How To Be A Twitter Star

How To Be A Twitter Star

Everyone likes to be liked, and be popular on Twitter. For many Twitter users this popularity is often measured by the ratio of followers to following. Simply put; if you have more people following you than you are following, you are popular. While this is not necessarily true, Twitter does encourage this belief by imposing follow limits that make getting past their 5,000 following limit a little difficult. Because of this limit, many users unfollow a bunch of other users in the hope that more will follow them, thus improving their follow ratio. But this is really counterproductive. By unfollowing someone who is following you, chances are they will unfollow

Self Publishing Your Book For Everyone

Self Publishing Your Book For Everyone

Publishing in ebook and paperback If you are in any way connected to books, reading, writing on the Internet there is no escaping the range of debates about self-publishing. However, what has got lost is that self-publishing is not solely about Amazon, Kindle and ebooks. While it is super simple to ‘clack’ out a Word document and upload it to Kindle Direct Publishing, then see your ‘book’ published 24 hours later, this is not what I define as self-publishing. The book still lives. No one has killed it as far as I can ascertain, so if you are serious about publishing your book, why not do it well. The months, or in some

The Comfort of Humour

The Comfort of Humour

You have to laugh at life My upbringing was very normal for the nineteen fifties and sixties in Australia. Boys were meant to be tough creatures who showed no signs of pain, suffering, confusion or emotion. One emotion was permitted, however. That was, being happy and contented with life’s lot. The standard was set primarily of course by my father, who was the perfect role model, and by my male relatives, friends and peers. Being tough, hard, unemotional and without fear were the attributes of a real man. I remember stubbing my big toe on a rock when I was about five or six. My toenail was pointing north, and there

You’re Either Loved Or Hated

Critic

Everyone is a book critic One lesson I have learned since I began publishing my writing is that there will be those who somewhat like or tolerate what I do, those who love what I do and then well, there will always be those who really hate every single word I’ve ever written. And of course, they very often want to tell the whole world in no uncertain terms what they think. The best litmus test for reviews for me is Goodreads. A social media site dedicated to books and reading. No matter where a reader has sourced one of my books from – Kindle, Nook, Paperback, free or pirated –