Self Publishing Your Own Novel Via Amazon: PC Magazine offers an interesting article on their website regarding the way e-books are changing the landscape for writers. It used to be, and not so long ago either, that if you had written a novel you had to really sell it to a traditional publisher – that is convince them the work would sell if they published it.
And if you couldn’t get a publisher interested in your book you could shell out money and try and sell the book yourself but you were usually out of luck as far a attracting a large audience and getting your book read.
Today all that has changed.
The E-Book revolution currently underway translates into aspiring writers being able to very easily self-publisher their works as e-books – and they don’t have to convince traditional publishers that their books deserve to be published either! There are naturally a number of digital publishing platforms you can use to publish your work and to translate that – I simply mean that you can sell your e-book through well-known e-book sellers with self-publishing services like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iBooks (Apple) as well as independent e-book publishers like Smashwords and Book Tango. However, The PC Magazine article highlights some of the reasons why you might want to consider using the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing service to get your e-book read by the largest number of people. So if you’re a writer who’d like to get your work published and ready by as many people as possible you may want to check out the article!
You might also want to talk to the library’s writer in residence and all round literary guru Michelle Wells who also knows a thing or two about the process of self publishing one’s works electronically!
And here’s the link to the PC Magazine article, titled How To Self-Publish Your Novel on the Amazon Kindle that focuses on the benefits of using the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing service to get your novel published:
Some Helpful Apps For The Absent Minded Among Us: You know how the common adage goes that your memory at mid-life isn’t quite what it was when you were twenty? Well… as someone who now has both feet planted firmly in that middle age category, I can tell you there is some truth to that adage! Thank goodness for the synched calendar app on my iPad and iMac because if not for that – I’d be forgetting to do things I wanted to get done! And to assist all of those people that are of a certain age in remembering things we’d like to get done – there is, as the expression goes – an app for that!
Or several apps for that!
The New York Times offers an article on just that subject – apps that assist one in remembering all the items on one’s to-do list! The article is titled For the Absent-Minded, a Few Forget-Me-Nots and the three apps discussed are Any.DO and Remember the Milk, both are free and available for both Android and iOS devices, and, It’s Clear which is only available for iOS devices and costs one dollar.
Here’s the article link:
The Cheerful Computer Smiley Face Has A Birthday! I have to admit I didn’t know that the computer smiley face, the one you create by pressing first on the semi-color key, second on the dash key and third on the right parentheses key so it looks like this 🙂 actually has a name.
As it turns out it does! And this week that cheerful friendly dweller of the web turns thirty! NPR has a short and fun article and podcast combo on the subject titled The Emoticon Turns 30, Seems Happy About It 🙂 and the article link can be found here:
Have a great day!
Linda R.
Tech & Book Talk at SSCL 