Free Stuff for Writers

Don’t you get excited when you find good stuff for free? Makes you want to tell somebody, doesn’t it?  Well, I found all these things recently, and I want to share them with you. Handout on social media marketing: Offered … Continue reading

Book Review Blogging: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain

How can a book review blog help you promote your writing? Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? When I started my book review blog in June of 2007, I didn’t plan to use it for anything other than sharing my thoughts about … Continue reading

Book Giveaway Winners

Time to announce the winners of the drawings for the book, The Time of Your Life: How to Accomplish All That God Wants You to Do. Winner Number One is Sue Tornai, a regular subscriber to Blog4writers. Visit her site, … Continue reading

Get Organized: Records

Once your work space is set up, you need to organize subject matter, submission tracking, finances, and communications. For topics covered in previous blog posts, I provide a link to those posts in the text below. Subject matter/content: If you … Continue reading

Need Free Photos?

Have you noticed that many bloggers are now adding photos to their posts? Would you like to have some photos to jazz up your e-book? I want to keep up with the latest trends, so I’ve looked for free photos … Continue reading

Measuring Success: Google Analytics

How do you know whether anybody is reading your blog? Why spend all the time and energy it takes to produce content if there are no readers? This question came up in an online writers’ group recently. You may be … Continue reading

Free “Ask Sally Stuart” Teleseminar

In my last post, Start the New Year with Sally Stuart, I hope I convinced readers that Christian writers must own a copy of the latest edition of Sally Stuart’s Christian Writers’ Market Guide. Near the end of the post, … Continue reading

Do You Have Backup?

Policemen have them. So do quarterbacks, astronauts, and lead actors. OK, so a writer’s need for backup is not as serious as for policemen and astronauts. But, writers do need to protect their life’s work from a computer crash, lightning … Continue reading

Free Web Sites: One Last Word

I had intended to move on to other topics for this post, but I put a request for information about WordPress on one of my online groups. I got a response that I want to share with you. Although the … Continue reading

Creating a Free Site with WordPress

I searched the Web for step-by-step instructions on how to set up a free site with WordPress.com, but I found nothing. I first became aware that this was possible when I ran across Brandy Brow’s site at www.brandybrow.com. Notice the … Continue reading