Starting a blog these days is easy. You can use any number of free website builders to flesh out your site from a preexisting template, and resources like the Blog Starter to learn the fundamentals of good writing, branding, marketing, and distribution.
However, there are millions of blogs that are already popular, and tens of millions of people who would love nothing more than to make a blog successful. Even with a fantastic blog, you’ll find it difficult to stand out from the crowd…
If I’m reviewing wineries, can I get some of them as advertisers? If I’m reviewing books, can I get authors to participate and publishers to advertise or sponsor? If I’m doing photographs, is it conceivable that someone would want to pay me to go take photos of something for them? In other words, how does one establish commercial value if it exists?
I am currently proofreading a book for an author and he is pondering the thought of having a couple people read his work to gain opinions prior to sending his work to a publisher. One of his concerns is how to protect his work from being shared or copied prior to copyright or Digital Rights Management. Should he send a letter of confidentiality or what do you recomend?
I have written a book and I want to self-publish, but I am not sure how to choose a self-publishing company. Which self-publishing company is best and what’s the difference between them anyway?
I really want to get into writing online, Dave. Can you offer up some tips and tricks for me to break into this area and get some visibility? Thanks!
I self-published a book in 1983. I would now like to make it an e-book. I do not remember my isbn number. How do I go about getting that information?
I want to get into blogging, but I hear from my friends that it’s really hard because after a few weeks you start to suffer from writer’s block. I generally like to know what I’m getting into before I dive in, so do I need to be worried? How do you avoid writer’s block as an author or blogger?
I’ve been searching for some help on this a for about four, five years. I’m 16 years old and I’ve been writing novels since I was about eleven. Everyone thinks that i could be the next J.K. Rowling. I even have a pen name L.G. Kelly. I Just don’t know how to get published. So how do i get publsihed and fast without getting ripped off? Or having to get an agent?
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