Lulu vs CreateSpace: One Indie Author’s Perspective

In 2010 I used Lulu to publish my first book, Fear Not! Discovering God’s Promises For Our Lives. Then, this year (2011), I decided to give CreateSpace a try when I published Simply Prayer. Although the two POD’s are similar, there are some differences I thought others might like to know about before choosing one [...]

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Marketing Monday: A Creative Alternative to Business Cards

Business cards. Some say you should have them. Others say don’t bother. There are some Independent Authors that suggest using your book as your business card. Personally, I think that would be a great idea if you had a) the money to give your book away and b) a shrink ray. I have neither, which [...]

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BookBuzzr Review

As those of you who have been following along will know, I’ve been working with the BookBuzzr people to test out whether their service was a better choice for me as an Independent Author versus Scribd. After looking over their services and comparing stats from both, I’ve come to one conclusion… neither one is perfect [...]

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BookBuzzr With Post Text… And An Edit

Okay, so if you’ve seen the previous post, then you know the mini-widget is working when I’ve added text first, then copied and pasted the code. In this post I re-published the content of the previous post, then went back to edit the text. Wish me luck… Well that’s just awesome! It’s working just as [...]

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BookBuzzr With Post Text

Okay, so if you’ve seen the previous post, then you know the mini-widget is working without me writing anything to go along with it. Now I’m going to try adding the mini-widget to this post after I’ve written something. We’ll see how it goes…

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BookBuzzr Mini-widget Without Post Text

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Another Round With BookBuzzr

According to the tech team, the reason the mini-widget did not work in the previous post regarding BookBuzzr was due to an incomplete code. Hmmm… I’ve copied and pasted the full code several times into this post only to have some of it disappear each time I hit publish. So it’s back to the techies [...]

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A Trial Run With BookBuzzr

This is my initial attempt at using BookBuzzr for marketing my book Fear Not! Discovering God’s Promises For Our Lives. As you can clearly see, I’m having a lot of trouble. I’m currently emailing the tech team and trying to work with them to fix this problem. So far, the idea behind BookBuzzr is great, [...]

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Something To Be Said… Again

If you work at something long enough, eventually you’ll find a work around what “can’t be done.” Today I challenged myself to finding a solution to the Gravatar image problem I’ve had. The problem: keep the Gravatar image of my book cover while adding a photo of me to my blog. Why, you may ask, [...]

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Something To Be Said About Creativity

Writers, in general, are a very creative species. We must be to craft such wondrous worlds to draw readers in and keep them there. To that end, this writer has come up with a work around to Amazon’s lack of “Look Inside” to my book, Fear Not! I’ve put together a sample similar to what [...]

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