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Alice Hoffman blasts reviewer on Twitter

Monday, June 29th, 2009

There’s an interesting story brewing on Twitter at the moment, as best-selling author Alice Hoffman has taken to task reviewer Roberta Silman for her review of The Story Sisters, Hoffman’s new novel.
There are countless blogs and twitter profiles talking about Hoffman’s reaction – she tweeted up to 27 times about the review, going so far [...]

Want more followers on twitter? One simple tip

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

If you’re using Twitter to promote yourself / your band / your novel / your conference etc it’s obvious that you would like to have a large amount of followers. There’s one single thing, more than any other, that puts us off following people on our various twitter accounts, and it’s a simple thing that [...]

Twitter trashes skewed Daily Mail poll

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Right-leaning British newspaper The Daily Mail found itself with egg on its face on Friday as one of its infamously non-neutral polls was targeted by psychologists on twitter.
The poll which had the decidedly non-neutral question ’should the nhs let gipsies to jump the queue?’, raised the ire of a number of psychologists who as part [...]

Self-Publishing? What should you pay for your website.

Friday, June 19th, 2009

We’ve already pointed out one horrendous experience had by a self-publishing author (who paid his publisher over ten-times the going rate to register his preferred domain name, and then found that they had actually registered it to themselves). Browsing about we’ve come across another mistake that authors/novelists using self-publishing companies can make.
They presume that, because [...]

Google Wave – exciting possibilities

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

So the big news in recent weeks has been the presentation of Google Wave, due to be fully launched later in the year. You can check out the presentation here.
As with virtually any new search/social media release, there’s immediate talk of it being a *killer – with twitter being the * in this particular case. [...]

5 Reasons Writers Need Their Own Websites

Friday, May 29th, 2009

The trouble with being dedicated to your job is that you’re like a horse with blinders on – you don’t seem to enjoy the benefits that peripheral vision can bring. Yes, you are focused on your work and enjoy it so much that you have time for little else when you’re busy, but there is [...]

Authors Beware – a common mistake made by self-publishing authors

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

We’ve started work on a site for a self-publishing author recently, who already had a basic site setup at one of the more prominent free website networks for authors. He has his own domain name, and – frustrated at how poorly his site has worked thus far, in terms of search engines in particular – [...]

Content ownership – the biggest myth online?

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

.Net magazine have a good series where they pose a question to various online professionals. Their latest one is on ‘The biggest myths online’. The answers are interesting (though to be taken with a pinch of salt, given that these are experts reasonably enough suggesting that the biggest risks online relate to their own areas [...]

#wossybookclub teaches some twitter lessons for authors online

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

The power of twitter (and social networking / online presence in general) to shift books has been forcefully demonstrated by the almost impromptu launch of the #wossybookclub.
Jonathan Ross, the tv celebrity who tweets using @wossy and has over 250,000 followers, decided last week to set up a book club on twitter. Browse over to [...]