NaNoWriMo Entry 2015
NaNoWriMo Entry 2015 I think I have my NaNoWriMo Entry for 2015. I don’t mean that I have written it, that would be against the rules, as entrants are not allowed to even begin writing until tomorrow, but I have…
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August Site Stats
August Site Stats As usual at about this time of the month, I will give a brief analysis of the visitors to this site for the benefit of anyone who’s remotely interested. Hopefully, that will include current and prospective advertisers…
Free Competitions
Free Competitions At the moment, 17-8-15, I have two free competitions running and a coupon give-away. Free Competitions 1) Simply fulfil the conditions in the independently run free competition. For every completed requirement, you get one more chance to win…
Amazon Book Reviews
My take on the recent controversy regarding Amazon book reviews is that Amazon seems to be disregarding the modern trend in the book reader-writer relationship.
Virtual Assistants
Virtual Assistants I’m not really sure why they are called virtual assistants or VA’s because there is nothing virtual about them. They are real people who provide a really helpful service, although often from a great distance. If you have…
Promotion
Promotion for Art-Lovers If you are one of the growing number of creators of art without an agent, then you will have to do your own promotion. This was the realisation that I came to three years ago, when I…
Promo and Collaboration
Promo and Collaboration Yesterday, I talked about seeking publicity, and today I’m going to continue in a similar vein. Seeking publicity boils down to promotion or promo for short. Many writers and other artists consider promo to be the bane…
Couldn’t Help Myself
I Couldn’t Help Myself There it is, I just couldn’t help myself! A very good friend of mine tried to slow down on his blogging earlier this month, and failed, and I said that I would take this month off…
Introductory Offer
Introductory Offer The starting price of all the banners on this site is now $10 a month! First come first served. Look around this and other pages on this website and you will see banner ad placeholders clearly mararked. To…
Advertising My Books on Facebook
Advertising My Books on Facebook My experiment in advertising my books on Facebook has been disappointing. I normally promote all my books by any means at my disposal, but for this month, I decided to try selling the Behind…
A Few Days Ago
A Few Days Ago This early afternoon, my friend Dave came calling. I think that that is the earliest by three or four hours he’s ever come around. Anyway, the reason was that a mutual friend, Murray is leaving the…
Tracking Online Book Sales
Tracking Online Book Sales I am writing this article on book sales as a follow-on from my piece yesterday entitled ‘Selling Books Online’. If you are going to be spending your precious life promoting your books, or anything else for…
Wales Loses, But We Don’t Have To
Wales Loses, But We Don’t Have To and 404 Error Messages I awoke this morning to discover that Wales had lost to England at the annual Six Nations rugby internationals, or is it Seven Nations now?. I’m not a…
Tweeting and Hashtags
Using hashtags (#) is a major way of letting readers search for content that they want to read. On other media, they are called keywords...
Read an e-Book Week
This is Read an e-Book Week! Hi Readers! I’ve got some great news for you. For one week only, I am heavily discounting my e-books at Smashwords for the annual ‘Read e-Books Week’. Coupon codes are on the site and…
The Disallowed Giveaway
The Disallowed Giveaway Chupacabras on Backpacker Blood Milkshake a Rafflecopter giveaway Heng Lee is a goatherd in the remote mountains north-east of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, very close to the border with Laos. It is a tight-knit community where…
Buying Likes
Buying Likes and Other Social Indicators All of us who have web sites, which includes blogs, want visitors to read them, and leave ‘Likes’. I think that that goes without saying, even if the webmaster is not trying to earn…
Megan Series – Win ‘The Misconception’
The Megan Series PLEASE WAIT FOR THE NEXT COMPETITION Win one of ten copies of ‘Megan The Misconception’, the first in the Megan Series of monthly novellas about the psychic development of Megan, a teenage girl! Or buy it from…