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SEO Article Writing Service
January 21, 2010 | No Comments
I’ve done it — built my site into a personal SEO article writing marketplace. It only took a few hours using the WP e-commerce plugin. I never knew it would be so simple to integrate product sales on a WordPress website. Crazy.
As a special promotion to build my client base, I setup a Warrior Forum for Hire post. I hope to receive a lot of business with the post. It’s my first attempt so we’ll see. If you have any suggestions on how to market my service, feel free to leave me a comment on this post.
I’ll be adding more products as time goes by. If you’re interested in hiring me for other projects, just drop me a message in my contact form.
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How to Format an Ebook
July 22, 2009 | No Comments
I have a new project in the queue. I’m excited to be doing something other than simply writing articles. This project takes me deep into formatting. I’ve been looking around online, brushing up on standards and whatnot — only to find there’s really not much in the way of hard and fast rules. The content I found seemed more inclined to deal with formatting for ebook readers than for computer reading.
So I’m going to dig a bit further, roll up my sleeves, and jot down the things I feel make for good techniques when it comes to ebook formatting.
First thing is to use Microsoft Word to its fullest. The first ebook I formatted required several key adjustments to make this edit easier as well as any future edits.
- Use Heading and Title formatting on chapter and subsection titles. This ensures you can create a dynamic ToC when the time comes.
- Make the font large enough to read on a computer screen.
- Use at least 1.5 spacing between lines. Double spacing is a little too much, but single spacing can get tiresome on a computer screen.
- Use headers and footers to accentuate the ebook. Capture a design element from the cover page and include it in the footer. Something graphical preferably.
- Use page numbers, but start them after the ToC. Word can do this through a little trickery.
- Use margins around 3/4 of an inch for the sides, but at least 1″ for the top and bottom.
- The cover page can use color, but the other pages should minimize color. Remember some folks might actually want to print the 100 pages and not use up their entire ink well.
The tips should give you a good start on your ebook formatting. If it passes the visual test, then it probably works. If it’s your ebook, then you might run a test group to see if there’s anyway to improve it.
National Poetry Month
April 11, 2009 | No Comments
I’m an aspiring writer. My DD comes in the form of reading profusely, especially as of late. My mind has somehow formed a knot of understanding between a head full of literature and a heart full of prose. The result will someday be a novel, at which point I can call myself a writer, no longer aspiring.
As I read through several books, I began to find pleasure in the hunt for the next spine to touch my hands. It’s seductive in a way. Although, going to Amazon and drifting from review to review, reading loose tongued neophytes spout off about their viewpoints, can grow tiresome. Occasionally one such review on Goodreads will inform my opinion, but mostly they’re just opinions and not fact.
I do find myself leaning towards books of a more literary vein, although I did just finish Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It was an easy read, but not a book I was particularly turned on by. It’s spine was slippery and maybe not the cupped correctly in my hands. So, anyways, I find new books through blogs focusing on reviews, newspaper articles, and magazines like the New Yorker or Atlantic. The Lit Supp is also a good place. Although, being just short of introverted I never heard anyone speak it’s name.
The NYBooks.com site has a poem printed each day this month — all of which originally appeared in their volumes. I’m hoping they take their subscriptions to the Kindle, like their publishing kin The Times. I just signed up for the Lit Supp, reading my first copy now. I hope to divine from its text some answer to the question of — what should I read next.
Krannert Art Center Visit
April 9, 2009 | No Comments
Che and I decided to make the most of an otherwise boring Thursday night. We traveled to campus and walked through the Krannert Art Musuem. I’d been through before, but she hadn’t. On our honeymoon in Phoenix, we visited our first art museum together, but hadn’t been to the one in our hometown.
They’re currently running a Andy Warhol Project Exhibition, with something like 128 polaroids and photos. We must have walked right by it. Seriously. We didn’t see it. We saw the Egyptian, Mediterranean, and Japanese relics, along with the many, many fantastic Renaissance paintings. We’re hoping to make another trip next Thursday — this time with a little more information.
