Welcome back to my Writer’s Tips series, For my April shares, Anne R. Allen has more good tips on how to avoid being Scammed with our Books, Deborah Jay is at the Story Empire sharing How to Pitch your Nonfiction Book, and Hugh Roberts shares a tutorial on How to Add a Blogroll to our blogs. And lastly, I came across two blog posts (sorry I can’t remember from who), directing us over to this interesting page by Grant P. Ferguson at TameYourBook.com on the various uses for A.I., also, a great breakdown from Diana Peach on the Three Act Structure.
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Anne R. Allen on 10 Things to Avoid from getting Scammed with our Books
I’ve been wanting to update my author picture for ages, but wasn’t looking forward to the price for a new professional headshot. In my surfing travels last week, I came across a site that creates headshots from using our own real pictures!
Of course I tried it! It asks us to download ten pictures of ourself so the generator can work its magic creating professional images with new backgrounds taken from the photos we downloaded. It will show you all new generated photos with different backgrounds for free, and if you wish to pay for them, then we are able to download them. These are great for authors and other professionals, and especially great to use on social media. Just pick your package of pictures, pay, and download. Just know, they choose the attire to add to the pose.
This pic above is one of the fifty pictures I downloaded and chose for my new author pic. I found it interesting that the app puts us in different outfits and scenarios. I also found it interesting that many of the pictures generated had me with my glasses off. I had downloaded five pics with glasses and five without and the app generated most pics with my glasses off, like the one above.
Once the images are generated, we are offered a 10% discount if we choose to download the pics within ten minutes. The original price was $79 CAD, and it charged me $71 and change. So worth it! The last author pic I had professionally done was almost twelve years ago! One photo cost me $140 Canadian!
Below, I’ll share a few of the other pics just to demonstrate the various poses and sceneries the app generated with me:
Name in lights
Nice dream pic
I’m definitely ready for sun and sea!
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Visit the link below and give it try for yourselves!
Welcome to October’s picks for Writing Tips. In this edition, blogging guru, Hugh Roberts shares a tutorial on creating a Contact Page on our blogs and how to build the page, Hugh Roberts on Blog Recommendations, Anne R. Allen talks about the ‘flattering’ email scams authors receive, Diana Peach in her Punctuation Refresher Series talks about Comma uses, and Nathan Bransford on Trusting A.I.
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Hugh Roberts on How to Build a Contact page in our Blogs
Welcome to September’s curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Hugh Roberts shares about repurposing old Blog Posts, Deborah Jay in her Self-Publishing series, talks about how to price book accordingly on Amazon, the Kindlepreneur shares how to find best Keywords for our books, and Diana Peach is back with here Punctuation series at the Story Empire, talking about the use of Quotations, and Sue Coletta, Nicholas Rossis shares about A.I. in books and social media, also at the Story Empire talks about cleaning up broken links on our Blogs.
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Hugh Roberts on Repurposing or Deleting older Blog Posts
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
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.
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?
Welcome to a new year of my best picks and curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Jacqui Murray’s Tech Tips on Cleaning our Computers, BookBub shares their year’s best Top Ten Marketing Tips from 2023, Hugh Roberts offered up some handy tips for sorting and tidying our blogs, and Anne R. Allen with some Tips for new Novelists, and shares 2024 Publisher tips.
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Jacqui Murray’s Tech Tips – 8 + Ways to a Speedier Computer
Wrapping up the year with my December picks for Writing Tips – Diana Peach at the Story Empire on Tightening our Prose, Just Publishing Advice shares new Author Scams and Book Publishers to avoid, Dan Holloway at ALLI talks about U.K. writers calling for A.I. protections, WordPress Support from Hugh Roberts, Diana Stout on Self-Editing, and Ruth Harris with some worthy Pro Writer Tips.
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Diana Peach is at the Story Empire sharing tips on how to avoid Redundancies in Writing
Self Publishing News at ALLI from Dan Holloway talking about U.K. Publishers and Writing Groups calling for protection tools against A.I.,Self-Editing, and Writing Advice from the Pros
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