Thanks to Laura at Writing Thoughts for naming me a Rockin’ Girl Blogger. Roberta Ferguson – Blogging Made Devilishly Simple created the award. It’ll be fun and it will build us a community of one sort: girl bloggers. Or, better yet, “Rockin’ Girl Bloggers”. I’m not always enthusiastic about things that are restricted to specific … Read more
Grace Anne Schaefer – my friend since our first day of college, my writing mentor, and my client – has released the second book in her series The People of the Frozen Earth. The books are set nearly two thousand years ago in the western US and tell the story of a semi-nomadic people facing … Read more
Yvonne at Grow Your Writing Business and Laura at Writing Thoughts have teamed up for a two-part group writing project. Visit their blogs for the details. I’m trying to come up with a good idea for this one and get my two posts written by the deadline, August 15th. [tags]Shared Answers 2007, group writing project[/tags]
After I finished my series on writing ethics, I read about several schemes to pay for blog comments and StumbleUpon stumbles. Since these actions are similar to the marketing tactics I’ve been writing about, here are some links to read about the ethics of these new blog tactics: Buy Blog Comments – A Sick New … Read more
This post is a follow-up to my last three posts and continues a conversation at Grow Your Writing Business. While this topic didn’t come up in the original discussion, my thoughts extended to one more issue that bothers me. Do you really know what it means that a book is a bestseller? One of the … Read more
This post is a follow-up to my last two posts and continues a conversation at Grow Your Writing Business. Amy Derby said she had seen ads for writers to post reviews on Amazon.com. That led me to share David’s experience. He read in John Kremer’s Book Marketing newsletter about a way to get more reviews … Read more
This post is a follow-up to my last post and continues a conversation at Grow Your Writing Business. Mary Emma Allen questioned the ethics of writers asking people to vote for their books for awards, whether or not the voter has read the book. Recently I told you that my client David Bowles’ book was … Read more
Yvonne Russell at Grow Your Writing Business has an interesting discussion going on about fake testimonials and the ethics of writing . Her original post quoted an ad she saw on a freelance site asking to have 25 testimonials written to sound like they are from “allegedly satisfied readers” of the book – for the … Read more
Gack Ink, the Bring Your Own Blog Network, recently put out a call for submissions. Laura at Writing Thoughts and Yvonne at Grow Your Writing Business both posted about the benefits of belonging to the network. Since I have great respect for both of these great bloggers, I submitted this blog. The Gack Ink Gals … Read more
In addition to being the largest search engine, Google offers a number of tools. You can find them at About Google. I find two of the tools especially useful. Google Desktop lets you search your own desktop just like you search the Internet. I prefer this to the search function in Microsoft Windows. Searching on … Read more