Social Media in the Self Publishing World

An article by B.L. Ochman was released this week marking the “Ten Things Social Media Can’t Do.” As technology improves and progresses, businesses need to be able to keep up with it in order to better contend with their competitors.  That being said, social media is not the answer to everything.  Of course, it’s a [...]

Publishing Trolls – Breaking Down Authors One Page at a Time

Scenario:  You have been writing your book for some time, and it is finally completed.  After all of the work and effort you put into it, you are genuinely proud of your creation.  People may frequently look down on you because you are an author (and authors are supposed to be broke and unsuccessful), but [...]

Google Book Search – new features for the self published author

I’ve written before about the power of Google Book Search for authors and the self publishing industry as a whole. I think it’s an amazing service and never really understood the complaints… but, that’s not the point of the post. This is all about the new goodies for Google Book Search that Google unveiled on [...]

Nothing really to do with self-publishing… Heard of “Earth Hour”?

I’m probably coming ‘late to the party’ as the saying goes, but I just became aware of a movement called Earth Hour – which bills itself as… “…the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to [...]