Writing & Publishing

Flipboard is a social news magazine for sharing web content. It's a great resource of information. Authors can use it to promote their own articles. I examine the entire process, along with known problems and issues.

Rev.com employs contractors who make money translating, transcribing audio, and captioning videos. You can make money from the comfort of your home, however it is difficult to make minimum wage. Some tips to make more money: improving your typing speed, buying quality headphones, text expanders.

As a vital ingredient of search engine optimisation, link building can make the difference between ranking on page 1 and page 100. In this guide I'll outline the steps to perfecting a scalable backlink strategy to achieve exponential organic growth for your business online.

How to choose a revenue sharing writing website to diversify your online content platforms.

Don’t do what I did! Here are lessons I learned from my early writing mistakes on HubPages.

Successful blogging is in the first instance about very carefully choosing a niche topic. A blog about your home town is an excellent idea, as you have a ready made niche market in the form of residents and businesses, while the subject is likely to know very little online competition. This page guides you through the process of creating a blog about your home town and how to position it that it knows the greatest chances of success.

Formatting the pages of a book for publication can be done with Microsoft Word, which includes tools for book formatting. I'll show you how to set page layout, font size, titling, cover design, book spines, and more.

New authors often struggle with the decision of whether to go with self publishing or attempt the traditional publishing route. Nine questions here can help you decide!

Effective book cover design is both art and science. This article written by an experienced author and designer discusses some key cover design factors that will help make your book a success.

This year marks my fifth anniversary on Hubpages so I’d like to take this opportunity to reflect on my experience on this platform so far.

If you're frustrated trying to get published, why not try writing Romance? Romance publishers are crying out for new material, even from unpublished authors...

Received a couple of questions about challenges with book signing events. I provide insight on these situations to help protect sales and profits for self published authors.

Read here about my experience submitting poetry to Blue Mountain Arts and the end results:

Welcome to the wonderful world of book publishing! If you're a new author, you'll need to understand the landscape. Discover key terms about the business here.

Self publishing eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform is pretty easy. What’s sometimes not so easy is figuring out how all the Kindle programs impact your income. I explain here.

Have you self-published your first book? Are you ready for the next steps to being a successful authorpreneur? In this article, I’ll share my first author expo experience, how I networked with other authors, how I prepared for an author expo and what to do and not to do an author or book expo.