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Writer’s Tips – October Edition – Using Color in Books, WordPress Reader, Kindlepreneur on Sending Epub to Kindle

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Welcome to my curated Writer’s Tips for October. Hugh Roberts with some excellent tips on using the WordPress Reader, Nicholas Rossis shares how using color in our books is beneficial, and Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur) shares how to get book files to our Kindles. If you’re anything like me regarding send to Kindle, you will find this article helpful. One of my problems in this issue is that Kindle no longer accepts Mobi files, yet, when I send Epub files, I get a network error from Amazon, even after using Calibre to convert to Epub or PDF. I have personally found that emailing to my Kindle does work.

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Hugh Roberts with some excellent reasons why we should use the WordPress Reader

Why Do You Use The WordPress Reader? This Is Why You Should Use It.

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Nicholas Rossis at the Story Empire on Using Color to enhance our Books

Using Colors in Your Books

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If you have trouble sending book files to your Kindle (like I do), this is a helpful article by the Kindlepreneur on converting the file and how to send it to your Kindle.

How to Get EPUB Books on Kindle: The Ultimate Guide

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Writer’s Tips – September Edition – Name Generators, #WordPress, Kindlepreneur

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Welcome to September edition of my curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Diana Peach is at The Story Empire with a post sharing various Name Generators for our book characters, Hugh Roberts shares some helpful tips on how to solve WordPress issues, and the Kindlepreneur breaks down differences between being a writer and an author.

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Diana Peach at The Story Empire talking about Name Generators for characters and places

Trouble Naming your Character, Town, or Tavern? Try a Name Generator.

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Hugh Roberts with some helpful tips for WordPress problems

WordPress Problems: Don’t Panic! How To Solve Issues Quickly

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The Kindlepreneur talks about the differences between Writers and Authors

Author vs Writer: What’s the Difference?

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©DGKaye2024

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Writer’s Tips – August Edition – #Tech Tools, #A.I. Publishing, #Amazon Reviews, Kindlepreneur Tips

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Welcome to my August Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Jacqui Murray offers some useful Apps and Tools for writers, Jane Friedman discussing how A.I. is being used by publishers, Amazon Reviews and A.I. by Deborah Jay, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur) shows us how to get Epub files onto our Kindles and he shares a great short video on finding best categories for our books on Amazon.

Jacqui Murray shares her always helpful Tech Tips and Tools for Writers

Tech Tools for Writing II

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Jane Friedman is talking about the inevitable A.I. now being used for training

Like It or Not, Publishers Are Licensing Books for AI Training—And Using AI Themselves

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Deborah Jay shares a new discovery on Amazon – they are beginning to show A.I. condensed summaries of all reviews on our book pages.

Have you looked at your #AmazonReviews recently? #AI

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The Kindlepreneur discusses a dilemma I have every time someone sends me an ebook. Amazon doesn’t accept mobi files anymore, yet, many people’s Kindles (like mine) can only load mobi files. I found a work-around long ago using Calibre, but Dave Chesson can explain it to you much better.

How to Get EPUB Books on Kindle: The Ultimate Guide

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Bonus video by Dave Chesson – the Kindlepreneur. This is a short an informative video on how our author books are interpreted by Amazon’s algorithms, often leading to our books being displayed in wrong categories.

And while I’m here talking about Dave, I’m wondering if any writers here use his Pocket Rocket, which is quite popular for finding best categories for our books?

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Writer’s Tips – October Edition – #Blurb Writing, #Blogging Tips, #WordPress, Kindlepreneur, Unfinished Books

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Welcome to my hand-picked best shared tips of the month of October. There’s always something for writers and bloggers! In this edition, Staci Troilo is at the Story Empire, sharing another fantastic formula with us authors for – writing the blurb. D.L. Finn writing for the Story Empire, shares some tips on ‘writing scary’. Hugh Roberts with two new, helpful blogging tips, showing us how to protect our blogs, and new WordPress changes. I’m sharing another article from the Kindlepreneur about how to work with keywords on Amazon for our books, since their changes. And finally, Deborah Jay shares a great post on why we may not finish reading a book – DNF.

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Staci Troilo at the Story Empire on Writing the Blurb and shares her Formula

Blurbs

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Hugh Roberts has a new Tutorial on Four Easy Ways to Protect our Blogs

Is Your Blog Under Attack? Yes, It Is. 4 Easy Ways You Can Protect It

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Hugh Roberts helps us discover where mysteriously Hidden Link Boxes are in our WordPress Editor

WordPress Changes: This Is Now How To Find The ‘Open In New Tab’ Box.

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The Kindlepreneur with updates to help choose the right Categories for our Books

7 Kindle Keywords: Use All 50 Characters or Not?

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Denise Finn at the Story Empire on tips for writing ‘scary’

SCARY WRITING

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Deborah Jay discusses elements in a book which cause us not to finish reading – DNF

7 reasons I don’t finish (or even start!) a novel #DNF

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HAPPY READING!

©DGKaye2023

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Writer’s Tips, June Edition – Reader Scout, Writer Scams, Punctuation, Blurb Generator, and Book Categories tools from the #Kindlepreneur

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Welcome to my best picks in helpful articles for writers and bloggers for June. In this collaboration we have three helpful tools from the Kindlepreneur – Reader Scout, Book Categories, and Blurb Generator, as well as Writer Scams to beware of, How to add a Reuseable Block in WordPress, and Converting videos to MP4.

