A Sneak Peek at My Upcoming E-Book

“How to Create & Publish Your E-Book Using Free Tools” is coming along nicely. Chapter four is nearly finished. I’m pulling myself up with my own bootstraps, so the book itself becomes a showcase for what you can do with the tools I use and recommend. I’m plowing discoveries and research back into the book [...]

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How the Ad Revenue Crash Benefits Writers and Readers

David Coursey, in “Paving the Way for Premium Content,” his  6/11/09 Tech Inciter, PCWorld blog post, leads off with “Paid content is the best hope of saving “the media” as we know it.” I disagree with him on that score because the media as we know it is disappearing faster than an ice cream cone [...]

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Have You Seen the Elephant?

The phrase “I have seen the elephant” may have come from the fable of the farmer who, when he heard the circus was in town, loaded his wagon with produce and set off to see for himself. The circus elephant spooked the farmer’s horse and he lost his load of vegetables when his wagon overturned [...]

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Writing: Meeting Change Head on and Winning

he Times Roman font is small for a reason. It was created to fit into the narrow columns of British newspapers, yet people insist on using it as a standard for wide copy where the font is out of place. Why? Helium, the online aggregator, uses a style guide from the print world for online [...]

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Writers Don’t Need Content Aggregators

Each online content aggregator puts their own spin, their own brand on their web site in an attempt to be different, to be the innovator and the savior of writers. Publish your material with us they say. We have the page rank to put you in front of a large audience. We’ll reward you for [...]

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Writing: A Penny for Your Thoughts?

Not even close. No writer can earn a living out of the ad click tip jar. Associated Content (A/C) calls their payout to writers performance pay while Helium uses the term ad revenue share and bills itself as a co-op. A/C tells you up front that you’ll be paid $1.50 to $2.00 per 1,000 page [...]

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