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Derek Murphy Launches His YA Novel with Grace

Derek Murphy, author of Shearwater, book one of the Ocean Depths mermaid series, has done some wonderful stuff in promoting his book launch this past week. Here’s a little of what he has to say about his launch (on his Urban Epics blog): I just published Part One of my first novel Shearwater – an epic YA […]

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The Relationship between Shares and Links

17 Research-Based Tips about Blog Content, Shares, and Links

Last summer BuzzSumo and Moz combined their knowledge and data to analyze the shares and links of more than one million blog posts. They uncovered some key points on how you should be blogging if you want more shares or links (and, thus, more traffic to your website). Here are a few of their top […]

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Twitter announces a 10,000 character limit coming soon

Twitter to 10,000 Characters: A Marketing Opportunity

Last week Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, sent out the following tweet as an image (which, currently, is the only way to send a long tweet). In essence, he announced that Twitter is working on a feature that will allow users to send tweets as long as 10,000 characters, rather than the current limit of 140 […]

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Stephen Colbert on Books

Stephen Colbert on Books

A book is something we used to have before the Internet. It’s sort of a blog for people with attention spans. — Stephen Colbert From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings! — Helen Hayes, actress A book is something we used to […]

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