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Blog Widget

I've created a widget with all the blogs of the network listed. This is the widget, which you can customise and add to your own websites and blogs:

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on October 29, 2009 at 11:37am — 8 Comments

First Chapter of Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine

Check out the first chapter of Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine and sign up to add your own book(s). Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on August 26, 2009 at 7:26pm — 10 Comments

I sent out a request to all members of the Published Authors Fourm asking for articles. The response produced four new articles (two about query letters, one about character development and one about publishing contracts) written by members of the network: http://www.publishedauthors.org/Articles-h33.htm If you have an article on any aspect of writing/publishing that you would like to add, join the forum and submit your article. ~… Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on March 13, 2009 at 12:00am — 9 Comments

Published Authors Group on Twitter

If you twitter, why not join this group? http://twittgroups.com/group/publishedauthors Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on December 23, 2008 at 12:23pm — 3 Comments

Widget for Blog Tour

If you are setting up a blog tour, you can also create a widget for your blog that all the blog hosts can paste onto their blogs. This is the widget I created for the Forever Friends Virtual Book Tour. You can add the widget to your own websites and blogs:

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on December 16, 2008 at 12:02am — 6 Comments

Virtual Book Tours

I set up a blog tour for Forever Friends to begin on December 1st. Today, the second day of the second week, Sue Durkin hosted the ninth blog post on the virtual book tour. If you know very little about blog tours and how they work, check out Sue's blog. This is an excellent example of how to present a blog post on a book tour: http://suesunshine.blogspot.com/2008/12/forever-friends-anthology-bl… Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on December 9, 2008 at 4:55pm — 2 Comments

Facebook: Blog Network

I'm new to this so I suppose that many of you will be too! I have just set up a blog network on Facebook. If you are a member of Facebook, please join my network: http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=90685 If you set up your own network, let me know and I'll join! Thanks, Shelagh Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on December 7, 2008 at 4:46pm — 11 Comments

Widgets

On April 27th 2008, I added a widget for the Published Authors Forum to the network site . Today, I checked the stats and the number of hits totals 4,243. This is the widget:

You can check the stats here: Analytics Check out my blogs about using widget… Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on June 11, 2008 at 8:30pm — 5 Comments

Wales Book of the Year

The Power of Persuasion is on the list for Wales Book of the Year!

The annual Wales Book of the Year prizes, established in 1992, are awarded to the best Welsh language and English language works in the fields of creative writing and literary criticism. Prizes are awarded annually to the best works of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors, in both Welsh and English. The winners each receive £10,000. Prizes are awarded for the best books published d

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on May 23, 2008 at 12:30pm — 12 Comments

How to make your own widget

Most of the responses to my last blog post asked for help to make a widget for a blog. If you have a blogger blog, follow these simple instructions: Click on this link: http://www.widgetbox.com/create/create_widget.jsp Then click on this link: BLOG/FEED A box will open up: Make your blog or any feed (RSS/ATOM) into a widget. Blog/Feed URL: (e.g. http://www.myimaginaryblog.com or http://www.myfeed.com/rss.xml) Type in the ad… Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on April 26, 2008 at 9:31am — 16 Comments

Let widgets do the work for you!

I set up the Published Authors Network on August 5th 2007. Three days later I posted my first blog after I'd created my first widget on widget.com. I wanted to share the feature with the members here, but it was early days and we had less than 50 members. Now we have over 400 members so I thought I would tell everyone just how hard my blog widget has been working for me without me doing anything. This is the widget:

These are the stats for the widget: Hits: 5,198… Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on April 25, 2008 at 4:00pm — 14 Comments

Thinking of self-publishing?

I received a request from Shahrukh Husain to write an article about my experience of self-publishing (which has not been great!) The article is now up on Narratives Online: http://www.narrativesonline.com/index.php/user/showInterviewSession/3 Scroll down to: Ms. Watkins on Self Publishing You may have to log in to read it. ~Shelagh Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on April 9, 2008 at 6:30pm — 18 Comments

Help with book promotion is only a click away!

Newsletter for Published Authors I've added a newsletter to the Published Authors Forum. The forum provides an extra place to learn from established authors, as well as up-and-coming authors, about how to build a platform to gain greater recognition in a world full of authors trying to sell their books on the Internet. The newsletter will assist members in how to make best use of the forum to improve neworking and communication skills. Check out the first newsletter and become… Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on March 30, 2008 at 12:45am — 10 Comments

The Power of Persuasion

The Power of Persuasion is now available online, please check it out: http://www.lulu.com/content/2048817 ISBN: 978-1-84799-667-1 If you view the preview of the book, you will see the first page of Chapter One on page 3 of the preview. These are some of the comments I have received about the opening three and a half chapters (approx 6,50… Continue

Added by Shelagh Watkins on February 24, 2008 at 10:50am — 19 Comments

The Power of Persuasion cover

The Power of Persuasion is in the final stages of proofreading, so I thought I would give you a sneak preview of the cover:

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on October 8, 2007 at 2:27pm — 16 Comments

WOW Conference

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on September 7, 2007 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Promotional video

This is my third attempt at producing a promotional video -- I've added background sound:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NqfH0mS4x9Y&NR=1

Better?

Better or not, this is the last version of the video:

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on August 23, 2007 at 6:39pm — No Comments

One week!

Hi everyone,

Great to see you all here! I set up the network exactly one week ago and there are now fifty-one members -- including Author of the Week Archives! Tomorrow, I will add a new author of the week and Joe Baraba's article will go into the archives on the Author of the Week page.

If you have any suggestions about how to advertise the network or make improvements, please leave a message on the suggestions message board.

~Shelagh

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on August 12, 2007 at 9:49pm — No Comments

Using widgets

This is my first attempt at producing a widget for my blog!

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Added by Shelagh Watkins on August 8, 2007 at 7:58pm — No Comments

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