How to preserve your world-building

Posted on 05/26/2021 at 12:45 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Regular readers of our newswire know by now what types of information are included in world-building for a novel. But...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Technology, Writer's Digest

ALLi's guide to the tech side of publishing an ebook

Posted on 04/01/2021 at 09:28 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The headline “how to publish an ebook” can take any number of angles. This time, the Alliance of Independent Authors...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors), Publishing, Technology

Blockchain for publishing (and authors who just want to understand it)

Posted on 03/12/2021 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you see techno-heavy posts from Joanna Penn on our newswire or elsewhere and panic a bit over the terminology,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Publishing, Technology

Indie authors’ favorite tech tools

Posted on 01/11/2021 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Who better to recommend tech tools than your fellow indie authors? The Alliance of Independent Authors invited its Facebook fans...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors), Technology

Joanna Penn on what artificial intelligence means for authors

Posted on 12/02/2020 at 03:35 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Those of you who follow Joanna Penn on any routine basis know that she has a keen interest in how...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Technology

Let go of some tasks to stay healthy while writing and marketing

Posted on 10/18/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The post we shared yesterday encouraged strategic and not all-encompassing social media use. And good news: just like authors shouldn’t...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Motivational, Social media and websites, Technology, Time management

Intermediate tech tips: Adding a bookstore to your author site

Posted on 10/16/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You always have the option, on on your author site, to just send users to another website in order to...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

How to back up your WordPress website daily (and why)

Posted on 10/15/2020 at 12:48 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If your author site is a self-hosted WordPress one, then Nate Hoffelder has an important message for you. (Well, actually,...

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Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

What to do if Twitter targets your account

Posted on 08/10/2020 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nate Hoffelder received some unwelcome news recently: Twitter decided that he’d violated the platform’s terms of service. We hope you...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

David Gaughran debunks the Amazon A9 Algorithm myth

Posted on 07/29/2020 at 01:09 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

How many times have you seen a reference to Amazon’s A9 Algorithm? And how many of those references seemed to...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, David Gaughran, Technology