Take Advantage of Free Verification on Bluesky and Mastodon
You can be anyone you want to be on the internet, and it’s true. I once ran a short-lived social media account for SuperDuck, my pet house duck. As far as I know I’m not a duck, though my duck thinks that he’s a “people”. Meta allows you...
Why You Need To Backup Your Writing Beyond The Cloud
When it comes to making a backup of your writing, it’s easy these days to default to saving it in the cloud. Services like OneDrive or Google Drive make it easy to keep copies, but with companies selling your data to train AI, increasing threats from political...
Make Your Author Newsletter Count For More Subscribers
A few months ago, I blogged about what political texts taught me about marketing. And then a recent article crossed my social media feed that basically said that consumers are opting out (as many as 40% a week) from marketing communications due to a few reasons. The...
Now Is The Time For A Risk Audit. Are You Ready?
Publishing is always changing, but recent events have made it vital more than ever to do a risk audit for your author business. Let me be clear. Doing a risk audit isn’t succumbing to fear or scare mongering! Any business, regardless of the owner’s view,...