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Step by Step guide to getting free e-books from the internet to your e-reader. Includes pictures of the computer screens with step-by-step directions and links to websites that offer free ebooks! Works with Kindle and Nook and more!

Covering everything you need to know to set up and manage your very own WordPress blog, this book will guide you through the amazing features of the software. From registering and posting your first message, to increasing SEO and designing your own themes, WordPress for Beginners will show you just how easy it is to set up your own blog.

This trusted resource reviews tools and services that help you write, edit, format, design, fund, publish, sell, market, and promote your books. Take all the doubt out of your decisions about what vendors to use in your journey as an independent author and keep this reference handy. Free updates with reader mailing list signup.

Do you want to sell more books and reach more readers? Do you want to discover how to build an author career for the long-term as well as spike your book sales right now?  If you don’t know much about marketing, don’t worry. We all start with nothing. I’m Joanna...

Have you put your book out there and been disappointed in your sales? Perhaps you've tried a variety of marketing tactics to boost discoverability: blog posts, social media, book tours, paid ads in a variety of venues. But nothing is working. The publishing landscape changes every year. The...

Are you ready to take the next step in your author journey? Art for the sake of art is important. Writing for the love of it, or to create something beautiful on the page, is absolutely worthwhile and critical to expand the sum of human expression. But I’m not here to talk about creativity...

Trial and Error is the most controversial and famous how-to-write book ever written. It caused a scandal at the time of its publication due to its no-holds-barred insights into the publishing industry, and has been reprinted numerous times. Its express intent is to assist a person in writing...

A revised and expanded second volume of award-winning author and screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks For Authors workbook, with a special emphasis on writing love. Screenwriting is a compressed and dynamic storytelling form and the techniques of screenwriting are easily adaptable...

With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith knows how to outline. And he knows how to write a novel without an outline. In this WMG Writer’s Guide, Dean takes you step-by-step through...

Michael Newton has published 251 books since 1977, with 17 more scheduled for release by various houses through 2014. In "So You Want to Be a Writer," he explains the ins and outs of publishing for novice authors, drawing on his own experience and that of many best-selling colleagues.

Commit to Your Writing Craft! To write with quiet hands is to embrace the journey all writers must take: from seeking inspiration and shaping raw material to cultivating a personal support network, navigating the various pathways to publication, and committing to a lifelong practice. In Writing...

Many bright minds have come up with expressions we now take for granted as part of the English language, and which we use freely in vernacular speech. But the originators of many of our most useful second-hand remarks go uncredited. So who said it first? This collection sets out to credit as far as...

One of a series on self-publishing from Mackay Books, this explains how to launch your print book and maximise sales. Learn how many books sell at launches, with promotional tools to boost pre-publicity. Find ideas for venues, catering, and timing. With this information your book launch will be an enjoyable event that will set you on the path to being a successful writer.

5,000 Writing Prompts is the must-have resource for novelists, short story writers, screenwriters, poets, creative writing teachers, bloggers, memoir writers, improv actors, and other creators and storytellers. It includes… 150 plot ideas for each of these genres: fantasy, science...