A Free Mockup Book Cover Maker
I recently discovered DIY Book Design (thank you, Krystallia!) and just had to share the news. DIY Book Design has a number of useful tools and tutorials, all aimed at helping you produce the perfect image for your book. From a number of tutorials helping with the...
Free Story: Two’s a Crowd
*** Read Infinite Waters for free on Kindle Unlimited *** In April 2018, I posted my thousandth post on this blog. To celebrate, I started sharing here all my short stories. Every couple of weeks, I’ll be posting one story from my celebrated Exciting Destinies series...
My Valiant Presentation
As you may know, my children's book, Valiant Smile, was published in Greece in December (the English version is still under development, I'm afraid). Yesterday, I had the official presentation at Ianos, one of Athens' best bookstores. Yes, it was exciting. But I also...
How Gutenberg Will Change WordPress
From your comments, it's obvious that you most of you hate Gutenberg. Some, however, were on the fence. And a few have actually used it and seemed to enjoy it. There are some advantages to Gutenberg. We will have more control over the layout in native WordPress. We...
Publishers Turn to AI to Predict Success
No one knows anything. William Goldman's aphorism concerns Hollywood, but it's also true of book publishing. Who would have guessed that 50 Shades would become a publishing phenomenon? Or Dan Brown's The Da Vince Code? As an article on Wired explains, it was the...
How WordPress Powers the Internet (Infographic)
When I first started working on the Internet, back in the mid-90s, we had to code everything by hand. And I mean, everything. You couldn't even write a simple "Hello World" without a dozen lines of code. Fast-forward to today's WordPress-powered blogs and websites and...
Free Story: James’ Life
*** Read Infinite Waters for free on Kindle Unlimited *** In April 2018, I posted my thousandth post on this blog. To celebrate, I started sharing here all my short stories. Every couple of weeks, I’ll be posting one story from my celebrated Exciting Destinies series...
Musiville: A Teacher’s Tale
It was my birthday a couple of days ago and I had a lovely surprise: a surprise gift from a Greek reader friend, who teaches children English as a second language. She wrote to me to let me know how she uses my children's book, Musiville, in the classroom. With her...
How Safe Is Your Online Data? (Infographic)
I will conclude this special feature I started with my post, The Fight Against Fake News, with an infographic on online data, courtesy of TechJury. The infographic will show you how big companies that provide free service (read: social networks) get to know you better...
Chinese Information Warfare
I will continue this special feature on online privacy and cybersecurity I started with my post, The Fight Against Fake News, with a post on Chinese efforts to tame the Internet. This will, hopefully, demonstrate the extent governments will go to in order to control...
Love Is In The Air
Love is in the air. Or the flu. As we've all been sick this month, it could be either. Still, tradition dictates that I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day, whether you are in a new relationship and are planning to spend a small fortune on a night out; in an old one and...
Saving your Privacy
In my last post, I described the moves companies take in their fight against fake news. That post raised some privacy issues; issues I will further explore in today's post. Namely, I list here 15 default settings you could change to safeguard your privacy, courtesy of...