MS Word Tip #5: Smart Quotes, Straight Quotes, and Apostrophes
Controlling use of smart vs straight quotes MS Word offers two styles of quotation marks: smart quotes and straight quotes. […]
MS Word Tips #4: Paragraph Formatting Features
Document Vs Paragraph Formatting All the formatting information for the document is stored with the final character on that document. […]
MS Word Tips #3: Setting Up Pages and Formatting Documents
MS Word provides two separate options for formatting documents. The first is Page Setup or Layout which includes setting the […]
MS Word Tip #2: Understanding Templates
Why do I need to know about Microsoft templates? MS Word templates are like cookie cutters. Everytime you begin a […]
Guest Post by Kevin G. Chapman: More on Bargain Book Platforms for Marketing
I recently met an author of a police thriller series, Kevin G. Chapman, through AXP’s Typo-Killer program. I signed up […]
Bargain Book Platforms
As a reader, I’ve been experimenting with bargain book platforms for a couple of reasons. First, I want to see […]
Authors You Love to Hate?
All the recent publicity about W.W. Norton’s decision to stop distributing and publicizing Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth because […]
Publishing Scams
Advice from BookBaby on spotting scams aimed at indie authors. Author beware.
Z is for Ten in Zambia
HIV/AIDS continues to lead the list of the top ten causes of death in Zambia. This post is one in […]
Y is for Ten in Yemen
In Yemen, a child under the age of five dies of preventable causes every ten minutes. It wasn’t always so, […]
Holidays Around the World: International Workers Day
I wouldn’t be surprised if most readers think of May Day as either a day to leave a basket full […]
X is for Ten in Xi’an
The Silk Road, a ten-thousand-mile network of roads spanning the four thousand miles between China with the west starting from […]
W is for Ten in Washington
One out of ten residents of the metropolitan Washington region is food insecure, according to the Capital Area Food Bank. […]
V is for Ten in Virginia
Since I had an address in Virginia for nearly twenty years, you’d think I would have visited the top ten […]
U is for Ten in Union City, NJ
The ten weeks I spent in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer between my sophomore and junior college years […]
