The link below is to an article that takes a look at how authors are using Instagram.
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http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2015/01/top-7-ways-authors-are-using-instagram/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at Facebook for authors.
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http://janefriedman.com/2014/12/08/facebook-for-authors/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at pen names and whether you should use them.
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http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2014/09/should-you-be-using-a-pen-name/
A whole lot of people think they have a book in them. And even more think they could write a children’s book. Amazon made that a little easier Wednesday with a new tool, KDP Kids, that aids in the creation of illustrated ebooks.
“No one should have to be a computer programmer to create a beautiful, illustrated Kindle book for kids,” Russ Grandinetti, SVP of Kindle, said in a statement. (Of course, you will still need to have the illustrations at hand and in digital format. Amazon’s not doing your artwork for you, at least not yet.)
KDP Kids largely consists of a free software program, Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, that is downloadable to Mac or PC and lets authors “import artwork from popular formats, including jpg, pdf, tiff, and png,” add text to the pages and preview how it will look across Kindle devices (clearly, illustrated books…
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As the negotiations with Hachette drag on, Amazon says it is “thinking of proposing” a path that would alleviate pressure on Hachette authors.
David Naggar, VP of Kindle content and independent publishing, sent a letter to a few Hachette authors, literary agents and Authors Guild president Roxana Robinson over the weekend suggesting that “for as long as this dispute lasts, Hachette authors would get 100% of the sales price of every Hachette ebook we sell. Both Amazon and Hachette would forego all revenue and profit from the sale of every ebook until an agreement is reached.” The idea, seemingly, is that that loss of ebook revenue would “motivate both Hachette and Amazon to work faster to resolve the situation.”
Hachette would need to agree to the proposal, of course, and the letter made it clear that as of its writing Amazon hadn’t actually suggested the idea to Hachette yet: Rather…
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The link below is to an article that takes a look at pen names.
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/01/writing-pen-name-alternative-literary-identities-sarah-hall-sarah-vaughan
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