Few authors are able to write full time and most of us consider our career a failure. Why is that and what can we do about it? I wrote in my personal blog that I was going to spend this year looking at what authors and writers do that fail. […]
Matthew Brown
When you run a blog, maintaining a publishing schedule can seriously increase its effectiveness. The WordPress Editorial Calendar is one such way to manage this task. The editorial calendar is something we added right after the last big update. It is a tool to help you plan your posts, and […]
Use the calendar to plan your posts
You may have heard of reputation management perhaps as a part of an SEO tutorial but do you know it can be an important part of self marketing for authors? When it comes to online marketing the search results for your own name or brand are your reputation. Ethically questionable […]
What authors need to know about reputation management
Short stories are, I feel, an underappreciated tool available to novelists. Not only can writing short form fiction offer a refreshing change of pace but they can be used to both earn money and promote yourself as an author. Here are some of the surprising applications of short stories to […]
Using short stories as a novelist
Author Buzz has a few ways you can track your writing progress on your blog. WP Progress Bar If you just want a nice progress bar for your posts, then this is the plugin for you. It creates beautiful and easily customised progress bars. If you want to represent information […]
Track writing progress on your blog
We’ve doubled the file storage limit and increased the maximum files size. As Author Buzz settles into its new home, we’ve been able to expand just how much we offer you. As part of that, we have doubled the total file storage available to blogs for images and other media. […]
Bigger files and more of them
As 2018 comes to an end, here are ten possible new year resolutions for authors to make. 1. Set realistic goals for yourself Realistic goals mean that you can sensibly hope to meet them. Meeting goals helps you feel accomplished and can fend off those feelings of imposter syndrome we […]
Ten new year’s resolutions for authors
If you want to sell more books, sooner or later you will have to communicate with people who buy books. Specifically the kind of people who buy your books. You are, for the main, limited to selling within your own platform. That means that if you want to sell books, […]
How and why to generate leads with your blog
As part of the changes we have been talking about on the dev blog, Author Buzz UK and all of your blogs, now have a free SSL certificate. You don’t have to do anything, it has all been done for you. All blogs have been switched over to use HTTPS […]
Now with free SSL
Today Author Buzz UK began the test rollout of the Gutenberg editor. You can try it right now on your Author Buzz blog. The next time you go to “new post” you will be greeted by the words: Welcome to the wonderful world of blocks! Start of the tour text […]
New visual editor for blogs
There is a worrying trend in the UK where publishers have started to demand that authors hand over all moral rights to a work. Your moral rights include the right to be known as the author of your work. Writer Joanne Harris points out on her Tumblr blog that the […]
The worrying trend of selling your moral rights
You have heard it enough while you were writing – show, don’t tell – but did you know it applies to blogs as well? A mistake a lot of bloggers make, me included, is to tell readers what we want them to know. We do it even more if we […]