This newest post in the series on how to use your tax return to start a business at home is about… blogging! Of course, this one is near and dear to my heart since I’ve been blogging for about 14 years and love it. If you’ve ever wondered how to make money at home blogging, […]
How to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle: a simple tutorial
Although I’ve been writing on the internet since 2002, publishing an ebook for Amazon was brand new to me. The process was initially intimidating, but I learned how to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle and went on to write 6 ebooks for the Amazon marketplace. It isn’t as difficult as you may think. This […]
How to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle: marketing your ebook
Part Two of this tutorial on how to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle. 6) Format your ebook for Kindle Your ebook has to be formatted in such a way so as to read cleanly in an e-reader. Word processing programs add code of their own that can cause the ebook to appear wonky. No […]
A bit of random, influenza version
A nasty virus (probably the flu, since the stricken are bedridden for days with high fevers and severe joint/muscle aches), is currently making its way through my family. I haven’t slept properly in nearly a week, thanks to a feverish, coughing baby who has made me the human pacifier (I’ve been nursing and carrying him […]
100 Free Top Blogging Tips
100 Free Top Blogging Tips is a collection of the best bits of advice I’ve learned in 14 years of blogging. Yes, it’s been that long, and I have the Wayback Machine archives to prove it! You can have it for free simply by entering your name and email address below. I don’t write often […]
You cast your vote…
… in my survey. Thanks for doing that! (Wait, you thought I was talking about something else?) I learned a lot about you and why you come to this little spot on the ‘net. And just when I was worried that I was boring you with my tales of frugality, you reassured me that “that’s […]
Technical difficulties
I won’t spend too much time discussing this, lest I engage in that internet faux pas known as metablogging. It’s been very hard to come here lately. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because of various hardware and software problems. By hardware, I mean my brand new Chromebook was destroyed by a […]
When blogging is difficult
For weeks now, there have been many things I wanted to say here. My head is very loud with all the things. But when I sit down to write a post (if I get that far, even), they all seem so silly and unimportant. I don’t want to bore people with tales of my feelings. […]
Rachel Meeks’ Simple Blogging
Update: Sadly, the Simple Blogging ebook is no longer available. I feel privileged to have a copy on my laptop! May I suggest another excellent book on blogging? How to Blog for Profit without Selling Your Soul is excellent and captures much of the spirit of Rachel Meeks’ Simple Blogging book. A few weeks ago, […]
Mila and Me and Creepy Online Stalkers
Creepy Online Stalkers: a discussion and warning Today I called up my friend Mila on the “telepe-phone”, or the telepathic telephone. Not really, it’s just that we both were thinking about the same thing today: creepy online stalkers. She posted here about an issue I’m having over on a community blog of Alice Seba’s that […]