Archive for Ghostwriting
Word clouds for ghostwriting and interviews
Who knew you could get writing tips from fictional writers but Vaughn Coleman, the journalist hounding Nancy in this season of Weeds, tells her he’s interviewed other people about her and input sections of the interviews into a word cloud. The result is a visual representation of how other people see her. What a fantastic idea. [...]
Article about ghostwriting
The good people of Banyule and Nillumbik got to read a nice little article about ghostwriting in their local weekly today. And it featured me, among others.
Blog for Kindle authors
Learning to write for the Kindle has been, as we say in communications, a journey. Theoretically you can just submit your book as a Word document to the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) but then you can also photocopy your manuscript, stick a staple in the corner and call it published. Getting the best format [...]
Using your Kindle with a Mac: Book now out
Kindle Automation for the Mac, with seven automations for Kindle and Mac owners, is now available.
Why you should be excited that bookshops are dead
My wife and I have had our Kindles for a month now. Within a fortnight, her parents had Kindles. Her parents — who love the Kindle because they can increase the font size — have since persuaded two of their friends to buy Kindles. We’re buying one for my sister. That’s seven Kindles in a [...]
Good writers are always asking questions
I travelled on the Indian Pacific recently to make an audio feature for the inflight entertainment on V Australia. The train stops for half an hour at the South Australian ” “town” of Cook, population four. It’s a desolate place; the picture shows the “Cook Country Club” (the residents’ wit is as dry as the [...]
Follow up to “Google controls spelling, too”
In the two days since I wrote that I had re-written the site of my ghost writing service to switch “ghost writer” with “ghostwriter”, my Google Adwords quality score has indeed risen. It was 4/10 and is now 6/10. Another metric that Google uses to judge the quality of your ad is how many people [...]
Google controls spelling, too
Search engine optimisation is important to anyone with a website. It’s often said that if your website doesn’t show up on the first page of Google, you might as well not exist from that point of view. It’s probably almost as true to say the same is true if the searcher would have to scroll [...]
Ghostwriting
Sydney-based professional ghostwriter Steven Lewis has set up an Australian website for his services.