Posted on 07/29/2025 4:17:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Very nice. I wish you continued success as a writer.
My daughter is a book editor. She told me that authors need to have a strong social media presence before publishers will even consider them.
BTW authors: She just became unemployed due to a reorganization. If you know of publishers looking for editors or need a freelancer send me a message.
I find social media, particularly TwitterX, to be rife with scammers. I have no intention of building much of a social media presence. If publishers require that, then I guess I am forever out of luck.
Have moved on since retirement but recently published an autobiography for family members and friends. I autographed each with the following statement “If you have trouble sleeping, this is a guaranteed cure”
I’ve often considered writing a book to publish — I do enjoy writing - but a good topic has eluded me thus far
Columbia
Reminds me of the movie Dumb & Dumber where Jim Cary is jumping for joy and yelling “I’m somebody! as he found his name in the phone book.
I was an actor in the movie "Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest". Guess which one I was?
What you did there...
...I see it.
A touch ‘busy’ for my tastes. Two reasons:
1) Sparse is easier on the eyes, and
2) His website doesn’t appear ‘responsive’ and might not scale well on a phone or iPad.
But hey, he’s more successful than I am, so who am I to judge?
His website is indeed ‘responsive’, but there is too much material to navigate by phone.
However, he has a Wikipedia entry. I will not feel like I have arrived until I have a Wikipedia entry.
You definitely need a Wikipedia page!
😁
I haven’t talked to my attorney friend yet, but I did find something quite applicable to your situation:
https://kindlepreneur.com/ebook-piracy/
script src="https://MonsterHunterNation.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/js/html5.js?ver=3.7.0">As in "2014".
Yeah, the ‘2014’ is definitely showing. 😊
But I do see it is WordPress. It clearly hasn’t been updated in a while, because WP has advanced its stuff to being responsive.
Like I observed before, it actually looks okay on an Android, but there is wayyyy too much content. I know that if I were shopping for books, the overwhelming quantity would discourage me from visiting/staying on the site.
It's simple. Just come up with an idea nobody else has. 😁
The cool thing is that it is still up. That’s one of the biggest problems with web presence, maintaining it.
Btw, I’m writing a book that will be published both online, no restrictions, and by print. Wish me luck convincing a publisher, but my goal is SEO access for a book that no one will read online, but will buy instead a readable book or Kindle version from the website.
The idea is that the search engines will sell the print and kindle editions it for me.
I know little-to-nothing about SEO optimization. If you do, please share? Maybe I can make my website stand out more in searches.
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