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 Happenings
By thebookwright, on January 24th, 2011
Getting a book written and publishing is an amazing achievement and anybody who does it deserves a big pat on the back.
Sadly, that first copy of your book arriving in a Jiffy bag is just one step on your path to fame and fortune as an author and that retirement to a life scribing on a [...]
 Creativity
By The Bookwright, on August 9th, 2010
When we click on a link, we don’t give it a second thought – especially these days when we are presented with 100′s if not 1000′s of potential hyperlinks each day.
Links nowadays are not limited to those on web sites or in email newsletters. They abound in Twitter tweets and on Facebook Walls.
Knowing how and why [...]
 Resources
By The Bookwright, on July 9th, 2010
If you thought Twitter was a fad or a nuisance, let me disavow you of that notion – it is a pretty useful tool for both business and pleasure and it’s here to stay.
For one, I have had direct business solely from Tweets and found the most perfect iPhone app developer from a single Tweet – [...]
 iPhone & iPad
By thebookwright, on April 2nd, 2010
I am really proud to announce the release the full version of iPhone app for the Kryon School in Germany.
The app allows you to make full use of the amazing Crystals of the Divine Reality are now available in the Apple App Store. Using the app daily will bring magic, illumination and abundance into your [...]
 Authors Tales
By thebookwright, on November 12th, 2009
Appreciating Angels by Sally Asling is now on Authonomy … and rising up the charts rapidly.
Authonomy is a brilliant site from Harper Collins that allows authors to post their work and get reviewed by readers and other authors.
The stories that reach the top get looked at by the commissioning editors. Several new authors have already been [...]
 Happenings
By thebookwright, on October 28th, 2009
I am really honoured to be @nicktadd’s second guest on the NT Show this morning.
Nick has pushed the social media envelope yet again with this amazing format where he interviews a guest live on Twitter.
Not only does he fire questions at you, to which you reply as best as you can in 140 chars or less [...]
 Writers' Block
By thebookwright, on October 12th, 2009
And why it’s different from writer’s block
When you get asked the same thing three times in the same month, you know it’s time to blog about it.
Last month, three different authors came to me with the same tale of woe. Either a publisher had not delivered what they said they would or had let them down [...]
 Authors Tales
By thebookwright, on September 18th, 2009
If you read the writer’s magazines, there are loads of writing and poetry competitions going on all the time. You could spend your writing career full time just entering them all. For this reason, I don’t often broadcast them.
But then, three unusual ones come along all at once, like buses, I felt I had to share [...]
 Resources
By thebookwright, on July 31st, 2009
Calling all authors … did you know you could use Twitter to do all of this ?
Post samples of your words
Post your pictures & art
Post audio readings of your work
Post 12 seconds of video
Connect with other authors, publishers and agents like these
100+ of the best authors on Twitter
70+ Non-fiction authors on Twitter
25 Good Author, [...]
 Podcasts
By thebookwright, on June 22nd, 2009
I work with many authors who prefer to dictate their books than write them on paper or type them up. I am sure that this is because they have a preference to the auditory side of their brains as opposed to the visual or kinesthetic.
For some this even manifests itself as a block that prevents [...]
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Original artwork for the Bookwright site by Lefteris Heretakis - illustrator & designer, lecturer in Graphic Design @ Bradford College. Lefteris designs and typesets books that visually resonate with the reader.To find out more about his work, read this blog
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