Monthly Archives: September 2019

Extra Protection for Facebook Users

Extra Protection for Facebook Users

It’s Time to Do A Facebook Setting Checkup
Are you concerned about Facebook posts or requests? Many are. Next year is an election year and you can bet that Facebook will have hiccups.

Plus, we are getting calls and emails from our authors about Facebook and how to reduce unwanted friend requests, revealing too much information and reducing some of the oddball exposure that seems to emulate from Facebook.
 
Start with:
Go to Settings – Privacy in your FB …

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A Rookie Writer’s First Foray into Indie Publishing

A Rookie Writer’s First Foray into Indie Publishing

Becoming a new writer is incredibly scary. And when you’re about to graduate college, it’s probably even more scary. You took all your classes learning about the craft of writing, but you don’t know much about the actual business of writing and publishing. That’s me.
I’ve started writing stories ever since I was in middle school, and I’m working on a science fiction novel right now. However, I’ve had pretty much no experience with marketing my …

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Multitasking Equals Multi-switching, and Neither is Good for Authors by Jeff Davidson

Multitasking Equals Multi-switching, and Neither is Good for Authors by Jeff Davidson

Multitasking has now been touted for more than a decade as one way to stay productive in a world that requires more and more of you. The mindset of multitasking is that if you can handle two or more tasks at the same time, then by golly, it must be more productive, and certainly time saving. However, is either assertion true?

Multitasking is analogous to multi-switching. In 2012, research published in Psychology Today showed that “Multi-tasking is …

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Why We Oppose Morals Clauses in Book Contracts Jeff Davidson

Why We Oppose Morals Clauses in Book Contracts Jeff Davidson

The Authors Guild objects to publishers’ new and increasing use of so-called “morals clauses.” These contract provisions allow publishers to terminate a book contract, and in many cases even require the author to repay portions of the advance already received, if the author is accused of immoral, illegal, or publicly condemned behavior. Publishers insist they need the clauses to protect themselves in the event an author’s reputation becomes so tarnished after the book contract is …

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