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 [...]
Good Cover Designs
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"Alchemy" by Mike Wood
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"The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming" by Masanobu Fukuoka
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"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service" by Eiji Otsuka
