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Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. You’re probably a Facebook user, like a few kajillion other folks. And maybe, like me, you’ve ended up using it as a notebook of sorts, recording your thoughts, observations, events, or whatevers in your Facebook statuses over time. Probably nothing planned. In my case, I found myself [...]
A Morristown, New Jersey, resident who “teaches creative writing to enthusiastic teens and adults, and expository writing to reluctant college freshmen,” S.W. Hubbard (Susan) is the author and self-publisher of the mystery, Another Man’s Treasure. She is also the author of three other traditionally published mass market paperback mysteries, all set in the Adirondacks, where her [...]
A pediatric nurse, for many years Julie Anne Grasso was literally wrapping one child after another in cotton wool, and witnessed the “great courage and resilience from the tiny people” under her care. A lover of science fiction, all those strong little children inspired Julie to write stories about Caramel, a little girl elf just [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Today’s tool is a design tool, as in graphic design, as in “something a lot of technical and writer types think they can do themselves but actually suck at.” This one’s meant to do one thing easily and well: Turn a quotation — or any relatively short [...]
Martin Crosbie was born in the Scotland Highlands and now calls Cloverdale, British Columbia, on Canada’s west coast, his home. His debut novel, My Temporary Life, is an Amazon bestseller and has been downloaded over a hundred thousand times. Deluged with reader requests for more on one of his book’s characters, Hardly, he released My Name [...]
The author of over fifteen novels, Brett Battles is best recognized as the man behind the popular Jonathan Quinn series of thrillers featuring “a man whose job it is to make bodies disappear.” Jonathan Quinn book #2 — The Deceived — even picked up the Barry Award for Best Thriller. Southern California born and raised, Brett [...]
Just an update to the little (OK, big) issue I had trying to run the WordPress Send to Kindle plugin I mentioned earlier in today’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday. In short, the Send to Kindle feature didn’t work here on the Wordpreneur blog, and trying to use it would simply produce an operation timeout error message. [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Sorry, busy week, so only writing about one tool today. And its something I’ve been holding for later (read on for why), but again, busy, and although I have a nice sized list of potential Wordpreneur Tools to look at, they’re still to look at. This one, [...]
Author Vanessa Gray Bartal says she’s “an avid reader who also loves to write.” That describes just about every author I know. The following bit of background detail, however, is a rarity and quite unique: She was a 911 dispatcher before embarking on her writing career. Although she now resides “tucked away in the Ohio [...]
A Seattle-based journalist — maybe you’ve seen her essays and stories in Salon, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Advocate and other publications — Ingrid Ricks is also a teen mentor, leveraging digital publishing to help give at-risk teens a voice, recently co-launching We Are Absolutely Not Okay, a nationally recognized mentoring/publishing program that helps at-risk teens [...]
Reared in Ville Platte, Louisiana — part of Cajun Country — Nancy K. Duplechain is the author of Dark Bayou and Dark Carnival, the first two books in her soon-to-be completed Dark Trilogy. It shouldn’t be surprising then that her stories take place in Louisiana, where she still currently lives. Nancy did move to Los [...]
It’s always interesting when a traditional international bestselling author joins the indie publishing ranks. Authors like Robert Ellis, the man who gave us crime novels Access to Power, The Dead Room, City of Fire, The Lost Witness and Murder Season, critically acclaimed work that’s been translated into ten languages and read in over thirty-five countries. His website [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Just some buzzing among many of our peers in the past week or so over this one little bit of news: Google’s announced it will be shutting down its Google Reader service in July. As the most popular of the RSS reader services, lots of us use [...]
Born in Salt Lake City to a family in the military and named after his great-grandfather, Marion, and father, George, Marion G. Harmon spent much of his formative years traveling from post to post “at the whim of the U.S. military.” He lived at places like Stuttgart, Germany, and Sydney, Australia, before settling in Las [...]
Author of the young adult paranormal Heven and Hell series and the Death Escorts series, Cambria Hebert “loves a caramel latte, hates math and is afraid of chickens.” Yes, those chickens, she assures us. She went off to school for a bachelor’s, couldn’t decide on a major, and left with a cosmetology degree. This, she [...]
Brian Rathbone is a standardbred horse trainer turned technology geek turned independent fantasy writer and podcaster. In his own words, he’s “a bit of an odd duck armed with a few too many dragon jokes.” He certainly seems to have found an outlet for those dragon jokes, at least for the stories that they may [...]
The two tools you’ll be reading about in today’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday installment are in the “not quite recommended but pretty dang curious” category. I like what they promise, but I’m not sure they deliver what they say they will. The way I think they should, anyway. Or what is delivered isn’t cost effective as [...]
Ever since he could string words together, Jason D. Morrow loved to write fiction. And his parents were very supportive: He would take his stories to them to read and he’d receive positive feedback. Graduating with a Journalism degree, he got a job writing for a Georgia newspaper… but he realized it really wasn’t the [...]
In 1992, Deborah Cooke sold her first book, The Romance of the Rose, under her pen name, Claire Delacroix. More than fifty romance novels and a bunch of novellas in various genres later, she piled up numerous best-sellers, nominations and awards for her work, including the Orange County RWA Book Buyer’s Best and the Colorado [...]
Sam Torode is the author of The Dirty Parts of the Bible: A Novel, a semifinalist for the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. He is also the author of The Book of Craw (poems related to the novel), and a more serious biblical study, The Song of Songs. A Nashville, Tennessee, writer, artist and book designer, Sam [...]
