m-dash) ConfusionThe use of dashes is inconsistent in lots of writing—regardless of the writer is (amateur or long-timer). The hyphen, em-dash and en-dash crop-up all the time while you’re using Microsoft...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jul 25, 2015 | Kick Butt Author Tips
Three quick tips to enhance your blog clout and you that popped from the recent jammed paced webinar that Joel Friedlander, Joan Stewart, Amy Collins, Kelly Johnson and Judith Briles did. 1. Don’t make your blog’s “About” page about you....
by bookshepherd_admin | Jul 21, 2015 | Book Publicity
Alrighty … many have heard me push the need to do BOTH print and “e” versions of your books. For fast POD service that delivers quality, IngramSpark tops the list. In partnership with AuthorU, IngramSpark is offering to AuthorU members a variety of...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jul 18, 2015 | Kick Butt Author Tips
Don’t you love quick tips … ones that turn on the light bulb and you think–I can do that? Ideas were popping everywhere from the webinar I did last month with Joel Friedlander, Amy Collins, Joan Stewart and Kelly Johnson… I love it when I have...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jul 14, 2015 | Websites
IS it a bird? A plane? Jeeze Louise, it’s Google and it’s not knocking at your door with a bouquet of lovely flowers. It dropped a dead bouquet for plenty of authors who we discovered at the AuthorU’s Extravaganza in May were clueless of the changes...