0

Grammar for Grownups: Parts of Speech

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 29, 2010 in Books, Movies, Music, TV, Self Publishing, Writing Biz

Chapter 1: Parts of Speech Let’s begin at the beginning, and that means with the foundation of our language: the words. There are thousands of words in any language. Classifying the words into a category based upon what the word does in language makes it easier to understand and learn a language. These categories are [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: ,

 
0

Grammar For Grownups

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 22, 2010 in Books, Movies, Music, TV, Internet Success, Self Publishing, Writing Biz

Introduction My children and their peers are college graduates. They’re all intelligent, educated people yet I find myself, with my kids at least, correcting their speech occasionally. Sometimes they’ll have to write some important memo or letter at work, and they’ll run it by me first because I am the family editor. Many times I’ve [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , ,

 
0

New Online Publisher That’s Free

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 18, 2010 in Books, Movies, Music, TV, Self Publishing, Technology, Writing Biz

ePubBud is different from most publishing websites that cater to those who want to self publish because the website doesn’t plan to make money. Wren’s Legacy Inspired by the birth of their son Wren on March 9, 2010, the founders of ePubBud decided that it would be great to make a children’s book about Wren’s [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , ,

 
-

Self Publish The Easy Way

Posted by Joan Reeves on Jul 7, 2010 in Internet Success, Self Publishing, Writing Biz

If you have wanted to get into the ePublishing boom with a book on multiple electronic devices, but you haven’t know how to do it, Infinity Publishing may be for you. First, let’s be clear about something. I am not endorsing them. I have not used them. I’m not being paid by them. I just [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , ,

 
-

Places To Sell Books

Posted by Joan Reeves on Jun 29, 2010 in Internet Success, Pop Culture, Self Publishing, Writing Biz

Just as publishing is changing, so is book selling. I sometimes wonder if the current decade will, in some future decade, be called the Writing Entrepreneur Era. Writers are publishing their own books, in print and electronic venues, and they’re marketing them also. Not Just Bookstores Self-pubbed writers are really into finding ways to sell [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , ,

 
-

Writers, Don’t Nitpick

Posted by Joan Reeves on Jun 26, 2010 in Internet Success, Self Publishing, Technology, Writing Biz

I was writing a post for my other blog about obtaining a special font that some writers still like to use in their book manuscripts. This post will appear on SlingWords next week. After I’d written it, giving links to where the font can be obtained, I wanted to say a bit more about the [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , ,

 
-

Self Publishing Success for Elf

Posted by Joan Reeves on Jun 19, 2010 in Books, Movies, Music, TV, Pop Culture, Self Publishing, Technology, Writing Biz

A lot of writers have drawn lines in the sand about self-publishing and electronic publishing. Both usually seemed to be linked together in the view of those who decry them. On one side, you’ve got authors like J. A. Konrath who just inked a deal to publish his next book electronically with Amazon. On the [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , ,

 
-

I Own A Kindle

Yes, it’s true. I ordered a Kindle this past Monday. It arrived Wednesday, and I must say that I’m sold on this digital device. I think it was created for those who love to read. Do My Own Thinking Why did I buy a Kindle when I’m a big supporter of pBooks, that is, paper [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

 
2

Reviewing Scribd

Posted by Joan Reeves on Oct 28, 2009 in Consumer Smarts, Internet Success, Pop Culture, Self Publishing, Technology, Writing Biz

If you’re in the forefront of book publishing revolution, you’ll be interested in Scribd, an Internet company that offers you a way to upload a document and charge for it. This San Francisco company opened for business in 2007. Two years later they have millions of documents being sold by writing entrepreneurs. The big publishing [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , ,

 
1

Make Money From Free Web Work

Posted by Joan Reeves on Oct 23, 2009 in Internet Success, Pop Culture, Self Publishing, Technology, Writing Biz

Is it possible to publish something for free on the Internet and then make money on that same project? After reading a few case studies, I know the answer is yes. However, I must add that a successful crossover from free online publication to income producing publication is a situation that requires certain events to [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , ,

Copyright © 2008-2010 Joan Slings Words All rights reserved.
Multi v1.4.5 a child of the Desk Mess Mirrored v1.6 theme from BuyNowShop.com.