Let’s talk New Year Audit. With the start of a new year, now is the perfect time to sit down and do an audit of the services, memberships I pay for. While I am not an author, the general principles still apply. We all have things we pay for each year, some are necessary, e.g, …
Category Archives: Dear Author
Dear Author | My Take on Instagram
Today instead of a dear author I am going to talk about Instagram. Back the beginning of July I had to get a new phone which meant I lost my authentication for Instagram. When I originally started using 2-factor Authentication I didn’t keep the extra codes. For that matter don’t even remember them much less …
Dear Author | Newsletters
Today I am talking newsletters. I had planned to do a post on newsletters prior to the recent event. Recently I entered a multi-author giveaway with over 70 authors with being added to newsletters lists a condition of entry. I knew I would be added to the lists and set up a folder for the …
Dear Author | Online Groups Continued
Today we continue our series talking about what frustrates readers about online groups. As most of you would know there are different groups. Reader groups which are created for readers and should be reader focused. Mixed groups for both readers and writers like Australasian Christian Writers. Author Groups which are mainly published or aspiring authors. …
Dear Author | Online Safety
This month we are talking online safety. It wasn’t planned to post on this topic today but due to seeing a few issues this past month with hacked and cloned accounts at Facebook, I thought it was worth talking about. I will explain the difference between cloning and hacking. Cloning This is what normally happens …
Dear Author | Online Groups
Last month I talked about safety on social media and what worries me for authors. This month we are talking about online groups. On different platforms there are author/reader groups. These can be both a blessing and a curse to readers. Both Facebook and Goodreads have group as to other platforms. I mainly use these …
Dear Author | Please Be Careful
Today I am starting a new series called Dear Author. These are different subjects as a reader I and other readers would like to say to authors. Todays topic is “Please be careful” dealing with online presence. Social Media and Author Newsletters As we are entering a new year it’s a good time to do …