Convention Power
Most of my author friends go to conventions to be on panels and to sell books to people they meet. Some sell books using a cash-only approach, while others use phone-based credit and debit card devices to accept payments. Getting 120v power to your booth can range from free to twenty bucks for the con […]
Fake Twitter Accounts
One of the things authors do is to blindly accept every Twitter follower that falls within their gravitational well. After all, it does look like you have a huge following when someone visits your Twitter profile. Unfortunately, people can see what percentage of your followers and folks you follow are made up of bogus accounts. […]
Have You Set Up Your AuthorCentral UK Page Yet?
You might be surprised to learn your Amazon.com AuthorCentral page does not magically transfer to Amazon.uk. (You do have one in the USA, don’t you?) Using the same email address as the US version, pop on over to AC in the UK: https://authorcentral.amazon.co.uk/ Why the same address? To save you from forgetting your login information and […]
5 Tips For Securing Your WordPress Author Website
There’s nothing more disheartening than checking on your author website, only to find that it was hacked. Well…perhaps finding yet another rejection email in your inbox may be worse, but it’s close. There are several simple ways to improve the security of your author website. Note that your website will never be perfectly secure. A […]