Linking your blog to your Goodreads author profile
There are two options for displaying your blog on Goodreads. Link your existing blog to your author profile. Create a blog on Goodreads as part of your author profile.
Bundle story: “A Hearth Witch at Chisholm Keep” by Thea Hutcheson
Misha Millik, a hearth witch brought to Chisolm Keep by the headmaster, feels out of her depth at this magic school for the children of established magicians. Branded a misfit by the wealthy students, she finds a friend in a stray cat who can talk to her. Desperately unhappy and completely inept at any kind…
Using Jetpack’s “Related Posts” feature
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that packages a number of features that are provided to people whose sites are hosted on WordPress.com. If you’re hosting your site on WordPress.com, you already have these features; if you’re hosting your site somewhere, you will need to install the Jetpack plugin (which is free). The Related Posts feature…
Bundle story: “City Shadows” by Chuck Heintzelman
Clara works hard, juggling high school, her waitress job, and eking out time with her friends. And now, finishing work far too late on a school night, she wants nothing more than to get home and sleep. But dark and otherworldly things lurk in the shadows of her city. “City Shadows” is…
How to create a custom tab for your Facebook page
You can do all kinds of things with a custom tab on a Facebook page. Link to a book landing page, link to a page of cat videos…the sky’s the limit. 🙂 In this image, you can see a custom tab named “Bundles” at the bottom of the left sidebar on a Facebook page. When…
Bundle story: “Love Powders & Wicked Witches” by Ron Collins
Alicia was tired of spending nights alone in her empty little house, and was willing to try something weird or something stupid if it would keep Horatio at home. Her friends told her how to find the house of a witch who lived in a house with a door made from wood stolen from the…
The format and placement of copyright information pages
A copyright information page will generally include more than just copyright information. Publication information, disclaimers, and design accreditation also appear on this page. Note that I’m not a lawyer, and am not providing legal advice. Where should the copyright information page go? For a print book, this page should go in the front matter at…
Bundle story: “Dreams of Saffron and Lace” by Leah Cutter
Regina Victoria Edmondson rules as Queen over the nursery she shares with her twin brother Tobias. Except when she allows him to direct their play as Raj. However, on the rambling country estate where they live, neither of them control the gardens, where time moves in an unorderly, disquieting fashion. Secrets hide there. Deadly secrets….
Author website basics
There are a few very easy – and very important – things all authors should do on their websites. How you do them is up to you – but if you’re not doing these things, you should put them on your to do list right now. That said, there’s only so much time to fit…
Bundle story: “Aunt Fabulous and the Malevolent Musician” by Valerie Brook
Sixteen-year-old Magnificent Maggie Fontaine is close to giving up on her oh-so-wrecked life. When she accidentally runs away from home, she doesn’t even expect to make it very far before something worse happens. But running away might actually bring her closer to home, and when all hope is lost, a little bit of forbidden magic…