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The Kindlepreneur offers a new Free tool to track book reviews – Reader Scout

https://kindlepreneur.com/readerscout/

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The Kindlepreneur simplifies the best way to choose our book’s categories

Amazon Book Categories: My Secret Method to Choose Clear Winners

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The Kindlepreneur offers his Book Description Tool for helping to write the Blurb

Kindlepreneur Book Description Generator

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Anne R. Allen offers up good tips on current Writer Scams to beware of

10 Facts Writers Need to Know to Stay Safe from Scammers

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Hugh Roberts with another great blogging tip – Creating resuseable blocks in the WordPress editor

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2023/05/15/what-is-a-reusable-block-on-wordpress-how-to-create-one-and-save-yourself-lots-of-time/comment-page-1/?unapproved=168326&moderation-hash=c479074c878d84fb34e0dd0e7e87b974#comment-168326

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From Janice Wald at Mostly Blogging, learn how to convert Youtube clips into MP4s

https://www.mostlyblogging.com/youtube-clip-to-mp4/

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Do you get confused if two adjectives require a comma or not? Quick lesson reminder from Anneli Purchase

Commas and Adjectives

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I hope you will enjoy some of these helpful articles and find them useful for your own blogs and books.

©DGKaye2023

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Writer’s Tips May Edition – Copyright Page, Italics, Web Content, Amazon, Canva

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Welcome to May edition of my curated Writer’s Tips. This month I’m sharing some informative articles on, when to use Italics by author/editor, Anneli Purchase, how to create a proper Copyright page by Kindlepreneur, Dave Chesson, as well as info on reducing Amazon Download Fees, how to write Web content by Anne R. Allen, how to Translate Text into another Language in Canva by Natalie Ducey, Word Conversion with Harmony Kent.

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Author/Editor, Anneli Purchase on how and when to use Italics

https://annelisplace.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/italics-when-to-use-them/comment-page-1/#comment-9115

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Kindlepreneur – Dave Chesson on What Goes into a Book’s Copyright Page

Guide to Writing a Book Copyright Page [With 6 Templates]

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Dave Chesson shows us how to minimize KDP Download Fees when downloading our books

How to Reduce KDP Download Fees and Instantly Improve Your Royalties

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Anne R. Allen explains why it’s important for authors to learn how to write Web Content

How to Write for the Web: All Writers Need to be Web Content Providers Now

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Natalie Ducey has another helpful tutorial – How to Translate Text into other Languages using Canva

https://natalieducey.com/2023/03/27/how-to-translate-text-in-canva-into-over-100-languages/

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Harmony Kent at the Story Empire talking about writing conventions – American, British, English

https://storyempire.com/2023/04/26/homonyms-with-harmony-part-2-american-and-british-english-conventions/comment-page-1/#comment-171244

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©DGKaye2023

Tips for Writers

Writer’s Tips: A Great Edition to Maximize Readership for Authors and Bloggers

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This edition of Writer’s Tips offer some great links for writers and authors – How to use Amazon search words for best visibility, the importance of using Goodreads for authors, The Kindlepreneur with a generator machine to drum up ideas and book titles, and did you know that just by commenting on other blogs your name gets pushed up in SEO on Google? Check them out!

 

Bookmarketing Tools – using https://www.profitguru.com/ to find profitable book title data on Amazon to help maximize your book’s visibility.

Source: Digital Pubbing – Guest Post: 5 Steps to Finding Profitable Book Topics on Amazon

 

Great article from P.H. Solomon writing for the Story Empire blog on why Goodreads is a great place for authors to grow readership.

https://storyempirecom.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/the-audience-resource-youre-avoiding-goodreads/

 

Dave Chesson, the Kindleprenur, has a great share machine! Everything you need to know about how the generator works.

https://kindlepreneur.com/first-line-generator/

Now, give that generator a whirl by trying it out! Generator is complete with writing ideas, first lines, character and plot generators and more!

 

Looking for more visibility on Google searches to get your name and perhaps books a boost in search engines? Read up on Anne R. Allen’s invaluable post on why comments are so essential on our blogs, and how just by commenting, you gain visibility!

Commenting on Blogs: The Easy Way for New Writers to Build Platform

 

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Writer’s Tips – Rejected Manuscripts, Formatting in Word, Create Free Book Covers and More!

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This week’s edition of Writer’s Tips is focused on: Working with your Word Styles Ribbon, Author Tips, Writing Aids, Creating Free Book Covers, Why Manuscripts get Rejected, and How to Formulate the Elevator Pitch.

 

 

Louise Harnby shares in-depth information on how to work with your Styles ribbon in Word to help format your books.

https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/blog/formatting-your-book-in-word-how-to-save-time-with-the-styles-tool

 

 

9 Things Authors should be doing, by Indies Unlimited.

9 Things Authors Aren’t Doing (And Should Be Doing)

 

 

The Kindlepreneur, Dave Chesson, offers a great list of writing aids.

https://kindlepreneur.com/software-for-writers/

 

 

How to create Book Covers for free with Publishing Drive.

https://publishdrive.com/create-book-cover-free/

 

 

Ruth Harris on the blog of Anne R. Allen sharing tips on how to formulate an Elevator Pitch for our books.

Razzle-Dazzle: The Art and Craft of the Elevator Pitch

 

 

Anne R. Allen is sharing 8 potential reasons our manuscripts may be rejected.

Source: Rejections: 8 reasons why your manuscript is getting them

 

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