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10 Best Blogging Platforms and Website Builders for Writers and Authors

Guest Post by Alex Levitov What can be more essential for a budding writer than a website? The concept of blogging (short for weblogging) has been around for about two decades. It began precisely twenty years ago with Blogspot (renamed as Blogger after its purchase by Google in 2003), and the concept has remained popular […]

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Increase the Impact of Your Marketing Through Storytelling

Guest Post by Monica Davis Humans have told each other stories for as long as they have walked the earth. Indeed, storytelling is one of the things that makes us unique. Oddly, the importance of this universal human impulse is often forgotten in business in favor of objective information and metrics. However, storytelling is a […]

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What Book Authors Need to Know about Marketing on Instagram

Guest post by Kayleigh Alexandra It can be difficult for authors to get their work seen by publishers or agent. In a competitive industry such as writing, getting yourself heard above the noise is a struggle. But with a strong social presence, it’s possible to grow your following online and carve out a path and […]

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Indie Publisher with 4 New York Times Bestsellers Simultaneously

Check out the accomplishment of Sourcebooks Trade: 4 simultaneous New York Times bestselling books! That’s something few publishers accomplish and, as far as I know, Sourcebooks is the first indie publisher to have four bestsellers at the same time in four different categories: middle grade non-fiction, children’s picture book, nonfiction hardcover, and fiction hardcover. The Complete Cookbook […]

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