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Nick Russell on August 4th, 2011

This week I received my first electronic payment from Amazon for my Kindle e-book efforts, covering sales made during the last 10 days in May. It was only $107.53, but that’s money I didn’t have before. I now have five e-books available on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, as well as a sixth book, The Step-by-Step Guide [...]

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Nick Russell on July 14th, 2011

After reading the article Blogging For Bucks on my main self-publishing website, a reader wrote to ask what makes a good blog post, and how to get reader comments in response. Some of my blog posts that I never expected to do much have gotten numerous responses, while others that I considered to be excellent, [...]

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Nick Russell on April 10th, 2011

The newspaper industry is currently in a transition state. Just as you once purchased a pound of coffee, and now the container only holds about 13 ounces (for the same price), over the years newspapers have been going to smaller paper sizes to save money. A lifetime ago, when I was a greenhorn youngster just [...]

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Nick Russell on April 7th, 2011

I will admit that I was slow to embrace online publishing. It cost me a lot of money. I had my original website www.gypsyjournal.net online for several years, but saw it only as a secondary marketing vehicle for our RVing books and guides. I had heard of blogs and blogging, and affiliate advertising programs, but [...]

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Nick Russell on April 3rd, 2011

That’s all there is to it. You don’t have to be a published author to call yourself a writer. You don’t have to be currently immersed in a book project. You don’t have to be actively involved with sending out query letters. But you do have to write. I write a daily average of anywhere [...]

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