I attended the Harriette Austin Writers Conference last weekend–had a blast visiting with friends–and I picked up some bits of news of interest to book bloggers.
The workshop was on what authors need to do to survive, and hopefully thrive, in this tough marketplace. And one of the things the presenter thought they needed to do [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging Tips'
Blog Book Reviews ~ Why They Are a Big Deal
July 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags: Blogging Tips · Publicity
Blog Tours and Making Money
June 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Here’s a great post that gives a clear, quick definition of a blog tour.
The only part of the equation that I think might change in the future is this part:
Are bloggers paid to participate in the blog tour?
No — paying anyone to cover any books would be unethical. (Paying for ads is a perfectly ethical practice, [...]
Tags: Blogging Tips · Credibility · Publicity
Blog Traffic
May 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Do you want better blog traffic? We blog because we want to share our lives with others. We have a desire to communicate. We have a message of some sort that we want to share. Maybe it’s not a heavy message. Maybe it’s just about connecting with other people who share our passion.
It’s not really important that [...]
Tags: Blogging Tips · Kidz Book Buzz Bizz
HTML Vspace and Hspace Revisited
April 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Well this is what you get for taking advice from an amateur. I just discovered that the vspace and hspace tags I was gushing about a few posts ago don’t work in Firefox (or in some versions, I guess).
Here is the fix if you want to make the tags work in Firefox as well as [...]
Tags: Blogging Tips
HTML Tip ~ Space Around Pictures
March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A quick post because I’ve been visiting several kit lit book review sites, adding blogs to my blog roll on All About Children’s Books and I’ve noticed lots of posts with wonderful pictures in them. Picture book lovers are great for putting pictures in their posts.
But I often see pictures with no vertical or horizontal [...]
Tags: Blogging Tips
