Archive for the 'Being a freelance writer' Category

Feb 06 2012

Does an ebook need an ISBN?

We all know what an ISBN is, right? But the question is, does an ebook need an ISBN?

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Feb 01 2012

Do you over-research?

Have you ever found that when you’re writing on a particular topic how easy it is to get distracted by the information and research that’s available?

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Jan 25 2012

Recognising The Dip

If you were wondering where I and my posts have been for the last few days, I think I’m currently going through (and slowly coming out of) what Seth Godin calls The Dip. It’s that time in all great plans, when …

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Jan 09 2012

Joining Facebook and Facebook Safety
(otherwise called, ‘if you aren’t on Facebook yet you really should be’)

It took me a while to get into Facebook, I was concerned about Facebook safety amongst other things. However, as a writer and future online success, you really can’t afford to overlook the benefits of being involved, just make sure you set your own terms.

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Jul 08 2011

Question: How do you feel once you’ve submitted work?

How do you feel about your work once you’ve submitted it for publication or to a competition? Are you anxious, waiting to hear back? Do you just forget about that piece of work and move on to the next? Or are you somewhere in between?

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Jul 06 2011

How many words do you know?

I was writing up the Writing Tips for the Bodhi Tree newsletter today and it got me thinking on the old question of how many words do we know and how many do we actually use.

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Jun 20 2011

Calculating GST and discount for books

here is some information about the calculations you’ll need to do if you’re looking at putting your book into bookstores.

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Jun 14 2011

Getting your books into book stores

Listening to Karen Kotze, owner of the Bodhi Tree book cafe, talk about about how to get your books taken on by book stores, one thing became incredibly clear …

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Jun 09 2011

Books that look like e-books

Much of the promotion of e-books is based on the e-publishers’ ability to make the digital version look like the paper version. Yet now, just as we are starting to accept that e-books are here to stay there has been a new advancement.

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Jun 06 2011

Selling books to book stores

Many people, when starting out, think that the hard part about creating and self-publishing a book is the writing itself or maybe the process of self-publishing. Yet, in all honesty, I would have to say that both of these pale in comparison to promoting and distributing your own book

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