by Andy Updegrove | Jan 11, 2015 | Promotion, SelfPublishing
It is fashionable for content producers to rail against the concept of “curation” in the Age of the Internet. Why? Because the guidelines of those terrible people, the “traditional publishers,” are supposedly keeping authors from the global...
by Andy Updegrove | Dec 31, 2014 | SelfPublishing, Writing
If you’re like me, you need to use a variety of editing techniques to end up with a final draft you’re pleased with. That means spending a lot of time and effort, and I’m always looking for ways to make it faster and less painful. Here’s a...
by Andy Updegrove | Dec 30, 2014 | Blogging, Promotion
I don’t recall getting a report like this last year, but it’s a nice extra from the good folks at WordPress. It gives a summary of a variety of helpful metrics for your site for 2014 (most popular post, most comments, etc.) Here’s an excerpt: The...
by Andy Updegrove | Dec 29, 2014 | SelfPublishing
One of the most incredible phenomena I’ve witnessed since I’ve become interested in self-publishing has been the propensity for many authors to lionize Amazon as if Jeff Bezos’s sole purpose in life was to help avenge the author class against the...
by Andy Updegrove | Dec 28, 2014 | My Writing, SelfPublishing
Some authors dread revising, while others find it hard to stop. Back in the day when authors found publishers and then mated for life, I expect it may have been easy to know when to call it a day and ask for an editor’s invaluable assistance. But in the...
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