A Golden Era for Content Marketing

Sep 25, 2019 | Maps and Infographics, Marketing

Content Marketing is a fancy word for promoting a product or service using web content–i.e. writing. Unlike, say, Influencer Marketing, which uses celebrities and other influencers to market a product, content marketing is exactly the sort of thing that we,...

Help Me Help You

Sep 21, 2019 | Polls

Since 2014, I have published almost 1,500 posts on my blog. I am grateful to you all, not just for your visits and comments, but also for letting me be part of such an awesome writing community. When I first published my books, I could never have imagined the level of...

This Fall, Fall in Love with Books

Sep 19, 2019 | Events and Giveaways

This Fall, fall in love with some great romance books, FREE or 99c! Accent on Romance Giveaway Accent on Romance and Great Books Great Deals are running a collaborative promo until September 20th. Three lucky winners will go home with one Fire HD 8 Tablet, plus two...

The Hackable Internet of Things

Sep 17, 2019 | Maps and Infographics, Writing

In my book, A Heaven for Toasters (which, by the way, is FREE until the 20th), a zoomer (flying car) is hacked and made to crash. As with all things futuristic, I based this on current trends. One of these is the so-called Internet of Things: a common language that...

Carmen Maria Machado on Theme

Sep 13, 2019 | Writing

I was sending some files using WeTransfer the other day, and I saw a link to their blog. Turns out, WeTransfer has a surprisingly interesting blog with many posts related to writing! I found the excerpt below in a recent post titled New Rules of Storytelling. It is by...

Remembering 9/11

Sep 11, 2019 | Random Musings

I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. Mephistopheles, Faust Remembering 9/11Powered By the Tweet This PluginTweet...

Lumen 5: Make a Video the AI Way

Sep 9, 2019 | Interviews Features and Reviews

Back in April, I reviewed an online video creation tool, Flexclip. I have now discovered a second tool that allows you to create a video in mere minutes: Lumen5. Lumen5 takes video creation one step further: it can read a web or blog page and create a video on its...

How Many Bits In A Word?

Sep 7, 2019 | Fun Historical Facts

The world has known many languages; some 7,000 are currently spoken. And we use language to inform others. So, are some languages better than others when it comes to how fast we convey information? A group of intrepid linguists set out to find out. How many bits per...

Are You An Employee Or An Entrepreneur?

Sep 5, 2019 | Writing

I subscribe to the newsletter of Mridu Khullar Relph. Mridu is a highly successful freelance writer. She writes magazine features writer and has contributed to several women’s and general-interest publications including Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, Glamour, and...

The Indie Writer’s Handbook

Sep 3, 2019 | Marketing, Publishing, Writing

I was lucky enough to be sent an ARC for The Indie Writer’s Handbook by one of my favorite authors, David Wind. David has included a kind mention to this blog in his book, which is specifically aimed at Indies, hence the ARC. “A great primer for new Indie...