Webtips for Authors and Self-Publishers
Posted By Sue Collier on November 21, 2011
My team and I come across so many useful websites, I thought it would handy to put them together in a regular blog series. So a couple times a month, I’ll be listing a few of them in a new series called “Webtips for Authors and Self-Publishers.”
If you have or know of a website that would be of interest to my blog readers, please email it to me along with a description; don’t forget to include appropriate links.
Enjoy!
View cutting-edge conference videos online. O’Reilly Media, Inc. wrapped up its fifth annual Tools of Change Conference in New York City in February 2011 but you can still watch videos online for free. A roster of distinguished authors, publishers, book retailers, media consultants, technology experts, and other publishing industry leaders gave presentations on relevant topics like “What’s in HTML5 for Publishers?”; “Toward an All-digital Workflow”; “Standards in Flux”; “Metadata Boot Camp”; “Ebook Distribution Contracts”; and “Going Mobile: Checklist for Delivering Your Content on Devices.” The TOC Conference is designed to draw people, companies, and organizations together to explore issues that will determine the future of publishing. “TOC” also embraces the term “Table of Contents,” a significant section in the front matter of a book that previews what lies ahead for the reader—and, in the case of the TOC Conference, what lies on the horizon for publishing. Publishers, take a peek at your future on YouTube, blip.tv, or the podcast subscription site.
Making your memoir bigger than “all about you.” When new authors first decide to write, they often choose the subject they know most intimately—themselves. But how do you keep the results from becoming as sleep-inducing as watching five hours of your cousin’s home movies? Tracy Seeley, author of My Ruby Slippers, has laid out the yellow bricks to autobiographical success in a Writer’s Digest post called Creating Memoir That’s Bigger Than Me, Me, Me. Having penned her own memoir, Tracy advises budding memoirists to do their research and investigate the larger context of time and place while describing events in their lives. She urges them to consider the deeper meaning that forms the background to the action and let the broader themes emerge. Give her suggestions a try. You too can make the life you know so well more compelling to a wide audience of strangers. Read more at There Are No Rules.
PRLog posts your press release for free. You are invited to submit your press release for distribution to a long list of search engines, plus Google News, at PRLog.org. Journalists can opt in to receive alerts and search PRLog’s databases by category, tag, date, county, state, and city. If you’re a bit rusty, there are even instructions on How to Write a Press Release and imbed a video. The latest and “premium” press releases are given a prime spot on the PRLog homepage.
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