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As you might guess from the name, Author Buzz is a project that started in the UK and the focus will always have a UK slant to it. However, our community is open to book enthusiasts from all over the world. We do not discriminate. Whoever you are, you are […]

A Fediverse #Introduction to Author Buzz UK

25th January 2024 in Site News tagged Author Platform / authors / books / introduction / writers by Matthew Brown

I’ve been madly updating our free guide to Author Platforms in light of the mess going on over at Twitter. New sections include Mastodon and other open and free alternatives to well know social media sites. If you have any suggestions or know of good sources of factual information for […]

Author Platform Guide: Mastodon update

20th November 2022 in Site News tagged Author Platform / social media / Social Network by Matthew Brown

person in black long sleeve shirt holding white paper — We here at Author Buzz like to write about authors and books (surprising that). That’s why we set up a self-directed interview system. How it works is like this. You decided that as a writer, author, or awesome person you would like to be interviewed. You learn that we would […]

Your interview starts whenever you are ready.

20th September 2022 in Site News tagged interview / news / sell more books by Matthew Brown

I do not know everything – some might say I know nothing – but I am fairly okay at going out and learning stuff. A lot of time what I learn becomes a blog post. In that spirit of finding stuff out, what are your burning questions that you have […]

What are your burning questions about publishing?

27th February 2021 in Site News tagged publishing / questions by Matthew Brown

Today we took a giant leap forward towards becoming a true social network for writers and readers. You may notice some substantial changes on the Author Buzz front page. Now the front page features your content, blog posts and status updates alike. We’ve talked about doing this for some time […]

Author Buzz: Now more about you

6th October 2019 in Author Buzz / Site News tagged changes / Social Network / updates by Matthew Brown

In order to make it easier for members to find great book reviews, we have added several new groups which carry external book review headlines. You can get these book reviews in your activity feed simply by joining one or more of the groups. By default, each group’s email setting […]

New book review feeds

4th October 2019 in Site News tagged book reviews / feeds / groups / updates by Matthew Brown

Two blogs have been started on this network that are both about as different as it is possible for two sites to be. Yet, despite this, they both use the same theme, the same network (obviously), and share similar contributors. What sets these two blogs apart is the intention and […]

Two blogs that could not be more different

1st October 2019 in Blogs and blogging / Site News tagged blogs / content / standing out by Matthew Brown

Starting last night I began work on the most comprehensive guide to author platforms. The author platforms guide was so big I had to put it in its own site. I am busy filling the pages of the site with useful information, videos, and links just as quickly as I […]

The complete guide to Author Platforms

12th July 2019 in Site News tagged Author Platform / guide by Matthew Brown

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

2nd January 2019 in Site News tagged files / pictures / uploads by Matthew Brown

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

22nd December 2018 in Site News tagged free / HTTPS / news / SSL / update by Matthew Brown

blow your own trumpet — 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

24th October 2018 in Site News tagged content / copy editing / Gutenberg / UI / update by Matthew Brown

computer code — Our tiny team of computer geeks (Matt) has been hard at work making improvements to the site. You should notice that the site is fractionally faster, looks a little more polished, and is a bit fuller featured. WYSIWYG is back Some time ago we had to admit defeat and turned […]

Author Buzz UK Updated

25th September 2018 in Site News tagged progress / testing by jeffjohns